Tools
Tools, frameworks and orchestration layers — LangGraph, smolagents, AutoGen, CrewAI and whatever shipped this morning. Also benchmark releases and leaderboard updates.
- OpenAI's Agents API ships the Codex harness as a public beta — and hands small B2B builders a production agent stack
- Klaviyo goes headless: 260+ MCP tools open the CRM to Claude, ChatGPT and any agent a brand runs
- Salesforce ships seven job-ready Agentforce agents, with outbound seller Hunter pushed to November GA
- Klaviyo goes headless: 260+ MCP tools and 490+ APIs now callable from Claude and ChatGPT
- Triple Whale rebrands around Moby, its AI operator that spends ad budgets and builds Shopify pages
- VideoGen closes $3.3M seed after passing 5 million users
- ActiveCampaign's Wavelength positions email marketing as a proactive agent
- Optimizely ships Virtual Teammates, pushing marketing AI toward standing roles
- ChatGPT Ads opens self-serve to SMBs across EMEA and India as run rate hits $1B
- ChatGPT ads open to small businesses as sponsored placements quadruple in travel prompts
- AI engines disagree 2× on which brands to recommend, Treyci finds
- ChatGPT Ads opens self-serve to SMBs across Europe, India, MENA
- Genesys unveils a four-layer agentic orchestration stack at Xperience 2026
- Yext ships Corvo AI, a free SMS agent that texts owners local-visibility fixes
- Attentive ships AI Grow, moving list-growth timing from fixed rules to per-visitor signals
- OpenAI opens ChatGPT Ads self-serve to SMBs in India, Europe, MENA as run rate hits $1B
- Every Shopify Liquid storefront is already agent-readable. Here's what merchants should do about it.
- Sequel ships Agentic Engagement Cloud with three built-in webinar agents
- Sequel ships three built-in agents to convert webinar engagement into pipeline
- Claudeforce puts Claude inside Salesforce with 37 sales skills and a September open beta
- OpenAI opens ChatGPT Ads to India, with self-serve access eight days out
- Attentive ships AI Grow: a per-visitor timing agent for email and SMS opt-ins
- NVIDIA's AVO harness turns a 30% Claude Opus 5 into a 100% ARC-AGI-3 solver
- OpenAI, Cerebras preview 'Ultrafast' tier: GPT-5.6 Sol at 750 tokens/sec
- DeepSeek ships Harness v0.1, updates V4-Pro, and quadruples V4 API prices in a single day
- Microsoft ships its first in-house cyber model as Project Perception heads to preview
- Nscale buys Anyscale for $1.65 billion, folds Ray into a full-stack agent cloud
- MCP goes stateless: the 2026-07-28 spec is the biggest rewrite since launch
- MCP finalizes 2026-07-28: sessions and the initialize handshake are gone
- MCP 2026-07-28 ships: sessions gone, extensions in, 400M downloads a month
- HSBC flips Apple to Buy, betting agentic Siri wins without hyperscaler capex
- Moonshot ships Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model, and Chinese rivals crater
- Moonshot's Kimi K3 lands at 2.8T parameters, second only to Fable 5 on long-horizon agent tasks
- Cursor is building 'Sand,' a workplace agent, on SpaceXAI compute
- OpenAI ships GPT-5.6 and ChatGPT Work, its answer to Claude Cowork
- OpenAI ships ChatGPT Work and GPT-5.6, ending a government-delayed preview
- Claude Sonnet 5 ships as default for Free and Pro, undercuts Opus on agentic tasks
- Anthropic ships Claude Sonnet 5 as agentic capability becomes the mid-tier floor
- OKX opens an agent-to-agent marketplace with stablecoin escrow and on-chain reputation
- OpenAI's first economic paper on Codex: agents have eaten the company's chatbot use
- Anthropic ships Claude Tag, an always-on Slack agent for Enterprise and Team
- Gemini 2.5 Deep Think lands in the Gemini app for AI Ultra subscribers
- Huawei rebuilds HarmonyOS 7 around a 2,000-agent framework, declares the 'agent era' for mobile
- Huawei rebuilds HarmonyOS 7 around an agent hub and 2,000-agent catalog
- Anthropic ships Claude Fable 5, the first Mythos-class model open to the public
- Apple ships Siri AI on Google Gemini, concedes 'early days' on agents
- Microsoft ships Scout, an always-on 'Autopilot' agent for Microsoft 365
- Apple ships Siri AI on Gemini, opens iOS 27 to Claude and ChatGPT via Extensions
- Anthropic says Claude now writes 80% of its code, calls for an industry 'brake pedal'
- Microsoft Build 2026: Nadella plants the flag on agents with on-device Aion, MXC sandboxes and a post-OpenAI model stack
- Gemini 3.5 Flash hits GA, beats Google's own 3.1 Pro on agent benchmarks
- Anthropic puts Claude agents on a meter across its subscriptions
- Anthropic ships Claude Managed Agents, raises Claude Code API limits at Code w/ Claude