Google has built computer use directly into Gemini 3.5 Flash, its latest AI model. Mateo Quiros writes for The Keyword, Google’s official blog, that the capability was previously only available as a separate standalone model. It is now integrated into the main Flash model, making it accessible to a much broader range of developers and …
Anthropic has launched Claude Tag, a product that places its AI model inside Slack as a permanent, shared team member. Unlike earlier AI integrations, Claude Tag is not a chatbot that answers individual questions. It participates in channels, remembers past conversations, takes on tasks autonomously, and proactively flags information it considers relevant. The product is …
Researchers at the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a framework called Self-Harness that allows AI agents to automatically rewrite the rules governing their own behavior. Ben Dickson reports for VentureBeat that the system delivered performance improvements of between 33 and 60 percent on a standard benchmark. The key concept here is the “harness”: the …
Amazon Web Services has announced a new set of tools designed to give AI agents better access to company data. The centerpiece is AWS Context, a knowledge graph service that automatically maps relationships across an organization’s data and improves over time based on how agents actually use it. Sean Michael Kerner reports for VentureBeat that …
Adobe has significantly expanded its Firefly creative platform with agentic AI capabilities, bringing an AI assistant that can execute multi-step creative workflows into both its standalone Firefly studio and its core Creative Cloud applications. The company reports that Firefly AI Assistant, powered by Adobe’s creative agent, is now in public beta across Premiere Pro, Photoshop, …
AI companies advertise ever-larger context windows for their language models, but a developer argues that the usable portion is far smaller than the marketed figures suggest. Garrit Franke writes in his blog Garrit’s Notes that effective model performance begins to degrade around 100,000 tokens, regardless of whether the advertised limit is 200,000, one million, or …
Huawei has unveiled HarmonyOS 7, a major update to its mobile operating system that connects users to more than 2,000 specialised AI agents. Iris Dengin reports for the South China Morning Post that the company positions the release as its entry into what it calls the “agent era.” Richard Yu Chengdong, chairman of Huawei’s Consumer …
Bot traffic has overtaken human traffic on the internet for the first time in history. Mark Tyson reports for Tom’s Hardware that Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince publicly acknowledged the milestone, admitting he had not expected it to happen until 2027. “Welp, that happened faster than I predicted,” Prince wrote. According to Cloudflare data, bots now …
Poke, a startup that lets users interact with an AI agent via text message, has become the first third-party AI agent approved to run on Apple’s Messages for Business platform. Sarah Perez reports for TechCrunch that the approval marks a significant expansion of a platform previously reserved for businesses communicating with their own customers through …
Snowflake has introduced a two-layer context system designed to stop AI agents from returning contradictory answers when querying the same business data. Sean Michael Kerner reports for VentureBeat that the announcements came at Snowflake Summit 26 in San Francisco and center on two new products: Horizon Context and Cortex Sense. The core problem is that …