Artificial Intelligence

On October 8, 2025, SoftBank agreed to acquire ABB’s robotics division for $5.4 billion. The deal could push large language and vision models from the browser into factory cells, accelerating agentic automation.

With the 1.0 cycle for LangChain and LangGraph, stateful graphs, guardrails, human review, and deep observability move agents from dazzling demos to dependable enterprise systems. Here is what changes and how to adopt it now.

OpenAI’s August 5, 2025 GPT-OSS release puts strong reasoning on a single 80 GB GPU and even 16 GB devices with quantization. Here is how it rewires procurement, stacks, and agent standards.

Google’s Gemini 2.5 Computer Use puts an agent behind the keyboard inside the browser. Here is what shipped, why it matters for automation, and a 30 day plan to pilot it safely.

Meta will start using conversations with its AI assistant to personalize content and ads across Facebook and Instagram on December 16, 2025. Here is what changes, who is excluded, and how product and policy teams should respond.

China-native backends just landed as U.S. standards scrutiny intensified. Cheap, open reasoning models now run on domestic NPUs and Nvidia, cracking the CUDA moat, accelerating model sovereignty, and reshaping inference costs. Here is the split-stack playbook.

At Dreamforce 2025, Salesforce unveiled Agentforce 3 with a Command Center, Model Context Protocol support, and compliance upgrades. The signal is clear: control planes, not bigger models, will make enterprise agents observable, governable, and interoperable at scale.

OpenAI just turned chat into a first-class runtime. AgentKit brings production-grade agents and the ChatGPT Apps SDK makes distribution native to conversations. The moat now shifts to data access, trust, and chat-native UX.

Windows 11 is adopting the Model Context Protocol, giving agents a universal port into apps and files. The next edge is not bigger models, but unified identity, consent, and short‑lived authorization that let agents act safely across desktops and clouds.

Cisco used WebexOne 2025 to debut Connected Intelligence, a suite of AI agents that turn meetings into autonomous workflows. Here is what ships through 2026, how it connects to Microsoft 365, Salesforce, and Jira, and a build playbook to avoid agentwashing.

Fresh reporting points to a pocketable, always-on assistant from OpenAI and Jony Ive. If it ships by 2026, hardware becomes the agent runtime, with on-device context memory reshaping interactions, app distribution, and trust.

OpenAI Sora is moving from experiment to platform. New rightsholder controls, revenue sharing, and fast in-app blocking signal an App Store style model for licensed character agents, virtual actors, and creator marketplaces.

Qwen3 Next pairs sparse-active Mixture of Experts, hybrid attention, and multi-token prediction to deliver long context at lower cost. Here is how it changes your serving stack, when to switch from dense 70B, and what to tune first.

A new managed training API promises one-click post-training for open-weight models. With portable LoRA adapters, built-in sampling, and RLHF or RLAIF loops, Tinker aims to turn prompt hacks into durable improvements teams can ship.

Anthropic’s September launch of Claude Sonnet 4.5, Claude Code 2.0, and a new Agent SDK pushes agents from chatty helpers to shift-length workers. Learn how long-horizon autonomy works, what to pilot first, and how to keep it safe.

OpenAI just turned on Instant Checkout in ChatGPT with Stripe, moving shopping from product pages into agent-guided conversations. Here is the map, the builder playbook, and what to expect over the next 12 months.

Google is turning smart homes into actionable agent platforms. With Gemini for Home, a redesigned Home app, and Home Premium with Gemini Live, households gain communal identity, context-aware automation, and integrations that let agents plan and act across rooms. Here is what changed, why it matters, and how startups can move first.

Avalara’s September 30 launch marks compliance as AI’s first scaled beachhead. Here is why tax work is moving from copilots to operators, and what this unlocks for finance teams and startups.