Slack unveils a rebuilt Slackbot that now functions as a personalized AI agent, capable of understanding individual work context and taking real actions within workflows — all without users ever leaving the platform.
A new five-phase agent evaluation checklist is reshaping how teams build reliable AI systems, urging developers to manually review real agent traces, design specialized graders, and integrate continuous feedback loops into production pipelines.
A new benchmark called FinMCP-Bench launches to rigorously test AI models on real-world financial problem-solving, featuring 613 samples, 65 real financial tools, and 33 sub-scenarios designed to measure both tool invocation accuracy and reasoning capabilities across mainstream large language models.
Google launches Gemini 2.0 Flash Live via its Live API, giving developers the power to build real-time voice and vision AI agents with support for over 90 languages, reduced latency, and improved noise filtering across industries ranging from elder care companions to interactive gaming.
AI inference costs are set to plummet over 90% by 2030, but total spending will surge as agentic AI models consume dramatically more tokens per task, forcing companies to strategically route workloads or risk falling into a costly commoditization trap.
Cursor launches self-hosted cloud agents, enabling enterprises to run autonomous AI coding agents entirely within their own infrastructure, keeping sensitive code and secrets secure while scaling to thousands of workers with no inbound ports or VPN tunnels required.
Legal AI startup Harvey secures $200 million in new funding, skyrocketing its valuation to $11 billion as its platform now serves over 100,000 lawyers across 1,300 organizations with $190 million in annual recurring revenue.
Salesforce integrates Agentforce AI agents directly into Slack, letting teams interact with AI via DMs or @mentions, deploy ready-made HR, sales, and marketing templates, or build custom agents — all without ever leaving the app.
Arm makes history by entering chip manufacturing for the first time, unveiling the Arm AGI CPU — a powerful data center processor built for agentic AI that delivers over 2x performance per rack versus x86, backed by Meta, NVIDIA, Google, Microsoft, and more than 50 major tech players.
OpenClaw, a highly autonomous open-source AI agent, is exploding across China with 600 million users and major tech giant adoption, but a government cybersecurity warning over 23,000 exposed user assets is now triggering widespread bans, restrictions, and mass uninstalls.