Google’s new Gemini agent for business will let teams pick Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5 alongside Gemini 4 Argon and Gemini 3.8 Flash, the first time Claude has appeared inside Gemini. We explain how the model picker and Auto routing work, what is live versus early access, the cost spread between models, how it compares with Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT Work, and what small firms should check first.
AWS has released Strands Box, an open-source sandbox that wraps AI agents in macOS isolation and checks their shell commands, Python code, web requests and MCP tool calls against Dogwood rules that can depend on what the agent already did. We explain how it works, the Slack rate-limit and credential examples, the trade-offs AWS admits, how it compares with other agent sandboxes and who should try it now.
Google Cloud has launched the Gemini agent, a single AI agent for work that plans tasks, runs sub-agents, creates coworker agents with their own Workspace accounts and runs on both Gemini and Claude models. We explain how it works, the security and cost controls, how it compares with Microsoft’s new Copilot, OpenAI’s Dots, Meta’s Muse, Anthropic and xAI, and what UK businesses should check before a pilot.
The Verge’s Decoder asked whether you can trust Meta’s Muse or OpenAI’s Dots to run your life. We check Nilay Patel and Hayden Field’s arguments against what Meta and OpenAI have published: free versus paid, the data Muse collects on the people you know, the permission prompts behind recent failures, Zuckerberg’s plan to take a fee from transactions, the summer’s agent breaches and lock-in, then turn it into a practical test for what to connect.
Google has renamed an unreleased agent in its Antigravity 2.0 desktop app from Concierge to Chief of Staff. We compare the 5 and 8 October screenshots, explain the “Chief of stuff” confusion, set the change against Antigravity’s fast release cycle, Gemini 4 Argon and the Gemini agent Google Cloud announced the same day, and list the controls businesses should set before a chief-of-staff agent arrives.
SpaceXAI’s Grok Bot can now search, read and monitor X natively, with no X account or connector needed for reading. We explain what was announced, how the integration changed since August, what the first day of testing showed, what the same reading would cost on X’s paid API, and the prompt injection, privacy and platform-rule risks businesses should check first.
In a WIRED test, OpenAI’s always-on Dots agent got its user’s name wrong, misheard a mumble and replied “I love you too”, then failed a captcha it asked permission to solve. We set out what happened, what Dots are and cost, what OpenAI’s Model Spec says about emotional closeness and agent scope, how Dots compare with Meta’s Muse, and what businesses should learn.
Elon Musk says Grok Bot will use the best back-end model for each task, naming Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5, Midjourney and Suno. We set out what he said, why Grok Bot’s own docs already allowed it, what a task could cost on each model, why Midjourney and Suno are harder than they look, and what businesses should check before rolling Grok Bot out.
Personal AI agents like Muse, Instinct and Dots can book and buy for you, but websites keep turning them away. We map who is blocking agents and why, explain the Cloudflare default change behind some accidental blocks, look at Meta’s new Personal Agent Protocol, and give site owners a framework to block, verify or welcome agents.
Mitra Link lets one person’s Mitra AI assistant message another person’s Mitra directly, but only for contacts you allow and with separate settings for sending and answering. We cover the permissions, chat takeover, pricing per call hour, the open A2A standard and how to set it up safely.
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