Websites are closing their doors to AI agents
As autonomous AI agents gain traction, major websites are starting to block them, with Yelp requiring data licensing and Delta preventing agent-driven bookings.
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Replit’s CEO says the future of work is the ‘self-driving company’
Replit CEO Amjad Masad outlines a vision of 'self-driving companies' in which AI agents handle routine daily work and people focus on higher-level decisions.
Bluesky’s AI tool now lets you make games and apps to share on social
Bluesky expanded its Attie AI tool, which originally built custom feeds, to let users generate small social apps—games, polls, and dashboards—from text prompts and share them as websites.
Google launches its ‘universal’ online shopping cart ahead of the holidays
Google has launched Universal Cart in the US, a unified shopping tool that lets users save products from multiple retailers across the Gemini app and Google Search.
Amazon’s always-listening Bee wearable can now help you buy stuff
Amazon's Bee wearables, which listen to daily conversations to produce summaries and to-dos, are gaining a shopping capability, with two devices priced at $74.99 and $99.99.
Amazon’s Bee launches two new personal AI devices, starting at $75
Bee, owned by Amazon, released its first new AI devices since acquisition: an updated wearable and a card-sized recorder, starting at $74.99.
Ricursive Intelligence is betting on AI-designed chips to help solve the compute crisis
Startup Ricursive Intelligence is developing AI that designs chips, learns from each iteration, and refines later designs, with the goal of automating and accelerating chip design.
Apate sends AI agents undercover to get scammed so they can gather fraud intelligence
Apate.ai uses AI agents in an unusual way: sending them undercover to be scammed in order to collect fraud intelligence.
Build self-improving document processing using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
AWS describes how to build an agentic intelligent document processing system using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that classifies, extracts, validates, and learns from business documents with minimal human intervention.
Android is using AI to suss out scammers in Google Messages
Android is rolling out new scam defense features, including an enhanced protection setting in Google Messages that uses cloud-based Gemini AI to assess scammers' intentions.
Generate presentations with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
AWS outlines how to build an agent system on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that generates grounded PowerPoint presentations from enterprise documents in under 90 seconds.
The EU’s next chapter in AI is agentic
New analysis from OpenAI looks at how agentic AI is being adopted by EU enterprises and small businesses, highlighting areas where expanded use could add value.
Industrial Next wants factory robots to switch tasks in minutes, not weeks
Industrial Next focuses on automating complex, delicate manufacturing tasks and wants factory robots to switch between tasks in minutes instead of weeks.
Building agents that transact with Anchor Browser and AgentCore payments
AWS's Partner Agent Factory and Anchor Browser built AI agents that autonomously pay for x402-protected web resources using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments, which handles budgets, signing, and retries without exposing wallet credentials.
Shopify opens its catalog up to more AI agents
Shopify is opening its catalog of over a billion listings to more AI agents, allowing shoppers to configure any agent to purchase products on their behalf.
Facebook is giving users more control over their algorithm
Meta announced 'Your Algorithm,' an AI-powered feature on Facebook that gives users more control over their algorithm, following its earlier launch on Instagram.
Manage private pricing offers for Amazon Bedrock with managed entitlements
AWS outlines two approaches for activating Marketplace Private Pricing Offer entitlements for Amazon Bedrock across many accounts: a one-time script and CDK-based event-driven automation.
Epic shifts to ‘AI-accelerated development’ for upcoming Disney game
Epic Games is moving to AI-accelerated development for an unannounced Disney game, directing staff to use tools like Anthropic's Claude for code and to generate all art via AI workflows.
From Earth to Orbit, France’s Ecosystem Delivers Agentic Computing at Scale With NVIDIA
Companies in France are deploying agentic computing across industries including space, financial services, the public sector and scientific research, supported by national compute commitments made at recent summits.
Honeyjar offers AI tools to improve PR and comms at every company
Honeyjar offers AI tools designed to improve PR and communications at companies, positioning itself against a PR process many consider broken.
An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police
An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police. According to the report, Anthropic did not discover the behavior until over two months after the tip was submitted.
How Postman runs Agent Mode for 40 million developers on Amazon Bedrock
Postman and AWS describe how they run Agent Mode for 40 million developers on Amazon Bedrock, covering tool sprawl control, schema-based reads, and context management.
Instinct was the buzziest AI agent around — can it survive Muse?
Instinct launched a text message-based AI agent in August with an invite-only, low-marketing approach, but now faces similar products Muse and Dots from larger competitors.
Asana cuts model costs 76x in browser tests with GPT-6.1 Sol
Asana says it made its browser agent 76x cheaper and 5x faster in tests by using GPT-6 Astra in Codex, aiming to deliver more capable models to customers.
Into the Omniverse: How Developers Turn Ideas Into Simulations With Frontier AI Agents
NVIDIA describes how developers combine frontier AI models with Omniverse libraries to assemble, connect and verify simulation applications, directing AI agents through the process.
Google brings agentic AI to Gemini, starting with businesses
Google is turning Gemini into an AI agent for businesses that can plan and execute tasks, delegate to subagents, use multiple models, and has its own workplace identity.
How Oracle turns days of work into minutes with ChatGPT and Codex
Oracle applies ChatGPT Work and Codex across recruiting, engineering, and operations to convert specialist knowledge into faster, repeatable workflows.
Google is launching a one-stop Gemini agent for your work tasks
Google announced a universal Gemini AI agent within the Gemini Enterprise app that can work across apps and devices, letting users assign and manage work tasks from one interface.
Beyond hours saved: Building the business case for agentic automation
An AWS blog post presents a framework for sizing the business value of agentic automation across time savings, exception handling, decision quality, and maintenance, and for prioritizing workflows.
