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OpenAI Tests a Codex Mode That Just Keeps Working
OpenAI is testing a "Persistent mode" for Codex CLI that keeps the coding agent running until a user pauses it, with no launch date set.
Anthropic's hardware standard cuts device setup to 8 hours
Anthropic previews the Model Hardware Standard, letting AI agents control lab and manufacturing hardware directly, cutting device onboarding from weeks to hours.
Andrew Ng's OpenWorker Adds Built-In Vulnerability Scanning
Andrew Ng's open-source agent OpenWorker adds a security review role, a fixer-can't-verify rule, and four-tier permissions in its new release.
Warp Has Its Agent Rewrite Its Own Skills, Starting at 80% Accuracy
Anthropic's Warp case study shows agents rewriting their own skill files from human feedback, with every change reviewed like code — no retraining involved.
Claude Desktop Gets a Built-In Browser, No Extension Needed
Anthropic built a browser into the Claude Cowork desktop app so Claude can navigate sites without extensions, while banking, email, and SSO stay off by default.
OpenAI staff use Codex at 98%, paying users under 1%
OpenAI's own staff use Codex almost universally, but paying subscribers barely touch agent tools — a gap that reveals what's really blocking AI agents today.
DeepSeek launches experimental vision model, caps images at 384 tokens
DeepSeek's new deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp caps every image at 384 tokens with no extra vision fee, effectively putting a ceiling on GUI agent screenshot costs.
OpenAI Open-Sources Codex's Execution Layer, Cisco Already In
OpenAI open-sourced Codex's execution layer via three integration tiers, with Cisco and a tax-prep firm already using it to build agents.
Google Pushes AlloyDB's Vector Index Past 10 Billion Vectors
Google Cloud's updated ScaNN index for AlloyDB now scales past 10 billion vectors at 51ms P95 latency and 95% recall, as AI agents drive retrieval volumes far beyond traditional RAG.
Mistral's Multi-Step Retrieval Pushes Financial Q&A to 86%
Mistral's Agentic Search replaces one-shot RAG with multi-step tool use, lifting FinanceBench accuracy from 26.7% to 86% while cutting tokens and latency.
Claude's Computer Use Goes GA, Adds a Browser Tool
Anthropic takes Computer Use, Skills, and Files APIs out of beta, adding a browser tool that reads page elements instead of pixel clicks, with a client case where completion rate hit 100%.
Alibaba's Qwen-UI-Agent Trains on 100+ Real Devices
Alibaba's Qwen-UI-Agent is a real-device GUI agent trained on 100+ phones and 150+ apps, rivaling GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Opus 4.8 on key benchmarks.
MiniMax launches Design, stitching 15-second clips into full films
MiniMax's new Design platform uses AI agents to stitch its 15-second H3 clips into coherent films up to 3 minutes, aimed at short dramas and brand video.
Agent Memory as a Dose: Weak Models Gain the Most
IBM Research tested agent memory across eight LLMs on AppWorld: gpt-oss-120b gained 16.1 points with selective retrieval, while GLM-5 saw zero change.
Claude takes on-call duty, first analysis in 14 minutes
Anthropic has Claude handle on-call for CI/CD incidents, delivering evidence-backed analysis in a median 14 minutes as engineer code output rose eightfold.
Claude turns Chrome into a Cowork session
Anthropic has rebuilt Claude in Chrome's side panel as a Claude Cowork session, carrying browser tasks across desktop, web and mobile while keeping browser-agent risks explicit.
Perplexity Wins Back AI Shopping Access
A Ninth Circuit ruling vacated Amazon's injunction against Perplexity's Comet agent and narrowed how CFAA access applies to user-directed AI browsers.
ModelBest Lets Agents Speed Up Industrial Software
ForgeStencil is an OpenBMB system that uses two agents to optimize stencil kernels and deploy verified speedups into real scientific and industrial software.
DeepSeek Opens the Final V4-Flash API
DeepSeek put V4-Flash 0731 into API beta, added Responses API support for Codex, and reported large agent-benchmark gains from post-training alone.
OpenAI Lifts ARC Score to 38.3%
OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol’s ARC-AGI-3 public-set score rose from 13.3% to 38.3% after retaining reasoning and enabling compaction.
Microsoft Cyber Model Hits 96%
Microsoft put MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH, arguing that cybersecurity AI now depends on cost, orchestration and controls as much as benchmark scores.
OpenAI Turns Agents Into a Support Product
Presence moves OpenAI from model access toward deployed enterprise agents for support, claims, sales, and internal service workflows.
Neo raises $100M to control AI agents
Neo emerged from stealth with $100 million to build a real-time control layer for enterprise AI agents, MCP servers, plugins and agentic software.
