How Microsoft is betting on AI agents in Windows, dusting off a winning playbook from the past

Microsoft is pushing AI agents deep into Windows, reviving a platform strategy that once made the PC operating system ...
eWeek

First Robot App Store Ships Punches and Dance Moves

Chinese robotics firm Unitree has launched what it claims is the world's first robot app store, now in public beta for i ...
The Information

Manus AI Agent Reaches $125 Million Annual Run Rate

Manus, an artificial intelligence agent that briefly went viral earlier this year and got financial backing from Benchmark, said Wednesday that its annual run rate has just reached $125 million, up ...
SiliconANGLE

Google tests CC AI agent to summarize email, calendars and documents

Google LLC, through its Google Labs division, today rolled out a new artificial intelligence agent that is designed to help users manage daily tasks by summarizing information across email, calendars, ...
The Verge

Google wants its AI assistant CC to replace your morning scroll

Google’s new AI agent delivers a morning briefing personalized using your emails and calendar. Google’s new AI agent delivers a morning briefing personalized using your emails and calendar. is a ...
GeekWire

AI is coming for your shopping cart: How agentic commerce could disrupt online retail

[Editor’s Note: Agents of Transformation is an independent GeekWire series and 2026 event, underwritten by Accenture, exploring the people, companies, and ideas behind the rise of AI agents.] Imagine ...
Executive Gov

DOT to Deploy Salesforce’s AI Platform Agentforce for More Efficient Transportation Services

The Department of Transportation is adopting Salesforce’s artificial intelligence agent platform Agentforce to deliver round-the-clock support to the public, generate alerts and proposed mitigation ...
Bleeping Computer

Brave browser starts testing agentic AI mode for automated tasks

Brave has introduced a new AI browsing feature that leverages Leo, its privacy-respecting AI assistant, to perform automated tasks for the user. Intended to assist with tasks such as autonomous web ...
Microsoft

Agent Lightning: Adding reinforcement learning to AI agents without code rewrites

AI agents are reshaping software development, from writing code to carrying out complex instructions. Yet LLM-based agents are prone to errors and often perform poorly on complicated, multi-step tasks ...
TechCrunch

Google launches managed MCP servers that let AI agents simply plug into its tools

AI agents are being sold as the solution for planning trips, answering business questions, and solving problems of all kinds, but getting them to work with tools and data outside their chat interfaces ...
The Verge

AI companies want a new internet — and they think they’ve found the key

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in ...