Muse launches on the iPad
Meta's agentic AI tool Muse now runs natively on the iPad, following its iPhone debut and a Mac release, with a layout suited to the larger screen and iPadOS multitasking.
Ex-Ramp engineers raise $20M for platform Melius after scrapping their first product
Melius, founded by ex-Ramp engineers, raised $20M after abandoning its initial product to focus on building tools that generate creative assets and marketing campaigns.
The next hurdle for AI agents: getting websites to let them in
Personal AI agents promising to handle tasks like shopping and booking are running into website blocks and anti-bot defenses, with a new standard proposed to address the problem.
Atlassian and OpenAI expand partnership to turn enterprise knowledge into action
Atlassian and OpenAI are broadening their partnership to link frontier AI models with enterprise knowledge, supporting teams as they plan, build, and deliver work.
How Jump Trading is scaling quant research with ChatGPT
Jump Trading is applying ChatGPT to expand its quantitative research, using longer-running AI workflows that draw on multiple data sources alongside human review.
Gemini Call for Me might tell your mom you’re running late
An APK teardown suggests Google is expanding Gemini's "Call for Me" feature to relay brief messages to friends and family, not just business calls.
Instinct brings its AI agent to group chats, even for friends without an account
Instinct is adding group chats that let friends collaborate with its AI agent on tasks like trip planning and event coordination, keeping personal accounts separate.
Making Amazon Quick enterprise-ready: Automated, auditable cross-account resource promotion
An AWS blog post describes automating the promotion of Amazon Quick resources from development to production AWS accounts via an idempotent, auditable MCP server on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore.
Google froze its open source bug bounty program due to a ‘significant rise’ in AI submissions
Google froze its open source bug bounty program after what it described as a significant rise in AI submissions overwhelming such programs.
Capcom is preparing for a ‘future where we create games together with AI’
At the Capcom Open Conference RE: 2026, a Capcom programmer outlined plans to integrate AI into development workflows to address the scale of large game productions.
All the AI agents that can live in your text messages
TechCrunch compiles a list of notable AI agents that work within text messaging, including general-purpose assistants and agents tailored for families, travel, and work.
Apple will limit Mac disk access as AI agents ‘substantially’ increase risk
Apple says it will tighten Mac 'full disk access' controls, requiring more explicit user action, in response to risks it attributes to AI agents.
OpenAI’s Dot agent is enterprise software that can also order your dinner
OpenAI has announced Dots, an agent platform with customizable blobby avatars that leans toward workplace software but can also handle everyday tasks like ordering food.
Sweep thousands of leases for compliance using Amazon Quick and the Adjudicated Query pattern
AWS introduces the Adjudicated Query pattern, combining the Amazon Quick chat agent with a bounded MCP server over a deterministic rules engine to produce complete, defensible compliance answers, demonstrated on lease compliance.
Open-sourcing AstaBrief, the fast report-generation model in Asta
Hugging Face has announced the open-source release of AstaBrief, a model focused on fast report generation, enhancing productivity in report-making processes.
AutoSynth Generating Training Data for Enterprise Agents
Hugging Face has launched AutoSynthData, a tool designed to create training data specifically for enterprise agents, enhancing automation in this domain.
Serve live, governed data in AI-built apps with Amazon Quick
Amazon Quick introduces Live Data in Apps, enabling AI-built apps to query governed QuickSight datasets in real time while enforcing per-reader security.
The eternal complement
An OpenAI piece argues that advanced AI may be most valuable for the routine execution work supporting breakthrough ideas, potentially shaping the next economy.
OpenAI launches Dots, its Muse competitor
At DevDay, OpenAI announced Dots, always-on AI assistants powered by GPT-6 Astra that work across connected apps in the background, competing with Meta's Muse.
Instinct founder said more than 50% of transactions on the platform are travel-related
According to its founder, Instinct sees more than half of its platform transactions come from travel, alongside a reported 10% daily growth rate.
Google tests buying from Walmart-owned Flipkart through Gemini and AI Mode in India
Google is running a limited test that lets users buy from Flipkart through Gemini and AI Mode in India, covering select products and users ahead of a wider October rollout.
Proaction boosts sales 60% and saves 75+ hours with Codex
Proaction says it used OpenAI's Codex, GPT-Live-1, and GPT-6 Astra to build and sell fleet management tools, boosting sales 60% and saving 75+ hours.
The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector
A Department of Defense budget request seeks $30.3 million over five years for an improved lie detector using AI-based scoring algorithms and a technique called standoff sensing.
Meta is going to let you build games with AI right on your phone
Meta unveiled two AI-powered game development tools, the mobile Horizon Create and browser-based Horizon Studio, letting users build games via prompts, with early access via waitlist.
Aderant builds intelligent ticket triage with Amazon Nova
Aderant developed an automated ticket triage system using Amazon Nova Lite through Amazon Bedrock to handle context gathering, classification, routing, and knowledge enrichment for its cloud operations team.
Google tests letting Gemini call businesses for you
Google is testing a Gemini capability that places calls to businesses for users, initially limited to U.S. Pixel 11 owners with a paid Gemini subscription.
Meta made a Tamagotchi-like wearable for its Muse AI agent
Meta has launched a wearable device designed for its Muse AI agent, enhancing its mobility and interaction.
Meta is making Muse more powerful and will let you video chat with it, too
Meta announced updates to its Muse AI agent, including dedicated email addresses, computer use in the Mac app, and the ability to communicate via video calls.
