Amazon's new "Join the chat" feature enables conversational audio Q&A on product pages, letting shoppers get real-time voice answers to product questions.
Two-year-old startup Standard Intelligence released a computer use model that can operate software and physical hardware like cars, trained on non-traditional data.
Cloudflare enables AI agents to autonomously create accounts, register domains, subscribe to paid plans, and deploy apps—turning coding agents into full-stack deployers.
xAI launched an 'Imagine Agent' feature in Grok that lets users direct an AI agent to autonomously generate images and videos, adding agentic capabilities to its consumer product.
Anthropic's Claude Security (formerly Code Security) enters public beta for Enterprise users, using Opus-model power to scan codebases for vulnerabilities as a standalone security product.
Anthropic launched Claude connectors for Blender, Fusion, Adobe CC, Ableton, Splice, and Affinity, enabling batch tasks, script creation, and asset transfer across creative platforms.
Mistral AI launched Workflows public preview for enterprises, adding durability, observability, and fault tolerance to production AI pipelines with SDK v3.0 and Le Chat integration.
Google Gemini app gains the ability to generate files in PDF, Word, Excel, Docs, Sheets, plain text, and Markdown formats, adding a meaningful document creation capability.
Stripe's Link wallet now supports AI agent spending via approval flows, letting users connect payment methods and authorize autonomous agents to make purchases on their behalf.
AWS launched Amazon Quick, a desktop AI agent app at $20/month that automates tasks like creating presentations and documents without requiring an AWS account.
Google launched Ask YouTube, a conversational AI search feature for Premium users that generates pages combining relevant videos with AI-written text summaries, enabling natural-language video discovery.
Google Meet is rolling out real-time speech translation on mobile, supporting six languages (EN/ES/FR/DE/PT/IT) with synthesized voice output, currently in alpha.
Alibaba's Qwen AI models are being integrated into BYD, Volkswagen, and other vehicles, enabling voice-activated commerce for food and ticket purchases in select models.
OpenAI launches workspace agents in ChatGPT, Codex-powered agents that automate complex workflows for teams with cloud execution and secure tool access.
Google announced new TPU generations specialized for training and inference at Cloud Next, deepening its competition with Nvidia in AI chip infrastructure.
Microsoft Copilot's agentic features for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are now generally available and enabled by default for all 365 Copilot and 365 Premium subscribers.
SpaceX (via xAI) has agreed to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60B, one of the largest AI acquisitions to date, with closing expected later this year.
Google launches two research agent tiers (Deep Research, Deep Research Max) via Gemini API paid tiers, replacing the December preview with a higher-tier option.
Google Cloud and Wiz launched AI security agents (Threat Hunting, Detection Engineering) at Next '26 to counter automated zero-day exploits, targeting enterprise security workflows.
Adobe announced outcome-based pricing for its AI agents in CX Enterprise, charging customers based on task completion success rather than flat subscriptions.
Google adds Workspace Intelligence AI system to Gmail, Docs, and Meet, automating tasks like scheduling, drafting, and summarization across its productivity suite.
Google brings Gemini-powered auto browse to Chrome for enterprise, letting workers automate research, data entry, and browser-based tasks via AI integration.
Anthropic launched Claude Design, a dedicated app for design work powered by Claude Opus 4.7, causing Figma stock to drop ~7% as investors fear direct competition.
OpenAI released GPT-Rosalind, a domain-specific frontier reasoning model for life sciences covering drug discovery, genomics, and protein reasoning, now in research preview with Moderna and Amgen as launch partners.
Factory, an AI coding agent startup using dynamic model-switching, is raising $150M at a $1.5B valuation led by Khosla Ventures, signaling continued strong VC appetite for AI developer tools.