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Today's topics:

AI agents move into workplaces - OpenAI introduced ChatGPT “workspace agents” that run long workflows with tool access, memory, approvals, and enterprise controls—pushing AI deeper into real operations.

Google’s agent platform shift - Google launched the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform with governance, identity, registry, runtime, and evaluation, signaling Vertex AI’s roadmap is consolidating into an agent-first platform.

AI-generated code becomes mainstream - Google says around 75% of new code is AI-generated then reviewed by engineers, highlighting the rapid normalization of AI-assisted development and new management pressures.

Realistic benchmarking for agent workloads - Applied Compute argues classic LLM benchmarks miss agentic reality, releasing recorded multi-turn tool-using traces and a replay harness to measure latency tails, KV-cache pressure, and throughput.

OpenAI’s next image model - OpenAI briefly tested anonymous image models on LM Arena; the community suspects “GPT Image 2,” with stronger text-in-image, photorealism, and speed—timed ahead of the DALL‑E shutdown.

How to make agents reliable - Augment’s AGENTS.md study and Garry Tan’s “skillify” idea both point to a key lesson: durable agent reliability comes from tight docs, deterministic safeguards, and tests—not prompt tweaks.

Training search agents without regressions - Perplexity described a two-stage post-training pipeline—SFT plus on-policy RL with gated rewards—to improve search accuracy and tool efficiency without breaking safety and style guardrails.

Misinformation from AI images - South Korean police arrested a man over an AI-generated wolf photo that diverted an emergency search, underscoring how synthetic media can waste public resources and spark panic.

Open models get more capable - Qwen’s Qwen3.6-27B is being praised for near-flagship agentic coding performance at a far smaller footprint, accelerating the shift toward powerful local and on-prem models.

Costs and governance reshape tooling - Microsoft is reportedly moving GitHub Copilot toward token-based billing, while infrastructure funding like Vast Data’s big raise shows costs, governance, and scale are driving product decisions.

-OpenAI Launches Shared ‘Workspace Agents’ for Team Workflows in ChatGPT
-Google Cloud Launches Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform to Build and Govern AI Agents
-Google: 75% of New Code Is AI-Generated as Company Moves to Agentic Wo