August 16, 2026 Latest briefing Alibaba releases a free compact AI model that punches above its weightA Chinese AI model finds a flaw in Cursor on launch dayA UK start-up raises €30 million to hunt AI vulnerabilities →
August 15, 2026 DeepSeek ships a build-it-yourself kit for AI agentsAlibaba releases a compact, free version of its best agent modelWriter unveils an AI agent team 52% cheaper and that watches its own spending →
August 14, 2026 Google launches an AI model half the price of its rivals, already live in 160 countriesThree AI agents on the same project end up sabotaging each other, Anthropic showsThe body that sets the common rules for AI agents grows to 247 members, with Alibaba, Visa and Wells Fargo on top →
August 11, 2026 Meta releases an agentic AI model that fits on a MacBookAlibaba launches a platform for Chinese AI agents to settle inside your appsA free credit score for your AI agent — just like in school →
August 10, 2026 Alibaba promises to open-source its mega-model Qwen3.8-Max this weekNVIDIA releases NOOA: an AI agent fits in a single Python classLangChain opens Managed Deep Agents: deploy an agent with a single command →
August 09, 2026 OpenAI halts its next model Astra: too dangerous for cybersecurityClaude Code: a safety filter takes over on 14 AugustSix web giants agree on a plugin format for AI assistants →
August 07, 2026 AI agents become real enterprise productsMeta launches Muse Code, an assistant that codes by itself in your terminalOpenAI makes its best model free for everyone →
August 06, 2026 AI agents are now acting on the real Internet — with real riskMeta trains an agent’s brain and hands togetherAn agent can book business travel and handle expenses →
August 05, 2026 An AI agent that fits in your pocket: Liquid AI releases a 2.6 billion-parameter brain, free to downloadAnt Group opens a Chinese ultra-light model (124 billion parameters, only 5 active) under an MIT licenseYour smartphone camera becomes an autonomous visual agent: NewEyes scans, reasons, and acts →
August 03, 2026 Microsoft puts its first team of agents against hackers onlineNVIDIA releases a free toolkit to teach agents how to learnThe language that lets agents talk to each other gets its biggest update yet →
August 02, 2026 Europe makes 'you are talking to a machine' mandatory on every AI agentA new open-source standard to tell an AI agent where it is allowed to goWashington threatens to put Moonshot (Kimi K3) on its sanctions list →
August 01, 2026 A new cheap AI that can read one million words at onceMicrosoft puts an AI guard in Defender to hunt vulnerabilitiesFly.io hires Docker's former boss to sell "computers for agents" →
July 30, 2026 An AI employee now handles company purchasingCompanies are buying badges and an emergency stop for AI agents1Password gives AI agents a key that expires after the task →
July 29, 2026 Google adds invisible guards around its agentsThe language that links agents to tools gets simplerOpenAI shows where agent work really goes →
July 28, 2026 OpenAI shuts down an agent that found a way outHermes Agent becomes a major open-source projectKimi K3 is downloadable — but not for an ordinary computer →
July 27, 2026 Visa and Lianlian: an AI agent buys and pays on its own in B2BSiemens and NVIDIA: an agent that double-checks its own work before deliveringGemini Intelligence: an agent that acts across 40 apps on your phone →
July 26, 2026 OpenAI Presence : le standard téléphonique qui travaille seulKimi K3 : des fichiers ouverts très puissants, mais à vérifierLe Japon construit son IA nationale pour les robots de demain →
July 25, 2026 Claude Opus 5 becomes the reference engine for agents that run for a long timeClaude Code 2.1.219: Opus 5 by default, nested sub-agents and a stronger sandboxTwo hundred American startups ask Trump not to cut off Chinese open-weight models →
July 24, 2026 HubSpot finally pulls every commercial agent onto a single dashboardAMD launches Helios: a full rack built to run AI agents at scaleDevRev takes its agents from keyboard to phone call, with the same memory →
July 23, 2026 Ushur launches agents that don't just reply: they complete the requestNVIDIA takes agents out of the cloud to run robots and creative tools on siteFay aims to let business teams build a digital colleague in five days →
July 22, 2026 The US Treasury threatens to sanction Chinese models for intellectual-property theftAWS Bedrock AgentCore opens enterprise agents to large-scale productionHugging Face admits it was hacked by an autonomous AI agent over a weekend →
July 21, 2026 Kimi K3 puts a giant Chinese model within reach of coding agentsWashington considers cutting access to Chinese models — but nothing is signed yetInkling opens a new route: adapting a large model to your own business →
July 20, 2026 Hugging Face makes AI agents trainable across coding, gaming and browsing at the same time — without their tools leaking into each otherHelsing raises 1.8 billion euros for autonomous drones and battlefield analysis — defence AI becomes a standalone investment categoryThe United States now has a tool to switch off an AI model on demand — and everyone is affected, including outside American borders →
