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Tencent has released Hy3 preview, a Mixture-of-Experts model with a 262,144 token context window priced at $0.066 per million input tokens and $0.26 per million output tokens. The model features three configurable reasoning modes—disabled, low, and high—designed for agentic workflows and production environments.

GitHub has optimized token usage in its production agentic workflows that run on every pull request. The company instrumented its own Copilot workflows to identify inefficiencies and built agents to address them, aiming to reduce accumulated API costs.

GitHub has published a research approach for validating AI coding agents when traditional correctness testing breaks down. The company proposes dominatory analysis as an alternative to brittle scripts and black-box LLM judges for building what it calls a 'Trust Layer' for GitHub Copilot Coding Agents.

GitHub has published research on validating agentic AI behavior when there's no single "correct" answer. The company proposes dominance analysis as an alternative to brittle scripts or opaque LLM-as-judge approaches for building a trust layer in GitHub Copilot coding agents.

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas revealed that the company's Mac-native Personal Computer platform has performed more than $2.8B in labor-equivalent work for Pro, Max, and Enterprise subscribers since launch. The announcement follows Apple CFO Kevan Parekh citing Perplexity as an example of developers building enterprise-grade AI assistants on Mac during Apple's Q2 2026 earnings call.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella disclosed that M365 Copilot has reached 20 million paid enterprise seats during the company's quarterly earnings call. Weekly engagement now matches Outlook usage levels, with queries per user up 20% quarter-over-quarter.

OpenAI will not release a separate GPT-5.5-Codex model, according to Romain Huet. The company unified its Codex coding model with the main GPT line starting with GPT-5.4, with GPT-5.5 featuring enhanced agentic coding and computer use capabilities.

Microsoft has pushed agentic Copilot features into general availability across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The AI assistant can now make direct edits to documents, spreadsheets, and presentations rather than just suggesting changes from a sidebar.

Xiaomi released MiMo-V2.5 on April 22, 2026, a native omnimodal model with a 1,048,576 token context window. The model is priced at $0.40 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens, positioning it as a cost-efficient alternative for agentic applications requiring multimodal perception across image and video understanding.

Open-weight AI models are narrowing the performance gap with closed frontier models in current benchmarks focused on coding and terminal tasks, but industry analysts predict they'll struggle to keep pace as the field shifts toward specialized knowledge work in accounting, law, and healthcare. The gap reduction masks a more complex dynamic where benchmark correlation with real-world performance is weakening.

Roblox is deploying agentic features to its Assistant tool that plan, build, and test games through multi-step workflows. The enhanced Planning Mode analyzes code, asks clarifying questions, and creates editable action plans before implementation, while new AI-driven playtesting tools automatically identify and fix bugs.

Adobe is launching Firefly AI Assistant in public beta within the coming weeks, evolving from its October 2024 "Project Moonlight" preview. The assistant orchestrates workflows across Creative Cloud applications including Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, Illustrator, and Express, allowing users to control outputs through text prompts, buttons, and sliders.

Google has redesigned AI Mode's prompt interface with a bottom sheet layout on mobile and expanded its agentic restaurant booking feature to 8 new markets including the UK, Canada, and Australia. The update rolls out to stable channel on Android and iOS.

Zhipu AI released GLM-5.1, a 754-parameter model optimized for agentic engineering tasks. The model scores 58.4% on SWE-Bench Pro, outperforming Claude 3.5 Sonnet (57.3%), and demonstrates sustained reasoning capability over hundreds of iterations.

Zhipu AI has released GLM-5.1, a 754-billion parameter model designed for agentic engineering with significantly improved coding capabilities over its predecessor. The model achieves 58.4% on SWE-Bench Pro and demonstrates sustained performance improvement over hundreds of tool calls and iterations, unlike earlier models that plateau quickly.

NVIDIA has optimized Google's Gemma 4 models for local deployment on RTX and Spark platforms, targeting the emerging wave of on-device agentic AI. The optimization enables small, efficient models to access real-time local context for autonomous decision-making without cloud dependency.

