Elon Musk's xAI launched a Grok add-in for Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint in mid-June 2026, directly competing with Microsoft's Copilot inside its own ecosystem. The add-ins, available for free…
Construct, a vendor-neutral AI workspace, offers cross-application execution for jobs spanning multiple SaaS tools, while Microsoft Copilot and Google Workspace AI are strongest inside their native su…
Nylas has introduced Agent Accounts that expose the same mailbox over both its v3 API and IMAP/SMTP, allowing legacy tools that only speak email protocols to interact with an AI agent's mailbox withou…
Anthropic on July 7 expanded its Cowork agent to mobile and web with cloud background execution, allowing tasks to run on Anthropic's servers even when all user devices are off. The architecture runs …
Users can block uninvited AI meeting bots from Microsoft Teams, Notion, Read AI, Otter, and Fireflies by revoking calendar access, adjusting auto-join settings, and using admin controls. For Microsoft…
OpenAI's ChatGPT Work Mode and Anthropic's Claude Co-work compete to become the AI productivity super app, with ChatGPT emphasizing breadth of integrations and persistent memory while Claude focuses o…
OpenAI's ChatGPT can be configured as a personal assistant that reads email, calendar, and Slack, drafts messages, and handles tasks autonomously using features like Memory, Connectors, Tasks, Custom …
Microsoft patched a record 570 vulnerabilities in its July 14 Patch Tuesday release, nearly tripling the previous record of 206 set one month earlier, with 59 critical flaws and three zero-days, two a…
Databricks released Genie One mobile apps for iOS and Android, bringing its data-smart AI coworker to business users on the go. The app lets users ask natural-language questions of their data, view da…
Buildkite, a 13-year-old Australian startup, is seeing a surge of interest from companies like Airbnb and Shopify as a CI/CD tool that can handle the increasing number of build jobs demanded by AI cod…
A phishing-as-a-service platform called Forg365, distributed through Telegram, is industrializing Microsoft 365 account takeovers by using AI-assisted lure creation, device-code abuse, and adversary-i…
A phishing-as-a-service platform called Forg365, distributed through Telegram, is lowering the technical barrier to Microsoft 365 account takeovers by giving less-skilled attackers automated tools to …
Anthropic has extended free access to Claude Fable 5 for paid subscribers until July 19, 2026, after previously announcing a pay-per-use model that drew backlash. The extension applies to Claude acros…
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work Mode, a dedicated environment within ChatGPT for Pro and Team subscribers that merges its Codex coding agent, Atlas memory system, and direct integrations with Gmail, Slac…
ChatGPT Work Mode, available on Enterprise and Teams plans, can be used to build a personal productivity dashboard that monitors email, Slack, calendar, and brand mentions, compressing morning orienta…
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work on July 9, a new agentic mode that combines ChatGPT with Codex to let non-coders automate complex workplace tasks using plain language. The feature, powered by the GPT-5.6…
Anthropic launched Claude Cowork on mobile and web on July 7, 2026, enabling background task execution that persists after closing the laptop. Usage data from 1.2 million sessions shows over 90% of ta…
Blackpoint Cyber launched the Blackpoint AI SOC Agent, an autonomous response capability for identity threat detection and response, which contains credential-based attacks on Microsoft 365 and Google…
Microsoft has begun routing a significant share of Copilot prompts in Excel and Outlook to its own MAI models, reducing reliance on OpenAI and Anthropic to cut inference costs. The move, effective Jul…
Perplexity AI's global web traffic share dropped to 1.3% in May 2026 from 2.0% in March, while its US daily active user share collapsed 65% from October 2025 to March 2026, as Google Gemini and other …