Google's AI just did what Apple couldn't

Anthropic

Cowork introduces scheduled tasks that automate recurring work by executing saved Claude prompts on custom cadences, enabling teams to generate daily briefings, weekly reports, and ongoing research without manual intervention.

Google's Gemini agents are launching multistep task capabilities on Android phones, leapfrogging Apple's delayed Siri intelligence features and establishing an early lead in on-device agentic AI.

OpenAI Developers

OpenAI's new gpt-realtime model enables production voice agents with a detailed prompting guide that covers system design patterns, tool orchestration, conversation state management, and safety escalation—showing that careful prompt engineering, structured flow design, and explicit behavioral rules dramatically improve voice assistant reliability and naturalness.

Anthropic

Anthropic provides a practical framework for building rigorous evaluations of AI agents across different types and use cases, demonstrating how early investment in evals prevents production failures, accelerates development, and enables confident iteration on increasingly capable models.

Anthropic's advanced agentic AI tools triggered a $285 billion software sector sell-off, signaling that AI now threatens to replace entire professional workflows and business models rather than merely augment them, fundamentally reshaping the value proposition of traditional software and data companies.