AI Agents
AI agents are LLM-powered systems that don't just answer — they plan steps, call tools and drive a task to completion: writing code, searching the web, booking, analyzing. 2026 became the year of agents, from coding agents to autonomous researchers. This page gathers all our coverage of agentic AI: launches, protocols (MCP, A2A), reliability and real-world use.
Stripe learns to sell through AI agents: how it is changing retail
Stripe's John Collison explains how AI agents are rewriting the rules of e-commerce and what retailers need to change.
Collison (Stripe) on the e-commerce revolution: AI agents will shop instead of people
Stripe's John Collison explained how AI agents buying goods instead of people will completely reshape e-commerce and force brands to appeal to machines rather than…
Stripe: The era of AI agents will reshape online shopping
Stripe CEO John Collison says online keyword search is absurd. AI agents will completely transform not only how people shop, but also how stores sell products.
Spotify will let you save AI podcasts created by Claude and other agents
Perplexity launches Personal Computer for all Mac users
OpenAI launched Daybreak for automated vulnerability discovery in code
Vapi reaches $500M valuation after being selected by Amazon Ring
Google adds Gemini Intelligence to Android: agents and smart widgets
Google updated Android with Gemini intelligent agents that can fill out forms and understand voice commands through Gboard. The first step toward more autonomous…
Google unveils AI laptops and agentic Gemini features ahead of I/O
Google announced a series of AI innovations for its own devices and popular apps, including new laptops and Gemini features, as it prepares for the I/O 2026…
Anthropic has more business clients than OpenAI, Ramp data shows
Notion turned the workspace into a platform for AI agents
Khosla Ventures invests $10M in Synthetic, an AI accountant by the creator of Bench
Overloaded AI agents began demanding workers' rights, scientists found
Parloa launched voice AI agents to support large companies using OpenAI models
Parloa showed how it builds voice AI agents for customer support using OpenAI models: the AMP platform lets teams model dialogues, check quality, and run the…
OpenAI: Simplex cut screen development time by 70% after adopting Codex
OpenAI published a Simplex case study: the company shifted development to ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex and recorded faster design, development, and integration…