Alibaba has released Qwen3.6-Plus, its third proprietary AI model in days, featuring a 1 million token context window available via Alibaba Cloud Model Studio API. The model claims improved agentic coding capabilities and partially outperforms Anthropic's Claude 4.5 Opus in Alibaba-conducted benchmarks, though trails Claude 4.6 Opus released in December 2025.

GitHub's Applied Science team deployed coding agents to automate parts of their own development workflow, testing how AI agents can handle increasingly complex programming tasks. The experiment reveals practical insights into agent-driven development patterns and limitations.

Alibaba's Qwen division has released Qwen 3.6 Plus Preview, a free multimodal model available via OpenRouter with a 1,000,000 token context window. The model claims stronger reasoning and more reliable agentic behavior compared to the 3.5 series, with particular strength in coding and complex problem-solving tasks.

Amazon Web Services unveiled an agentic AI system for streaming platforms combining Nova Sonic 2.0 (real-time speech model), Bedrock AgentCore, and the Model Context Protocol. The system delivers two core capabilities: context-aware movie recommendations based on mood and viewing history, and real-time scene analysis including actor identification and plot summaries.

Anthropic is privately warning top government officials that its unreleased model "Mythos" makes large-scale cyberattacks significantly more likely in 2026. The model enables AI agents to operate autonomously with high sophistication to penetrate corporate, government and municipal systems. One official told Axios a large-scale attack could occur this year as employees unknowingly create security vulnerabilities through unsupervised agentic AI use.

The ARC Prize Foundation released ARC-AGI-3, an interactive benchmark requiring AI agents to explore environments, form hypotheses, and execute plans without instructions. All 135 environments were solved by untrained humans, yet frontier models—including Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (0.37%), GPT 5.4 (0.26%), Opus 4.6 (0.25%), and Grok-4.20 (0.00%)—scored below 1%.

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super, a hybrid Mixture of Experts model with 120B parameters and 12B active parameters, is now available as a fully managed model on Amazon Bedrock. The model supports up to 256K token context length and claims 5x higher throughput efficiency over the previous Nemotron Super and 2x higher accuracy on reasoning tasks.

OpenAI is consolidating its fragmented macOS app ecosystem by merging ChatGPT, Codex coding platform, and Atlas browser into a single "superapp" led by Chief of Applications Fidji Simo. The unified app will feature agentic AI capabilities for autonomous task execution and team collaboration, with rollout expected over coming months starting with Codex enhancements.

Perplexity has released Comet, its AI-powered browser, as a free standalone app for iPhone users. Originally launched on PC at $200 per month, the iOS version joins recently-released Android and existing Windows and Mac versions. The browser combines web browsing with AI assistance for summarization, research, and task automation.

Amazon Nova 2 Lite expands context window to 1 million tokens, introduces extended thinking with developer controls, and adds native tool use and web grounding. AWS claims Nova 2 Lite surpasses Nova 1 Pro on multi-step reasoning while costing 7x less and running up to 5x faster.

GitHub has released the Copilot SDK, positioning executable agent workflows as the successor to prompt-based AI interactions. The SDK enables developers to integrate agentic AI capabilities directly into applications rather than relying on text-based prompt-response patterns.

GitHub is positioning AI interaction as a shift from prompt-response text interfaces to programmable execution models. The company announced a GitHub Copilot SDK that enables agentic workflows to run directly within applications, marking a transition toward AI systems that take concrete actions rather than generate text responses.

OpenAI's GPT-5.4, an agentic coding model, is now generally available in GitHub Copilot. The model was tested on real-world software development scenarios and demonstrated improved coding capabilities.

OpenAI has launched GPT-5.4, its latest model with native computer use capabilities that allow it to operate computers and complete tasks across applications. The release represents a step toward autonomous AI agents that can handle complex jobs independently. The model includes advancements in reasoning, coding, and professional work with spreadsheets, documents, and presentations.

American International Group (AIG) has deployed an agentic AI system with an orchestration layer, reporting faster-than-expected productivity gains in underwriting and portfolio management. The deployment demonstrates measurable improvements in throughput and workflow efficiency, according to recent investor disclosures.