Launch: Latest AI News

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.

19 hours agoProducts

Anthropic Gives Retailers Claude Agent Blueprints, With Checkout Still Off-Limits

The new guidance packages shopper recommendations and merchant decision support for a holiday-season retail push, while keeping agents from completing purchases.

Earlier this week

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World Labs Launches Atlas for 1440p Camera-Controlled Video, 3D Worlds and Robot Views

The new world model is designed to replace handoffs among video, reconstruction and simulation tools. Its performance evidence is company-run, and selected partners will get the first chance to test it on real work.

YesterdayProducts

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.

Last week

10 stories

Oracle Adds AI Studio Skill to Fusion 26C, Deploying Pro-Code Agents Inside Fusion Apps

The new pro-code path is built around where an agentic application runs: Oracle is tying developer tools to Fusion’s existing data, workflow, security, and audit infrastructure.

Aug 27, 2026Tools

Launch Tools

OpenAI’s 10-Day WebMCP Challenge Pushes Websites to Expose Tools for AI Agents

The contest is an early test of whether sites will publish agent-facing actions instead of relying only on interfaces designed for human clicks.

Harvard Uses 7 AI Faculty Avatars in a $699 Founder Bootcamp, While Keeping Live Advice Human

The program makes repeatable startup practice available on demand, but reserves live expert sessions and investor access for the human side of the experience.

Perplexity Puts Computer Behind MCP, Opening 400+ Services to AI Clients

The endpoint turns Computer into an execution layer for compatible assistants, but clients must preserve task state and surface logins, questions and sensitive-action approvals.

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, 2026Infrastructure

Launch Infrastructure

AWS Publishes Two AgentCore Paths to Query Cross-Account Knowledge Bases

The useful constraint is not simply access across AWS accounts: generated answers require an assumed role, while many workloads may not need an agent at all.

Aug 26, 2026Tools

Launch Tools

Foxglove Adds Cosmos Data Search as Robot Builders Struggle for Reliable Work

Foxglove’s new search tool is meant to speed the data and evaluation loop, while robot makers still face a harder test: dependable commercial performance.

Aug 25, 2026Products

Harvard Uses 7 AI Faculty Avatars in a $699 Founder Bootcamp, While Keeping Live Advice Human

The program makes repeatable startup practice available on demand, but reserves live expert sessions and investor access for the human side of the experience.

Aug 25, 2026Tools

Launch Tools

OpenAI’s 10-Day WebMCP Challenge Pushes Websites to Expose Tools for AI Agents

The contest is an early test of whether sites will publish agent-facing actions instead of relying only on interfaces designed for human clicks.

Aug 25, 2026Products

Anthropic Connects Claude Science to 60+ Databases and Tools for Enterprise Work

The company’s challenge is to prove that integrations, traceability and controlled agents can become a durable advantage even as enterprises retain control of their sensitive systems.

August 2026

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Aug 22, 2026Models

Launch Models

Generalist’s GEN-1.5 Lets Robots Try a Task After Watching Once

Generalist’s new model treats a demonstration as temporary instruction, potentially reducing task-specific training—but its reported one-shot results remain far from dependable execution.

Aug 22, 2026Infrastructure

Launch Infrastructure

AWS Wants Data Agents to Write Pipelines, Then Stay Out of Production

The reference architecture uses models to draft data-engineering work, but makes human-reviewed code and policies—not live agent decisions—the default production layer.

Aug 22, 2026Products

Serval’s Catalyst Pitches AI-Built Workflows as a ServiceNow Replacement

The new agent can turn recurring ticket problems into proposed automations, but Serval must still show it can manage the customization, governance and trust demands of large enterprises.

Aug 20, 2026Products

Anthropic Opens Claude Academy as Free Training for Its AI Products

The free catalog teaches task selection and human review alongside Claude workflows. Whether those lessons improve real deployments remains unmeasured.