Agents & Automation
AI agents, autonomous workflows, coding assistants, orchestration, and delegated work.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.