Latest Agentic AI, AI Agents & Agent Governance News – 12 November 2026
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JioStar’s chief architect on AI discovery at 500M-user scale
Source : OpenAI NewsJioStar’s Vijay Seshadri explains AI discovery at 500M-user scale. Read his lessons on evals, guardrails, and taking AI into production.
Cogent and OpenAI build cyber defense factories for enterprises
Source : OpenAI NewsCogent combines OpenAI models with enterprise context to help automatically remediate vulnerabilities with agents.
Introducing AlphaProof Code: a breakthrough in verifying complex software at depth
Source : Google DeepMindAlphaProof Code agents wrote three million lines of proofs in Lean to verify Signal’s core encryption.
Agentic cheminformatics with Google Antigravity
Source : Google DeepMindLearn how Google Antigravity and our Cheminformatics Skills accelerate drug discovery workflows, search compounds, and propose novel rigidified macrocycles.
BotPsy: On-Device Personal Assistant with a Sub-Billion-Parameter Agentic Language Model
Source : Hugging FaceSecuring the agentic enterprise with data lineage
Source : MIT Technology Review AIA sales representative asks an AI agent for customer pricing, and the agent pulls data from multiple sources: restricted pricing systems, internal communications, and archived quotes. The output looks accurate to the agent, so a second agent uses the data to draft the proposal for the sales rep. No human checks either handoff. When it’s…
How “reverse game theory” could keep AI agents in check
Source : MIT Technology Review AIA new approach known as “reverse game theory” aims to control powerful AI models by designing systems that incentivize them to stick to the rules. As AI models become more capable, safety researchers are scrambling to ensure they are “aligned” with human desires—to make sure, in other words, that rogue agents don’t break the law,…
Raising the quality of insights in agentic analytics
Source : MIT Technology Review AIIn just a few years, generative AI has changed the face of enterprise analytics, notably by making analytics accessible to users across the organization. Agentic AI promises to do even more, by automating entire workflows and taking actions based on agent insights. But there is a problem: The quality of insights that agents currently generate…
F-Secure Identifies 26 Ways AI Can Harm Consumers, and Where to Stop Them
Source : Dark ReadingNew AI Harms Taxonomy traces how harm moves through AI systems, from misleading chatbot answers to compromised autonomous agents, and identifies where defenses can intervene.
AI Coding Agents Leak Thousands of Secrets to GitHub
Source : Dark ReadingA command in Claude Code inadvertently saves files with credentials and other sensitive data to public Git repositories, creating security gaps for organizations.
PARLEY: Evaluating LLM Collaboration Through Cooperative Asymmetric Puzzles
Source : arXiv Multi-Agent SystemsarXiv:2611.14242v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language models power autonomous agents, understanding how they collaborate and where they fail becomes critical. We introduce PARLEY, an extensible platform for studying LLM agent collaboration through four asymmetric puzzle tasks grounded in cognitive psychology (referential communication, joint coordination, perspective-taking, and spatial reasoning). GPT-4o agent pairs succeeded in 60.5% of conversations (N=400, 100 per task), with task-level variation (34-80%) reflecting distinct collaborative demands. From these conversations, we derived the data-driven PAC taxonomy: six failure types organized into Perception (visual interpretation and spatial reasoning), Adaptation (progress tracking and feedback integration), and Coordination (verification and grounding). Failure to incorporate external feedback was a critical indicator of unsuccessful collaboration, with agents repeatedly applying unsuccessful strategies. We also show
Auditable Human-Agent Teams for Autonomous X-ray Experimentation
Source : arXiv Multi-Agent SystemsarXiv:2611.12933v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Closed-loop autonomous experimentation can accelerate scientific discovery, but implementation effort limits accessibility. Agentic systems may lower this barrier, although sustained operation on physical instruments remains largely unexplored. Here, using coding-agent infrastructure grounded in validated scientific methods, we demonstrate autonomous synchrotron X-ray experiments on nanoparticle superlattices under evolving, human-defined objectives. Complete human-agent and agent-agent transcripts enable an audit that reconstructs decision provenance and characterizes the division of cognitive labor. Across three experiments, 61-67% of messages involved interpretation or judgment, while the share of methodological and scientific contributions increased from 46% in the setup-focused first experiment to 56-61% in later experiments. Provenance showed that 59-68% of error corrections involved multiple participants and that about half of a
