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Microsoft made its Execution Containers generally available on Windows 11 as it rebuilds Windows for local and cloud "hybrid" AI, and opened Surface Laptop Ultra pre-orders from $2,599. AWS open-sourced Strands Box, a sandbox that enforces rules such as "no git push" whatever the agent decides. What an enforced sandbox does, in plain words.

Nous Research has raised $90 million to build Hermes for Businesses, a company version of its MIT-licensed Hermes agent. The raise is confirmed; the valuation is reported, mostly at $1.5B, with one $1.2B figure in circulation. Nous's "2.5% of global token usage" is its own estimate.

Step-by-step how-tos for Personal Bots, Marketplace templates, Team vs Template choices, group-chat handoffs, skills and routines, and a newsroom Research→Writer→Reviewer pattern—plus the full Marketplace catalog with implementation ideas as of 7 October 2026.

Meta, Walmart, Stripe and Sierra published an open “personal agent protocol” so businesses can tell AI agents from people and see what agents do on their sites. Coverage via CNBC; Muse user counts are Meta-stated.

GitHub has released ReviewBench, an open benchmark that scores AI code-review agents on 219 real public pull requests. Here is what it measures, and why the fine print matters.

Welcome to 2026 -- the year artificial intelligence stopped being a tool you use and started being a teammate you work with.The Chatbot Era Is OverFor the...

In the span of just a few years, Cursor has gone from a niche developer tool to a 50 billion dollar enterprise juggernaut. This is not just...

The evolution from simple AI models to compound systems that plan, reason, and act—and why 2024 is the year of AI agents.In late 2022, ChatGPT demonstrated that...

From simple chatbots to autonomous systems that plan, decide, and execute—how AI agents are reshaping work and technology.In 1997, Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov at chess. The...

The AI infrastructure wars just got personal. Anthropic, the company behind Claude, announced this week that subscribers will no longer be able to use their Claude subscription...