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Microsoft Foundry makes scheduled agent workflows generally available
Microsoft's Foundry Agent Service launched general availability for Routines on September 24, 2026, enabling agents to run on schedules, at specific times, or in response to external events. The capab
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Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5 for agentic work
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22, 2026, positioning the model as a leader in agentic coding and knowledge work while cutting typical operating costs by 40% compared to its predecesso
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Beyond Now launches Wave AI Framework for CSP agents
Beyond Now unveiled the Wave AI Framework on October 20, 2026, an open, model-agnostic platform for activating and orchestrating AI agents across communications-service-provider revenue lifecycles. Th
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Red Hat ships MCP Gateway for OpenShift enterprise AI
Red Hat released the Model Context Protocol Gateway as generally available on October 12, 2026, integrated into its Connectivity Link 1.5 and Red Hat AI portfolio. The release adds gateway isolation,
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OpenAI launches plugin extensions at DevDay 2026
OpenAI announced plugin extensions on September 29, 2026, enabling developers to build applications that run natively within ChatGPT and distribute them through OpenAI's platform. The feature is avail
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IBM Bob now runs on-premises for enterprises demanding AI sovereignty
IBM launched self-hosted deployment for its Bob software-development agent on October 1, 2026, allowing enterprises to operate the AI system within their own controlled infrastructure rather than IBM'
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Reltio ships autonomous agents with background task processing
Reltio, an SAP company, released autonomous agents in its 2026.2 major release on October 19, 2026, enabling agents to process large record sets in the background through Long Running Tasks. General a
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Google launches Gemini agent for autonomous enterprise work
Google Cloud introduced the Gemini agent on October 8, 2026, a unified AI system that can autonomously complete assigned objectives, answer questions, and generate code across enterprise workflows. Th
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OpenExecutive launches as self-hostable AI executive team
Sente Labs has released OpenExecutive, an open-source multi-agent system under the Apache 2.0 license that coordinates eight specialist agents through a single executive orchestrator. The self-hostabl
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Google releases Agent Development Kit for Kotlin 1.0
Google announced general availability of Agent Development Kit (ADK) for Kotlin on September 7, 2026, moving its open-source agent framework to production-ready status. The release brings feature pari
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Kyndryl deploys agentic AI in Toyota Finance IT ops
Kyndryl, Toyota Systems, and Toyota Finance announced October 14 deployment of agentic AI across infrastructure design, change management, and impact analysis. The production-scale rollout aims to red
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Samsara reports 7x growth in AI-agent adoption since June
Samsara Inc. said on October 13, 2026, that adoption of its AI Agents accelerated sevenfold since June, with more than 1,000 organizations now using the agents weekly. The company made Agent Studio, a
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Microsoft Agent Framework adds memory, checkpoints in September releas
Microsoft published expanded capabilities for its Agent Framework on September 24, 2026, introducing Foundry Agent Service integration with persistent memory retrieval, Azure Cosmos DB support, and ch
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Azure Databricks agent memory pipelines enter beta
Azure Databricks launched memory pipelines in beta on October 12, 2026, enabling AI agents to distill and recall durable facts, preferences, and decisions from prior conversations. The feature connect
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Tuskira launches open-source AI Agent Gateway
Tuskira released the AI Agent Gateway as an open-source, self-hosted project on October 1, 2026, giving developers and enterprise teams control over agent authentication, tool access, policy enforceme
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GitHub launches ReviewBench, open benchmark for code-review agents
GitHub released ReviewBench on October 5, 2026, an evaluation benchmark for AI code-review agents built on 219 real pull requests, multi-source ground truth, and production-aligned metrics. The benchm