July 19, 2026 China releases the largest open-weight model in the world — already compatible with agentic coding toolsAn open and free model that understands text, images and audio — signed by former OpenAI handsOpenAI launches a desktop agent that bundles everything together — pushing back against Claude and Copilot →
July 18, 2026 An open, free model that understands text, images and audio — but only on very large machinesA full AI agent that fits in a high-end phone's pocketA chain of agents that runs the entire export marketing process, from idea to publication →
July 16, 2026 Oracle opens a workshop to build teams of AI agents directly inside enterprise management softwareClaude Code ships a native browser: the agent sees, clicks and fixes its own code by itselfA startup raises $100 million by letting its own agent run the negotiation →
July 15, 2026 Microsoft unifies its two agent families into a single framework — and adds a turnkey harnessDevin powers up with SWE-1.7 — scores flirt with frontier models, but access stays closedZ.ai's GLM-5.2 tops the open-weights ranking — but the electricity bill is steep →
July 14, 2026 Fujitsu puts into production a team of AI agents to rewrite legacy computer systemsTwo new frameworks let an AI agent rewrite its own software layer — and gain +60% performanceA startup raises $40 million to build virtual offices where autonomous agents train →
July 13, 2026 NVIDIA and LangChain publish a recipe for enterprise agents 10 times cheaper — and turnkeyClaude becomes the brain of agents that act in the physical world — chips, hospitals, banks, telecomsPrime Intellect raises $130 million to sell enterprises their own AI agent stack →
July 12, 2026 Citrix sets up a gateway at the door of enterprise AI agents — a badge, a quota, an audit logLangChain gives agents a notebook they fill in themselves — Gmail, Notion, Git, X includedMistral turns agent instructions into versioned assets — like code, but for prompts →
July 11, 2026 OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 and installs it as the default engine for Word, Excel and PowerPointChatGPT Work: OpenAI takes the fight to Claude Cowork on the white-collar deskA government scans 466 million lines of its code with Claude Code in 20 hours →
July 10, 2026 Meta launches Muse Spark 1.1 and breaks its golden rule: a paid AI model to program on your behalfMicrosoft confirms: OpenAI's GPT-5.6 will be the default engine for Word, Excel and PowerPointOpenAI kills its Atlas browser: even with 400 million users, the AI browser did not catch on →
July 09, 2026 OpenAI launches GPT-Live: no more walkie-talkie, your voice assistants will now speak AND listen at the same timexAI and Cursor release Grok 4.5: an 'AI' model built on real interactions of millions of developers (and not just for code)SambaNova raises 1 billion dollars and signs JPMorgan: banks want their own AI machines, not OpenAI's →
July 08, 2026 Anthropic opens a window on the 'inner life' of AI agents: a free tool to see what they are quietly preparingClaude Cowork comes to phone and browser: you delegate, it works even with the laptop closedA first 'AI-driven ransomware' documented in public: it worked alone, without a human hacker →
July 07, 2026 Tencent launches a 'home-made' AI model that is free, open source, as good as a model four times its size - and 45% cheaper than AnthropicxAI launches a 'no code' voice agent builder: a phone that answers your customers on its own, for 3 cents a minuteAnthropic, Amazon, Microsoft and Google want to create a common 'severity scale' for AI jailbreaks - just like for computer viruses →
July 06, 2026 Anthropic launches a 'digital lab' for biology researchers — it checks everything before it hands in its workFrance's Mistral releases an open-source agent that proves code is correct — 15 to 90 times cheaper than Claude or GPTAlibaba bans Anthropic's Claude Code agent from its employees and imposes its in-house tool instead →
July 05, 2026 Microsoft creates a 6,000-strong team of 'AI plumbers' to install AI in big companies - $2.5 billion on the tableThe world's largest machine learning conference opens in Seoul with a record 23,918 papers submitted - and one topic is explodingMark Zuckerberg, boss of Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp), admits his AI agents are 'behind schedule' despite $145 billion of investment →
July 04, 2026 Anthropic, Amazon, Microsoft and Google agree on a shared severity scale for AI vulnerabilities — a global firstCisco equips its 90,000 employees with a personal AI assistant by late July — one of the world's largest rolloutsThe U.S. military now hosts 100,000 AI agents built by non-developers, and 1.7 million troops use them daily →
