VS Code 1.135, released August 26, introduces the Agent Host Protocol (AHP), external agent sessions, and a new 'Rubber Duck' feature that pairs a second AI model to review the primary agent's work. T…
Google announced that Android apps must comply with mandatory Google Play memory limits by February 2027 or face reduced visibility and potential publishing restrictions, a policy driven by AI data ce…
Google launched Gemini 3.5 Transcribe on August 26, replacing Chirp 3 as its speech-to-text model and making it the first STT model sold natively through the Gemini API, with two variants in public pr…
Firecrawl released AnyDoc on August 4, a pure Rust library that converts Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OpenDocument, RTF, EPUB, CSV, and text-based PDFs into GitHub-Flavored Markdown with a median processi…
Apple released the M6 and M5 Ultra on August 25, its first 2nm chips with a Dual Neural Engine, claiming 4x AI task performance over M4 and 8x over M1, enabling local AI inference without cloud tokens…
GitHub's global model policy for Copilot Business and Enterprise began enforcement on August 26, enabling all generally available AI models by default unless explicitly disabled, with full enforcement…
More than 100 tech companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Okta, and Fortinet, published a joint open letter warning that AI cyberattacks are escalating, following a Ju…
Google shipped Gemini 3.7 Flash on August 13, introducing breaking API changes including the replacement of the integer `thinking_budget` with a string enum `thinking_level`, removal of sampling param…
UiPath launched Maestro Flow on August 19, an orchestration layer that lets coding agents build and ship production-grade business processes, addressing the 78% of enterprise AI agent pilots that neve…
XAI released Grok Build v1.0 on August 7, a terminal coding agent with 8 parallel subagents, isolated git worktrees, plan mode, and headless CI support, powered by Grok 4.6 with a 500K token context w…
On August 5, Anthropic shipped inference hooks for Claude Enterprise, a pre-inference security checkpoint that intercepts every governed prompt before Claude processes it, allowing enterprises to bloc…
Anthropic released a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), an extension of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that lets AI agents control physical devices such as robotic arms and lab i…
AWS announced it will deploy 2 million additional NVIDIA GPUs (Blackwell Ultra, Rubin, Rubin Ultra) across its global infrastructure in 2027-2028, bringing total NVIDIA GPU capacity on AWS past 3 mill…
Anthropic's Claude Cowork now includes a sandboxed Chromium browser that isolates web tasks from users' personal browsing data, rolling out this week to Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans on Claude …
Salesforce and Anthropic announced Claudeforce, an expanded partnership making Claude the default reasoning model across Agentforce, Slack AI, and a new CRM plugin, with Claude Code rolling out to all…
Microsoft shipped Intelligent Terminal 0.2 on August 10, adding local model support that lets developers run AI agents in Windows Terminal against any Ollama instance or OpenAI-compatible server witho…
Bun 1.4, released August 20, rewrote its runtime from Zig to Rust in a six-day AI-assisted migration of nearly a million lines of code, and introduced six built-in APIs that replace sharp, Playwright,…
SenteLabsAI launched OpenExecutive, an open-source system with eight specialist AI agents covering C-suite functions, which reached 1,000 GitHub stars within 24 hours. The project, built on FastAPI an…
OpenAI paused internal development of its upcoming Astra model on August 7 after evaluations found the system can autonomously develop working zero-day exploits against hardened real-world targets wit…
GitHub's Agent Plugins 1.0 reached general availability on August 12, introducing an open standard for packaging AI agent extensions that bundle agent skills and MCP servers into a single format compa…