Artificial Intelligence

Cognition’s Devin crossed from demo to deployment in late 2025. With a $10.2B valuation, the Windsurf acquisition, and enterprise features like persistence, rollback, and an agent-native IDE, engineering leaders can budget, govern, and staff agents alongside people in 2026.

Databricks and OpenAI are collapsing the agent stack into the lakehouse. Here is how lakehouse‑native governance, evals, and action gating turn demos into production systems while reducing risk and lock‑in.

Enterprise-grade MCP servers, OAuth-bound access, structured outputs, and elicitation just turned agent demos into deployable systems. Here is the practical playbook, risks, metrics, and reference architectures to ship governed action across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Amazon Q.

Google is weaving Gemini into Chrome so your browser can plan, stage, and execute tasks with your permission. Here is what agentic browsing changes for users, developers, and marketers—and how to prepare now.

Amazon’s late September 2025 devices event and the Alexa+ rollout marked a turn from chat to action. With AI-native Echo hardware, Prime-bundled pricing, and new agent SDKs, Alexa+ aims to make the smart home programmable and outcome-driven.

Anthropic’s Claude Skills package instructions, scripts, and resources into reusable, policy-gated modules. They move agents from ad hoc prompts to shareable capabilities that teams can govern, version, and audit.

Microsoft just moved agents into the desktop. Copilot Actions bring permissioned, task‑completing agents to Windows itself, redefining consent, reliability, and distribution for developers and enterprises.

Salesforce’s Agentforce 360 brings agent building, governance, and deployment into Slack and Customer 360. See how Builder, Agent Script, hybrid reasoning, and Voice move from chat to execution and what to do next.

Meta just moved AI agents from your phone to your periphery. Ray-Ban Display smart glasses and the Neural Band turn micro-prompts and subtle gestures into real-world actions you can confirm in a glance.

2025 flipped agent design from brittle scaffolds to models that think, budget, and verify at inference time. Here is how test-time compute, open distillations, and edge acceleration are reshaping costs, architecture, and what you can ship in 90 days.

Figure’s third-generation humanoid pairs a Helix vision-language-action brain with a safety-first, home-ready body and a factory plan built to scale. If fleet learning and BotQ deliver, the agentic appliance era may arrive sooner than expected.

OpenAI collapsed the agent stack into one toolkit and opened distribution inside ChatGPT. Here is what AgentKit and the Apps SDK change, who benefits, and a 90 day plan to ship a production agent without lock in.

Visa’s new Trusted Agent Protocol lets merchants verify AI shopping agents at the edge. It promises safer, faster checkout, sharper fraud controls, and loyalty that redeems itself, with payment networks back in the driver’s seat.

A wave of 2025 releases turned the Model Context Protocol into the common tool call layer for AI agents across operating systems, clouds, and model platforms. Here is why demos just became deployable products and how to pivot now.

On October 7, 2025, Google launched Gemini 2.5 Computer Use in AI Studio and Vertex, bringing first class browser automation to AI agents. Here is why the browser is becoming the new API and how it will reshape automation, testing, and SaaS design.

Signed on October 13, 2025, California’s SB 243 requires companion chatbots to disclose AI identity, follow self-harm protocols, add minor safeguards, and publish annual safety metrics starting July 1, 2027. Here is what product, design, and engineering teams must change now.

GitHub’s Copilot coding agent is now generally available with pull request native automation, enterprise policies, and Actions-powered sandboxes. Use this 30‑day rollout plan to deploy it safely and see what it means for 2026.

OpenAI added a Buy button inside ChatGPT and India launched a UPI pilot that lets the assistant complete payments. Here is how agentic checkout works, why it will scale first, and what retailers should do in the next 90 days.