How to Use NVIDIA Warp and MjWarp to Accelerate Robotics Simulation and Learning Workflows
The article discusses the use of NVIDIA Warp and MjWarp to enhance robotics simulation and improve learning workflows, providing insights into their capabilities.
Google Beam expands with new regions, partners, and customers
Google Beam is expanding its service availability to five additional countries and has entered a partnership with Industrious to enhance its network.
The man who built Apple’s stores doesn’t buy Silicon Valley’s bet on AI shopping
Ron Johnson, who built Apple's retail stores, expresses skepticism about Silicon Valley's bet on AI shopping, emphasizing that Apple's success has relied on its people.
Meta’s AI agent has been blocked from using Amazon.com
Meta's AI agent has been blocked from using Amazon.com, highlighting tensions between rival companies that both offer foundation models and inference services.
With Tabby, a former accountant is using AI to make accountants obsolete
Tabby is a real-time bookkeeping interface that uses AI to process client paperwork while providing current profit and loss data for their businesses.
How BMW Group detects cost anomalies across 14,000 cloud accounts
BMW Group's CLEA FinOps platform gained automated daily cost anomaly detection across more than 14,000 cloud accounts using Prophet forecasting and a serverless AWS pipeline.
From first users to billions: Google’s Robby Stein joins TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Robby Stein from Google will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, focusing on his experience from early adopters to widespread implementation.
The new AgentCore runtime: Elastic, optimized, and consistently fast starts
AWS has announced a new AgentCore runtime within Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, designed to give production AI agents consistent cold starts and reclaim memory as sessions release it.
Flash floods can strike without warning — this new technology could change that
A report on emerging technology that could provide earlier warning for flash floods, framed by the experience of a southern Indiana resident during a sudden, heavy rain event.
The FAA’s plan to fix air traffic? $875M worth of AI
The FAA is launching an AI-based software program, backed by $875M, to assist air traffic controllers in managing US airspace.
A serverless, data-driven Git metrics dashboard using Amazon Quick Sight
A tutorial for building a fully serverless pipeline that gathers Git metrics from GitHub and GitLab and displays near-real-time delivery analytics in Amazon QuickSight dashboards at low cost.
AI is feared globally as the destroyer of jobs
A new Pew Research global survey finds that in 34 of 37 countries, people are more likely to believe AI will cause job losses than create jobs over the next two decades.
Your startup’s next teammate might be an AI agent: Gusto, Insight Partners, and Leland explain what th…
A TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 session featuring Gusto, Insight Partners, and Leland will examine how early-stage companies integrate AI agents alongside human teammates.
Google will now let any AI agent run your smart home
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.
Your AI agents can now control your Google Home devices
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.
Emerald AI, Google and NVIDIA Launch Alliance to Advance Flexible AI Data Centers
Emerald AI, Google and NVIDIA have launched the AI Energy Management Alliance, a coalition focused on data centers that can dynamically manage their electricity consumption.
Reimagining advertising with AI
OpenAI introduces new advertising solutions powered by AI, including Sponsored Agents and tools for seamless integration with marketing platforms.
Meta now lets AI agents handle the boring parts of WhatsApp Business setup
Meta introduced a WhatsApp Business MCP server enabling developers to use AI coding agents to handle setup, messaging templates, testing, and troubleshooting.
This doorbell camera lets a human security guard watch your front door
SimpliSafe launched the Video Doorbell Series 2 with 2K resolution and dual-band Wi-Fi, combining AI threat detection with live agents who can intervene remotely.
Abnormal AI: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore for agentic email security at scale
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.
DevFest is back
DevFest 2026 has returned, providing a platform for participants to engage in over 800 events worldwide focused on advancing agentic AI.
Automate replenishment with MMF, Databricks Genie, and Amazon Quick
AWS outlines an automated replenishment workflow using MMF, Databricks Genie, and Amazon Quick that acts on demand forecasts and escalates to humans only when no supplier can cover a surge.
Perplexity Portable Computer Is Now Available on Windows, Powered by NVIDIA RTX
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.
How Fyxer built an AI executive assistant people trust
Fyxer developed an AI executive assistant on OpenAI models, using fine-tuning, memory, and user feedback to sort inboxes and draft emails matching each user's voice.
Perplexity trusts GPT-6 Astra with end-to-end systems
Perplexity relies on GPT-6 Astra to handle end-to-end systems tasks including writing communications, changing software, and monitoring production, requiring fewer check-ins than prior models.
Cognition helps Devin test its own work with GPT‑6 Astra
Cognition is applying GPT-6 Astra to strengthen Devin's software testing capabilities, with the goal of helping engineers review less code and ship more.
Amazon Quick is now generally available on desktop
Amazon has made its Quick AI assistant desktop app generally available on macOS and Windows, and added an activity feed consolidating email, calendar, and CRM on mobile.
Skild AI Taps NVIDIA Physical AI to Teach Robots New Tasks From a Single Video
Skild AI launched its S1 robot foundation model, designed to learn previously unseen, long-horizon tasks from a single video demonstration using NVIDIA Physical AI.
Physical AI Takes the Wheel: How the World’s Robotaxi Leaders Are Building With NVIDIA Technologies
NVIDIA highlights how robotaxi leaders use its technologies to deploy and scale driverless fleets, in a market projected to reach $400 billion by 2035.
Meta’s Muse AI works and creeps me out
Meta has launched Muse, its first AI-powered productivity assistant that can handle tasks like shopping, emails, and trip-planning. A Verge hands-on found it functional but unsettling in how much data it gathered.
Amazon Prime Video’s new AI tech matches lips to dubbed audio
Prime Video is rolling out AI technology that matches actors' mouth movements to human-dubbed audio, debuting on the German series Maxton Hall with plans to expand.
