Anthropic launches Claude Code Projects in public beta, enabling eligible Pro and Max users to run parallel AI coding threads with shared repositories and memory, with up to 200 new threads daily that can open pull requests and fix CI failures.
Anthropic launches a beta redesign of Claude Code Projects that uses conversation to coordinate parallel coding threads, with each cloud session working on its own repository branch while shared memory preserves project decisions.
Google opens early access to its Home MCP server, allowing compatible AI agents to control Nest, Matter and Works with Google Home devices and review event history, initially for U.S. Google Home Premium Advanced subscribers paying $20 monthly.
Google Cloud launches the open-source Agent Substrate runtime on Google Kubernetes Engine, offering allowlisted production support and isolating untrusted AI agent code in Cloud Hypervisor microVMs or gVisor sandboxes while resuming idle agents in under 500ms.
President Xi Jinping says China will lead BRICS artificial-intelligence cooperation by creating an open-source AI community to support large-language-model development, alongside training programs and a proposed digital ecosystem cloud platform.
AWS says GPT-5.6 Luna now delivers Bedrock’s lowest observed cost per successful outcome after an 80% July 30 price cut, costing $0.0021 per correct AIME answer versus GPT-5.4-mini’s $0.0139.
Google releases the vendor-neutral google-cloud-developer plugin, giving coding agents gcloud CLI guardrails, authentication and project-management guidance, and Developer Knowledge MCP access to current official documentation through Antigravity CLI, Claude Code, and Codex CLI.
Google Cloud and Accenture are launching a joint AI unit deploying up to 1,000 engineers to help enterprises adopt Gemini-powered tools, as Google fights to close a massive market share gap, currently holding just 6% of enterprise AI spending compared to Anthropic's 43.5% and OpenAI's 39.7%.
Qualcomm and Amazon ink a landmark $4 billion AI chip deal, with AWS gaining warrants to purchase 25 million Qualcomm shares as part of a multi-generational partnership targeting Nvidia's dominance in the data center market, potentially unlocking up to $60 billion in chip purchases.
Gimlet Labs secures $300 million in Series B funding at a $3 billion valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz, to scale its multi-silicon AI inference cloud that delivers up to 10x performance gains by distributing workloads across GPUs, CPUs, and accelerators from NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and Cerebras — fueled by a …