From Process Models to Composable Agentic Workflows: Combining BPMN, Agents and Enterprise Knowledge
Source : arXiv Multi-Agent SystemsarXiv:2611.13196v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-based agents can reason, use tools and collaborate. However, coordinating increasingly complex agentic applications becomes difficult to understand, monitor and improve. Decisions distributed across prompts, tool calls and application logic make workflows implicit. We introduce **Recursive Capability Composition**, enabling agents to execute business processes and expose them as reusable Agentic Tools. This paper presents a BPMN-based approach to Agentic Workflows, combining explicit orchestration with autonomous reasoning. SemTalk BPMN models are transformed into executable workflows using a LangGraph/Pregel runtime. Agentic Tasks introduce LLM reasoning at selected activities, while conventional BPMN controls process flows, deterministic decisions, system interactions and human approvals. Agentic Participants provide reusable interfaces for agent behavior or other executable processes. BPMN orchestration makes multi-agent sys
Auditable Human-Agent Teams for Autonomous X-ray Experimentation
Source : arXiv Artificial IntelligencearXiv:2611.12933v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Closed-loop autonomous experimentation can accelerate scientific discovery, but implementation effort limits accessibility. Agentic systems may lower this barrier, although sustained operation on physical instruments remains largely unexplored. Here, using coding-agent infrastructure grounded in validated scientific methods, we demonstrate autonomous synchrotron X-ray experiments on nanoparticle superlattices under evolving, human-defined objectives. Complete human-agent and agent-agent transcripts enable an audit that reconstructs decision provenance and characterizes the division of cognitive labor. Across three experiments, 61-67% of messages involved interpretation or judgment, while the share of methodological and scientific contributions increased from 46% in the setup-focused first experiment to 56-61% in later experiments. Provenance showed that 59-68% of error corrections involved multiple participants and that about half of all
EarthRecord: From Pixels to Land Change with Multimodal Agents over Four Decades of Satellite Imagery
Source : arXiv Artificial IntelligencearXiv:2611.12934v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While multimodal agents now carry out complex data analysis with tools, their ability to turn decades of satellite imagery into reliable land-change analysis, crucial for Earth observation science, remains unmeasured. Existing benchmarks fall short: they pose questions on curated images or give agents preprocessed inputs, leaving out the raw multi-sensor archives where such analysis begins. We introduce EarthRecord, a benchmark built on the raw record of 56 sites: four decades of Landsat, MODIS, VIIRS, and Sentinel-2 data, with cloud masking and cross-sensor harmonization left to the agent. It poses 238 land-change questions across ten analysis tasks, scored against withheld references from global products, agreement among methods, and visual interpretation. Two controls test what answers rest on: the closed book removes the record, and instrument pairs alter one satellite's data while nothing changes on the ground. Evaluations of twelve
AI Governance Should Prioritize Control and Knowledge Boundaries Over Limiting Intelligence
Source : arXiv Artificial IntelligencearXiv:2611.12941v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid proliferation of autonomously acting AI agents makes the governance of agentic systems urgent. We propose the competence circuit, summarized as IKC + KC + C, that decomposes an agent's real-world impact into three pathways: intelligence-mediated discovery, procedural know-how, and direct control. Using the canonical fast-takeoff debate as a stress test, we formalize the conditions for intelligence-mediated fast takeoff as a conjunction jointly sufficient for fast catastrophic supremacy, showing that most rely on rapid knowledge acquisition or control attainment rather than intelligence alone. We operationalize epistemic intelligence as hypothesis-selection efficiency and validate this framework via stochastic simulation on NK fitness landscapes across six scenarios spanning the conjunctive chain. An analytic bound supported by the simulations shows that intelligence-driven speedup is capped by the ratio of competing intelligenc
