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AGENTS.md Wins: Cross-Tool Instruction Standard Replaces .cursorrules Fragmentation
The adoption of the AGENTS.md specification establishes a unified, cross-tool context standard for AI coding agents, deprecating proprietary.
Atlassian Rovo MCP Server Turns Jira into an Agentic System of Record
Atlassian has announced major enhancements to its Rovo AI platform, including a cloud-hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that exposes Jira.
Google AlphaEvolve Hits GA: DeepMind's Algorithm Discovery Agent Leaves Preview
Google Cloud and DeepMind launch AlphaEvolve into General Availability (GA) — a closed-loop code optimization and algorithm discovery agent running on GCP.
Meta Muse Spark 1.1: Aggressive Pricing Enters the Agentic Coding War
Meta launches Muse Spark 1.1 at $1.25/$4.25 per M tokens — the same day OpenAI releases GPT-5.6 and Anthropic ships Reflect. Alexandr Wang calls it Meta's...
Uber Agentic Pods: Embedding AI Engineers to Redesign Business Operations
Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga shifts AI strategy by embedding engineers directly into HR, finance, and legal to build custom agentic workflows.
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Work and GPT-5.6 in Public GA — The Agentic Desktop Era Begins
OpenAI released ChatGPT Work and the GPT-5.6 model family on July 9, 2026. Here's what the Sol/Terra/Luna tiers, multi-hour agent workflows, and desktop...
GhostApproval: Wiz Exposes Symlink Trust Gap Across Six Top AI Coding Agents
Wiz Research reveals GhostApproval — a symlink-based trust boundary flaw bypassing human approval in Claude Code, Cursor, Amazon Q, Antigravity, Windsurf,...
Microsoft Cuts OpenAI and Anthropic Spend, Shifting Copilot Workloads to In-House MAI Models
Microsoft is reducing its reliance on OpenAI and Anthropic by routing thousands of monthly Copilot prompts in Excel and Outlook to its in-house MAI models.
Google Gemini Managed Agents Get Background Execution and Remote MCP — Production Agent Runtime Arrives
Google's Gemini API adds background execution and remote MCP server support to Managed Agents on July 7, 2026 — eliminating persistent HTTP connections and...
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