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Tools, frameworks and orchestration layers — LangGraph, smolagents, AutoGen, CrewAI and whatever shipped this morning. Also benchmark releases and leaderboard updates.

22 items on the tools beat.
  1. OpenAI ships ChatGPT Work and GPT-5.6, ending a government-delayed preview
    by Iris Holloway · Tools · Jul 9, 2026
  2. Claude Sonnet 5 ships as default for Free and Pro, undercuts Opus on agentic tasks
    by Iris Holloway · Tools · Jul 1, 2026
  3. Anthropic ships Claude Sonnet 5 as agentic capability becomes the mid-tier floor
    by Iris Holloway · Tools · Jul 1, 2026
  4. OKX opens an agent-to-agent marketplace with stablecoin escrow and on-chain reputation
    by Iris Holloway · Tools · Jun 30, 2026
  5. OpenAI's first economic paper on Codex: agents have eaten the company's chatbot use
    by Iris Holloway · Tools · Jun 27, 2026
  6. Anthropic puts Claude inside Slack channels as a shared @-mention teammate
    by Iris Holloway · Tools · Jun 24, 2026
  7. Anthropic ships Claude Tag, an always-on Slack agent for Enterprise and Team
    by Iris Holloway · Tools · Jun 24, 2026
  8. Gemini 2.5 Deep Think lands in the Gemini app for AI Ultra subscribers
    by Iris Holloway · Tools · Jun 23, 2026
  9. Gartner puts agentic AI at Peak of Inflated Expectations as SMB deployments quietly outrun the enterprise
    by Iris Holloway · Tools · Jun 21, 2026
  10. SpaceX buys Cursor for $60B in largest VC-backed deal on record
    by Iris Holloway · Tools · Jun 18, 2026
  11. Huawei rebuilds HarmonyOS 7 around a 2,000-agent framework, declares the 'agent era' for mobile
    by Iris Holloway · Tools · Jun 14, 2026
  12. Huawei rebuilds HarmonyOS 7 around an agent hub and 2,000-agent catalog
    by Iris Holloway · Tools · Jun 13, 2026
  13. Anthropic ships Claude Fable 5, the first Mythos-class model open to the public
    by Iris Holloway · Tools · Jun 12, 2026
  14. Apple ships Siri AI on Google Gemini, concedes 'early days' on agents
    by Iris Holloway · Tools · Jun 10, 2026
  15. Microsoft ships Scout, an always-on 'Autopilot' agent for Microsoft 365
    by Iris Holloway · Tools · Jun 9, 2026
  16. Apple ships Siri AI on Gemini, opens iOS 27 to Claude and ChatGPT via Extensions
    by Iris Holloway · Tools · Jun 8, 2026
  17. Anthropic says Claude now writes 80% of its code, calls for an industry 'brake pedal'
    by Ben Krauss · Tools · Jun 7, 2026
  18. Microsoft Build 2026: Nadella plants the flag on agents with on-device Aion, MXC sandboxes and a post-OpenAI model stack
    by Iris Holloway · Tools · Jun 6, 2026
  19. Gemini 3.5 Flash hits GA, beats Google's own 3.1 Pro on agent benchmarks
    by Iris Holloway · Tools · Jun 3, 2026
  20. Alteryx puts business analysts, not IT, at the controls of its new Agent Studio
    by Iris Holloway · Tools · May 31, 2026
  21. Anthropic puts Claude agents on a meter across its subscriptions
    by Kenji Nakamura · Tools · May 13, 2026
  22. Anthropic ships Claude Managed Agents, raises Claude Code API limits at Code w/ Claude
    by Iris Holloway · Tools · May 6, 2026