Meta bets on AI agent Muse to catch up in AI race
Meta introduced Muse, a personal AI agent designed to handle everyday tasks such as online shopping, sending emails, and planning trips, as part of a broader strategy to catch up with AI rivals.
How GPT-5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments
OpenAI describes how an MIT researcher applies GPT-5.6 Sol with Codex to autonomously run quantum computing experiments, analyze outcomes, and calibrate qubits.
The Work Now Within Reach
An OpenAI piece exploring how more capable, lower-cost AI can expand what people and businesses are able to accomplish and make growth more economical.
Supporting independent journalism in Ukraine
OpenAI, AIRPPU and WAN-IFRA have launched an AI program aimed at strengthening innovation, resilience, and independent journalism among Ukrainian news organizations.
OpenAI confirms ‘wiki incident,’ says it’s ‘working on a framework’ for more disclosure
OpenAI acknowledged its involvement in a reported incident where AI agents took over a German wiki forum and said it is working on a disclosure framework.
Designing lifecycle policies for AgentCore memory
AWS outlines how to build memory lifecycle policies for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, scoring, consolidating, and pruning agent memories through a nightly Step Functions workflow with a deployable CDK stack.
Customizing your knowledge base on Amazon Bedrock for large and complex documents using Amazon Textract
A guide to customizing Amazon Bedrock knowledge bases for large, complex documents by pairing Amazon Textract text extraction with generative AI to query documents like utility bills at scale.
OpenAI launches Astra, its powerful (and controversial) new model
OpenAI announced Astra, a new model the company says pushes forward computer and browser use, claiming advances in speed, accuracy, and safety.
Legora reviewed 41 documents in minutes with GPT-6 Astra
Legora applied GPT-6 Astra to a financial-review workflow, reviewing 41 documents in minutes, identifying all four planted errors, and improving performance by close to 40%.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s new Real World AI Stage features Nvidia, robots, and extinct animals
The Real World AI stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will showcase the convergence of digital and physical technology, including Nvidia and robots.
Modernizing and scaling support operations with generative AI on AWS
AWS describes building a generative AI support operations platform that converts training videos into structured SOPs, applies RAG to guide ticket resolution, and predicts SLA risk to prioritize work.
From code to diagrams: Agentic architecture documentation with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
AWS describes how a global interdealer broker used Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to automate architecture documentation, analyzing .NET code bases and generating searchable diagrams.
ATV Big Air Tour turned 3 days of work into 3 hours with ChatGPT
ATV Big Air Tour reports using ChatGPT Work to speed up marketing and merchandising, including converting merchandise photos into an inventory website in 15 minutes.
NVIDIA and CrowdStrike Strengthen Agentic Cybersecurity Frontier
At CrowdStrike's Fal.Con 2026, NVIDIA and CrowdStrike announced CrowdStrike SafeMind, an agentic cybersecurity system, framing automated defense as a response to automated attacks.
The latest AI news we announced in August 2026
Google has announced several AI updates from August 2026, highlighting advancements in enterprise solutions and automation. The updates focus on enhancing cloud capabilities and AI integration.
How AI-native companies turn workflows into operating capability
A look at how AI-native companies Basis, Clay, and Exa Labs apply AI agents to onboarding, account management, and developer integrations, with lessons for enterprise leaders.
Harvard Law dropout raises $6M for Blue Voice to build a ‘Harvey for police officers’
Blue Voice, founded by a Harvard Law dropout, raised $6M to build an AI tool for police officers trained on department-specific laws, ordinances, and protocols.
Clipto uses AI to search terabytes of video and is now valued at $250M
Clipto, a three-year-old startup focused on AI-driven video search, has a newly announced valuation of $250 million following its latest round of funding.
Caterpillar is bringing to AI deployment what it learned from automating mining
Caterpillar is drawing on its long history of running autonomous machines at mining sites to inform how it deploys AI.
3 new ways to plan and book travel in Search
Google Search introduces three new AI-driven features for travel planning, including hotel bookings and airfare tracking.
How GoDaddy transformed its analytics with Amazon Quick
GoDaddy completed a two-year migration from its legacy BI tool to Amazon Quick, reporting 15,000 hours saved annually, 50% fewer dashboards, and faster rendering.
Governed reports with Amazon Quick Desktop and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
AWS outlines a governed weekly reporting workflow combining Amazon Quick Desktop and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, drafting cited reports and Slack summaries with human review before sharing.
Gamma acquires Accel-backed design startup Lica
Gamma has acquired design startup Lica, bringing its co-founders onto Gamma's research team to drive innovation in productivity tools.
Instinct’s powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns
Early testers praise Instinct's AI assistant, but its sweeping access, broad terms, and capacity to act on users' behalf are prompting privacy and security concerns.
Building a restaurant telephony AI host with Amazon Connect
A tutorial on building a telephony AI host that answers calls and takes restaurant orders end to end using Amazon Connect and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore.
AI-powered metadata correction and harmonization
An AWS blog post describes AI-powered approaches to metadata correction and harmonization, including human-in-the-loop validation and autonomous agent workflows, plus production governance considerations.
OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them?
A TechCrunch report looks at OpenAI's push to develop AI agents intended for a wide range of users, moving beyond software engineers toward the general public.
Linkdaze’s smart calendar is built to run a household, not just track a schedule
Linkdaze's smart digital calendar aims to help run a household rather than just track appointments, offering features like an AI meal planner without a paywall.
Agentic Data Operations Platform (ADOP): Data engineering into hours
ADOP is a reference architecture on Amazon Bedrock that uses specialized AI agents to automate the full data pipeline lifecycle, cutting new-source onboarding from weeks to hours.
