Trend Watch: Today's White House AI Meeting Seats the Labs Asking to Slow Down Across From a President Who Calls the Risk a Hoax
Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson meet Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, NVIDIA and Palantir leaders at 12:30 p.m. ET on September 29. There's no published agenda, and the speaker's stated goal is 'balance' -- written before the meeting, this preview covers what's on the table.
Z.ai's Open-Source ZCode Harness, a Universal Model Gateway, and Semantic Search Built for Agents
This week's trending agent repos pull the coding-agent stack apart into swappable layers: the harness (ZCode), the model behind it (magpie) and the code retrieval it relies on (jevgrep). That flexibility comes with new places to get security wrong.
Microsoft Work IQ Previews Tomorrow: A Shared Business-Data Layer So Every Agent Doesn't Relearn the Company
Starting September 30, Work IQ grounds Copilot and agents in Dynamics 365, Power Platform and Dataverse data through reusable semantic models, business skills and permission-bound write-back actions.
OpenAI DevDay 2026: 'Dots' Give Every ChatGPT Pro User a Standing Agent With Its Own Cloud Computer
Dots run on GPT-6 Astra, keep working between conversations, reach 4,000+ apps through plugins and follow user-written approval rules. The same keynote introduced GPT-6.1 Sol at a fifth of Astra's token price.
America.gov Launches as an AI Front Door to Federal Services, Built on Gemini and Grok
The chatbot answers from roughly 29,000 federal websites and points people to the right service; completing forms is planned for 2027. An executive order tells agencies to integrate 'as soon as possible.'