ai-agents

Cloudflare has released EmDash v0.1, a full-stack serverless CMS written in TypeScript atop the Astro framework it acquired in January, promising sandboxed plugin isolation, AI-native management via MCP, and MIT licensing as a direct challenge to the 42.5 percent of the web still running WordPress.

The CNCF incubating project ships runtime threat detection powered by CEL-based rules, a centralized security metadata store, and the first open-source controls for auditing AI agent configurations in Kubernetes clusters.

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.

Google's new Gemini 3.1 Flash Live model brings acoustic awareness, doubled context length, and tool-use capabilities to real-time voice AI, rolling out globally via Gemini Live and Search Live.

A 630-line Python script by Andrej Karpathy that lets AI agents autonomously run and iterate on ML experiments has become one of the fastest-growing open source projects of 2026, with Shopify's CEO among early adopters reporting double-digit performance gains.

Figma's new use_figma MCP tool gives coding agents write access to design files, while a markdown-based Skills framework lets teams encode conventions for agent-driven workflows.

Cloudflare's new isolate-based runtime starts AI agent sandboxes in milliseconds with megabytes of memory, replacing containers and pairing with Code Mode to cut LLM token usage by 81 percent.

JetBrains launches Central, a governance and execution platform for AI coding agents, alongside IntelliJ IDEA 2026.1 with Agent Client Protocol support and the Air agentic IDE in public preview, signaling a decisive pivot toward agent-driven development.

Google added Cart, Catalog, and Identity Linking capabilities to its Universal Commerce Protocol, expanding the open standard that lets AI agents complete purchases across retailer platforms.

Anthropic has launched a research preview enabling Claude to operate Mac desktops directly, opening files, navigating browsers, and executing tasks across applications with a permission-based safety model, available to Pro and Max subscribers.

Vercel releases Next.js 16.2 with experimental AI agent tooling, a React contribution that speeds up Server Component rendering by up to 350 percent, Turbopack Server Fast Refresh, and over 200 bug fixes.

Anysphere's Cursor ships event-driven AI coding agents that trigger on commits, Slack messages, and incidents, aiming to close the gap between AI-accelerated code production and human-speed review.