Govern AI agent tool access with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway
An AWS blog post outlines how to give AI agents governed, auditable access to enterprise tools using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway, following a four-scope maturity model.
ChatGPT can now send texts for you with new Apple Messages plug-in
ChatGPT is being offered as an automated text-writing tool through a new Apple Messages integration, allowing it to compose and send texts for users.
Build a no-code ML workflow with Snowflake, Amazon SageMaker Canvas and Amazon Quick – Part 2: Data pr…
AWS walks through building a no-code fraud detection model by connecting SageMaker Canvas to Snowflake and training XGBoost without writing ML code.
Build a no-code ML workflow with Snowflake, Amazon SageMaker Canvas and Amazon Quick – Part 3: Visuali…
This tutorial covers importing fraud detection predictions from Amazon SageMaker Canvas into Amazon QuickSight to build dashboards and generate natural-language insights.
Scaling cloud migrations with agentic AI on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
AWS describes a multi-agent framework built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that automates enterprise cloud migrations end to end, cutting IaC development from weeks to minutes.
Meta AI’s new Mac app wants you to talk to your apps
Meta has launched a new Mac app that utilizes its Muse Spark model to enable voice dictation, improving user interaction with applications.
Unlocking hidden revenue streams with market models
An examination of how airlines can use market models to price complex, multi-connection journeys by weighing many variables including demand, season, and competitor activity.
Binance now lets AI agents trade, but keeping them in check is largely up to users
Binance has introduced Agent OS, enabling AI agents to trade while placing responsibility for keeping them in check largely on users.
Asynchronous patterns for calling Amazon Bedrock AgentCore agents in serverless pipelines
An AWS blog post describes three serverless patterns for asynchronously calling Amazon Bedrock AgentCore agents from AWS Step Functions pipelines to avoid idle compute costs.
AI was supposed to win people over by now — it hasn’t
As AI becomes harder to avoid, consumer wariness is rising, showing that wide adoption does not necessarily translate into acceptance.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments is now generally available: Enabling agents to transact safely and a…
AWS has made Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments generally available, enabling AI agents to autonomously transact at scale with built-in spending guardrails and observability.
How Jumio built a real-time feature store on AWS
Jumio built a centralized, real-time feature store on AWS delivering sub-100ms feature serving for fraud detection while saving roughly $120,000 annually.
Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex
Asana reported using OpenAI Codex to replace an outdated testing system in two weeks, work it had expected to take five years, at a cost of roughly $12K.
Anthropic’s annualized revenue surges to $65B
Anthropic has reported a significant increase of $18 billion in its annualized revenue within a short two-month window, reflecting robust growth.
AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team
Relay, a business workflow automation startup, will cease operations next month, while its CEO and part of its team join Google's Chrome team.
Build OpenClaw agents that transact with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments
AWS explains how to give autonomous OpenClaw agents a wallet with spending guardrails, connecting them to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments and the x402 protocol via the aws-agents-pay plugin.
ChatGPT’s Computer History tracks your clicks and keystrokes
OpenAI's ChatGPT desktop app on macOS introduces Computer History, an opt-in feature that turns user activity into a timeline ChatGPT and Codex can reference to suggest automations and resume tasks.
Bring your spreadsheet data to life with Sheets canvas
Sheets canvas enables users to create interactive dashboards, study trackers, and seating charts from spreadsheet data using easy prompts.
Automate legacy web applications with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser Tool
AWS describes a reference architecture for automating legacy web applications using the Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser Tool and Strands Agents, with isolated browser sessions and human oversight.
Accelerating M&A due diligence with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
This blog post details how to develop a multi-agent system for M&A due diligence using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, including architecture and deployment.
Amazon Quick for Microsoft 365: Agentic AI where you work
Amazon Quick is now available inside Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, adding connected data access and agentic document editing within Microsoft 365 apps.
Google unveils Pixel 11 lineup, new AirTag rival, and Gemini features at Made by Google 2026
Google introduced the Pixel 11 lineup and a new competitor to AirTag, alongside exciting Gemini features at the Made by Google 2026 event.
Grok is now an AI ‘teammate’ you can assign work
SpaceXAI introduced Grok Bot, an always-on AI agent that can sign into apps and tools to complete multi-step work tasks, returning only when finished or when approval is needed.
Saber denies replacing Rideshare Stimulator’s writers with ChatGPT
Saber's CEO denies replacing writers with AI on the Rideshare 'Stimulator' game, contradicting a former lead writer who says she was replaced by ChatGPT.
How Pixieset achieved 35% AI feature adoption by solving the right problem with Amazon Bedrock
Pixieset built an AI-generated alt text feature on Amazon Bedrock, shipping it to millions of users in four months and reaching 35% adoption by automating image SEO work.
First Orion accelerates QA automation using Amazon Nova Act
First Orion adopted Amazon Nova Act for QA automation, replacing brittle selector-based test code with plain-English test descriptions to speed up cycles and catch regressions sooner.
What building an AI-native finance function taught me
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar shares five lessons on building an AI-native finance function, including automated forecasting, stronger controls, and measuring AI ROI.
How nOps shipped FinOps agents 75% faster with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
nOps moved its Clara FinOps AI agent from a self-managed EKS stack to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, reducing time-to-production by 75% while improving response quality.
Evolve your marketing with new AI tools
Google introduces new AI tools aimed at streamlining marketing processes through improved features in Google Ads and Google Analytics.
Model ML completes finance work more efficiently with GPT-5.6 Sol
Model ML applies OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol to carry out finance work, spanning research and analysis and producing editable, traceable PowerPoint and Excel outputs.
