Google expands its Gemini API Managed Agents with powerful new features including background execution for long-running tasks, remote MCP server support, custom function calling, and mid-session credential refresh that preserves sandbox state — making AI agents significantly more reliable and flexible for production use.
A new study reveals that using JSON mode for AI agents causes smaller models to fail up to 60% of the time and costs up to 11x more than traditional CLI arguments due to shell escaping failures, with developers urged to avoid rewriting CLIs for agents until running measurable experiments.
Guidance, an open-source Python library with over 21,600 GitHub stars, gives developers precise control over AI model outputs using regex, context-free grammars, and JSON schema validation, while boosting efficiency by reducing unnecessary model processing across backends like OpenAI and llama.cpp.
Anthropic rolls out Claude Cowork to mobile and web, letting Max plan users start, monitor, and manage AI-driven tasks across devices, with background execution, scheduled automation, and real-time decision prompts — and over 90% of usage is everyday business work like financial reconciliation and content creation, not coding.
Microsoft is ditching OpenAI and Anthropic AI models in favor of cheaper, in-house MAI models across products like Excel and Outlook, while simultaneously cutting 4,800 jobs and doubling down on AI expansion — a bold cost-cutting gamble that risks alienating enterprises demanding top-tier AI performance.
A sample of 1.2 million Claude Cowork sessions reveals business operations tasks dominate usage at 33.4%, nearly four times the 8.7% share held by software development, with roughly half of all usage falling into cross-role, supportive tasks rather than core job functions.
Microsoft is ditching OpenAI and Anthropic AI models in favor of its own proprietary MAI models inside Excel and Outlook, completing tens of thousands of prompts weekly as the tech giant slashes costs and bets big on in-house artificial intelligence.
Chinese smart glasses startup Even Realities hits a $1 billion unicorn valuation after securing $150 million in Tencent-backed funding, with its privacy-focused G2 glasses challenging Meta's dominance in a market that surged 167% year-over-year in Q1 2026.
Anthropic rolls out spend alerts, cost analytics, and model defaults for Claude Enterprise as a 'tokenmaxxing' crisis sends AI costs spiraling out of control, with companies like Uber burning through entire annual AI budgets in just four months.
Reddit's AI tools are now blocking 23 million spam views daily, cutting user exposure by 20%, while new research from Oxford and the University of Potsdam warns that the same large language models powering these defenses may be introducing subtle bias into social media content.