The Hallway Track
Meta's Muse is the first consumer-accessible agentic AI with persistent Linux VMs per user
“It's the first consumer-accessible agentic AI system, and Meta has truly done an amazing job with that. But it's a genuinely open question whether consumers have any understanding what this means.”
OpenAI previews Private Safety Processing enabling AI safety without compromising customer data privacy
Databricks' Unity AI Gateway adds centralized governance, security, and cost control across agents, models, MCPs, and skills.
“wouldn't it be great if you just had like one inventory of all the agents that were built in your enterprise?”
OpenAI DevDay 2026 launched Dots always-on agents, GPT-6.1 Sol, and major platform APIs
SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.6, a 1.5T model targeting knowledge work agents
“builds on Grok 4.5 with a particular focus on long-running agents and more ambitious interactive and visual work”
Greg Brockman confirms ChatGPT Chat and Work modes will merge by end of 2026
Google I/O 2026 repositioned Gemini as consumer AI surface and developer agent platform with three major launches
“Google used I/O to reposition Gemini as both a consumer AI surface and a developer/agent platform, with three core technical announcements: Gemini 3.5 Flash for fast agentic/coding workloads, Gemini Omni for multimodal generation/editing starting with video, and a broader Antigravity agent stack spanning desktop/CLI”
Salesforce introduces AI Force to enhance enterprise workflows with trusted AI capabilities.
“AI plus trusted context is incredibly powerful, but it's most powerful when it unlocks people to do what they do best.”
Salesforce introduces AI Force to enhance enterprise AI capabilities seamlessly.
“AI plus trusted context is incredibly powerful, but it's most powerful when it unlocks people to do what they do best.”
Salesforce is redefining what enterprise AI means for businesses.
“Salesforce is committed to driving AI adoption in every aspect of our business.”
APEX platform streamlines agent deployment across teams using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore.
Salesforce is evolving toward an intelligence-centric enterprise model.
“this whole AI transition is not just a change in the AI stack, it's actually changing every role in the enterprise”
AI models have improved dramatically and are now transforming enterprises.
“These models are in some ways going to become more capable smarter than people.”
Box's AI capabilities are evolving to meet enterprise needs.
“Box is building a collaboration platform and content management platform for the enterprise that has now taken on really new life with AI.”
NVIDIA NemoClaw enables memory-driven AI agents for enterprise work.
Peregrine aims to improve city collaboration through technology and safety.
“The idea is that we can do both: preserve and protect an individual's privacy, while bringing people together.”
Claude Fable 5.1 launches on AWS Bedrock with mandatory 30-day data retention as a Covered Model
OpenAI enables ChatGPT to connect to EHR and healthcare industry data for clinicians
“ChatGPT can now connect to trusted healthcare data, helping clinicians securely access patient context, medical research, and more.”
Five agentic Claude capabilities now run on Azure-hosted Foundry, resolving enterprise data-residency trade-off
“That trade-off is now resolved. Structured outputs, Web search, Web fetch, MCP connector, and Tool search are available on deployments hosted on Azure.”
MCP's 2026-07-28 spec makes the protocol stateless, enabling standard HTTP horizontal scaling for enterprise agents
“remote MCP servers effectively become standard HTTPS endpoints, which scale cleanly with enterprise workloads”
OpenAI launches Presence, an enterprise platform for trusted voice and chat AI agents.
“a proven enterprise AI agent platform that helps organizations deploy trusted voice and chat agents for customer and internal workflows”
OpenAI reveals new safety risks and failures from deploying long-running AI agents
YC's Garry Tan claims 400x personal coding productivity gain with AI agents.
“One person does what used to take a thousand people. And I don't mean that as a metaphor. I mean that mechanically this year, the people in this room will do this.”
Databricks launched Omnigent, an open-source 'meta-harness' layer on top of the agentic stack to make agents effective at scale.
“we call it a meta harness of harnesses, if you know what an agent harness is.”
Databricks open-sources Omnigent, a meta-harness to combine, control, and share agents across Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and more.
“CDC is brittle enough to joke that it means “continuous data corruption,””
Databricks CEO says AI is smart enough; enterprises need context, control, and choice to scale agents.
“We think that the AI is plenty smart already. We don't need more intelligence for the AI, we need more context.”
Google DeepMind adds computer use capabilities to its Gemini 3.5 Flash model.
Clay runs over 350 million go-to-market AI agents monthly, processing trillions of tokens per week.
“We run this over 350 million times a month. It processes trillions of tokens every week.”
LangChain launched Engine, an agent that autonomously investigates traces and drafts PRs to improve other agents.
“We're working towards a future where agents improve themselves.”
Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 marks a step-change for open agentic models, rivaling top labs.
“minor version numbers can have AI models crossing meaningful user experience thresholds”
Microsoft Foundry assembles agents, tuning, evals, and OpenEnv into an owned reinforcement-learning loop that improves over time.
“the durable asset is not the model you rent, it is the learning loop you own”
OpenAI plans to acquire Ona to expand Codex with persistent cloud environments for long-running AI agents.
AI lets enterprises finally capture human capital and tacit knowledge, but humans stay valuable by finding gaps.
“Every company is going to have the human capital that is still going to be super valuable because humans and their ability to find the gaps that exist at all times is going to be the way we all will create value”
Microsoft Foundry adds enterprise agent distribution: publish to M365 Copilot/Teams, autopilot agents, and Agent-to-Agent.
“The past year was about building agents. The next year is about putting them to work.”
Windows 365 for Agents is now generally available, giving AI agents their own cloud PCs to operate Windows apps like a human.
“You need to give your agent a computer. That's what Windows 365 for agents does.”
Claude Opus 4.8 is now available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS
“Opus 4.8 can hold a plan across stages, better track what it has done and what remains, and adjust course when something breaks rather than surfacing an error and stopping.”
Anthropic and OpenAI shifted enterprise pricing to API usage, signaling true product-market fit.
“I had assumed that companies making extensive use of agents were getting similar discounts. It turns out I could not have been more wrong about that.”
Google launches Anti-gravity agentic platform and Gemma 4 hits 100M downloads in first month
“It's our smartest open model yet. It's purposebuilt for advanced reasoning, agentic workflows, and the response has been incredible. 100 million downloads in the first month and it's pushing Gemma downloads past half a billion.”
All major AI model labs are now also building agents as their core product
OpenAI named a Leader in 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise AI Coding Agents