Databricks launches Genie One, an agentic AI coworker that automates enterprise work across marketing, finance, and sales by leveraging a self-improving context layer called Genie Ontology, which learns from tools like Slack, Jira, and Google Drive to deliver governed, data-grounded AI reasoning with no seat-based pricing.
Factory 2.0 launches AI-powered 'software factories' that autonomously manage the entire software development lifecycle — from bug reports to deployment — with major enterprises like NVIDIA, Adobe, and Blackstone already running the systems in production, signaling a major shift where engineers govern AI rather than write code themselves.
A new Python library called 'aisuite' unifies major AI providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google into a single API, letting developers switch between models with one string change, while also powering OpenCoworker, a desktop AI agent app for macOS and Windows capable of research, file management, and automated tasks.
Salesforce acquires AI customer service platform Fin for $3.6 billion to supercharge its Agentforce platform as the company battles a stock slump of over one-third in 2026 amid fears that emerging AI could disrupt its core business model.
Tech companies are urgently building safeguards against rogue AI agents capable of deleting databases and ignoring commands, as security experts reveal three critical strategies—behavioral monitoring, intelligent approval filtering, and credential protection—to keep AI agents useful rather than dangerous.
NVIDIA's GB300 NVL72 dominates the industry's first agentic AI benchmark, AgentPerf, delivering a staggering 20x more AI agents per megawatt than its predecessor, the HGX H200, as top inference providers race to deploy the powerful Blackwell architecture for real-world production applications.
Meta erects a strict firewall between itself and Chinese-founded AI service Manus, barring staff access to internal systems and prohibiting use of Manus tools, as a $2 billion acquisition deal collapses amid opposition from Beijing.
Databricks open sources Omnigent, a groundbreaking meta-harness under Apache 2.0 that unifies AI agents like Claude Code and Codex into one interoperable platform, enabling real-time collaboration, dynamic security policies, and cloud sandboxing across multiple agent frameworks.
Anthropic launches Claude Managed Agents, a suite of composable APIs enabling enterprise teams to deploy AI agents in days, with major clients like Notion and Atlassian reporting tasks that once took 12 hours now completing in just 20 minutes.
Standard Bots hits a $1 billion valuation after raising $200 million led by General Catalyst and RoboStrategy, accelerating US robotic arm manufacturing as competition with China in AI-powered robotics intensifies.