OpenAI merges Codex into ChatGPT, bringing powerful AI agent capabilities to nearly one billion users while launching six new role-specific plugins targeting industries beyond software development, in a strategic push to transform ChatGPT's identity from conversational chatbot to task-executing powerhouse.
Enterprises are abandoning costly 'tokenmaxxing' AI strategies as efficiency dominates Microsoft Build and Snowflake Summit, with major tech firms unveiling cost-cutting tools and experts urging businesses to question whether AI is even needed for every task.
Microsoft launches the Surface Laptop Ultra, a sleek sub-4.5-pound powerhouse featuring a 15-inch mini-LED touchscreen, an NVIDIA chip delivering up to one petaflop of AI compute, and up to 128GB of unified memory, designed for creators and professionals demanding cutting-edge on-device AI performance.
A new open-source AI hiring agent launches on GitHub, capable of parsing resumes, analyzing GitHub activity, and delivering scored, explainable candidate evaluations using either local Ollama models or Google Gemini for flexible, privacy-conscious deployment.
Slack's Workflow Builder is transforming workplace productivity, now powering over 3 million daily automations and delivering up to 35% time savings, with companies like Wayfair reclaiming 25,000 hours annually and Canva slashing meeting times by over 90% using AI-driven, no-code automation tools.
Meta taps 28-year-old Scale AI co-founder Alexandr Wang to lead a secretive AI lab called TBD, assembling 100 elite researchers and releasing a competitive new model as Zuckerberg races to close the gap with OpenAI and Google — but internal tensions, setbacks, and rival speed are threatening to slow the …
Morgan Stanley is opening its stock administration platforms to external AI agents, allowing corporate clients to autonomously interact with firm systems without traditional logins — a bold move that puts the bank ahead of Wall Street rivals like JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs, with plans to expand access to all 3,400 …
Anthropic's Claude Code team is abandoning six-month roadmaps in favor of rapid, just-in-time planning as agentic AI eliminates coding bottlenecks, reshapes team roles, and shifts human focus toward security, product judgment, and creative systems thinking.
Sentry launches AI agent integration via its CLI, enabling developers to automatically generate custom dashboards tailored to their codebase by connecting tools like Claude Code, which can build, edit, and delete widgets tracking errors, performance, and user flows without manual configuration.
Google DeepMind's Logan Kilpatrick, a veteran of NASA, OpenAI, and Apple, is urging developers to think bigger as AI tools like Gemini 2.5 Flash and Project Antigravity redefine software engineering, drawing a sharp line between casual 'vibe coding' and serious agentic development.