Microsoft Scout is an always-on agentic AI assistant for Microsoft 365 announced at Microsoft Build 2026 on June 2, 2026. Built directly on the open-source OpenClaw framework (the agent framework that spread "like a sonic boom" through the...
Vercel Sandbox persistence reached general availability on May 26, 2026. The change: Sandboxes now automatically save and restore filesystem state between sessions, and persistence is on by default. The result: an isolated-execution primitive that...
Claude Opus 4.7 launched on April 16, 2026, and Claude Opus 4.8 launched on May 28, 2026, exactly 41 days later. That cycle is unusually fast for an Opus release (Anthropic’s normal cadence between Opus dot-releases has been measured in months, not...
Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic’s latest frontier model, released on May 28, 2026 as an upgrade to Opus 4.7. It ships with a notable cluster of accompanying features: Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code (hundreds of parallel subagents in a single session...
Gemini Spark is Google’s personal AI agent, announced at Google I/O on May 19, 2026. (Some early coverage and casual references call it "Google Spark"; the product’s official name is Gemini Spark.) The pitch is straightforward: a 24/7...
Google Antigravity is Google’s agent-first development platform. It launched in public preview on November 18, 2025 alongside Gemini 3, and just six months later (May 19, 2026, at Google I/O) Google shipped Antigravity 2.0 as a full agentic...
Gemini 3.5 Flash went generally available today, May 19, 2026, at Google I/O 2026. Per Google’s official announcement from Koray Kavukcuoglu, Jeff Dean, Oriol Vinyals, and Noam Shazeer, the model is Google’s "strongest agentic and coding model...
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is the open standard for connecting AI assistants and agents to the tools, data sources, and services they need to do real work. Anthropic introduced it in November 2024 as a way to standardize how LLM-based assistants...
What are AI agents? AI agents are large language model (LLM) systems that pursue goals through a reasoning loop: they observe a situation, plan steps, call tools, observe the results, and adjust their next action accordingly. Where a chatbot...
OpenAI Codex mobile went live today. On Thursday, May 14, 2026, OpenAI announced that its Codex coding agent has been integrated into the ChatGPT mobile app on iOS and Android, in preview, across every ChatGPT plan including Free and Go. The...
