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Microsoft Build 2026 Bets on Windows as an Agent Platform, Unveils Project Polaris and Azure Agent Mesh
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.
Cognition Raises $1 Billion at $26 Billion Valuation as Devin AI Engineer Hits $492 Million in Annualized Revenue
The maker of Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer, closed a Series D round led by Lux Capital, General Catalyst, and 8VC, more than doubling its valuation from $10.2 billion eight months earlier.
KPMG Deploys Claude Across 276,000-Person Workforce in Global Anthropic Alliance
KPMG embedded Claude into its Digital Gateway platform, giving all 276,000 employees access to Anthropic's AI across tax, legal, private equity, and cybersecurity work in 138 countries.
Alibaba Unveils Qwen3.7-Max at Cloud Summit, a Long-Horizon Agent Model That Ran Autonomously for 35 Hours
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.
Three-Quarters of Enterprise AI Customer Service Deployments Are Rolled Back, New Study Finds
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.
OpenAI Details Codex Windows Sandbox Redesign With Two Local Accounts, DPAPI Credentials, and a Four-Layer Execution Path
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.
Google Unveils Googlebook Laptop Line and Gemini Intelligence at the Android Show, Setting Up an Android Push Across Phones, Cars and Laptops
At its May 12 Android Show, Google introduced Gemini Intelligence and a new Googlebook laptop category built with Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP and Lenovo, with Chromebooks able to move to Googlebook-style software via firmware update.
Microsoft Agent 365 Reaches General Availability at $15 per User With Multicloud Registry Sync to AWS Bedrock and Google Gemini
Microsoft's enterprise agent control plane went GA on May 1, 2026, adding local Windows agent discovery, Windows 365 for Agents, and public-preview registry sync to AWS Bedrock and Google Gemini Enterprise.
IBM Releases Bob, an AI Development Partner With Multi-Model Routing, BobShell Audit Trails, and a Bobcoin Pricing Model
IBM made Bob generally available on April 28, routing tasks across Anthropic Claude, Mistral, and IBM Granite while charging by the Bobcoin and citing 45% productivity gains across 80,000 internal users.
OpenAI Open-Sources Symphony, an Apache-Licensed Spec That Turns Linear Into a Control Plane for Codex Agents
OpenAI published Symphony on April 28 as an open-source specification for orchestrating Codex coding agents directly off a Linear board, with internal teams reporting a 500% jump in landed pull requests.
Salesforce Launches Headless 360 at TDX 2026, Turning Its Entire CRM Platform Into API and MCP Infrastructure for AI Agents
At TrailblazerDX 2026, Salesforce unveiled Headless 360, exposing its full platform as APIs, MCP tools, and CLI commands so AI coding agents can build and operate on Salesforce without a browser.
OpenAI Launches Workspace Agents to Replace Custom GPTs, Plugging ChatGPT Into Slack, Salesforce, and Google Drive
OpenAI unveiled workspace agents on April 22 — shared, always-on Codex-powered agents that operate inside ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, Edu, and Teachers plans, with native integrations for Slack, Salesforce, Google Drive, and SharePoint.