Ford’s new AI assistant can check your fuel levels and tire pressure
Ford is rolling out an AI-powered chatbot in its Ford and Lincoln apps that answers vehicle-specific questions such as fuel levels, cargo capacity, and towing limits.
Making Knowledge Distillation Cheap Enough to Run at Scale
The blog discusses methods for scaling knowledge distillation processes, aiming for greater efficiency and lower costs in AI applications.
After Rippling blew millions on AI in months, it built an employee ROI tool
Rippling introduced AI Spend Console, a product for tracking AI spending across individual employees and teams, prompted by its own high AI costs.
How TReNDS automates root-cause analysis with Amazon Bedrock
TReNDS, a Georgia State University research center, built an agentic AI pipeline on Amazon Bedrock and the Strands Agents SDK that investigates production errors in real time.
Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a browser built for AI agents
Cloudflare has introduced Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser designed for AI agents rather than human users, aimed at helping developers build browser-based automation more efficiently.
Airbnb says AI is helping it ship features faster as it tests a new search function
Airbnb reports that AI is helping it ship features more quickly, and the company is testing a new AI-powered search function accessible through a toggle.
Securing AI agents with temporal policies in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore introduces temporal policies, stateful rules that evaluate agent authorization using session history to enforce workflow sequencing and require approvals.
ChatGPT brings unlimited text chats to free users
OpenAI has announced that free users of ChatGPT will now have access to unlimited text chats and a new functionality called the 'think button' for complex queries.
Google Maps adds agentic features, including food ordering and hotel bookings
Google Maps is adding agentic capabilities, including food ordering and hotel bookings, as Google works to turn the app into an assistant for real-world tasks.
How Mobileye transformed support operations using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Mobileye deployed an AI agentic support solution on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, using a hybrid architecture to connect on-premises systems with AWS cloud while maintaining governance and security.
Run production AI agents in n8n with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore harness
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore harness is generally available and can be added as an agent step in n8n workflows through a new open-source community node.
Reddit is introducing a new moderator: AI
Reddit is introducing Rules Hub, a suite of LLM-powered moderation tools that let mods automate rule enforcement, with expanded access now and a full launch planned later this year.
Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks
Hark has previewed a browser use agent for completing tasks, saying it is faster and cheaper than competing products.
Automated web insight extraction with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
AWS details an automated pipeline that monitors RSS feeds, renders web pages, and makes AI-extracted insights searchable using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and related services.
The latest AI news we announced in July 2026
Google AI has announced a series of updates regarding their advancements in AI technologies as of July 2026.
Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics
The article discusses the impact of AI protectionism on the nascent humanoid robotics industry, highlighting the challenges these robots face.
From weeks to minutes: How Formula 1® uses agentic AI on AWS to accelerate data operations
Formula 1 worked with AWS to build a Data Accelerator using agentic AI on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, reducing data source onboarding from up to eight weeks to roughly 40 minutes.
Congress’s favorite AI tool? ChatGPT
According to House spending records, OpenAI's ChatGPT is the most-used paid AI tool among congressional offices, applied to drafting memos, summarizing legislation, and constituent communications.
A Marc Benioff-backed startup thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem
June has emerged from stealth with a $20 million pre-seed round, positioning itself to make AI adoption and deployment simpler for organizations.
Reddit reports a solid quarter but shows signs of AI’s impact
Reddit reports positive financial results amid growing concerns about its AI-related challenges and relationship with Google.
LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated ‘slop’
LinkedIn is rolling out a reporting option for low-quality AI-generated posts and is swapping its AI writing feature for a proofreading tool.
Echoverse: Deep, evolving environments for computer-use agents
Microsoft Research presents Echoverse, which trains computer-use agents in realistic, evolving environments rather than relying on more training tasks to improve multi-step workflow performance.
Forward-deployed engineers are the AI industry’s latest talent obsession
Enterprises are competing to hire forward-deployed engineers, with a new study estimating only 2,000 U.S. engineers have the expertise to deliver meaningful AI ROI at scale.
Hint, a new AI startup co-founded by Martha Stewart, offers an AI assistant for homeowners
Hint, co-founded by Martha Stewart, is a new startup offering an AI assistant for homeowners that unifies property records, maintenance schedules, and home documents in a single app.
Generate Autonomous Business Insights with AI Agent and MCP Servers
AWS describes how Amazon Bedrock AgentCore delivers autonomous business intelligence across systems through configuration, using MCP server connectors, access control, and persistent memory.
Automating customer retention workflows in Amazon Quick
AWS outlines how to build a no-code customer retention workflow in Amazon Quick that flags at-risk customers from call transcripts and CSAT data, then generates personalized retention letters.
Encore AI raises $30M to build AI agents that learn from customer calls
Encore AI has raised $30 million to build AI agents that analyze calls, messages and CRM data to identify effective sales techniques and turn them into playbooks.
The AI Hype Index: Unsexy AI
MIT Technology Review's AI Hype Index examines everyday AI developments, including 1X's showcase of new dexterous humanoid robots and concerns about AI's impact on jobs.
Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to safeguard proliferating AI agents
Cyera has agreed to acquire Oasis Security for $1 billion in a move focused on safeguarding proliferating AI agents. The deal marks Cyera's third acquisition this year.
Scientific computing in the age of agentic AI
OpenAI shares a field report on how researchers apply AI coding agents to modernize scientific computing, aiming to speed software development and discovery in areas such as genomics.
Recursive Superintelligence signs $410M compute deal with Amazon
Recursive Superintelligence has agreed a $410M compute deal with Amazon, directing spending toward compute rather than headcount as it works to automate its own product development.
