Agents & Automation
AI agents, autonomous workflows, coding assistants, orchestration, and delegated work.
Codex Remote is now generally available on all ChatGPT plans
Codex Remote reached GA on 25 June 2026, letting every paid ChatGPT subscriber start, steer, and approve Codex work from their phone via secure QR pairing.
OpenAI hits its automated research intern goal and sets its sights on a fully automated AI researcher by March 2028
OpenAI's research org now logs 3.1 agent-workdays per human workday. It hit its intern milestone and targets a full AI researcher by March 2028.
Claude proved Fermat's Last Theorem in 11 days: and a computer checked every step
Anthropic's multi-agent Claude system produced a machine-verified formal proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in 11 days, writing 13 million lines of Lean 4 code.
Anthropic's open-source commerce agents blueprint: what it means for retailers and developers
Anthropic released a forkable commerce agents blueprint on 2 September 2025, with shopper and merchant reference implementations deployable via Claude API, Bedrock, Foundry, or Vertex.
ChatGPT's site tools let websites hand AI agents a proper API: no scraping required
OpenAI's Site Tools feature lets ChatGPT use structured tools websites expose via WebMCP, working inside your live signed-in session.
Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard gives AI agents a common interface to control physical lab and factory equipment
Anthropic's MHS research preview lets AI agents discover and safely control microscopes, robotic arms, and quantum hardware through a single open protocol.
ChatGPT Work scheduled tasks can now trigger on Gmail, Slack, and GitHub events
ChatGPT Work adds webhook triggers for Gmail, Slack, and GitHub to scheduled tasks, plus task sharing for Plus and Pro users.
Claude Cowork now has its own built-in sandboxed browser
Claude Cowork on the desktop app now includes a sandboxed browser that opens in a side panel, so the agent can navigate sites without touching your own browser.
Claude Code auto mode becomes the default on 14 August 2026 for Pro, Max, and Team plans
Anthropic's AI classifier replaces per-action approval prompts in Claude Code, catching 89% of dangerous commands vs 13.6% for human reviewers.
Gemini Spark Comes to macOS in Beta: Desktop File Automation, Remote Tasks, and New App Integrations
Gemini Spark is now in beta on macOS for US Google AI Ultra subscribers, bringing desktop file automation, remote task control, and new third-party integrations.
Codex Goal Mode is now generally available, and Appshots brings live app context to your threads
OpenAI ships Goal Mode GA across Codex app, IDE, and CLI, plus Appshots for macOS to capture any window as instant thread context.
OpenAI Acquires Ona to Give Codex a Persistent Cloud Brain for Multi-Day AI Tasks
OpenAI is acquiring Ona, the secure cloud execution startup, to let Codex run long-horizon agent tasks inside customer-controlled environments.
Claude Cowork's 'Record a Skill' turns your screen recordings into reusable AI workflows
Anthropic's new Record a Skill feature lets Pro, Max, and Team users demonstrate a task once on screen and have Claude save it as a reusable, rerunnable skill.
OpenAI is merging ChatGPT, Codex, and Atlas into one desktop superapp — here's what changes for your team
OpenAI is unifying ChatGPT, Codex, and its Atlas browser into a single desktop superapp with Canva and Booking.com integrations built in.
Claude Code Auto Mode now works on Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, and Microsoft Foundry
Claude Code v2.1.158 extends Auto Mode to enterprise cloud providers via a single environment variable, for Opus 4.7 and 4.8 users.
Claude Cowork comes to web and mobile, with sessions that run while your laptop is closed
Claude Cowork is now in beta on web and iOS/Android for Max plan users, with cloud-run sessions, doubled usage limits through August 5, and new M365 write access.
OpenAI Pushes Workspace Agent Billing to July 6, 2026 — Here's What to Budget For
OpenAI has extended free access to ChatGPT workspace agents until July 6, 2026, giving Enterprise and Edu admins more time to plan credit-based budgets.
Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app — live sessions, approvals, and full project context from your phone
OpenAI brings Codex to iOS and Android, letting developers monitor, approve, and steer long-running coding sessions remotely across all plans.
ChatGPT Enterprise workspaces can now share Codex plugins by default
Plugin sharing is now on by default for eligible ChatGPT Enterprise workspaces in Codex, letting teams discover and install shared plugins from a workspace directory.
Claude Science: Anthropic's AI Workbench Built for Researchers, Not Just Chatting About Research
Anthropic launches Claude Science, a purpose-built AI workbench unifying 60+ scientific tools, auditable artifacts, and flexible compute for researchers.
Anthropic updates Claude Managed Agents: self-hosted sandboxes, mid-session tool swapping, and cache diagnostics
Anthropic ships three Claude Managed Agents platform updates giving enterprise developers more infrastructure control, runtime flexibility, and prompt-cache transparency.
Claude Managed Agents now run tool execution on your own infrastructure
Anthropic splits agent orchestration from tool execution, letting enterprises run agent 'hands' in their own sandboxes while Claude's 'brain' stays on Anthropic.
