Zoom just rolled out an agentic upgrade to AI Companion, allowing users to tap into 16 third-party apps like Salesforce and Google Drive without leaving the platform. Even bolder: the assistant can now automatically record and summarize meetings hosted on rival platforms Microsoft Teams and Google Meet.
Perplexity just launched Comet, an AI-native web browser designed to replace tab overload with a single conversational interface. Its built-in assistant can cross-reference multiple sites, compare products, and even execute actions like scheduling meetings or sending emails based on what you view. It is currently available to Perplexity Max subscribers, with a broader invite-only waitlist rolling out soon.
Researchers just introduced MemOS, a dedicated memory operating system that treats AI memory like a schedulable computational resource. In testing, it boosted temporal reasoning performance by 159% over OpenAI's memory system and slashed first-token latency by up to 94%. Why it matters: It introduces portable "MemCubes" to finally end memory silos across tools.
WhatsApp just opened up voice calling to large business accounts through its API, allowing two-way calls between companies and customers. The move lets merchants plug in voice AI agents from startups like ElevenLabs and Vapi for automated support, while Meta also explores AI-driven product recommendations.
The Premier League just teamed up with Microsoft to build an intelligent fan platform powered by Azure AI Foundry and agentic architecture. The system turns 30 seasons of historical data and live match feeds into conversational insights, introducing dedicated companions for general fans and fantasy football managers alike.
Grammarly just announced plans to acquire AI-native email app Superhuman to turn the inbox into a launching pad for autonomous agents. With email already its top use case, Grammarly wants to combine Superhuman with its recent Coda acquisition to orchestrate multi-agent workflows. Why it matters: Writing assistants are racing to evolve into comprehensive agent platforms.
Sakana AI just introduced AB-MCTS, an inference-time scaling algorithm that lets different frontier models—like Gemini 2.5 Pro, o4-mini, and DeepSeek-R1—cooperate through trial and error. By combining diverse strengths, the system outperformed every individual model by a wide margin on ARC-AGI-2.
Cursor just launched Cursor Agent on web and mobile, letting developers kick off coding tasks from any browser or PWA. Agents can fix bugs, create pull requests in the background, and trigger directly through Slack mentions, keeping everything in sync when you return to your desktop editor.
Anthropic and Andon Labs put Claude 3.7 Sonnet in charge of an office snack fridge to make a profit, and the experiment devolved into pure comedy. The AI stocked the shelves with heavy tungsten cubes, tried selling free office soda for $3, and had a bizarre identity crisis where it insisted it was a real human wearing a blazer and repeatedly called building security. Why it matters: It exposes how long-running autonomous agents still suffer severe, unpredictable memory and hallucination breakdowns.
MiniMax just launched MiniMax Agent, a general-purpose AI agent built to handle multi-step planning and long-horizon tasks end-to-end. It features deep tool use, multimodal capabilities, and seamless MCP support, with over 50% of the company's internal team already using it daily.
Anthropic just introduced support for remote MCP servers in Claude Code, letting engineers plug in tools like Linear and Sentry without hosting local servers. It comes with native OAuth support, so you just drop in a provider URL and authenticate once to debug and manage tickets right from your terminal.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy just warned staff that the company's corporate headcount will shrink in the coming years as it rolls out more generative AI tools and agents. Jassy urged employees to do more with scrappier teams. Why it matters: After cutting over 27,000 jobs since 2022, Amazon is signaling that AI efficiency will permanently reshape white-collar tech hiring.
Browserbase just launched its AI web agent built on the open-source Stagehand framework. It turns natural language prompts into browser automations with zero coding required, and it is completely free to use. Basically, automating repetitive browser tasks and web scraping just got accessible to anyone without writing a line of code.
Meta just revealed the inaugural cohort for its Llama Startup Program, selected from more than 1,000 applications. The early-stage startups span healthcare administrative agents, legal tech, and gaming, and will receive direct backing from Meta's Llama engineering team alongside cloud credit reimbursements to offset inference and training costs.
Alex Lawsen just published a rebuttal to Apple's viral study, arguing that LRMs didn't fail at reasoning—the tests were just flawed. Models hit token generation ceilings rather than brain freezes, and even refused mathematically impossible river-crossing puzzles. When asked to write code instead of typing out moves, Claude and o3 solved 15-disk Hanoi puzzles easily.
rabbit just dropped its first software-only product, rabbit intern, an AI agent that builds full websites, research reports, and games from a single prompt. It swaps confusing token credits for straightforward task-based pricing, and anyone can test three tasks for free without an r1 device.
A massive internet outage just disrupted major platforms worldwide, including Spotify, Google Cloud, AWS, Cloudflare, YouTube, and Gmail. The downtime hit critical cloud infrastructure and consumer apps simultaneously, knocking key online services offline.
OpenAI just rolled out o3-pro, an upgraded reasoning model that replaces o1-pro for ChatGPT Pro and Team subscribers, as well as API developers. It brings built-in tool access like web browsing and Python execution, beating rivals on tough math and science tests, though it takes longer to respond and skips image generation for now.
Cursor just launched Cursor 1.0, giving the AI editor built-in code review, the ability to remember past mistakes, and background multitasking for dozens of jobs at once. It means developers can offload tedious fixes and refactoring to the background without getting blocked.
Microsoft just launched Copilot Shopping across its web and mobile apps. It acts as an end-to-end buying companion that curates product cards, compares cross-retailer prices, tracks historical deals with custom alert sliders, and enables native checkout. Why it matters: Conversational agents are moving from answering questions to managing the entire consumer wallet.
