Microsoft's Copilot agentic AI is now live in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, delivering multi-step, app-native actions that are already driving massive user engagement gains, with Excel alone seeing a 67% engagement spike, 50% boost in new user retention, and 65% jump in satisfaction ratings.
Vercel confirms hackers accessed customer data before its early-April breach, with infostealer malware suspected as the attack vector targeting tokens and API keys, as investigators warn the incident is broader in scope with more victims expected to emerge.
Google launches two powerful AI research agents, Deep Research and Deep Research Max, powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro, targeting finance and enterprise markets with advanced capabilities including proprietary data integration and native chart generation, backed by partnerships with FactSet, S&P Global, and PitchBook.
A new proof-of-concept AI hedge fund simulator deploys virtual agents modeled after Warren Buffett, Michael Burry, and Cathie Wood to test trading strategies across valuation, sentiment, and technical analysis — strictly for educational purposes, with no real trades executed.
Purpose-built small language models are rapidly gaining traction as the government's go-to AI solution, offering secure local data storage, lower costs, and reduced hallucinations while enabling agencies to efficiently search massive unstructured datasets without sacrificing security or compliance.
Vercel confirms a security breach after attackers compromise an employee's Google Workspace account via third-party AI platform Context.ai, exposing internal systems and unencrypted environment variables, while threat actor ShinyHunters claims to be selling stolen data — including source code, API tokens, and records on 580 employees — and demanding a …
Slackbot launches as an always-on AI agent inside Slack, delivering personalized, secure assistance by searching, summarizing, and drafting content directly within workflows to combat the 40% productivity loss caused by fragmented work.
Vercel launches its built-in feature flag system, Vercel Flags, now generally available with native Next.js and SvelteKit support, enabling teams to create, manage, and target feature flags directly from the Vercel Dashboard with OpenFeature standard compatibility for other frameworks.
Companies are dangerously underestimating the complexity of deploying AI agents at scale, with Airia VP Dave Horton warning that coordination — not capability — is the real challenge facing enterprises rushing to adopt agentic AI in 2026.
AI coding tools like Claude Code and Cursor boast 80-90% initial code acceptance rates, but real-world effectiveness collapses to just 10-30% after required revisions, with AI users generating 9.4x more code churn and heavy token users achieving only 2x throughput at 10x the cost — yet adoption continues accelerating despite …