Category: AI Agents
Autonomous systems that plan, act, and get work done — the frameworks, protocols, and real-world deployments behind them.
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Computer-Use Agents Just Went From 85% to 20% on a Harder Benchmark
OSWorld 2.0, released June 26, 2026, exposes a major gap between how well computer-use agents perform on saturated benchmarks versus realistic, long-horizon tasks.
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MCP Just Shipped Its Biggest Rewrite Since Launch: A Stateless Protocol Core
The Model Context Protocol’s 2026-07-28 specification makes the protocol stateless at its core, deprecates several long-standing features, and formalizes an Extensions framework.
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Cognizant Goes All-In on Claude, Launches EMEA AI Unit for Enterprise Agents
Cognizant deepened its Anthropic partnership and launched a new EMEA AI Unit aimed at moving enterprise AI agents from pilot to production, timed to EU AI Act enforcement.
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Microsoft’s In-House Coding Model Becomes GitHub Copilot’s Default This Month
Microsoft’s in-house coding model, reported as Project Polaris, replaces GPT-4 Turbo as GitHub Copilot’s default engine starting August 2026.