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Cloudflare has introduced Kitesurf, a new cloud-hosted browser engineered specifically for AI agents rather than human users. The agentic web is rapidly becoming a distinct compute class with its own infrastructure requirements.
Hassabis steps back from DeepMind day-to-day ops but keeps the science brief: Alphabet chief scientist, DeepMind chair, and Isomorphic Labs CEO after a \$2.1B Series B. Here is the portfolio that remains.
SpaceXAI, the AI division formed from Elon Musk's xAI after its merger with SpaceX, has launched Grok Bot in beta — a product it describes as "always-on. Grok Bot arrives as the industry converges on "digital labor" — agents that do.
Related angle: OpenAI and Anthropic’s summer 2026 release tempo — the competitive pressure behind DeepMind’s shipping-speed remake.
June 12, 2026: U.S. export controls forced Anthropic to suspend Fable 5 and Mythos 5; access restored July 1 after controls lifted June 30. Confirmed from Anthropic’s redeploy post — not a footnote.
Series end: two axes — who gets Mythos vs Fable (access), and Opus vs Fable pricing (tier). Confirmed architecture vs analysis, and what is still unknown.
Google and the UK government launched Operation Blue Skies, a £5M trial using AI to steer flights away from warming contrails over the North Atlantic. The programme targets Shanwick airspace, responsible for 5% of global contrail warming, and could establish a blueprint for global aviation climate mitigation.
A faulty Microsoft Defender intelligence update crashed Quick and Full scans on Windows 10 and 11 starting August 18. The fixed Security Intelligence version 1.457.236.0 resolves the issue and arrives via Windows Update.
OpenAI previewed Private Safety Processing, a system that detects misuse patterns across multiple API interactions while preserving Zero Data Retention guarantees for enterprise customers. The approach lets regulated industries adopt advanced AI without surrendering control of sensitive prompts and responses.
Amazon Science released SOP-Bench, an open benchmark with 2,000+ tasks from real business SOPs across twelve domains. The framework pairs authentic procedures with working tools and ground-truth answers so teams can validate agents before production deployment.
OpenAI released a major Agents SDK update adding native sandbox execution and a model-native harness for production agent workloads. The Python-first release includes configurable memory, Codex-like filesystem tools, and a Manifest abstraction for portable workspaces across seven sandbox providers.
Launched with Responses on March 11, 2025: OpenAI’s Agents SDK orchestrates tool loops, handoffs, sessions, guardrails, and tracing — the layer above Responses when you do not want to own every branch yourself.