Artificial Intelligence

Google’s Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) and Coinbase’s x402 make agent-to-agent payments practical, unlocking pay-per-action APIs, autonomous procurement, and machine-native pricing. Learn how design patterns change, what to build now, and why adoption will accelerate in 2026.

In three days, Microsoft turned AI agents into governed software with identity, pricing, and audit. Here is what launched across 365 Premium, Agent Mode, Office Agent, Security Store, and Entra Agent ID, plus the playbook to adopt them safely.

In 2025, cross-vendor agent interoperability quietly became real. With Agent2Agent entering the Linux Foundation and the Model Context Protocol landing natively in Windows, Azure, and OpenAI’s stack, agents are about to plug into every app, cloud, and desktop like USB-C.

Q4 2025 turns agent memory into the new battleground. Platforms now ship project and team memory, vector-native storage, and consent policies that lock in context. Here is the emerging stack, the tradeoffs, and a portable blueprint to ship.

Perplexity just unlocked Comet for everyone, signaling a shift from chat windows to the place work actually happens: your browser. Here is why the browser will beat chat apps as the agent runtime, how Comet stacks up against Gemini in Chrome, Arc’s Dia, and Opera’s Neon, and what builders should ship next.

Agent observability just moved from slideware to shipped software. With OpenTelemetry traces, Model Context Protocol, and real-time dashboards, enterprises can turn experimental agents into governed, measurable systems and prove ROI through 2026.

Meta’s Ray-Ban Display and Neural Band hit the market, and Reuters reports Apple is accelerating AI-first glasses. Together they signal the first agent-native consumer platform. Here is what changes, who wins, and what to build now.

OpenAI’s Sora 2 lands with an invite-only, TikTok-style feed where every clip is born synthetic. Verified cameos, remix permissions, and native attribution signal a new playbook for creators and brands as Meta’s Vibes enters the race.

Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 and the new Agent SDK turn long-horizon, tool-using agents into a production reality. With 30-hour persistence, native computer use, and checkpointed memory, leaders can now ship governed, cost-aware automations that actually finish the job.

On September 30, 2025, UiPath announced partnerships with OpenAI, Snowflake Cortex, and NVIDIA that reposition RPA as an enterprise agent platform. This breakdown explains what changed, why it matters, and a 90 day plan to ship your first production agent.

OpenAI turned chat into checkout on September 29, 2025. ChatGPT’s Instant Checkout is live with Etsy and coming to Shopify, while Stripe’s shared tokens show how agents pay safely. Here is what changes, why it matters, and how to prepare now.

Alibaba’s late September release of Qwen3-Next and the trillion-parameter Qwen3-Max brings sparse activation, multi-token prediction, and 128K to 256K context windows that reduce latency and cost for tool-using agents running on commodity GPUs.

Microsoft’s new Security Store shifts security from point tools to autonomous workflows. With build-your-own and partner agents spanning Defender, Sentinel, Entra, and Purview, the SOC becomes a policy-governed marketplace of AI operations.

Azure AI Foundry’s Agent Service is now generally available, bringing bring-your-own thread storage, run-level observability, Fabric integration, MCP tools, and Deep Research so enterprises can move from flashy demos to governed, auditable workloads. Here is what shipped, why it matters, and how to launch in 90 days.

Microsoft just flipped the script on Word and Excel. With Copilot’s new Agent Mode and a cross app Office Agent, Office becomes a place where software agents plan, act, and leave an audit trail you can trust.

On September 23, 2025, Snowflake, Salesforce, dbt Labs, BlackRock, and RelationalAI introduced Open Semantic Interchange, a shared specification that lets agents ground, reason, and govern across stacks. Here is what it changes and how to pilot it in 30 days.

On September 18, 2025, Google began rolling out Gemini in Chrome to U.S. desktop users, turning the browser into an AI-powered assistant that can read pages, work across tabs, and soon act on websites. Here is how agentic browsing will reshape checkout, SEO and affiliate traffic, consent and fraud, and what developers should build next.

GitHub Copilot Spaces is generally available, bringing persistent project context into agent mode and the coding agent so teams can plan and ship multi-file changes under enterprise guardrails.