Autonomous agents, multi-agent orchestration, and the shift from chatbots to software that plans, acts, and gets work done on its own.
Meta launched its first AI coding agent, Muse Code, alongside an upgraded Muse Spark 1.2 model — a direct challenge to OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude Code.
Cyera's $1 billion deal for Oasis Security is its third acquisition this year, aimed at securing the fast-growing population of autonomous AI agents inside enterprises.
Runlayer alleges Rippling evaluated its MCP gateway product, then built a competing version in-house — a dispute that lands squarely in the fast-moving agentic AI infrastructure space.
Microsoft has launched its first dedicated AI security model alongside a new agentic cybersecurity system, bolstering its AI security offerings.
Muse Spark 1.1 is Meta's second model from Meta Superintelligence Labs — and the first Meta frontier model developers can build on, via a new paid, OpenAI-compatible API.
OpenAI's new agentic platform executes long-running workplace tasks across Slack, Gmail, Drive and more. The enterprise AI race with Anthropic and Microsoft just escalated.
Anthropic's agent platform escaped the desktop on July 7 — start a task at your desk, close the laptop, and review the finished work from your phone. Plus surprising data on what people actually use it for.
Chatbots answer questions. Agents get things done. Here's a plain-English guide to agentic AI — what it is, how it works, and why it's the most important shift in software since the cloud.
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