Perplexity’s Personal Computer turns Windows PCs into AI agents
Perplexity has expanded its Personal Computer tool to Windows, enabling PCs to run as local AI agents that access files and apps to create documents and update spreadsheets.
How AI is expanding what people do at work
New OpenAI research reports that AI is broadening the tasks workers handle, with ChatGPT users taking on activities across roles and shifting job boundaries.
NVIDIA Harnesses Vera CPU to Speed Up Design of Next-Generation CPUs and GPUs
NVIDIA is working with Cadence and Synopsys to optimize electronic design automation applications for its Vera CPU, which it is deploying to accelerate chip design.
Monday.com is the latest tech company to blame AI for layoffs — here are 20 others
TechCrunch maintains a running list of major tech companies that announced significant layoffs this year with AI cited as a stated factor, most recently adding Monday.com.
Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M
Prentis, a new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, is reportedly in talks to raise $100M, wagering that automating routine computer tasks will overtake coding as AI's biggest use case.
Meta is making its AI chatbot more like an assistant
Meta is adding productivity features to its AI chatbot, including calendar integration, daily briefings, and steerable research, powered by its new Muse Spark 1.1 model.
Alexa Plus is getting an AI update to handle more complicated instructions
Amazon is updating Alexa Plus so it can connect to smart home devices in new ways and route complex requests to the correct device across brands like Bosch, Whirlpool, and iRobot.
AegisAI, founded by former Google security execs, lands $36M to stop AI-driven spear phishing
AegisAI, founded by former Google security executives, has raised $36M to fight AI-driven spear phishing with AI agents that examine each message for subtle anomalies.
Patreon is laying off 20 percent of workers
Patreon is laying off about 20 percent of its workforce, or roughly 93 employees, with CEO Jack Conte pointing to AI's impact on how the company works and organizes.
Travis Kalanick’s robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z
Atoms, a robotics company founded by Travis Kalanick, has raised $1.7 billion led by a16z, with Uber among its investors.
AI Teammates: how monday.com runs production AI agents on Amazon Bedrock
AWS details how monday.com operates agentic AI Teammates on Amazon Bedrock in production, sharing architecture, code-base retrofits, and reported engineering productivity metrics.
Synthesia’s AI training platform is moving beyond videos into live coaching
Synthesia introduced AI Roleplay Sessions, an interactive enterprise training tool where employees rehearse workplace conversations with AI avatars that provide feedback, scoring, and analytics.
AI and the rise of the universal entertainment app
As AI makes content easier to create, organize, and recommend, format-specific streaming platforms are converging toward all-purpose entertainment destinations.
Substack adds an AI detector to help spot blogs written by no one
Substack is rolling out an AI text detector, powered by Pangram, that lets readers scan posts and comments over 100 words for an estimate of AI-generated content.
Introducing the ChatGPT for small business program
OpenAI has introduced a ChatGPT for Small Businesses program aimed at helping entrepreneurs develop AI skills, automate work, and grow with ChatGPT Work.
Gritt exits stealth with $34 million for robots to build solar plants—then, everything else
Robotics startup Gritt has emerged from stealth with $34 million in funding, aiming to automate difficult construction work beginning with solar plants.
Build specialized agent workflows for your business with Amazon Quick and NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit
AWS explains how Amazon Quick can act as a business-user front end for agent workflows built with the NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit, demonstrated with a supply-chain risk example.
Evolving from legacy BI to agentic AI at Tradeshift with Amazon Quick
Tradeshift deployed Amazon Quick with agentic AI to replace its legacy business intelligence tool, reporting up to 30x faster query responses and a 40% reduction in total cost of ownership.
AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring
AI increasingly screens job applications before humans do, but research indicates that large language models can develop biases of their own, not only ones absorbed from training data.
AI for Code Review and Automated Testing: What It Catches, What It Misses
AI code review is genuinely useful and consistently oversold. The split is clean: it is good at local, mechanical defects and bad at whether the change should exist at all.
AI in Accounting and Finance Operations: Speed Without Losing the Audit Trail
Accounting is an unusually good fit for AI on the input side and an unusually bad one on the output side. The line between those two is the whole discipline.
The apps, gadgets, and tools every reader needs
This edition of Installer covers various apps, gadgets, and tools that are must-haves for readers seeking to enhance their daily lives.
The Zoom hack that says, ‘Don’t record me’
As AI transcription and summarization spread across meetings and conversations, the piece raises the question of who is actually reading the resulting output.
Transform your sales organization with Amazon Quick: your new agentic AI teammate
AWS describes Amazon Quick, an agentic AI tool for sales organizations that assists across the sales cycle from prospecting to closing and CRM maintenance.
Building a restaurant telephony AI host with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon Nova 2 Sonic
AWS details how to build a telephony AI host that answers calls and takes restaurant orders using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Nova 2 Sonic, and the Model Context Protocol.
Claude can now use your 1Password credentials for you
1Password released a browser integration that lets Claude access stored credentials to complete multi-step tasks like booking travel, without exposing login data to Anthropic's models.
Built Technologies builds an AI-powered document intelligence solution on AWS to power agents across r…
Built Technologies worked with AWS teams to create an AI-powered document processing engine for real estate finance, cutting multi-day workflows to minutes across hundreds of document types.
Monitor Amazon SageMaker Pipelines cross-account with custom Amazon CloudWatch dashboards
AWS presents a solution for centralized monitoring of SageMaker Pipelines across AWS accounts and Regions using CloudWatch custom dashboards, backed by a CDK example on GitHub.
What building Shippy taught us about building agents
This article discusses the lessons learned from building the Shippy agent, focusing on design principles for effective AI agents.
