ai-agents

At Build 2026, Microsoft revealed Project Solara, a chip-to-cloud platform built on AOSP for devices that run AI agents instead of apps, including a reference-design wearable badge.

Raindrop released Workshop, a free local debugger that streams an AI agent's tokens, tool calls, and spans to a browser and lets Claude Code write and fix evals against the trace.

At Build 2026 in San Francisco, Microsoft unveiled Project Polaris to replace GPT-4 Turbo in GitHub Copilot, open-sourced the Windows Agent Framework, and previewed the Windows Agent Runtime and Azure Agent Mesh.

Veeam used its VeeamON 2026 conference in New York City to preview v13.1 of its Data Platform with 70+ new features, a new DataAI Command Platform, and post-quantum cryptography support.

VS Code 1.121, released May 20, adds remote agent sessions over SSH and dev tunnels, native Mermaid diagram rendering, HTML file preview, and a new Agent Host Protocol for multi-client agent coordination.

Qwen3.7-Max debuts at Alibaba's Cloud Summit in Hangzhou as the company's most capable agent model, sustaining continuous autonomous execution for 35 hours in internal testing.

ServiceNow unveiled Otto, Action Fabric, and an expanded AI Control Tower at Knowledge 2026, repositioning itself as a unified governance layer for every AI agent across the enterprise.

Andreessen Horowitz leads a $250M Series C in Exa, valuing the AI-native search startup at $2.2B as it serves over 5,000 companies including Cursor, Cognition, and HubSpot.

A Sinch survey of 2,527 AI decision-makers finds 74% have shut down live AI customer communications agents, with rollback rates rising to 81% among the most governance-mature organizations.

Nine days after v0.13 closed Hermes Agent's durability gap, Nous Research shipped v0.14 on May 16 — adding pip install from PyPI, native Windows, and a local OpenAI-compatible proxy that wraps Claude Pro, ChatGPT Pro, and SuperGrok subscriptions.

After a March 2026 launch that left users contending with broad ACL changes and stale sandbox profiles, OpenAI published a stricter design splitting Codex into offline and online local users with DPAPI-protected credentials and a command-runner handoff.

Notion's new Developer Platform adds a hosted code runtime, a CLI for developers and coding agents, and an API to plug external agents into the workspace.