Claude Code v2.1.172: Nested Sub-Agents, Background Jobs, and a Raft of Bug Fixes
Claude Code v2.1.172 ships nested sub-agents up to 5 levels deep, background job syntax, plugin search, smarter Bedrock region handling, and 30 fixes.
OpenAI Codex can now watch you work once and turn it into a reusable automation
Record & Replay for Codex lets macOS users demonstrate a workflow once, then packages it into an editable SKILL.md file Codex can replay with new inputs.
Codex's most powerful desktop features are now available in Europe, the UK, and Switzerland
Computer Use, the Chrome extension, Personalized Memory, and Chronicle have expanded to the EEA, UK, and Switzerland — with Memory off by default.
Anthropic's Managed Agents now run on a schedule and store credentials securely — no custom plumbing required
Anthropic's public beta adds cron-based scheduling and a network-boundary credential vault to Claude Managed Agents, removing two common DIY infrastructure headaches.
OpenAI lets Plus and Pro subscribers buy extra Codex usage credits, with optional auto top-up
ChatGPT Plus and Pro users can now purchase additional Codex usage credits beyond their plan limits, with an auto top-up option to keep work flowing.
Claude now writes more than 80% of Anthropic's code — and the company warns recursive self-improvement may be closer than anyone expected
Anthropic reveals Claude authored 80%+ of its merged codebase by May 2026 and calls for international coordination before AI can fully design its own successors.
Codex now asks what your job is — because one in five users isn't a developer
Codex expanded its onboarding with non-developer role choices so first-run suggestions match your actual job, as analysts and marketers hit 20% of users.
GitHub's new Copilot desktop app gives you a control room for parallel AI agent sessions
GitHub's standalone Copilot app brings a unified dashboard for managing multiple AI agent sessions, with Agent Merge, sandboxing, and an SDK now GA.
Microsoft IQ is now generally available: one context layer to ground all your agents
Microsoft IQ — combining Work IQ, Fabric IQ, and the new Web IQ — is now GA across GitHub Copilot, Foundry, and Copilot Studio.
Microsoft Scout is the first Autopilot: an always-on agent that works without being asked
At Build 2026, Microsoft launched Autopilots — always-on autonomous agents with their own Entra identity. Microsoft Scout is first.
OpenAI Codex Gets Six Role-Specific Plugins, a Sites Builder, and Smarter Annotations — All Without Writing a Line of Code
OpenAI expands Codex beyond developers with six role-specific plugins, interactive Sites, and in-place Annotations for business teams.
Claude Code's Dynamic Workflows let hundreds of AI agents tackle your biggest coding jobs in parallel
Anthropic's Dynamic Workflows for Claude Code orchestrate up to 1,000 subagents per run, handling massive migrations and audits that previously took weeks.
How OpenAI used Codex to build tax agents that fix their own mistakes
OpenAI's engineering blog details how Codex powers self-improving tax agents that processed 7,000 returns with up to 97% accuracy — a reusable blueprint for enterprise AI.
Copilot Studio computer-using agents are now generally available — plus new workflows and voice updates
Microsoft's Copilot Studio CUA feature hits GA, letting agents operate any UI like a human, with new workflow tools and real-time voice now live too.
Codex for Windows Gets Computer Use and Mobile Remote Control, Plus GitHub Enterprise Server Integration
ChatGPT Enterprise's Codex app now supports Computer Use on Windows with iOS/Android remote handoff, and a new GitHub Enterprise Server template for on-prem code review.
Google Antigravity 2.0: A Standalone Desktop App Built Around Agents, Not Editors
Google's Antigravity 2.0 ships as a standalone desktop app with multi-agent orchestration, subagent teamwork preview, and direct Google Cloud enterprise integration.
Google I/O 2026: Welcome to the Agentic Gemini Era
Google I/O 2026 marked a decisive shift from AI assistants to autonomous agents, with new models, platforms, and consumer tools built around the agentic Gemini era.
Google's Managed Agents API lets you spin up a full agentic sandbox with one API call
Google's new Managed Agents API provisions a Gemini-powered agent inside an isolated Linux sandbox in a single API call — no infrastructure required.
Copilot Cowork is now on iOS and Android — delegate work from anywhere, finish it everywhere
Microsoft's Copilot Cowork AI task delegation tool is now available on iOS and Android, letting users hand off work from mobile and pick it up on desktop.
Copilot Cowork is now available in Microsoft's Frontier Program
Microsoft's AI execution layer for Microsoft 365, built with Anthropic, has expanded to broader availability through the Frontier early-access program.
OpenAI's Codex desktop app turns you into a multi-agent supervisor
OpenAI's new Codex desktop app lets developers run and manage multiple AI coding agents in parallel, with built-in skills, automations, and Git support.
Claude Code comes to Slack: tag @Claude in a thread and get back a pull request
Anthropic's Claude Code now integrates with Slack, letting teams trigger full coding sessions from chat threads and receive completed PRs without leaving the app.