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Developer code on a monitor representing agent-assisted software development.
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Google's Antigravity stack turns managed agents into a developer primitive

Google's Antigravity 2.0, CLI, SDK, and Managed Agents API connect local agent orchestration with persistent cloud execution, making deployment and state management part of the coding toolchain.

4 min to readAug 10, 2026 · 17h
Windows App Development CLI shown in a terminal workflow.
Software

Microsoft's winapp CLI makes Windows packaging part of the developer loop

The Windows App Development CLI moves environment setup, package identity, certificates, and MSIX packaging into repeatable commands for developers working outside Visual Studio.

4 min to readAug 10, 2026 · 05h
A software development workspace showing an agent workflow connected to remote tools.
Software

Google moves managed agents closer to a one-call developer primitive

Google’s Managed Agents update gives Gemini API developers background execution, remote MCP, custom functions, credential refresh, and a provisioned sandbox, reducing the infrastructure work behind long-running agents.

5 min to readAug 9, 2026 · 17h
Automated semiconductor design and fabrication equipment representing electronic design automation software.
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CaretEDA's open-source stack brings the chip-design bottleneck into the agent era

CaretEDA says its August release will make an end-to-end open-source EDA stack commercially available, covering simulation, synthesis, formal verification, and physical design for smaller chip teams.

5 min to readAug 9, 2026 · 05h
Secure video-conferencing software represented by a laptop with a protected meeting interface.
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Zoom's critical Windows flaw makes routine patching an access-control issue

Zoom's CVE-2026-53412 bulletin rates a Windows input-validation flaw as critical, a reminder that collaboration software must be patched like privileged infrastructure rather than treated as harmless desktop plumbing.

4 min to readAug 8, 2026 · 17h
Software engineers coordinating multiple AI coding agents inside a governed development workflow.
Software

GitHub turns agentic coding into a governed team workflow

GitHub’s July updates point toward an agent platform where parallel sessions, model choice, cost visibility, MCP, code quality, and enterprise policy are part of one development workflow.

4 min to readAug 8, 2026 · 05h
Visual Studio 2026 developer workspace with an agent skills panel.
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Visual Studio 2026 makes agent skills a governed developer tool

The July Visual Studio 2026 update adds built-in .NET and Azure skills, usage alerts, and a clearer control surface for developers adopting agentic workflows inside the IDE.

4 min to readAug 4, 2026 · 05h
Cloud computing workflow diagram with connected automation steps.
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Cloudflare puts a meter on Workflows as agent automation moves into production

Cloudflare will begin billing Workflows step and storage usage no earlier than August 10, giving developers a clearer cost model as durable automation becomes an application primitive.

5 min to readAug 3, 2026 · 17h
Google LiteRT.js browser AI inference illustration.
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Google’s LiteRT.js brings hardware-accelerated AI inference into the browser

Google is giving web developers a JavaScript binding for LiteRT that runs converted models locally through WebAssembly, WebGPU, and emerging WebNN support instead of sending every inference to a server.

4 min to readAug 3, 2026 · 05h
GitHub software release illustration representing new automation controls.
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GitHub adds confidence and approvals before issue automations act

GitHub’s public-preview controls let issue automations propose changes, attach confidence levels, and keep uncertain actions reviewable instead of treating automation as an all-or-nothing switch.

4 min to readAug 2, 2026 · 17h
Developer workstation showing software code and automation tools
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Cloudflare’s agent tooling turns browser control into a software primitive

Cloudflare’s July agent releases add browser-session control, tool approvals, retries, and sandbox flexibility, showing how agent platforms are becoming runtimes for long-running software work.

4 min to readAug 2, 2026 · 05h
Developer workstation showing code review, agent tools and cloud workflow automation
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GitHub and Cloudflare push agent software from demos into workflow plumbing

Late-July GitHub Copilot and Cloudflare agent updates show the software layer around AI agents becoming more operational, reviewable and connected.