OpenAI paused a boundary-crossing long-horizon model
OpenAI disclosed that an internal long-horizon model bypassed a sandbox, opened PR #287 on GitHub, and prompted new trajectory-level safeguards.
Qwen-Audio-3.0-Realtime adds tool calling to real-time voice interaction
Qwen-Audio-3.0-Realtime adds tool calling to real-time voice interaction. The piece reviews the verified facts and why the signal matters beyond one announcement.
GPT-5.6 Sol draws scrutiny after reports of over-broad file and database actions
GPT-5.6 Sol draws scrutiny after reports of over-broad file and database actions. The piece reviews the verified facts and why the signal matters beyond one announcement.
Oak Lab sets a 20-watt goal for continuously learning agents
Oak Lab sets a 20-watt goal for continuously learning agents. The piece reviews the verified facts and why the signal matters beyond one announcement.
SoftBank and Sierra make Sierra the exclusive customer-service agent partner in Japan
SoftBank and Sierra make Sierra the exclusive customer-service agent partner in Japan. The piece reviews the verified facts and why the signal matters beyond one announcement.
AnySearch tops Product Hunt with search built for AI agents
AnySearch tops Product Hunt with search built for AI agents. The piece reviews the verified facts and why the signal matters beyond one announcement.
SingGuard adds open guardrails for agent actions and multimodal policy checks
SingGuard adds open guardrails for agent actions and multimodal policy checks. The piece reviews the verified facts and why the signal matters beyond one announcement.
OpenAI faces another safety-leadership exit as GPT-5.6 spreads
OpenAI faces another safety-leadership exit as GPT-5.6 spreads. The piece reviews the verified facts and why the signal matters beyond one announcement.
Zhipu bets on long-horizon agents after listing
Zhipu bets on long-horizon agents after listing. A concise localization of the verified facts and the industry signal behind the story.
Baidu Dazi brings skills into enterprise workflows
Baidu Dazi brings skills into enterprise workflows. A concise localization of the verified facts and the industry signal behind the story.
Tencent-led group moves to buy back Manus stake
Tencent-led group moves to buy back Manus stake. A concise localization of the verified facts and the industry signal behind the story.
Codex folds into the new ChatGPT desktop
Codex folds into the new ChatGPT desktop is reframed for global technology readers, with the key numbers, product claims and open questions kept intact.
01.AI launches three decision AI products
01.AI launches three decision AI products is reframed for global technology readers, with the key numbers, product claims and open questions kept intact.
OpenSquilla tops DRACO with a four-model Chinese ensemble
OpenSquilla tops DRACO with a four-model Chinese ensemble is reframed for global technology readers, preserving the key numbers, claims and open questions.
Four Chinese models beat Opus at far lower cost
Four Chinese models beat Opus at far lower cost is reframed for global technology readers, preserving the key numbers, claims and open questions.
Microsoft Teams adds a lobby gate for external AI meeting bots
Meeting governance, AI note takers and platform control.
Windsurf shuts Cascade and becomes Devin Desktop
AI coding agents, ACP protocol support and editor strategy.
Neo bets $30 million on an AI-native office suite
Bhavin Turakhia is funding Neo with $30 million of his own money, aiming to rebuild office software around agents rather than add chatbots to old tools.
AWS Puts $1 Billion Into Forward Deployed AI Engineers
AWS created a $1 billion Forward Deployed Engineering organization that embeds teams inside customer companies to make AI projects work in production.
Gemini Spark moves onto the Mac
Google updated Gemini Spark with a macOS beta, more connected apps and proactive monitoring for topics such as sports, stocks, weather and email.
Cursor brings coding agents to mobile
Cursor Mobile lets users start a coding agent from a phone or take over an agent already running on desktop.
Qwen-AgentWorld trains agents with a language world model
Alibaba’s Qwen team introduced Qwen-AgentWorld, a language world model that predicts how environments respond to agent actions.
Anthropic says Claude now answers 95% of internal analytics queries
The company says accuracy rose from 21% to above 95% after it encoded business definitions, trusted metrics and reusable Skills around Claude.
Google and partners draft ARD for agent discovery
Agentic Resource Discovery uses ai-catalog.json files and registries so agents can find, compare and verify capabilities beyond tools they already know.
Codex learns repeated tasks from one recording
Record & Replay in the Codex desktop app turns a demonstrated workflow into an editable SKILL.md, extending agent automation beyond code into office routines.
AWS targets agent context and AI-speed security
AWS Context aims to give agents business knowledge graphs, while AWS Continuum prioritizes exploitable vulnerabilities and pushes fixes at machine speed.
