A TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 session featuring Gusto, Insight Partners, and Leland will examine how early-stage companies integrate AI agents alongside human teammates.
Google is opening Google Home to third-party AI agents through a new Model Context Protocol integration, letting tools like Claude and Open Claw control devices and access home data.
Google is offering early access to a new MCP server for Google Home that lets AI agents control connected devices, view camera summaries, and access smart home activity through natural language.
Amazon Bedrock's AgentCore optimizes agent system prompts by converting production traces into configuration changes, validated before deployment.
OpenAI introduces new advertising solutions powered by AI, including Sponsored Agents and tools for seamless integration with marketing platforms.
Meta introduced a WhatsApp Business MCP server enabling developers to use AI coding agents to handle setup, messaging templates, testing, and troubleshooting.
Abnormal AI uses Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter as an ephemeral compute scratch pad for the agents behind its real-time email threat detection at billion-message scale.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity introduces a Consent portal, a managed web experience for handling end-user OAuth consent for AI agents, with session binding for AgentCore Gateway.
DevFest 2026 has returned, providing a platform for participants to engage in over 800 events worldwide focused on advancing agentic AI.
Ninth Wave developed Compass, a multi-agent AI onboarding assistant on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that validates bank APIs against FDX standards and reduces open finance onboarding from weeks to minutes.
Perplexity's Portable Computer, a local version of its Computer agent, is now available on Windows and accelerated by NVIDIA RTX, running local models to plan and execute multistep tasks on-device.
AWS explains how to build and deploy MCP Apps with interactive HTML widgets on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, using a host-agnostic standard that works across compatible AI hosts.