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Didit shipped Copilot, an AI agent embedded in its Business Console that lets users manage identity verification workflows via natural language. The agent operates the console in real time, using three tool families: MCP…
OpenAI released a new feature allowing users to create and manage dedicated ChatGPT sites, enabling customized AI chat experiences for specific use cases. The tool is available through the ChatGPT interface, expanding th…
BrassCoders has developed a code review system that runs static analysis before invoking an AI model, based on research showing deterministic scanners and LLMs solve different problems. The pre-pass reduces the model's w…
PLOS Computational Biology published a study on July 9, 2026, presenting an embedding-guided method that uses protein-language-model embeddings with Monte Carlo sampling to navigate enzyme sequence space while avoiding i…
OpenAI is discontinuing ChatGPT Atlas, its standalone desktop browser, in favor of the new ChatGPT desktop app, which includes a ChatGPT Work agent and ChatGPT Codex. The deprecation is targeted for August 9, with more d…
OpenAI merged its Codex AI coding tool into the ChatGPT desktop app and introduced a Work setting, aiming to create a super app for professionals. The company also released its GPT-5.6 model family as it competes with An…
A senior engineer argues that AI coding agents are transforming software development by enabling rapid prototyping and forcing engineers to take on more agency, but warns that Germany's hierarchical work culture will suf…
A developer critiques AI model verbosity and sycophancy, sharing their use of Strunk & White's "omit needless words" instruction in AGENTS.md. They note OpenAI's new GPT-5.6 docs advise against generic brevity instructio…
Brands are making a strategic mistake by treating generative engine optimization (GEO) like traditional SEO, focusing only on visibility rather than the customer intent insights revealed through AI interactions. GEO prov…
Google is introducing a new feature in its My Ad Center panel that will disclose when ads are created or edited with AI. The disclosure will be automatic for ads made with Google's own AI tools, but advertisers using thi…
Truckstop.com launched AVA, the freight industry's first voice-native AI carrier assistant, enabling truck drivers to search loads, check rates, and initiate broker negotiations hands-free while driving. The assistant in…
Smartphones are evolving into 'agent phones' that automate multi-step tasks, with Counterpoint Research forecasting that over 80% of premium smartphones will have agentic AI capabilities by 2027. Chipset vendors MediaTek…
Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) announced an expanded collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to modernize AI data centers. The partnership aims to optimize infrastructure for AI workloads, leveraging Cadence's…
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work on July 9, 2026, alongside the GPT-5.6 model family, enabling multi-step task execution across applications for Pro and Enterprise users. The GPT-5.6 family includes three variants—Sol, Terra…
GLM 5.2, an open weights AI model, prepared a nearly perfect quarterly VAT return for a UK small business, processing 59 transactions in 68 minutes at a token cost of $2.73, with the net position off by only 7 pence. The…
The Ethereum Foundation is deploying swarms of AI agents to red-team its network infrastructure, uncovering vulnerabilities including a remotely triggered panic in libp2p's gossipsub. The AI agents, organized into specia…
The Ethereum Foundation announced on July 9, 2026, that its Protocol Security team has been using coordinated AI agents to find bugs in protocol code, resulting in the disclosure of CVE-2026-34219, a remotely triggerable…
A developer introduces the Recursive Reflection Framework, a three-stage pattern (Draft → Critique → Rewrite) that exploits the fact that AI critique is sharper than AI generation. By constraining the output space throug…
Monaco developed Monacoder, a cloud-hosted agent-developer workspace platform built on Coder, to enable cost-effective parallel AI coding agents after abandoning a tmux-based approach. The platform addresses gaps in exis…
Open-source AI lab Nous Research has integrated OpenAI's GPT-5.6 model family into its Hermes Agent framework via the Nous Portal, giving subscribers access to three variants: Sol, Terra, and Luna. The integration allows…