Agent Plugins 1.0 has nine compatible client entries, two portable component types, and one required manifest. That is either refreshingly small or suspiciously small, depending on how many plugin standards you have survived. If you are searching for how to…
Google’s alpha DESIGN.md repository had more than 26,900 GitHub stars on August 4, 2026. That is a lot of developers asking AI coding agents to stop inventing a fifth shade of teal. It is not, however, proof that dropping one…
On March 7, 2026, Andrej Karpathy posted a GitHub link on X and a single sentence: “It’s basically nanochat LLM training core stripped down to a single-GPU, one file version of ~630 lines of code.” Two days later, the autoresearch…
On February 25, 2026, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas unveiled Perplexity Computer — an AI agent built not around a single model but around multi-model orchestration of 19 frontier models simultaneously — and opened with a conductor’s line: “Musicians play their…
In the last week of January 2026, an open-source AI agent project cycled through three different names, survived account hijackings and crypto scams, and birthed a social network exclusively for AI bots. Welcome to the chaos that is OpenClaw—and the…
December 9, 2025 marked something rare in tech: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, AWS, Block, Bloomberg, and Cloudflare all showed up to the same party. The Linux Foundation announced the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)—a coalition to standardize how AI agents connect…
“2025 is the last year consumers shop alone,” Visa declared in December, and they’ve got the receipts to prove it. The payments giant just completed hundreds of secure, AI shopping agents transactions in production, marking the first time autonomous software…
Anthropic just gave away another piece of infrastructure that competitors will have to adopt or fight. On December 18, 2025, the company announced Agent Skills as an open standard—ten days after donating the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to the Linux…
