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Stripe ships Projects to GA, lets AI agents provision infrastructure
Stripe removed the waitlist on Projects, a CLI tool that enables AI agents to provision production infrastructure across 32 providers—including Cloudflare, Twilio, and WorkOS—and pay for resources aut
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KPMG Deploys Microsoft Agent 365 Across 276K Staff in 138 Countries
KPMG and Microsoft announced on June 9, 2026, an expanded global partnership to deploy Microsoft Agent 365 and Copilot across the professional services firm's entire workforce, establishing centralize
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Entire raises $60M, ships Checkpoints agent tool
Entire, led by former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke, raised a $60 million seed round in February 2026 and released Checkpoints, an MIT-licensed open-source CLI tool that captures AI agent context on every
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Giant Swarm launches Kubernetes-native AI agent platform
Giant Swarm, a Germany-based Kubernetes specialist, opened its AI agent platform to design partners in mid-July 2026, enabling enterprises to run open-source agents within their own infrastructure wit
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Google ships WebMCP preview in Chrome, extends agent protocol to web
Google and Microsoft unveiled an early preview of WebMCP, a W3C-standardized protocol for structured agent interaction with websites, shipping in Chrome 146 Canary in February 2026. The move extends t
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Tanium Atlas hits general availability for cloud customers
Tanium announced general availability of Tanium Atlas on June 22, 2026, an autonomous operating system delivering native agentic AI to all commercial and U.S. Government cloud customers. The product e
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Anthropic Renames Agent SDK, Enters Managed Agents Beta
Anthropic renamed its Claude Code SDK to Claude Agent SDK on September 29, 2025, and entered public beta with Claude Managed Agents on April 8, 2026, expanding its hosted infrastructure for autonomous
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Google ships Gemini Spark to macOS in US beta
Google released Gemini Spark, its autonomous AI agent, to macOS on June 30, 2026, initially available only to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the United States. The agent monitors real-time topics like
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Microsoft ships Copilot Cowork agent to all M365 users worldwide
Microsoft made Copilot Cowork, an agentic AI system that executes multi-step tasks across Microsoft 365 and third-party tools, generally available worldwide on June 16, 2026. The rollout replaces prev
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Databricks Open-Sources Omnigent Meta-Harness for Agent Orchestration
Databricks released Omnigent, an open-source meta-harness for AI agent orchestration, on June 13, 2026 at its DAIS summit. The tool enforces stateful cost budgets, permissions, and sandbox policies ac
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NVIDIA Agent Toolkit launches with OpenClaw framework, 17 partners
NVIDIA announced its Agent Toolkit at GTC Taipei on March 16, 2026, bundling OpenShell runtime, AI-Q blueprints, and Nemotron models with formal endorsement of the open-source OpenClaw framework and a
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Microsoft ships Agent Framework 1.0, unifying Semantic Kernel and Auto
Microsoft released Agent Framework 1.0 on April 3, 2026, merging two major open-source projects into a single production-ready SDK with native support for Model Context Protocol and Agent-to-Agent com
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Norm AI Hits $1.2B Valuation on $120M Series C
Norm AI, a New York–based legal AI startup, raised $120 million in Series C funding on July 7, 2026, led by Khosla Ventures and backed by Blackstone, Bain Capital Ventures, and others. The round value
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Blackpoint Cyber Ships AI SOC Agent for Autonomous Attack Response
Blackpoint Cyber launched the AI SOC Agent for Identity Threat Detection and Response on July 8, 2026, marking the first generally available autonomous response capability to contain credential-based
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Harness Ships Autonomous Worker Agents for DevOps Pipelines
Harness made its Autonomous Worker Agents and Agent Marketplace generally available on June 30, 2026, letting AI agents run as governed steps inside CI/CD, security, and infrastructure pipelines rathe
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AWS Ships Bedrock AgentCore Harness to GA
AWS announced general availability of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Harness on June 17, 2026, at AWS Summit New York, enabling developers to configure and deploy production-grade autonomous agents without