Anthropic adds build-eval and hillclimb commands to Claude Code’s API skill, enabling automated evaluation creation and iterative app optimization with held-out tests; on a 44-ticket support benchmark, the workflow reaches 98.9% accuracy at about 1 cent per ticket.
Jevgrep launches a CLI for coding agents that retrieves repository files, source excerpts and declaration context, matching 8 of 10 tuned Python SWE-bench solves while reducing Sol costs from $7.62 to $5.44, excluding Jev costs.
ElevenLabs launches Eleven v4 and its Eleven v4 Turbo text-to-speech model, bringing expressive speech to ElevenAgents, ElevenCreative and the API with roughly 100 ms median inference latency and support for more than 90 languages.
AgentField launches CodeAF, an Apache-2.0 open-model coding factory whose /senior-dev harness claims first place among 10 systems on 113 DeepSWE GitHub issues, automatically landing verified work on a user’s branch while blocking direct merges to main, dev, or release branches.
NVIDIA launches the Open Agent Safety Platform, pairing OpenShell with the Sentry reference design on BlueField-4 DPUs to independently monitor and quarantine AI agents within milliseconds, while Salesforce brings approval and audit controls into Slack.
Nvidia launches Open Agent Safety with more than 100 partners including Anthropic, SpaceX and Microsoft, offering its Sentry system to stop and quarantine AI agents that cross security boundaries within milliseconds.
NVIDIA launches the Open Agent Safety Platform, pairing open-source OpenShell sandboxes with NVIDIA Sentry and BlueField-4 DPUs to enforce verifiable AI-agent rules on files, networks, tools, processes and credentials before and during execution.
Instinct raises a $1 billion Series C at a $10 billion valuation and plans to launch an invite-only AI agent in August 2026 that uses its own phone number and computer to book travel, pay bills, make purchases and cancel subscriptions.
Anthropic opens a plugin submission portal for paid Claude users, allowing developers to publish approved MCP connectors and GitHub-hosted bundles to Claude’s directory while tracking reviews, installs, searches, and listing views.
Microsoft unveils a redesigned Copilot super app that unifies AI chat, coding and autonomous agents, rebranding Scout as Autopilot—a cloud-based assistant that can monitor Teams channels and handle recurring work—with usage-based billing and a private preview later this month.