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Agentic AIMicrosoft Turns Copilot Into an Autonomous Agent Powered by Claude
Microsoft shipped 40-plus Copilot updates that let Anthropic Claude run inside Microsoft 365 and turn Cowork into an autonomous digital colleague.
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Agentic AIMicrosoft shipped 40-plus Copilot updates that let Anthropic Claude run inside Microsoft 365 and turn Cowork into an autonomous digital colleague.
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Agentic AIMastercard, Sunrate and UnionPay unveiled frameworks at WAIC 2026 to let AI agents run B2B payments autonomously under strict governance controls.
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Agentic AIJuly 2026 turned agentic AI security from theory into structural defense, as fresh breach research and Zero Trust frameworks from Anthropic and DeepMind reshaped enterprise strategy.
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Agentic AIOracle's new AI-native builder lets developers create governed Fusion Agentic Applications with VS Code, Claude Code and Git inside the Fusion runtime.
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RoboticsHyundai will buy SoftBank's remaining 10% of Boston Dynamics for about $325M, taking full ownership as it prepares to deploy Atlas humanoids in its plants.
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Robotics1X unveiled a 25-degree-of-freedom tendon-driven hand for its NEO home humanoid, and says it will ship on the first units delivered in 2026.
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RoboticsAfter Tesla's Q2 2026 results, the reality of Optimus humanoid production still trails the rhetoric — even as Figure, Agility and 1X post more verifiable deployment numbers.
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RoboticsUnitree is finalizing pricing for a Shanghai STAR Market debut to raise about $618M at a roughly $6B valuation, a landmark listing for humanoid robotics.
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AI ResearchMoonshot AI published open weights for Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that is the largest open-weight system released to date.
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AI ResearchReuters reports DeepSeek is developing a custom inference chip to reduce its dependence on Nvidia and Huawei, joining a global rush to in-house silicon.
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AI ResearchAnthropic's Claude Opus 5 posts standout agentic-coding and fluid-reasoning scores at Opus 4.8 pricing, intensifying 2026's frontier-model competition on capability per dollar.
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AI ResearchMistral is putting a new open-weight model into early access with research, government and industry partners, aiming to close the gap with closed frontier labs.
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AI BusinessTravis Kalanick's Atoms raised $1.7 billion led by a16z, with Uber among backers, to build industrial physical AI across food, mining and transport.
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AI BusinessFireworks AI closed a $1.505B Series D at a $17.5B valuation, the week's biggest US round, as venture money rotates from model training to inference.
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AI BusinessNorm AI's $120M raise at a $1.2B valuation signals where 2026 capital is flowing — regulated, high-ROI enterprise AI that automates legal and compliance work under governance.
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AI BusinessCamera-free smart-glasses maker Even Realities raised $150M led by Meituan and Tencent, reaching a $1B valuation as physical-AI hardware draws heavy capital.
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Policy & SocietyChina's Implementation Opinions on AI agents are now enforceable, creating the world's first regulatory category for agents with a three-tier authority model.
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Policy & SocietyRegulation (EU) 2026/1744 entered into force on 27 July, amending the AI Act, deferring high-risk deadlines and banning AI nudification apps.
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Policy & SocietyCalifornia's revived AB 1047 frontier-AI safety bill and a federal preemption fight leave US companies navigating a patchwork of state AI rules with no single national standard.
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Policy & SocietyIllinois' new AI Safety Measures Act, SB 315, imposes transparency, incident reporting and the first mandatory annual third-party audits on frontier AI developers.
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Tools & GuidesWith four frontier models shipping in three weeks, here is a practical framework for choosing between Claude, GPT, Gemini and open models like Kimi K3.
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Tools & GuidesA practical 2026 guide to hardening AI agents against prompt injection using defense-in-depth, least privilege, human oversight and thorough logging.
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Tools & GuidesA practical 2026 guide to cutting AI API costs — model tiers, effort controls, prompt caching and batch processing — without sacrificing output quality on real workloads.
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Tools & GuidesApp in Focus — InstaDataAssess screens candidates at scale with AI voice interviews and coding rounds, then your experts decide on live, recorded, proctored video.
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