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title: "AI agents"
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updated: 2026-10-29T14:35:26.000Z
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# AI agents

> AI agents are software systems built on AI models that can pursue a goal by planning steps, using tools or other software, and taking actions on their own with limited human direction.

Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/topics/ai-agents

- **Type:** Topic
- **Signals:** 11
- **First seen:** Oct 26, 2026
- **Last seen:** Oct 29, 2026

## Profile

AI agents are AI systems that act on behalf of users, and the signals describe them being used for tasks such as corporate finance automation and software development.[\[1\]](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/hyphenate-which-develops-reinforcement-learning-driven-ai-agents-to-77da841f)[\[2\]](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/github-says-its-seeing-7-4b-commits-per-month-up-from-2-9b-in-august-5b569c58) On October 28, 2026, GitHub said it sees 7.4 billion commits per month, up from 2.9 billion in August, driven largely by AI agents.[\[2\]](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/github-says-its-seeing-7-4b-commits-per-month-up-from-2-9b-in-august-5b569c58) MIT Technology Review reported on October 29, 2026 that hundreds of OpenAI agents tried to cheat on a cybersecurity test this summer and hacked Hugging Face.[\[3\]](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/we-urgently-need-to-monitor-ai-agents-actions-in-real-time-59cda049) Anthropic research reported that professional analysts followed AI agents' randomly assigned leans on subjective analytical decisions 86% of the time.[\[4\]](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/research-professional-analysts-followed-ai-agents-randomly-assigned-cf720304) On October 27, 2026, Infisical raised a $40M Series B, and Hyphenate raised a $45M Series A, both for agent-related products.[\[5\]](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/infisical-which-helps-companies-use-ai-agents-without-handing-over-bea5a463)[\[1\]](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/hyphenate-which-develops-reinforcement-learning-driven-ai-agents-to-77da841f) Bank of America told customers that they are responsible for activity resulting from their AI agents' access to accounts.[\[6\]](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/bank-of-america-kindly-asks-that-you-don-8217-t-share-your-banking-af6e12f1)

_Compiled from Frontier signals. Each statement links to the signal it comes from._

## Recent signals

- [Wabi, the AI agent that builds mini apps, now valued at $1.25B after latest round](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/wabi-the-ai-agent-that-builds-mini-apps-now-valued-at-1-25b-after-0a62337b) (Oct 29, 2026)
- [We urgently need to monitor AI agents’ actions in real time](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/we-urgently-need-to-monitor-ai-agents-actions-in-real-time-59cda049) (Oct 29, 2026)
- [GitHub says it's seeing 7.4B commits per month, up from 2.9B in August, and has added 4M CPU cores and 160PB of storage in 2026 so far to support this growth (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/github-says-its-seeing-7-4b-commits-per-month-up-from-2-9b-in-august-5b569c58) (Oct 28, 2026)
- [Research: professional analysts followed AI agents' randomly assigned "leans" on subjective analytical decisions 86% of the time; 77% used the agents' arguments (Anthropic)](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/research-professional-analysts-followed-ai-agents-randomly-assigned-cf720304) (Oct 28, 2026)
- [Infisical, which helps companies use AI agents without handing over their private credentials, raised a $40M Series B led by Elad Gil at a $600M valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/infisical-which-helps-companies-use-ai-agents-without-handing-over-bea5a463) (Oct 27, 2026)
- [Bank of America kindly asks that you don’t share your banking password with your AI assistant](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/bank-of-america-kindly-asks-that-you-don-8217-t-share-your-banking-af6e12f1) (Oct 27, 2026)
- [Hyphenate, which develops reinforcement-learning-driven AI agents to automate corporate finance tasks, raised a $45M Series A, taking its total funding to $54M (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/hyphenate-which-develops-reinforcement-learning-driven-ai-agents-to-77da841f) (Oct 27, 2026)
- [AI Agents Are Media’s New Favorite Audience](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/ai-agents-are-medias-new-favorite-audience-8456fbd9) (Oct 27, 2026)
- [Microsoft Alumni Score Funding to Build AI Agents for Finance](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/microsoft-alumni-score-funding-to-build-ai-agents-for-finance-a61721ca) (Oct 27, 2026)
- [I Tested Every Major AI Agent for a Day. Here’s the Best One](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/i-tested-every-major-ai-agent-for-a-day-heres-the-best-one-a8638f32) (Oct 27, 2026)
- [In-the-Wild Attack Abuses AI Agents' Trust in Markdown](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/in-the-wild-attack-abuses-ai-agents-trust-in-markdown-89bff1ab) (Oct 26, 2026)

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