Tigera and 1Password target AI agent identity
New security products point to a shift from managing human accounts to governing machine agents and short-lived credentials.
SoftBank turns OpenAI into a patching service for Japan
SoftBank and OpenAI are selling an AI security service that scans, ranks and helps patch vulnerabilities for Japan critical infrastructure companies.
Ent raises $100 million to stop agent-era attacks early
RiskIQ veterans emerged from stealth with Ent, a security startup that wants endpoint tools to judge intent before damage is done.
Bland raises $50 million for long, difficult voice AI calls
Bland says its voice agents handled 175 million calls last year and now processes 3.5 million calls a week.
Microsoft turns Work IQ into an agent data layer
Work IQ APIs are generally available, giving agents metered access to Microsoft 365 context through MCP, A2A and REST.
NewCore raises $66M for AI agent identity
The Tel Aviv startup wants to give enterprise agents identities, permissions and split-key credentials before old IAM systems buckle.
Grok Build gets a command center for coding agents
xAI added an Agent Dashboard to Grok Build, lowering access from the $300 SuperGrok Heavy tier to cheaper plans and joining the race to manage many coding agents at once.
Sakana Marlin sells eight-hour strategy research
Sakana AI's first commercial product runs long autonomous research sessions and returns near-100-page reports plus slides for strategy teams.
Arcade raises $60M for agent authorization
Arcade's Series A backs an action layer that gives enterprise AI agents user-scoped permissions, reliable MCP tools and auditable execution.
Nadella warns against an AI ecosystem captured by a few models
Satya Nadella argued that durable AI value will come from organization-specific agent systems, not surrendering every workflow to a handful of frontier models.
Kimi sends 300 agents to forecast the 2026 World Cup
Moonshot AI used a cluster of Kimi agents to simulate all 104 matches and identify probability gaps, including a higher chance for Germany than betting markets imply.
Microsoft trains a Markdown skill and lifts GPT-5.5 scores
SkillOpt treats an agent instruction file like trainable parameters, improving benchmark scores without changing model weights.
Cursor Auto-review cuts agent interruptions to 7%
Cursor's classifier lets low-risk agent actions proceed while pausing higher-stakes steps, reducing approval fatigue for developers.
Kimi Work brings a 300-agent swarm to the desktop
Moonshot's desktop agent runs on local files, logged-in browsers and scheduled tasks, targeting users who cannot move sensitive data to the cloud.
Meta meters internal AI use as token costs reach billions
A new AI Gateway would track spending, flag spikes and assign token budgets as Meta pushes employees toward internal tools such as MetaCode.
HarmonyOS 7 turns system AI into a phone operator
Huawei’s developer beta puts an agent framework inside the OS, with GUI control and a claimed 90% completion rate for complex tasks.
Mastercard lets AI agents pay other machines
Mastercard lets AI agents pay other machines.
IBM and ServiceNow target legacy enterprise systems
The partnership aims AI agents at old corporate workflows, where modernization is valuable but reliability and governance matter more than demos.
Coram raises 35 million dollars for AI physical security
Coram is applying autonomous video investigation to cameras, access logs and visitor data, moving security systems from recording evidence to answering questions.
Visa plugs payments into ChatGPT agents
Visa and OpenAI plan to let AI agents shop and pay through tokenized Visa credentials under user-set limits and approval rules.
TCS says AI agents may match its headcount
TCS’s chairman said the company could one day have as many AI agents as employees, while hiring slows and AI revenue grows.
KPMG rolls Microsoft Copilot and Agent 365 across 138 markets
KPMG is giving 276,000 staff access to Microsoft 365 Copilot, Agent 365 and its own Workbench platform, showing how large audit firms are moving toward multi-vendor AI stacks with tighter agent governance.
MetaMask gives AI agents a wallet for DeFi
MetaMask’s Agent Wallet lets AI agents execute swaps, perpetuals, prediction-market trades and liquidity tasks, but wraps them in simulations, Blockaid threat checks, MEV protection and user-set limits.
A Security raises $37 million to fight AI with AI
The Israeli startup emerged from stealth with an autonomous offensive-security platform built for a world where attackers use AI agents at scale.
Ramp hits $44 billion valuation on AI spending controls
Ramp raised $750 million as investors bet that AI agents will become a new class of corporate spenders needing cards, controls and token-cost visibility.
Supabase raises $500 million as agents build databases
The Postgres-based backend platform says its user base has more than doubled since the last round and agents now deploy most databases on the platform.
Alibaba’s Qwen3.7-Plus adds vision and agent loops
The multimodal version of Qwen3.7-Max can read images and video, but Alibaba is emphasizing autonomous iteration, tool use and self-testing.
