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AI agents — systems that plan and act, not just chat — are the fastest-moving area in AI. This hub tracks agentic product launches, enterprise deployments, coding and voice agents, agent frameworks and the emerging rules around autonomous AI.
ChatGPT Voice landed on Mac and Windows on Thursday. The pitch is not dictation — it's talking to a fleet of agents already running in parallel while you do something else.
Jul 24, 2026
The London- and Paris-based startup, founded by an ex-Accel investor with Palantir alumni, is betting AI's biggest payoff is in mission-critical industry — not office work.
Jul 23, 2026
Gavin Kliger, Luke Farritor, Marko Elez and Jack Stein emerge from stealth with $160 million from a16z and Sequoia to build offensive and defensive AI cyber weapons for the Pentagon.
Jul 23, 2026
The new offering packages guardrails, approved actions, simulations and a Codex-powered improvement loop — and OpenAI says it already resolves 75% of calls to its own support line without a human.
Jul 23, 2026
A new "Record a skill" feature captures your screen, clicks and spoken commentary, then turns the demonstration into a reusable skill Claude can run on its own.
Jul 22, 2026
Founded by a former Meta engineering VP and Snowflake's ex-head of cybersecurity strategy, the company runs more than a hundred specialised agents server-side to decide what software — and which AI agents — may run on employee devices.
Jul 22, 2026
The Singapore-based Alipay+ operator closed its first outside round with backing from Ant Group and Alibaba, arming its payments stack with AI agents for merchants and treasurers.
Jul 21, 2026
Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer co-led the Series A for a platform that inventories, monitors and controls the AI agents multiplying inside corporate software stacks.
Jul 21, 2026
Pillar Security's 'Week of Sandbox Escapes' shows AI coding agents escaping confinement not by breaking walls, but by writing files that trusted tools outside the sandbox execute later.
Jul 21, 2026
The Hong Kong-listed integrator will pair its AllMeta platform with Moonshot's Kimi models under a deal tied to AI inference-token consumption — a shift from project fees to usage-based revenue that sent the stock sharply higher.
Jul 20, 2026
SAP's quarterly Business AI update moves several autonomous agents to general availability and cites concrete outcomes — a billing agent that cuts resolution time 75%, and expense automation 30% faster.
Jul 20, 2026
At WAIC, Ant, Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu each pushed agent platforms for business clients; Ant's 'commercial AI agent super factory' ships with 200 pre-built digital-expert templates.
Jul 19, 2026
The phone summons ByteDance's Doubao agent with a button or voice to open apps, compare prices and complete purchases hands-free — though ZTE withheld full specs and pricing.
Jul 19, 2026
The reference design runs continuously on Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, letting a language model read, reason and write structured memory to a plain SQLite file instead of a vector database.
Jul 18, 2026
The German AI-robotics company says its self-operating food system is now running with Ukraine's 3rd Army Corps — the first use of autonomous meal supply in an active war zone.
Jul 18, 2026
The maker of the Digit robot opened a Fremont, California facility to train its humanoids for warehouse work, reporting about $300 million in contract orders.
Jul 18, 2026
Aidan lives on a company's website and actually clicks through the product in real time — a demo that reminded Sequoia's Shaun Maguire 'of what Stripe did for payments.'
Jul 17, 2026
US users can link the first three partner apps to Search's AI Mode and have it fill grocery carts, generate design templates and build playlists — Google's clearest step from answering to acting.
Jul 17, 2026
The Bengaluru AI coding startup quintupled its valuation in six months by aiming at people who cannot code — 70% of its users have never written a line — and now runs at $120 million in annualized revenue.
Jul 16, 2026
Instead of scraping the web for speech, the San Francisco startup runs its own recording studio — a data strategy its CEO argues is the only way to fix voice agents that still feel like an IVR with a nicer voice.
Jul 16, 2026
Newly retired from Google, the TCP/IP co-designer has joined Innovation Labs' advisory council to back DNSid — a proposal to anchor every AI agent to a domain name its owner can prove they control.
Jul 16, 2026
Bloomberg reports the Jony Ive-designed gadget will be a portable, screen-free smart speaker pitched as a 'humanlike AI companion,' with mechanical parts that move on their own and voice powered by ChatGPT's GPT-Live mode.
Jul 15, 2026
Founded by ex-SpaceX engineers, the startup retrofits excavators and dozers for remote and semi-autonomous operation, headlined by a $100M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins — with an eventual eye on building on the Moon and Mars.
Jul 15, 2026
Bret Taylor's conversational-AI company hands SoftBank exclusive rights to sell its customer-service agents across Japan, building on a LINEMO deployment that lifted inquiry resolution from 83% to 97%.
Jul 15, 2026
The AI search company's latest release adds a self-improving memory that builds a private context graph across your sessions and files, mid-task model switching, Claude Opus 4.8 in fast mode, and one-click website publishing.
Jul 14, 2026
The Munich defense-AI company pulled in Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Iconiq, Lightspeed and Canada's pension fund in a round where demand 'significantly' outstripped the allocation — cementing Europe's answer to Anduril.
Jul 14, 2026
Robostral Navigate, an 8-billion-parameter model released July 8, drives wheeled, legged and flying robots from one ordinary RGB camera — no lidar, depth sensors or pre-built map.
Jul 12, 2026
The five-year task order covers integration of the War Data Platform — the rebranded successor to Advana — as the Defense Department bets that standardized data, not just models, gates military AI.
Jul 11, 2026
The AI coding IDE's latest update lets developers spin off durable side conversations while the main agent keeps working — a bet that managing several agents at once is the next productivity gain.
Jul 11, 2026
The Paris lab spun out of Kyutai, whose founders authored much of the research behind modern voice models, reopened its seed with Nvidia anchoring a new tranche — and will spend it opening a Bay Area office.
Jul 11, 2026
