Agents

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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'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 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 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.

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 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.

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