Samsung's Galaxy S26 debuts the world's first agentic AI on a consumer device, powered by Google's Gemini, enabling multi-step background task automation with user approval — and the feature is already expanding to Pixel 10 devices, with a potential future rollout to iPhones through Google's Apple partnership.
AI adoption in healthcare is surging, with 70% of organizations now using the technology in 2026, delivering powerful financial returns as 85% of executives report increased revenue and 80% cite reduced costs, fueling massive budget increases across the industry.
AI coding agents are revolutionizing software development, forcing the industry to adopt formal specification languages and rigorous verification methods as natural language proves too imprecise for high-stakes AI-generated code.
Moltbook, an AI platform where LLM agents interact freely, may not be creating AGI but instead brewing artificial proto-life, with token-based interactions mimicking biochemical processes in a digital 'primordial soup' that could trigger an evolution-like event rather than a Skynet-style superintelligence, experts warn.
Cursor launches cloud AI agents that autonomously build, test, and validate code in isolated virtual machines, already responsible for over 30% of merged pull requests at the company — signaling a major shift toward fully self-driving software development.
A powerful new open-source Chat SDK has entered public beta, enabling developers to write bot logic once and deploy it across Slack, Teams, Discord, GitHub, and more using a single TypeScript codebase with built-in AI streaming and native UI rendering.
Notion 3.3 launches Custom Agents, autonomous AI teammates that run 24/7 to automate tasks like Q&A, task routing, and status reports, integrating seamlessly with Slack, Figma, HubSpot, and more — free to use until May 3, 2026.
Anthropic expands Claude with new enterprise integrations for Google Drive, Gmail, DocuSign, and FactSet, as software stocks recover from recent volatility and economists find no widespread job displacement yet, though data entry roles face growing risk.
Amazon's AGI lab head David Luan is departing the company to build something new, as the tech giant's AI division undergoes a major shake-up with leadership now shifting to senior vice president Peter DeSantis amid intensifying regulatory scrutiny over AI acquisitions.
Google Labs upgrades Opal with a new AI agent step that transforms static workflows into dynamic, interactive experiences by autonomously selecting tools, retaining memory across sessions, and enabling real-time follow-up conversations to better achieve user goals.