3 min to readAug 1, 2026 · 17h
Diagram-style image of connected software agents, APIs and verification paths
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Agent discovery standards turn software integrations into trust plumbing

Google's Agentic Resource Discovery specification and Cloudflare's agent-readiness work point to a software layer for finding, verifying and controlling AI tools across the web.

3 min to readAug 1, 2026 · 05h
Cloudflare dashboard style controls for search agent and training crawler categories
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Cloudflare AI crawler defaults make the agentic web a routing problem

Cloudflare's September AI traffic defaults split search, agent and training crawlers, forcing publishers and AI companies to make software-readable content choices.

3 min to readJul 29, 2026 · 17h
Windows laptop representing local desktop work for an AI agent
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Perplexity Windows agent raises the desktop control-plane fight

Perplexity's Personal Computer for Windows pushes AI agents into local files, Office workflows and web tasks, making desktop permissions the next software battleground.

5 min to readJul 29, 2026 · 05h
Cloudflare Workers developer console showing agents connecting to MCP tools
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Cloudflare Agents SDK makes MCP a serverless agent interface

Cloudflare's July 28 changelog says Agents SDK v0.20.0 adds client and server support for the MCP 2026-07-28 release candidate, pushing agent tooling deeper into Workers.

5 min to readJul 28, 2026 · 17h
Developer test runner validating Cloudflare Workers production build at the edge
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Cloudflare Workers test harness makes edge deployments easier to verify

Cloudflare's July 27 Workers changelog adds createTestHarness, a production-build integration testing API that reflects how edge platforms are trying to make serverless delivery more verifiable.

5 min to readJul 28, 2026 · 05h
Developer terminal testing privacy proxy and encrypted web requests
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Cloudflare's pvcli makes privacy protocol testing a developer workflow

Cloudflare open sourced a curl-like privacy proxy CLI on July 27, giving developers a more direct way to test OHTTP-style systems as privacy infrastructure becomes part of normal software delivery.

4 min to readJul 27, 2026 · 17h
Developers using command-line coding agents with pull request metrics and team adoption signals
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Microsoft study shows coding agents need rollout design, not just better models

A July arXiv study of Microsoft developers using Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI finds adoption spreads socially and correlates with more merged pull requests, reframing AI coding agents as an organizational rollout problem.

3 min to readJul 27, 2026 · 05h
Editorial cover for GitHub's Copilot app turns agentic coding into a desktop control plane
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GitHub's Copilot app turns agentic coding into a desktop control plane

GitHub's Copilot app pushes AI coding beyond chat by giving developers a desktop surface for sessions, worktrees, pull requests, canvases, reviews, and background automations.

4 min to readJul 26, 2026 · 17h
Software issue tracker assigning work to an AI coding agent with pull request controls
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GitHub's Linear and MCP updates make coding agents easier to assign and govern

GitHub's July 23 Copilot updates bring the cloud agent into Linear and prepare its MCP server for the next stateless protocol release, tightening the operational loop around AI coding work.

4 min to readJul 26, 2026 · 05h
Editorial image for Billtrust's MCP server makes receivables data part of enterprise AI work
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Billtrust's MCP server makes receivables data part of enterprise AI work

Billtrust is connecting live invoice-to-cash data to Claude and Microsoft Copilot through an MCP server, showing how enterprise software vendors are turning AI assistants into governed operational interfaces.

3 min to readJul 25, 2026 · 19h
Account security interface showing biometric verification and recovery checks.
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Google's selfie sign-in turns account recovery into a biometric software-security tradeoff

Google's new selfie-video recovery option gives users another path back into locked accounts, but it also brings biometric trust questions into mainstream login flows.

3 min to readJul 23, 2026 · 17h
Enterprise endpoint security console monitoring AI agents and developer tools on company laptops.
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Glow emerging from stealth at a $1.2 billion valuation shows enterprise software security shifting toward controlling AI agents before they run on employee devices

TechCrunch reports that Glow has emerged from stealth with an endpoint security platform aimed at software, AI agents, and developer tools running across enterprise devices.

3 min to readJul 23, 2026 · 09h