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Roblox unveiled an agentic upgrade to its Studio Assistant on April 16, adding a Planning Mode, natural-language Mesh Generation, code-driven Procedural Models, and a playtesting agent that reads logs and uses inputs to find bugs.

At Cloud Next 2026, Google overhauled its AI cloud stack: Vertex AI becomes the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, a new Agentic Data Cloud offers cross-cloud data access via Apache Iceberg, and the Virgo Network delivers 47 Pb/s to connect 134,000-chip training clusters.

OpenAI's GPT-5.5 arrives as a ground-up retrain with a 922K-token context window, 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.0, and two-tier pricing starting at $5/$30 per million tokens.

Anthropic's new cloud service handles sandboxing, state, and permissions so companies can ship production agents in weeks instead of months.

OpenAI's April 16 Codex update adds background computer use on Mac, parallel multi-agent execution, persistent memory, and 111 plugin integrations, escalating the agentic coding tool race with Anthropic.

Adobe says its new CX Enterprise Coworker will help large brands automate and personalize customer-experience workflows across its own stack and partner AI platforms.

Equinix has launched Fabric Intelligence, an AI-native operational layer for its 4,400-customer interconnection platform that exposes network provisioning through natural language agents and MCP servers.

An autonomous AI platform developed at Cornell University analyzes electron microscopy images in two to five minutes, performing crystal structure identification, property prediction, and literature cross-referencing in a single workflow.

Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0 unifies Semantic Kernel's enterprise foundations with AutoGen's multi-agent orchestration into one open-source SDK for .NET and Python, with support for A2A and MCP protocols.

Salt Security and KushoAI release dueling reports on the same day showing API security has become the critical blind spot of the agentic AI era, with nearly all attacks now originating from authenticated sources.

Flashpoint's 2026 report documents a 1,500 percent spike in AI-related criminal forum activity, 3.3 billion stolen credentials from infostealers, and a 53 percent rise in ransomware incidents.

The Copilot SDK, now in public preview with support for five languages and bring-your-own-key authentication, exposes the same agent runtime powering GitHub Copilot CLI as a programmable library for building custom AI-driven tools and workflows.