Category AI Agents

Cognition buys Poke to make AI coding agents feel more human

Cognition bought Poke to add AI personality to Devin, betting conversational style and persistence will matter as much as model power.

Meta AI assistant now pulls from calendars, drafts briefings and handles recurring tasks, pushing Meta deeper into the AI productivity race.

Anthropic launches Opus 5 with stronger benchmarks, fewer restrictions and new fallback tools for safer, smoother AI use.

Bluesky’s AI assistant expands with Quests, turning the Bluesky AI assistant into a research tool for trends, accounts and network activity.

ChatGPT Voice arrives in OpenAI’s desktop app, letting users control AI agents and run multi-step tasks hands-free.

Amazon’s Alexa Plus update expands smart-home control, adds new integrations and uses MCP to connect more AI services.

AegisAI raised $36M to fight AI spear phishing with AI agents, aiming to outsmart personalized email scams and expand beyond email security.

Gemini users have surged past 950 million monthly, bringing Google closer to a billion-user AI product and intensifying the ChatGPT race.

Lingverse’s AI wearable iKairos revives Jibo’s legacy with a $29 million fundraise, but privacy and “AI slop” concerns loom.

ServiceNow invests $40 million in BusinessNext, backing its AI banking platform and global expansion as enterprise software firms face AI pressure.