OpenAI Debuts Shared Workspace Agents to Automate Team Handoffs

OpenAI Debuts Shared Workspace Agents to Automate Team Handoffs

OpenAI has introduced a new class of ChatGPT tools called shared workspace agents — always-on assistants designed to carry work across systems and through multi-step processes without constant human prompting. Built on Codex, these agents aim to reduce the friction of manual handoffs inside teams by gathering information from connected systems, executing defined steps, and returning results in a way

Accenture and WaveMaker’s bet on mid-market AI modernization

Accenture and WaveMaker’s bet on mid-market AI modernization

Accenture and WaveMaker have forged a strategic collaboration aimed at helping mid-market organizations modernize their applications using WaveMaker’s agentic AI platform. Rather than positioning this as a large enterprise play, the partnership focuses on companies with revenues up to about $3 billion that often lack the budgets or in-house engineering scale for full-scale digital transformation. The goal is practical: accelerate

Apple’s Leadership Shift: Tim Cook to Executive Chairman, John Ternus Named CEO

Apple’s Leadership Shift: Tim Cook to Executive Chairman, John Ternus Named CEO

Apple has announced a major leadership transition: Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple’s board of directors, and John Ternus, currently senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, will step into the role of CEO on September 1, 2026. The board approved the change unanimously after a long-term succession planning process. Cook will remain CEO through the summer to work

Google brings “Skills” to Chrome so Gemini prompts are instantly reusable

Google brings “Skills” to Chrome so Gemini prompts are instantly reusable

Chrome is getting another nudge toward becoming the home for Google’s AI toolbox. This spring Google introduced “Skills,” a way to save Gemini prompts inside the browser so common queries and workflows can be retriggered with a click. Rather than retyping or copy‑pasting a prompt each time you want Gemini to perform a task, Skills let you store and reuse

Building an AI Coding Tool Stack for Modern Development

Building an AI Coding Tool Stack for Modern Development

The past few years have quietly transformed how software is written. AI-assisted tools are no longer experimental add-ons; they’re becoming integral parts of developer workflows. But picking the right combination of models, integrations, and guardrails is more art than science. This article walks through a pragmatic approach to assembling an AI coding tool stack that improves productivity without sacrificing code

Price Elasticity: The One Data Point That Could Clarify AI’s Impact on Jobs

Price Elasticity: The One Data Point That Could Clarify AI’s Impact on Jobs

Silicon Valley’s conversations about AI often sound like inevitabilities: sweeping automation, mass displacement, and workplaces remade by powerful models. Those scenarios have driven anxiety among workers and intense debate among researchers. But one practical problem underlies much of the confusion: we lack the right economic data to predict how AI-driven productivity gains will actually affect employment. Without that missing piece,