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Uber and Wayve Put 15 Supervised Robotaxis on London’s Streets

The launch brings Wayve’s AI driving system into paid passenger service in London, but the fleet remains small and a safety driver remains responsible for every trip.

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AWS Makes Its Contact-Center AI Designer Generally Available With Rules Beside the Model

The 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.

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Sep 1, 2026Products

Anthropic’s EFS Puts Misuse-Monitoring Data in Customer Clouds, Not Its Own

The 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.

Sep 1, 2026Products

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Databricks Sets a Six-Layer Path for Genie Ontology, Starting With One Domain

The 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.

Sep 1, 2026Products

Salesforce Pushes Agents Into CRM Workflows as NIST Turns to Identity Controls

The shift is not just from answering questions to taking actions across business systems. It puts permissions, audit trails, change control and traffic capacity ahead of model choice for teams trying to move beyond pilots.

Aug 31, 2026Products

Pricing change Products

Google Sets Gemini Notebook Limits by Task Complexity, With Five-Hour Resets

The new system changes when capacity returns and what counts against it, while offering alternate outputs and delayed generation when a request exceeds a user’s available compute.

Aug 31, 2026Products

Pixel Watch 5 Reaches Stores With Offline Gemini Actions and Europe-First Breathing Alerts

Google’s newly available smartwatch pairs proactive assistance with an emergency-response feature, while its longer-term health summaries still have no specific release date.

Aug 31, 2026Products

Broadcom Releases AgentMinder to Check AI Agent Tool Calls at Runtime

The new control layer is designed to evaluate each requested agent action before it reaches company systems, shifting governance from static permissions toward live policy enforcement.

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Aug 30, 2026Products

MIT Maps Julia’s Path to 1 Million Users as JuliaHub Pushes AI Hardware Design

MIT’s new account shows how a language built for scientific computing became the foundation for an AI platform aimed at engineering work. The next question is whether physics-aware agents can translate ambitious design automation into validated industrial results.

Aug 30, 2026Products

Platform shift Products

OpenAI Maps a Third Era of Persistent AI Coworkers, With Access and Reliability Still in the Way

The proposed shift would turn AI from a prompt-by-prompt helper into a longer-running collaborator, but its usefulness depends on shared context, workplace-system access, and dependable controls.

Aug 30, 2026Products

Home Depot Puts Magic Apron in All U.S. Stores, Adding Project Help to Store Maps

The retailer is turning a location-aware shopping tool into an in-aisle assistant for product decisions and repair planning, while presenting staff as the core source of store expertise.

Aug 27, 2026Products

Harness Launches Agent-Ready Repository and AI Review for High-Volume Code Changes

The products pair high-volume repository operations with inherited permissions and merge-time checks, but Harness still places the final decision to ship with people.

Aug 26, 2026Products

AWS AgentCore Evaluations Uses OpenTelemetry to Score Agents Across Frameworks

The service offers one set of agent-quality evaluators across SDK choices, but its portability depends on specific telemetry conventions, scope names and complete message logs.

Meta Adds Voice-Controlled AI and Navigator Home Screen to Quest, With Narrow Initial Access

The software package makes Quest easier to navigate and resume, but Meta AI begins as an opt-in feature for English speakers in the United States and Canada.

Google Connects Gemini Finance Agents to D&B Data, Adding 50-Plus Skills for Regulated Work

The package gives finance agents a route to current commercial data, but weak enterprise-data readiness and continuing model-risk duties limit how much automation institutions can safely delegate.

Amazon OpenSearch Puts Trace and Service-Map Widgets Into MCP Agent Chats

The new OpenSearch capability turns an agent’s observability response into both an explanation and an inspectable dashboard view, but it depends on a local server, AWS credentials, and a configured OpenSearch UI workspace.

Claude Connects Chat Memory to Cowork, While Keeping Sensitive Memory Opt-In

Claude’s new handoff promises less repeated context-setting across its products. The trade-off is a more active memory layer that users may need to inspect, edit, pause, or clear as projects change.