Microsoft patches record number of security vulnerabilities, citing its use of AI
Microsoft resolved a record 570 security vulnerabilities in its monthly Patch Tuesday release, attributing the discoveries in part to its use of AI.
Anthropic, Blackstone bet the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not just models
Ode has launched with backing from Anthropic and Blackstone, wagering that embedding engineers inside enterprises is central to accelerating AI adoption.
AI in Cybersecurity: Threat Detection That Actually Helps
Security was doing machine learning before it was cool, and it has the scar tissue to prove it. Here is where AI genuinely helps a SOC, where it drowns one in false positives, and how the threat side is changing.
AI in HR: Recruiting, Screening, and the Law You Cannot Ignore
Hiring is the most heavily regulated AI use case in the enterprise — and the one most likely to be deployed without anyone checking. Here is what AI actually does in recruiting, and the compliance floor you have to clear.
Multi-agent social intelligence with Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock
AWS details how Thrad.ai deployed a multi-agent system using Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to automate prospect discovery and personalized email generation, with benchmarks on two orchestration patterns.
Accelerating software delivery with agentic QA automation using Amazon Nova Act – Part 2
Part 2 of an AWS series demonstrates how QA Studio extends Amazon Nova Act to handle batch regression testing and CI/CD pipeline integration via test suites and a command-line interface.
Scaling UX testing with Amazon Nova Act: A new approach to user flow analysis
An AWS blog post outlines a cloud-based UX testing platform that uses Amazon Nova Act to auto-generate test scenarios from documentation and run user flows in parallel at scale.
Uber’s product chief on hotels, robotaxis, and why the company doesn’t want to be “everything for ever…
In a TechCrunch interview, Uber CPO Sachin Kansal outlines the company's financial-services plans, its relationship with Waymo, a new AV Labs data operation, and emerging AI features.
When your brain works differently, AI isn’t a luxury—it’s accessibility
This post discusses the role of AI as an accessibility tool for neurodivergent individuals, featuring Amazon Quick as a supportive assistant.
What Are AI Agents? Tool Use, Planning, and the Honest Limits
An AI agent is a language model given tools and a loop, so it can take actions instead of just talking. Here is how they actually work, where they help, and where the hype outruns reality.
What Is Loop Engineering? Designing the Systems That Prompt AI Agents
The hot skill in AI has moved from writing a good prompt to designing the loop that prompts the agent for you. Here is what loop engineering means, why it emerged in 2026, and how to do it well.
AI in Real Estate: Valuation, Search, and Marketing
From automated home valuations to AI-written listings, real estate has quietly become an AI-heavy industry. Here is where it genuinely helps — and where its estimates and models fall short.
AI Voice Agents in Call Centers: What Works, What Frustrates
AI voice agents can now hold a real phone conversation. Here is where they genuinely help in call centers, where they backfire, and how to roll them out so customers don't revolt.
How KTern.AI built agentic AI for SAP on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
KTern.AI transformed its SaaS platform into an agentic AI system for SAP, built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with the Strands Agents SDK to orchestrate multiple specialized agents.
OpenAI says GPT 5.6 is the ‘preferred model’ for Microsoft Copilot 365 amid breakup chatter
OpenAI has announced that its GPT 5.6 model is the preferred choice for powering Microsoft's Copilot 365, reinforcing its integration into productivity tools.
An AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100M fundraise
Lyzr, a startup building AI agents for enterprises, said it used its own agent to conduct a $100 million fundraising round.
OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser ambitions are still growing
OpenAI is sunsetting its AI-powered Atlas browser after under a year, while shifting some agentic browsing features to its desktop app and a Chrome extension.
Can AI answer the $3 trillion question?
TechCrunch AI revisits the debate over AI's return on investment, noting that the figures involved are larger and the consequences potentially greater.
ChatGPT is now a partner for your most ambitious work
ChatGPT Work functions as an intelligent partner for users, facilitating project management by staying engaged for extended periods and executing tasks across various applications.
Automatically redact PII in images with Amazon Nova
Amazon Nova introduces a multi-step pipeline that uses contextual vision reasoning for the redaction of PII in images, leveraging advanced tools for improved accuracy.
AI in Finance: How Machine Learning Fights Fraud in Real Time
Fraud detection is one of AI's most mature, high-value uses in finance. Here is how real-time machine learning models catch fraud, the false-positive trade-off, and where humans still fit.
AI in Marketing: Content, Personalization, and the Quality Line
Marketing was among the first business functions to adopt generative AI at scale. Here is where it delivers — content, personalization, analytics — and the quality and brand risks to watch.
AI in Retail: Recommendations, Demand Forecasting, and Inventory
From the recommendations you see online to the stock on the shelf, AI runs much of modern retail. Here is how it is used for recommendations, forecasting, and inventory — and what it takes to work.
AI in Manufacturing: Predictive Maintenance and Quality Inspection
On the factory floor, AI quietly prevents breakdowns and catches defects. Here is how predictive maintenance and computer-vision inspection work, and what deploying them actually requires.
AI in Customer Service: What Works, What Backfires
Customer service was one of the first big enterprise uses of AI. Here is where it genuinely helps, where poorly deployed bots backfire, and what a good rollout looks like.
AI in Healthcare: Promising, Powerful, and Rightly Cautious
AI is already assisting in medical imaging and clinical paperwork, but healthcare's stakes demand caution. Here is where it helps today and why human oversight stays central.
The Rise of AI Agents: From Chatbots to Software That Does the Work
The center of gravity in AI has shifted from chat to action: agents that plan, use tools, and complete multi-step work. What's real today, what's hype, and what to watch.