Agents & Automation
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.
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AI Agents
8 posts about AI Agents from Simon Carter.
Agents & Automation
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.
Agents & Automation
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.
Consumer AI
Google Search adds AI agents and upgrades to Gemini 3.5 Flash as default
Google Search now runs Gemini 3.5 Flash by default in AI Mode, and gains information agents that monitor the web for you continuously.
Agents & Automation
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.
Workplace AI
Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index: The real barrier to AI value isn't the technology
Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index finds organisational culture, not tools or people, is what's holding back real AI value — and agents are changing what work looks like.
Agents & Automation
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.
Security & Governance
OpenAI Codex Security: An AI Agent That Finds, Validates, and Fixes Code Vulnerabilities
OpenAI's Codex Security is now in research preview for Enterprise, Business, and Pro users — an AI agent that scans code, confirms real vulnerabilities, and proposes fixes.