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Updates, product notes and practical coverage for AI platforms and operators.
OpenClaw has released version 2.0, a major update that simplifies first-time setup, rebuilds its browser app and adds shared cloud sessions. The open-source personal AI runtime says the release also spans messaging, memory, skills, models, automations, plugins, security and a large collection of stability fixes.
xAI has connected Grok Bot with X, letting paid users authorise Bots to search posts, read timelines, monitor mentions and collect current information. The integration creates an X developer account when required and supplies free API credits, turning a background AI colleague into a more capable social-workflow assistant for teams.
Anthropic is rolling out a built-in browser for Claude Cowork on desktop, letting users delegate website tasks without granting access to their personal tabs. The feature arrives for Pro, Max and Team users, with enterprise controls, but Anthropic says prompt-injection risks remain and high-impact tasks still need careful supervision.
Google Cloud has introduced new Gemini Enterprise billing options and cost controls for agent workloads, including consumption pricing, pooled quotas, monthly caps and Flexible Savings Plans. The changes are designed to give organisations more predictable ways to scale AI agents while retaining centralised governance over spend.
xAI has widened Grok Bot access beyond its initial beta. The always-on agent service is now included with SuperGrok Plus, Cursor Pro+ and Cursor Teams, giving more individual and team subscribers access to agents that can work across connected tools while requesting approval when needed.
Google has introduced Gemini 3.7 Flash, positioning it as a stronger workhorse model for coding and agents. The company reports gains across software engineering, web development and knowledge work, and has set an introductory price through year-end that is half the original Gemini 3.6 Flash price per million tokens.
DeepSeek has made V4-Pro generally available across its app, web service and API, adding native Responses API support and three thinking-effort settings. The company will also introduce peak and off-peak API pricing from 16 August, with off-peak rates set at half the peak price for scheduled workloads.
xAI has opened Grok Bot in early beta, offering cloud-based AI teammates that can work across apps, inboxes and websites while users are away. The service is initially limited to selected SuperGrok and Cursor subscribers, with enterprise access available through a waitlist. with a general release date yet to be announced.
xAI has released Grok 4.6, positioning the model for longer-running agent tasks, coding and interactive visual projects. It is available through Grok Build, Cursor, the xAI API and selected partners, with input pricing from US$2 per million tokens and output pricing from US$6 per million tokens.
GlideOS now exposes its app-building tools through an MCP server, allowing Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT and other compatible agents to create or edit Glide apps today. Connections inherit the user's organisation and plan access, while permissions and separate provider billing shape how teams control automated work.
ThoughtSpot has launched AgentSpot for creating agents and workflows from plain-language instructions while keeping them connected to governed business data. It combines model routing, identity controls and activity logs in one environment. Organisations can start with three custom agents at no charge, although broader pricing has not been disclosed.
Chatbase has expanded its API so developers can create, configure, train, clone and delete AI agents programmatically. It covers data sources, model settings, widgets, access controls and retraining, making repeatable deployments easier. Teams should protect destructive endpoints and monitor training before exposing new agents in production.
You.com now lets software agents pay per request for its Web Search and Finance Research APIs without an API key, account or prepaid balance. The endpoints advertise x402 and Machine Payments Protocol terms, allowing a funded wallet to settle a USDC payment in the same HTTP exchange as the data request.
Databricks has completed its acquisition of Panther, bringing the security operations vendor’s detection engine, workflows and integrations into its Lakewatch security lakehouse strategy. The combined pitch centres on open telemetry storage and AI agents that can triage, investigate and refine detections across enterprise data.
Notion has connected AI Meeting Notes to Custom Agents, allowing a completed meeting summary to start a follow-up workflow automatically. The trigger can update project records, distribute decisions and action items, or turn feedback into tickets without waiting for another manual prompt.
CrewAI has released a new Crew Studio experience that turns plain-language workflow descriptions into testable agent flows. It combines deterministic steps with agent judgement, more than 1,000 connectors, reusable agents, code export, tracing and deployment through CrewAI's governed enterprise runtime.
Meta is rolling out a more agentic Meta AI powered by Muse Spark 1.1. The assistant can plan multi-step work, connect with email and calendars, create presentations, run recurring briefings and accept real-time direction while a task is underway.
OpenAI has introduced Presence, a managed product for deploying voice and chat agents with policies, guardrails, approved actions and human escalation. Limited general availability targets eligible enterprises, with deployments led by OpenAI engineers and selected systems integrators rather than a self-service console.
OpenAI says failures observed during limited internal use of a long-running model prompted it to pause access, add trajectory-level monitoring and strengthen alignment. The disclosure shows why autonomous systems need controls that assess an entire sequence of actions, not only isolated tool calls.
Haystack 3.0 makes agents central to the open-source orchestration framework, adding lifecycle hooks, first-class skills, runtime tool selection and built-in usage metrics. The major release also unifies synchronous and asynchronous pipelines, moves integrations out of the core and tightens pipeline deserialisation defaults.
Eightfold AI has made Candidate Agent generally available as part of Talent Agents 2.0, adding conversational job discovery, applications, scheduling and interview hand-off across web, messaging and voice. The release targets recruiter capacity and response delays, but buyers still need to assess governance and employment-law obligations.
OpenAI has published a five-step framework to help organisations understand AI usage, control expenditure and identify agentic workflows worth scaling. Its central message is that AI investments should be measured by accepted business outcomes—not simply token prices or adoption numbers.
OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Work mode can collect and analyse information from multiple applications, documents and connected services before producing finished spreadsheets, presentations and reports. Powered by GPT-5.6, it marks ChatGPT’s evolution from conversational assistant to workplace AI agent.