OpenAI's new economic research reveals a seismic shift in workplace AI use, with 25% of workers now assigning AI agents full 8-hour workday tasks, 70% delegating over an hour of complex work, and employee AI agent adoption hitting 68% across industries, according to separate KPMG data.
Tech giants including Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Anthropic are uniting at the Confidential Computing Summit in San Francisco to push chip-level security as the definitive solution for controlling AI agents, with Apple making a rare public appearance to reveal Private Cloud Compute details and the Linux Foundation unveiling a tamper-proof …
Orca launches a free, open-source AI Development Environment that lets developers run multiple coding agents like Claude Code and Codex simultaneously across desktop and mobile devices, all tracked in one unified interface under the MIT License.
A new GitHub repository called 'obsidian-skills' is taking the AI world by storm, teaching agents like Claude Code and Codex to interact with Obsidian vaults using Markdown, JSON Canvas, and CLI tools — and it has already amassed over 38,000 stars and 2,700 forks.
Qualcomm surges 15% after unveiling its Dragonfly C1000 data center CPU for agentic AI, nearly doubling its non-handset revenue forecast to $40 billion by fiscal 2029, with Meta signed as a launch customer and $15 billion targeted from data center sales alone.
AI agent adoption among US workers has surged to 68% as companies prepare to invest an average of $269 million in the next 12 months, though fears over job security and skills gaps fuel resistance amid rising AI-related layoffs and shrinking entry-level hiring.
Figma unveils a powerful suite of AI-driven design tools at its Config event, targeting full team collaboration across the design-to-development pipeline — with CEO Dylan Field emphasizing that human creativity remains at the center, while AI handles the repetitive work.
U.S. AI spending nearly doubles to $207 million as agent deployment surges from 12% to 54%, but organizations face mounting pressure to close skills gaps and strengthen governance before they can fully realize returns on their rapidly growing investments.
Google launches computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash, empowering AI agents to see, reason, and take control of browsers, mobile, and desktop environments, while deploying new security safeguards to protect against prompt injection attacks.
NVIDIA launches its Agent Toolkit, an open and modular platform empowering enterprises to build specialized AI agents with secure, customizable tools already achieving 98.5% alert accuracy in cybersecurity and accelerating drug discovery across major platforms like SAP, Siemens, and ServiceNow.