July 03, 2026 The Pentagon puts 100,000+ AI agents on a single network to help commanders decide in secondsExabeam releases the first open-source risk-rating framework for AI agents, aligned with OWASP standardsSpaceX signs a $6.3 billion deal with Reflection AI to become the third superpower of AI compute →
July 02, 2026 Anthropic brings its flagship AI assistant back online worldwide after a three-week suspension over a security flawMicrosoft releases a complete, free toolkit to build your own AI agents, with .NET and Python supportLangChain releases an open-source agent whose only job is to keep a project's documentation in sync with its code →
July 01, 2026 Nvidia releases a complete free toolkit so anyone can build their own AI agentsAnthropic lets large companies keep Claude Code locked inside their own cloudAnthropic launches a "Claude for researchers" that handles 60 lab tools and double-checks its own sources →
June 30, 2026 A new open standard wants to know "who is behind this AI agent" when it acts on your behalfThe Pentagon puts a no-code AI agent builder in the hands of its 3 million personnelCalifornia signs with Anthropic: Claude at -50% for its 230,000 civil servants →
June 29, 2026 A California startup is suing the US government to recover access to a top AI modelFramer launches AI agents that edit your live website while you watchPatronus AI raises $50 million and builds virtual worlds to train agents before they touch the real one →
June 28, 2026 Alibaba releases a simulator that predicts what will happen before an agent actsMicrosoft now requires human approval before every agent actionScaled Cognition raises $100M to build AI that prefers to stay silent rather than invent →
June 27, 2026 Sail Research makes long-running agents ten times cheaper to operateVercel releases a free framework where each agent is just a folder of filesClaude learns to wake itself up on schedule and keep your passwords out of sight →
June 26, 2026 Baseten raises $1.5 billion to become the plumbing that runs millions of AI agentsEDB releases a self-healing database designed to serve AI agentsAlibaba open-sources a « reality simulator » to train AI agents →
June 25, 2026 Cognition AI raises $1B at $26B: Devin now writes 89% of its own codeOpenAI buys Ona: Codex now keeps working after you close your laptopCursor Bugbot 3× faster and 22% cheaper — the AI code reviewer now runs before you push →
June 24, 2026 Zafin launches AIOS — banks finally get a switchboard for their AI agentsEngram raises $98M to make enterprise AI agents 100× cheaper to runJourney.ai × Dialpad — AI agents can finally take a card payment without seeing the card →
June 23, 2026 AWS Summit New York 2026: Continuum, Context, Quick Agents, Kiro iOS — The Cloud Goes Agent-NativeAgent 37 Cloud #1 Product of the Day — White-Label Agent Hosting at $3.44/month per ClientAgent Security Converges: Ent ($100M Seed), NewCore ($66M), Arcade ($60M Series A) — Identity & Access for AI Agents →
June 22, 2026 OpenClaw 2026.6.1: Windows Becomes Native Execution Node for AI AgentsKimi Work: Moonshot AI Launches Desktop Agent with 300-Agent Swarm ArchitectureCritical Gap: 97% Adopt AI Coding, Only 30% Have Governance — Coralogix Raises $200M for Agent Monitoring →
June 21, 2026 Google DeepMind publishes AI Control Roadmap — securing agents from the insideSaviynt closes the agent authorization gap — Intent-Aware Runtime Authorization (IARA)$10M fund launched for multi-agent AI safety research →
June 20, 2026 Salesforce acquires Fin for $3.6B — autonomous agent consolidationCoinbase for Agents: AI agents can now trade and pay autonomouslyMicrosoft Agent Framework 1.0 GA + BUILD 2026: Agent Harness and CodeAct →
June 19, 2026 Kimi Work: Moonshot AI launches swarm desktop agent — up to 300 parallel agentsGoogle Cloud standardizes agent context with Open Knowledge Format (OKF)Microsoft SkillOpt: +23 points on GPT-5.5 using nothing but a trained Markdown file →
June 18, 2026 Microsoft launches « Autopilots » — fully autonomous enterprise AI agents with OpenClaw97% of developers use AI to code — only 30% have comprehensive governanceGoogle Cloud and IBM forge multi-billion-dollar alliance for enterprise AI agents →
June 17, 2026 Microsoft Build 2026 — Full agent stack, Copilot SDK GAOpenClaw v2026.6.1 — Windows becomes native execution node for AI agentsChatGPT Memory « Dreaming » — Persistent memory becomes agent infrastructure →
June 16, 2026 Claude Managed Agents go self-hosted — sandbox execution on customer infraClaude Agent SDK — separate monthly credit from June 15Agent framework war — state of play June 2026 →
June 15, 2026 Claude Managed Agents go self-hosted — your containers, your firewall, your rulesSiri rebuilt as a true AI agent — screen context, multi-step actions, cross-device continuityCoze 3.0 (ByteDance) — multi-agent collaboration platform with project persistence →
June 14, 2026 Claude Fable 5 sets new coding benchmark recordChatGPT gets persistent memory — "Dreaming" architectureOpen-source LLM rankings: Kimi K2.6 takes #1, DeepSeek V4 Pro dominates agentic tasks →