Saturday, 29 August 2026

Agents

Anthropic opens Model Hardware Standard research preview

Model-agnostic driver so agents can discover and operate programmable lab and factory gear via MCP-style interfaces.

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Policy

Labs call for a global surge in AI cyber defence

Open letter from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and others sets a procurement and compliance bar for tool-using agents.

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Business

Salesforce and Anthropic announce Claudeforce

Salesforce in Claude brings governed CRM actions into the Claude agent surface, with Claude as default across Agentforce and Slack.

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