🚀 Major Agent Platforms
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Agent, an autonomous assistant available to Pro/Plus/Team users. It can browse, generate documents (PowerPoint/Excel), fill online forms, plan tasks, and more, with safety features like “watch mode” and action replay
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AWS releases Bedrock AgentCore, a suite enabling companies to deploy secure, composable AI agents at scale, backed by a $100M investment in its Generative AI Innovation Center
🌐 Browsers & Web Agents
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Perplexity introduces Comet, a Chromium-based AI browser beta. It acts as an assistant that can handle emails, calendars, searches, and more — marking a leap in AI-integrated web experiences
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OpenAI is working on an AI-powered web browser to compete directly with Google Chrome, offering integrated agent interaction capabilities
🏦 Industry-Specific AI Tools
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Anthropic rolls out a finance‑focused Claude interface, aggregating PitchBook, Morningstar, and Daloopa data to streamline market analysis for teams
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USPTO debuts DesignVision, an AI tool for examining and finding design patents via image-based search
🛡️ Cybersecurity & Monetization Moves
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Cloudflare unveils pay-for-crawl AI bot monetization, letting sites charge AI crawlers like OpenAI for training data access — a response to declining referral traffic
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Google introduces “Big Sleep”, an AI system that flags unused/dormant domains to prevent cyber abuse
💹 Enterprise & Infrastructure
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As investor attention shifts to agentic AI demand, Alphabet, Microsoft, and AWS report strong cloud growth — Google Cloud (+26.8%), Azure (+34–35%), AWS (+17–19%)
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OpenAI partners with Google Cloud to expand GPU availability and reduce dependency on Microsoft Azure
🔐 Enterprise AI & Safety
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Microsoft introduces Copilot Vision in Windows 11, enabling AI to interpret screen contents and perform tasks directly
🧠 Summary
AI tools are advancing fast — OpenAI and AWS launched powerful agent platforms, while Perplexity introduced an AI browser called “Comet.” Anthropic and the USPTO released domain-specific tools for finance and design patents. Cloudflare and Google unveiled AI protections against data scraping. Cloud demand is booming, and Microsoft is embedding AI directly into Windows with Copilot Vision.