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NVIDIA adds cuPotential for AI-driven semiconductor simulationThe new cuPotential library lets AI agents simulate atomic and molecular interactions, with NVIDIA reporting an additional 2–3x acceleration in early-access testing. NVIDIA also reported major simulation and inspection speedups among semiconductor-industry adopters.→Payload CMS adds agent-assisted upgrades in its 4.0 canaryThe release changes the Local API default for access overrides and adds an agent-assisted upgrade command. It also includes TanStack Start integration work and active-locale publishing changes.→AudioEye study finds inaccessible websites sharply reduce AI-agent task successThe study tested 1,560 agents from six commercial models across 13 tasks and six websites. Agents used 43% more tokens on average on inaccessible sites, with the largest measured compute increase reaching sixfold.→Verana Health releases AI agents for life-sciences researchThe agents generate execution plans for research questions and evaluate them against domain-specific controls. The release is aimed at giving researchers direct access to clinical datasets without requiring programming or analyst support.→Dun & Bradstreet exposes governed commercial intelligence through agentsThe service connects business identity, relationships and credit intelligence from the D&B Commercial Graph to Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Copilot and Databricks integrations. The company says the system is designed to produce consistent, traceable and auditable outputs for finance workflows.→Mars Security turns live threat intelligence into backtested detection rulesThe platform maps indicators and adversary techniques to detection logic for systems including CrowdStrike, Wiz, Splunk, cloud telemetry and data lakes. Each rule is tested against up to 30 days of customer data before deployment, and the company says it also monitors AI coding-agent credential leakage.→Lightsage raises $4 million to measure how AI agents use softwareThe platform simulates agents using APIs, SDKs, command-line tools, MCP servers and agent skills, then identifies failures in documentation, authentication or execution. Nexus Venture Partners led the round, which Lightsage said will fund broader evaluation, analytics and attribution capabilities.→WhatsApp tests native support for third-party AI agentsThe beta feature reportedly supports up to five agents per account and uses an API key to connect each agent to a dedicated conversation. The chats are not currently end-to-end encrypted, and access is limited to selected Android users.→Traversal makes Incident Workers generally available and launches Alert WorkersTraversal announced general availability of Incident Workers, a public beta of Alert Workers and a Workers console for deploying and managing the fleet. Incident Workers investigate incidents end to end in Slack, Teams or the web console, while Alert Workers reason across signals, deduplicate noise and attach explanations to alerts.→Cycode releases agentic code scanning and attack-path chainingCycode said its Agentic Code Scanning combines rule-based and agentic analysis, while its benchmark testing found two authorisation CVEs that rule engines could not express. Its new Attack Chaining capability links related findings into multi-step exploit paths.→OpenAI reportedly tests outcome-based pricing with major customersThe Information reported that some large OpenAI customers can pay only when the system completes defined work, initially including customer-support interactions. The arrangement is selective, has not been publicly announced by OpenAI and has not been independently verified by The Next Web.→SonarQube Hunter Agent adds reasoning-based security analysisSonar launched Hunter Agent for SonarQube Cloud to analyse broken access control, business-logic, authentication and session-management flaws. The agent traces code, data and identity flows across a codebase and verifies candidate findings before presenting them in the existing Sonar workflow.→AccuKnox launches AgentZ for building, running and governing AI agentsAgentZ provides organisations, workspaces, agents, workflows and sandbox objects, with role-based access, runtime credential management, triggers, skills and governance controls. AccuKnox positions it as a platform for deploying agents across teams and business workflows rather than as a model or single-purpose assistant.→Braid demonstrates local, cross-platform AI state exchangeThe release demonstrates state exchange across Windows, macOS and Linux, with local developer diagnostics for inspecting exchanged AI state. Intersignal says the current system works over LAN or Wi-Fi and that managed NAT traversal is planned, while the core experience remains free.→Portnox adds network-level enforcement for risky AI-agent identitiesPortnox said its new Microsoft Defender integration joins existing CrowdStrike and SentinelOne integrations to enforce network controls based on risk signals. The company said organisations can automatically block or quarantine agent identities and revoke access when an agent behaves anomalously or violates policy.→