Grok Comes to Databricks Agent Bricks
Grok models are now natively available in Databricks Agent Bricks. Agents can reason directly over Lakehouse data without exfiltration, with governance through Unity Catalog.
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Grok models are now natively available in Databricks Agent Bricks. Agents can reason directly over Lakehouse data without exfiltration, with governance through Unity Catalog.
Comet for iOS shipped its eighth round of improvements: one-tap phone-number actions (Call, FaceTime, Message, save to Contacts), a refined iPad sidebar, and Finance Deep Dive opening as a real browser tab.
Anthropic shipped new versions of three Claude API tools. code_execution_20260521 surfaces the 90-second per-cell execution limit. web_search_20260318 and web_fetch_20260318 add a response_inclusion parameter to trim consumed result blocks in agentic workflows.
Copilot Cowork moves from Frontier preview to worldwide GA — Microsoft 365 Copilot's agentic layer with usage-based billing and model picks across Claude Opus 4.8 / Sonnet 4.6 / GPT-5.5.
xAI launched Voice Agent Builder in beta — a no-code platform for production voice agents on Grok Voice with telephony, SIP, voice cloning, and observability at $0.05/min. Available from July 1, 2026.
Vercel launched Connect, a new agent-infrastructure primitive providing short-lived scoped OAuth tokens for Slack, GitHub, Linear, Notion, Salesforce, Figma, Snowflake, Discord, plus generic OAuth/API-key and MCP server connectors.
Claude Code version 2.1.219 (July 24, 2026) sets Claude Opus 5 as the default Opus model with 1M context window, adds sandbox.network.strictAllowlist setting for sandboxed commands, and introduces a DirectoryAdded hook that fires when a new working directory is registered mid-session.
Claude Code now has /config key=value mid-conversation, macOS sandbox controls, and Apple Events — it can drive Mail, Calendar, Finder. The companion v2.1.183 blocks destructive git commands in Auto Mode.
Anthropic shipped a set of Claude Managed Agents API updates on July 22, 2026: effort levels on agent model config, webhooks for environment and memory store lifecycle events, session seeding with initial events, and thread-level event streaming deltas.
Linear adds auto-generated changelogs to release pipelines, ships private sub-teams for Business/Enterprise, and rebuilt desktop tabs so each tab keeps its own navigation history.
GitHub Mobile app gained the ability to fix pull request comments using the Copilot cloud agent directly on iOS/Android — no desktop editor required.
Vercel shipped Konsistent on July 1 to enforce uniform code standards for both AI agents and human developers, alongside a Security Dashboard in private beta and dry-run deployments for the Vercel CLI.
The first xAI model on Bedrock — Grok 4.3 with a 1M context window, configurable reasoning effort, $1.25 in / $2.50 out per MTok. Cheapest US-lab frontier reasoner on Bedrock.
Google deprecated temperature, top_p, and top_k sampling parameters for the latest Gemini models. The API also now allows combining built-in tools (Google Search, code execution) with custom function calling in a single request.
Microsoft's small coding model MAI-Code-1-Flash is rolling out across eight Copilot surfaces: CLI, Copilot app, Chat on GitHub, Visual Studio, GitHub Mobile, JetBrains, Eclipse, and Xcode.
The Copilot usage metrics API now exposes an 'ai_credits_used' field with total AI credit consumption per user in both daily and 28-day reports at the enterprise and org levels.
GitHub announced the deprecation of the Opus 4.6 (fast) model in Copilot; users are advised to migrate to current Opus generations or to Microsoft's MAI-Code-1-Flash for fast tasks.
Cursor 3.8 introduces a /automate skill that creates an automation in your local agent session from a plain-language description, plus new GitHub and Slack triggers and computer-use support.
A Claude Code session can now be turned into a sharable, interactive HTML page with live code and multiple data sources — one URL for the team. Repositions Claude Code from assistant to internal-app builder.
The new Claude Design keeps a project aligned with the design system, syncs both ways with Claude Code via /design-sync, and lets you edit directly on the canvas. Imports brand from a GitHub repo, design files, or raw uploads.
Mid-conversation system messages are now GA without a beta header on Claude Fable 5, Mythos 5, and Opus 4.8 across the Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud. Updating system instructions mid-conversation no longer invalidates cache prefixes.
Cursor launched Cursor Router on July 22, an intelligent model routing system that classifies each request by type and complexity and routes it to the optimal model based on quality or cost preference.
The native desktop home for agent-driven development hit GA on all three OSes. Voice conversations via on-device speech-to-text, integrated with session management and github.com.
Fable 5 is the first public-facing version of the Mythos generation; top-tier software engineering, knowledge work and vision, with hard safety guardrails.
Eve is a TypeScript-native open-source framework where every agent = a directory of files (instructions.md + tools/ + skills/). Built in: durable execution, per-agent sandbox, human approvals, evals, OpenTelemetry. Plus the Sandbox runtime now goes up to 24h.
The new Bugbot cuts review time from ~5 minutes to ~90 seconds, finds 10 % more bugs and costs 22 % less per run; adds a /review pre-push flow.