Daily AI News — September 22, 2026

🧠 AI Brain / Memory

• AWS debuts Strands Harness with long-term agent memory (Sep 21, 2026): AWS's new open-source agent harness keeps long-term memory across runs, resumes conversations by session ID, and moves large tool results into files to manage the context window. — SiliconANGLE
• Salesforce's job-ready Agentforce agents build "institutional memory" (Sep 15–22, 2026): Seven named "digital worker" agents run on a new long-horizon runtime that keeps context for days or weeks, grounded in Customer 360 data. — AI Agent Store
• Memory poisoning is emerging as a security threat for agents (early Sep 2026, still circulating): Researchers warn that attackers can plant false memories in agents with persistent memory, which then shape the agent's later actions. — The Conversation / TechXplore
• Meta describes an "organizational second brain" (Sep 2, 2026): Meta Engineering explains how it built an AI system that captures and reuses what its internal experts know. — Engineering at Meta

🤖 AI Agents

• OpenAI's Agents API is now broadly available (Sep 21, 2026): Developers can build agent workflows into their apps with durable sessions, tool integration and flexible execution environments. — AI Agent Store
• Huawei opens its Ascend agent stack (Sep 21, 2026): ThinkPro is a new agent execution unit in openEuler, with shared NPU resources and more than 5,000 MCP integration assets through Agentic Cloud. — AI Agent Store
• Automaid launches an always-on AI operations hub (Sep 21, 2026): Its agents run continuously across connected apps, act on email and Slack messages, and run tools and code in the cloud. — AI Agent Store
• Plugin4Shell zero-click RCE hits four major AI coding agents (Sep 18–20, 2026): A supply-chain flaw that bypasses SHA pinning affected Claude Code, Codex, Copilot and Gemini CLI, and some were still unpatched when it was disclosed. — Help Net Security / Eastern Herald

🛠️ AI Tools

• SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.7 (Sep 21, 2026): It is billed as xAI's most capable model for coding and knowledge work, built on a larger base model with a longer RL run, and keeps the $2/$6 per million token price. — x.ai
• Grok 4.7 lands in GitHub Copilot and Cursor (Sep 21, 2026): The new model became available in both tools on launch day. — GitHub Changelog / Cursor Forum
• LangChain integration updates (Sep 21, 2026): langchain-fireworks 1.6.2, langchain-deepseek 1.1.1 and langchain-openrouter 0.2.9 fix dependency and model compatibility issues. — LLM Stats
• Reinventing.AI open-sources eight "AI Employees" (Sep 19, 2026): The MIT-licensed packages cover 59 business routines across 11 agent harnesses. — WBOC

🎓 AI Skills

• Spott raises a $21M Series A for AI recruiting (Sep 22, 2026): The Belgian AI recruitment platform's round was led by Balderton, bringing its total funding to $24M. — LLM Stats / Axios via Techmeme
• Swarms ships an encrypted private Skills library (Sep 19–20, 2026): Teams can store and reuse agent skills, and batch runs keep an audit trail. — AI Agent Store
• iCIMS: workers are learning AI skills faster than employers train them (Sep 10, 2026): 47% of job seekers built AI skills in the last six months, and self-teaching rose from 22% to 30% while employer training stayed flat at about 16%. — iCIMS
• Microsoft's agent-building certifications (ongoing): New credentials include AI Agent Builder Associate and Multi-Agent AI Solutions Expert. — Microsoft Tech Community