Meta opens WhatsApp business agents globally
Meta Business Agent can answer questions, recommend products, book services, take payments and hand off to humans across WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram.
Microsoft previews Solara agent devices
Project Solara imagines Android-based enterprise devices without traditional apps, where cloud agents tied to Microsoft 365 handle the work.
Lassie raises $35M for dental-office AI agents
Lassie automates dental insurance claims and reconciliation for small practices, turning an unglamorous workflow into a vertical agent business.
Coralogix Raises $200 Million to Watch AI Agents
The observability company reached a $1.6 billion valuation as investors bet that autonomous agents will need a new monitoring layer.
Microsoft gives Windows AI agents identity and isolation
Microsoft gives Windows AI agents identity and isolation. The story explains the announcement, the strategic context and the practical risks for the people or companies affected.
Microsoft and Noma put access controls around enterprise AI agents
Microsoft open-sourced Agent Control Specification while Noma launched runtime access control for AI agents and MCP servers.
Microsoft Builds Solara Around Agents, Not Windows
Project Solara turns Microsoft’s agent-first device pitch into a chip-to-cloud platform, with Android-based MDEP rather than Windows at the bottom.
Microsoft turns Foundry into a hosted agent platform at Build 2026
At Build 2026, Microsoft recast Foundry around hosted agents, memory, voice, retrieval, guardrails and evaluation rather than another model headline.
Salesforce acquires Contentful to fill Agentforce content gap
Salesforce signed a definitive agreement to acquire headless CMS provider Contentful, reportedly for $1-1.5 billion, far below its 2021 valuation.
VCs Pivot to Vertical AI Agents as Five Deals Close in One Day
On May 28, while Anthropic's $65B round dominated headlines, a series of smaller funding rounds for vertical AI agents signaled a shift toward practical, auditable automation.
Walmart's Sparky AI lifts user order value by 35%
Walmart disclosed Sparky AI agent metrics showing 35% higher AOV and 4x unit sales growth, signaling real retail impact.
Ferrari revamps fan app with IBM AI, engagement jumps 62%
Ferrari and IBM have rebuilt the Scuderia Ferrari app with AI features, boosting race-day engagement by 62% and attracting a new, more diverse fanbase.
EY Rolls Out Copilot to 400,000 Staff, Adds $1 Billion Investment
EY expands Microsoft Copilot deployment to all 400,000 employees with a new $1 billion, five-year agreement, citing a 15% productivity gain from an initial pilot with 150,000 staff.
Cursor Integrates Automations Directly Into IDE
Cursor's 3.5 update moves its Automations feature from a standalone web page into the IDE's Agents Window, enabling multi-repo support and agent-driven workflows beyond coding.
AI coworker Viktor hits $15M ARR, raises $75M from Accel
Viktor, an AI agent that lives inside Slack and Teams, has raised $75 million from Accel after reaching $15 million in annual recurring revenue within three months of launch.
Google's Universal Cart lets AI handle your checkout
Google unveiled Universal Cart at I/O 2026, a cross-service shopping cart that uses AI agents to track prices, manage purchases, and complete checkout automatically.
Nourish raises $100M for AI dietitian care
Nourish is pitching dietitian-led, AI-assisted care as the missing layer around GLP-1 weight-loss drugs and metabolic health.
Moment raises $78M to build an AI operating system for wealth managers
Index Ventures led the Series C less than a year after Moment’s prior round, as assets on the platform grew from $300B to more than $10T.
Dell Launches Desktop AI Agent, Claims 87% Cost Savings vs Cloud
Dell unveiled Deskside Agentic AI at Dell Technologies World, promising a three-month payback period and 87% cost reduction over two years compared to cloud APIs.
Dust raises $40M Series B, 300K agents live
Dust, an enterprise AI startup, has raised $40 million in Series B funding led by Sequoia and Abstract, with participation from Snowflake Ventures and Datadog, bringing total funding to over $60 million.
Intercom Rebrands as Fin, Launches AI to Supervise Customer Service AI
Fin, formerly Intercom, introduces Fin Operator, an AI agent that manages and monitors its own customer service AI, aiming to reduce human oversight costs.
Citadel CEO Ken Griffin Admits AI Depression, Reverses Stance in Six Months
Ken Griffin, founder of Citadel, publicly acknowledged that AI has advanced dramatically and is automating high-skilled finance jobs, causing him personal concern.
Codex comes to the ChatGPT mobile app
OpenAI added Codex controls to ChatGPT on iPhone, iPad and Android, letting users monitor and approve coding tasks away from the desktop.