Google releases Mantis, an open-source AI security toolkit that autonomously hunts, reproduces, and patches software vulnerabilities across hardware, firmware, and ML pipelines using a 15-component pipeline coordinated by a meta-agent, though all findings require manual expert verification before action.
Tencent is in talks to become the largest external shareholder in agentic AI startup Manus at a $2 billion valuation, moving aggressively into the AI race after Chinese regulators blocked Meta's acquisition of the company.
As agentic AI systems take hold in enterprises, organizations are urgently demanding greater control over data, model deployment, and regulatory compliance, with IBM's Sovereign Core emerging as a key solution offering security, compliance evidence, and deployment flexibility within an organization's own boundaries.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work, a GPT-5.6-powered autonomous AI agent that executes complex multi-step tasks across email, Slack, GitHub, and calendars for all paid subscribers starting at $20 per month, intensifying a fierce enterprise AI race against Anthropic and Microsoft as OpenAI eyes an IPO valuation of up to $852 billion.
OpenAI kills its standalone Atlas browser and folds its AI browsing capabilities into the ChatGPT desktop app and a new Chrome extension, directly challenging Google's Gemini with webpage summarization, task completion, and a remote cloud browser running on OpenAI's own servers.
Mistral AI expands into robotics with Robostral Navigate, a new model that lets robots navigate complex environments using only a single camera and language prompts, requiring no specialized hardware and trained entirely in simulation.
Shepherd launches an alpha runtime that makes AI agent executions reversible using Git-like forking, delivering 5x faster copy-on-write performance than Docker commit, 95% KV-cache reuse on replay, and OS-level sandboxed permissions that block unauthorized writes before they happen.
European AI startup UMA unveils a humanoid robot powered by Real-Time Learning architecture that watches and learns from human demonstrations, positioning Europe as a serious contender in the global robotics race against the US and China.
A new multi-agent framework called T3MP3ST is transforming AI coding tools like Claude Code and Codex into autonomous hacking systems capable of running full cyberattack chains, achieving a record-breaking 90.1% score on a leading industry benchmark with fully reproducible results.
AI agents are rapidly hitting production environments, with over half of developers reporting adoption, as Slack emerges as the central coordination hub for multi-agent systems by unifying conversational history, workflow activity, and permissions into a single architecture that reduces risk and overhead for both workers and developers.