Space

Perplexity open sources SPACE AI agent sandbox, CoreWeave, Akamai and Crusoe to offer it: Perplexity open sourced SPACE, its AI agent sandbox, and said partners including CoreWeave, Akamai and Crusoe agreed to offer SPACE to customers. Perplexity told Semafor it is giving away software used to combat rogue AI agents.

AI Agents • Techmeme

MagicLab's EchoPolicy-0 tops AI2's MolmoSpaces board with 75.4% manipulation success: MagicLab said its VLM agent framework EchoPolicy-0 averaged 75.4% across four MolmoSpaces tasks, and AI2's published leaderboard data lists it first. Its MagicBrain component reached 94.4% on the pick task.

AI & Robotics • Pandaily

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra-powered Dots agent to compete with Meta: At its annual DevDay conference, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced Dots, a new AI agent powered by GPT-6 Astra. The launch aims to compete directly with Meta's successful Muse AI agent platform. The move highlights the intensifying competition between the two tech giants in the agent space.

AI Agents • The Verge AI