Sep 2, 2026ProductsLaunchProductsAWS Makes Its Contact-Center AI Designer Generally Available With Rules Beside the ModelThe product separates flexible conversation from fixed decisions such as identity checks and eligibility, while linking voice calls to on-screen choices and preserving context during a transfer.3 min
Sep 2, 2026ProductsLaunchProductsAnthropic Gives Retailers Claude Agent Blueprints, With Checkout Still Off-LimitsThe new guidance packages shopper recommendations and merchant decision support for a holiday-season retail push, while keeping agents from completing purchases.2 min
Sep 2, 2026ProductsSecurity riskProductsMeta Blocks AI Glasses From Recording When Their Warning Light Is CoveredThe software change removes a simple timing-based workaround for concealing the recording indicator. It does not settle whether a visible LED can provide meaningful notice—or answer broader privacy claims now facing Meta.3 min
Sep 2, 2026ProductsLaunchProductsGoogle Adds Gemini Book Insights to iOS and Expands It Past 1 Million EbooksThe September expansion broadens in-reader help across Google Play Books, while a separate Gemini Notebook feature turns eligible purchased titles into cited AI source material with stricter ownership rules.2 min
Sep 2, 2026ProductsLaunchProductsASUS Adds RTX Spark to ProArt PCs for Local AI WorkThe new creator systems center on memory capacity and local execution, while ASUS’s performance and workload figures remain company-supplied specifications.2 min
Sep 1, 2026ProductsLaunchProductsCrowdStrike’s SafeMind Pits Red and Blue AI Agents in an NVIDIA Infrastructure TwinThe new Falcon system combines CrowdStrike’s security data and agent harnesses with NVIDIA’s open Nemotron models. Early tests favor the optimized open pipeline on detection quality, but cover only one attack scenario family.3 min
Sep 1, 2026ProductsLaunchProductsAltruist Puts Six-Part Financial Planning in Hazel, With Separate Math ProgramsThe new agent gives advisors a way to build and adjust comprehensive plans during client meetings. Altruist’s key design claim is that AI handles client context while separate software produces the financial figures.2 min
Sep 1, 2026ProductsLaunchProductsAnthropic’s EFS Puts Misuse-Monitoring Data in Customer Clouds, Not Its OwnThe planned controls seek to preserve the longer-term activity patterns needed for safety monitoring while giving enterprises custody of the underlying records and their review process.3 min
Sep 1, 2026ProductsLaunchProductsGoogle’s Android Drop Brings Gemini Item Memory, but Its Five Features Ship on Different ClocksGoogle is positioning the release as a set of daily-use improvements, but the AI features depend on device versions, regional support and future rollout dates.2 min
Sep 1, 2026ProductsLaunchProductsNori Lists Its A3 Home Robot at $1,688, but Buyers Will Help Teach It What to DoNori’s low-priced wheeled robot pairs home-task ambitions with an SDK and training app. The harder proof point is whether a small team can deliver and support a product whose skills are still meant to be taught by owners.3 min
Sep 1, 2026ProductsPartnershipProductsOpenAI Connects ChatGPT Health to Epic, Keeping Clinical Record Access Read-OnlyThe integration moves ChatGPT closer to the patient chart, where it can assemble context for clinicians but is barred from changing the record—a boundary that leaves judgment and documentation with care teams.3 min
Sep 1, 2026ProductsResearchProductsDatabricks Sets a Six-Layer Path for Genie Ontology, Starting With One DomainThe new guide shifts the hard part of enterprise AI from connecting a model to data toward maintaining the definitions, permissions and evaluations that keep answers dependable.3 min
Sep 1, 2026ProductsLaunchProductsAmazon Quick Pitches Connected Workflows as Vertiv Plans 25% User Growth in 2026AWS is framing Quick as a conversational layer across business systems, but its customer examples describe deployments and intended uses rather than comparable measures of productivity or return.2 min
Sep 1, 2026ProductsLaunchProductsPerplexity Routes Sensitive Computer Tasks to Local Macs With a Privacy GateThe cloud-first system can delegate confidential portions of an agent job to a local model without restarting it. Its privacy promise ultimately depends on a classifier and user decisions about what can leave the device.3 min
Sep 1, 2026ProductsLaunchProductsAmazon’s Alexa Adds Update Me When Alerts Before Shoppers SearchThe new feature turns releases and announcements around a customer’s interests into shopping notifications, while keeping the first version dependent on direct user setup.2 min
Sep 1, 2026ProductsLaunchProductsGoogle Pics Puts Nano Banana Image Editing Into Docs and SlidesGoogle’s new editor is designed to turn image generation into a revision workflow inside workplace files, though access is rolling out gradually and Drive integration remains scheduled for the coming weeks.2 min
Sep 1, 2026ProductsLaunchProductsAlibaba Opens QwenWork Global Beta for Web and Desktop Work, but Leaves Pricing UnsetThe new international beta consolidates three Alibaba agent services into one workplace product that can act across browsers and local computers after authorization. Its practical commercial terms remain incomplete: Alibaba has not disclosed international pricing or a full-release date.2 min
Sep 1, 2026ProductsLaunchProductsWaymo Opens Driverless Rides in 3 Cities, Bringing Its Service to 14 U.S. MarketsWaymo is putting public riders in three new markets, while Zoox is preparing supervised tests in two cities. The difference is not just geographic reach: it is the distinction between an available driverless service and a development step toward one.3 min