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Agentic AISalesforce Rebuilds Slackbot Into a Full Agentic AI Worker
Salesforce has rebuilt Slackbot as a fully agentic AI that searches enterprise data, drafts documents and acts on behalf of employees inside Slack.
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Agentic AISalesforce has rebuilt Slackbot as a fully agentic AI that searches enterprise data, drafts documents and acts on behalf of employees inside Slack.
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Agentic AIMicrosoft's Project Perception entered public preview inside Defender, deploying red, blue and green AI agents to find, triage and fix vulnerabilities autonomously.
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Agentic AIAnthropic's new inference hooks route every enterprise prompt and tool call through a company's own security server before Claude ever sees it.
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Agentic AISynopsys, Cadence and Siemens unveiled long-running autonomous agents for chip design at DAC 2026, pushing agentic AI into the heart of silicon engineering.
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RoboticsTesla has installed its first Optimus humanoid line at Fremont, but its Q2 update quietly walked the start date back from August to later this year.
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RoboticsChina's EV giant BYD is unveiling its first humanoid robot, the service-focused Xiao Di, at its Di Space centres — a new front in its rivalry with Tesla.
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RoboticsFigure AI is retiring its F.02 humanoids after an 11-month BMW deployment that helped build over 30,000 X3s and loaded 90,000 sheet-metal parts.
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RoboticsBaidu's Apollo Go has begun robotaxi road testing in London with both Uber and Freenow by Lyft, the first time a Chinese autonomous vehicle has run in the UK capital.
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AI ResearchMoonshot AI's Kimi K3 ships full open weights at 2.8 trillion parameters, the largest open model yet, intensifying the open-versus-closed frontier race.
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AI ResearchOpenAI says its unreleased Astra model resolved ten decade-old math problems for about $2,000, releasing machine-checkable Lean proofs for independent verification.
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AI ResearchAlibaba released Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model, and says open weights are coming — its most capable model yet.
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AI ResearchWith scaling gains harder to come by, top labs are betting that continual learning and memory architectures — not bigger models — are the path to the next AI leap.
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AI BusinessGlobal venture funding hit a record $510B in H1 2026 as AI captured over 70% of Q2 capital, with OpenAI and Anthropic taking nearly half the total.
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AI BusinessHorizon3.ai closed a $250M Series E at a $2B-plus valuation, tripling its worth in a year as enterprises rush to buy autonomous, always-on AI penetration testing.
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AI BusinessIlya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence raised $5 billion in an Nvidia-backed round and struck a long-term partnership to scale its compute.
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AI BusinessAI chip startup Etched raised $300M at a $10.3B valuation led by Sequoia, doubling down on a Sohu chip built to run only transformers and undercut Nvidia on inference.
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Policy & SocietyChina's first national framework treating AI agents as their own category is now enforceable, requiring every agent's decisions to be sorted into tiers of authority.
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Policy & SocietyThe EU AI Act's high-risk obligations were due August 2, but lawmakers pushed the toughest rules to 2027 and 2028 while tightening transparency and adding new bans.
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Policy & SocietyA US executive order created a pre-release review window for powerful frontier AI models, with an August 1 deadline for the classified capability threshold.
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Policy & SocietyWith 14 chatbot-safety laws enacted across 13 states in 2026, US AI regulation is being written state by state — bipartisan, minor-focused, and fast-moving.
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Tools & GuidesA practical 2026 guide to the best open-source, run-locally AI agents and how to deploy them well, from Block's Goose to shared-memory projects.
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Tools & GuidesA practical 2026 guide to hardening AI agents against prompt injection and tool poisoning, with server-side validation, least privilege and kill-switch controls.
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Tools & GuidesA practical 2026 playbook for governing autonomous AI agents — identity, data guardrails, tool permissions, monitoring, and cost control.
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Tools & GuidesClaude Code, OpenAI Codex or Block's open-source Goose? A practical 2026 guide to choosing an AI coding agent — and why mixing providers now beats any single stack.
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