Google DeepMind Opens $10M Call for Multi-Agent AI Safety Research
Google DeepMind Blog4 days agoEthicsGoogle DeepMind, Schmidt Sciences, the Cooperative AI Foundation, ARIA, and Google.org are backing a funding call of up to $10M for multi-agent AI safety research. The call focuses on risks that arise when many autonomous AI agents interact, coordinate, negotiate, transact, or fail across shared digital environments. Researchers are invited to submit proposals on testbeds, agent networks, infrastructure, oversight, and control by August 8, 2026.
How Conductor moved parallel coding agents from the laptop to the cloud with Vercel Sandbox
Vercel Changelog18 days agoBusinessBased on the title, the article describes Conductor shifting parallel coding-agent execution from developers’ laptops to Vercel Sandbox in the cloud. The likely focus is cloud isolation, parallel agent workflows, and reducing dependence on local machine resources. The full article text was not provided, so implementation details, metrics, model choices, and concrete results cannot be confirmed.
Launch HN: Runtime (YC P26) – Sandboxed coding agents for every team
Hacker News (AI keywords)24 days agoNew ToolRuntime is a YC P26 launch focused on making coding agents usable across an organization, not only by engineers. It provides sandboxed environments with company context, integrations, secrets, policies, observability, and cost controls. The product page says it works with tools including Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Devin, and OpenCode, while fitting into Slack, Linear, GitHub, and related workflows.