Gemini Spark Adds MCP, Canva, and a Mac Beta
Google expanded Gemini Spark with custom MCP support, new app connections including Canva and Dropbox, real-time tracking, and a first macOS beta for AI Ultra users.
Kage gives AI agents verified, code-grounded memory
Kage, a new open-source verification layer built on Google's Open Knowledge Format, stops AI coding agents from recalling hallucinated or out-of-date memories.
Claude Sonnet 5: Near-Flagship Power at a Lower Price
Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, 2026 as the new default model for Free and Pro, positioned close to Opus 4.8 at a lower price. Here is what changed, the tokenizer catch that resets your cost math, and how to switch your workflow.
Gemini 3.5 Flash Adds Computer Use for AI Agents
Google built computer use into Gemini 3.5 Flash, letting AI agents see and act across browser, mobile, and desktop. Available now in the Gemini API.
Figma Config 2026: Code Layers, Motion, AI Agent Skills
Figma Config 2026 folds code layers, native animation via Figma Motion, and prompt-built AI agent skills directly into the design canvas.
HuggingFace Automates Weekly Releases With an AI Agent
Hugging Face now ships huggingface_hub every week using a GitHub Actions pipeline that drafts release notes with an open-weight AI model and keeps a human reviewer in the loop.
Oak: Version Control Built for AI Agents
Oak is a new version control system built specifically for AI agents, now in public beta with a Rust core tuned for agent workflows.
OpenAI Codex Sites: Build Hosted Web Apps From a Prompt
OpenAI launched Sites for Codex, letting ChatGPT Business and Enterprise users describe internal tools in plain English and get hosted, authenticated web apps in return.
Google Gemini Spark Review: The AI Agent That Knows Too Much
Google gave early access to Gemini Spark, its new always-on AI agent that mines your Gmail, Drive, and Photos to complete tasks without being told context.
Run Holo 3.1 Locally: Computer-Use Agent in 30 Min
Deploy H Company's Apache 2.0 Holo 3.1 4B locally with vLLM on a 12GB consumer GPU, hook it into a desktop-agent workflow, and benchmark step latency and cost against Claude Computer Use and OpenAI Operator.
Holo 3.1: Open-Weights Local Computer-Use Agent
H Company released Holo 3.1, an Apache 2.0 computer-use agent family with quantized weights, mobile control, and 79.3% AndroidWorld score.
Cursor 3.6 Auto-Review Cuts Agent Approval Prompts
Cursor shipped auto-review mode today in version 3.6, a new run mode that lets the agent work for longer stretches with fewer approval prompts.
Linear Ships Diffs: In-App PR Reviews for Engineers
Linear launched Diffs on May 28, bringing pull request reviews into the same workspace as issues, projects, and customer signals.
Qwen3.7-Max vs Claude, Gemini, GPT-5.5: Compared
Qwen3.7-Max sets a new bar for non-hallucination rate among frontier agent models. Here is how it stacks up against Claude Opus 4.7, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and GPT-5.5 across the four reliability dimensions that decide which model goes into production.
Migrate Claude or Gemini Agent to Google AX: Tutorial
Google open-sourced Agent Executor (AX), a distributed runtime that gives any AI agent durable execution, sandboxed isolation, and crash recovery. Here is the 30-minute migration path for an existing Claude Code, Cursor, or Gemini CLI workflow, end-to-end.
Forge Gives Local AI Agents Enterprise-Grade Reliability
Open-source Forge framework adds guardrails to 8B local models, lifting agentic task reliability to 86.5% -- no cloud API required.
NVIDIA Verified Agent Skills: Security for AI Workflows
NVIDIA has launched a formal verification pipeline for its AI agent skills, introducing cryptographic signing, automated security scanning, and machine-readable trust metadata.
Manus Schedules 2.0: Recurring Tasks Now Keep Context
Manus released Scheduled Tasks 2.0 on May 18, 2026, letting recurring agent runs stay inside the same task context instead of starting fresh every time. Web apps built with Manus can also schedule their own actions.
Kimi WebBridge Lets Claude Code Drive Your Browser
Moonshot AI released Kimi WebBridge on May 14, a browser extension that lets coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex drive your local Chrome or Edge through the Chrome DevTools Protocol. Logins stay local.
Claude for Small Business vs Copilot, Gemini, ChatGPT
Anthropic launched Claude for Small Business on May 13 with seven SaaS connectors. We compare it against Microsoft Copilot, Gemini for Workspace, ChatGPT for Business, and Adobe Firefly on connector coverage, native creative output, pricing transparency, and data defaults.
OpenSquilla v0.1: Cut Agent Token Costs 60% to 80%
OpenSquilla v0.1.0 launched May 12, 2026: an Apache 2.0 microkernel runtime that smart-routes agent traffic across model tiers for 60 to 80 percent token savings.
Magic Pointer Tutorial: 5 Creator Workflows in Chrome
How to use Google DeepMind Magic Pointer in Chrome and AI Studio. Five step-by-step workflows: enable in Chrome, edit images by pointing, navigate maps, rewrite Google Docs paragraphs, compare products, and where it fits versus Anthropic Computer Use, TML-Interaction, and Codex Chrome.
AI Agents Corrupt Documents in 80% of Domains
Microsoft Research tested Claude 4.6 Opus, GPT 5.4, and Gemini 3.1 Pro across 52 professional workflows. Frontier models lost 25 percent of document content on average.
Alibaba's Qwen+Taobao vs Rufus, Sidekick, Etsy AI
Alibaba shipped the first end-to-end agentic shopping stack at 300M-MAU. How it compares against Amazon Rufus, Shopify Sidekick, and Etsy AI on search, virtual try-on, in-chat checkout, and scale.