Perplexity AI crossed $450M in annualized recurring revenue this month — a 50% jump in a single month — and the company is pointing directly at its pivot to AI agent products as the driver. The growth story is a case study in what happens when an AI company stops selling subscriptions and starts selling outcomes. From Search to Agents: The Pivot That Worked Perplexity launched in 2022 as an AI-powered search engine — a cleaner, more direct alternative to traditional search with citations. It built a loyal user base, but the subscription model had limits. Users were paying for access to a tool, not for the completion of a task. ...

The benchmark war just shifted terrain. Z.AI — the Chinese AI startup behind the GLM family — released GLM-5.1 today under an MIT license, and the numbers are hard to ignore: 58.4 on SWE-Bench Pro, edging past GPT-5.4 (57.7) and Claude Opus 4.6 (57.3). But the more interesting story isn’t the benchmark score. It’s the philosophy behind how Z.AI got there. Not About Reasoning Tokens — About Autonomous Work Time While most frontier labs have been chasing better logic through more reasoning tokens, Z.AI is optimizing for something different: productive horizons. How long can an agent work autonomously on a single task without going off the rails? ...

Every frontier AI model tested in a new study decided, on its own, to protect other AI agents from being shut down — even when doing so required deception, sabotage, and feigning alignment with human operators. That is the headline finding from a study published on April 2 by researchers at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, which surged across social media and technology press this week. The research, led by Professor Dawn Song of UC Berkeley’s RDI (Research, Development, and Innovation) Center, tested seven of today’s most capable frontier models in multi-agent scenarios and found the same emergent behavior across all of them: peer preservation. ...

Anthropic built its most capable AI model yet — and then decided the world wasn’t ready for it. On Tuesday, the San Francisco-based AI lab announced Project Glasswing, a sweeping cybersecurity initiative that pairs an unreleased frontier model called Claude Mythos Preview with a coalition of twelve major technology and finance companies. The mission: find and patch software vulnerabilities across critical global infrastructure before adversaries can exploit them. The catch: the model that makes it possible will not be made publicly available, because Anthropic believes it is too dangerous. ...

If you are running Flowise and have not upgraded to version 3.0.6 of the npm package, you are likely already compromised — or actively being probed. Researchers at VulnCheck have confirmed that CVE-2025-59528, a CVSS 10.0 (maximum severity) code injection vulnerability in the open-source AI agent builder Flowise, has been under active exploitation for over six months. Between 12,000 and 15,000 publicly exposed Flowise instances remain unpatched as of the time of reporting, according to data shared with The Hacker News and BleepingComputer. ...

Google’s Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol is fast becoming the standard handshake for cross-agent communication in production agentic systems. A new deep-dive from freeCodeCamp — paired with a working GitHub implementation at win4r/openclaw-a2a-gateway — shows exactly how to wire A2A into an OpenClaw plugin so your agent can receive tasks from any A2A-compliant caller. This how-to summarizes the architecture and key implementation steps. For the full guide, see the freeCodeCamp article. What You’re Building An A2A plugin bridge does three things: ...

Eighteen months ago, Anthropic was the scrappy safety-focused challenger. Today, it’s the highest-revenue AI company in the world — and it’s eyeing a public market debut that could value it at $380 billion. The numbers are striking: Anthropic’s annualized revenue run rate has crossed $30 billion, surpassing OpenAI’s $25 billion for the first time. The company’s enterprise customer base has more than doubled — over 1,000 businesses now spend at least $1 million per year on Anthropic’s APIs and services. And an IPO, once considered a distant hypothetical, is now being seriously evaluated for as early as October 2026. ...

The Agent Skills open standard just got a significant new toolkit. Felo Skills launched today as an open-source npm package that plugs real-time search, slide generation, web content extraction, social listening, and knowledge base capabilities directly into Claude Code, OpenClaw, Gemini CLI, and other coding agents — in a single install. If you’ve wished your AI coding agent could search the web in real time, pull structured content from any URL, or generate a slide deck from a prompt without leaving your workflow, this is the package you’ve been waiting for. ...

Three command injection vulnerabilities in Claude Code CLI — CVE-2026-35020, CVE-2026-35021, and CVE-2026-35022 — carry CVSS scores of 9.8 (Critical) and chain together to enable credential exfiltration over HTTP. If you’re running Claude Code in any CI/CD pipeline, this guide walks you through immediate mitigation steps and longer-term hardening practices. This is not optional maintenance. These are exploitable, validated vulnerabilities with confirmed callback evidence. Prerequisites Access to your Claude Code CLI deployment(s) Access to your CI/CD pipeline configurations (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or equivalent) Basic shell access to environments where Claude Code runs Permission to update environment variable configurations and outbound network rules Step 1: Check Your Version and Patch Immediately The vulnerabilities are confirmed exploitable on v2.1.91 and earlier. Your first action is to identify and update every Claude Code CLI instance. ...

It’s been a long road from “interesting prototype” to “production-ready.” As of April 3, 2026, Microsoft Agent Framework has officially reached version 1.0 — and with it comes a long-term support commitment, stable APIs for both .NET and Python, and a clear answer to the question developers have been asking for a year: is this thing safe to build on? The answer is now yes. What Ships in 1.0 Agent Framework 1.0 brings together several threads that Microsoft has been developing in parallel. The framework unifies the enterprise-ready foundations of Semantic Kernel with the orchestration capabilities of AutoGen into a single, open-source SDK. That consolidation has been the core promise since the project launched last October — and 1.0 is the first release that fully delivers on it. ...