Agents got more portable and programmable: OpenAI’s ChatGPT app now steers Codex remotely, and Codex gained hooks for safer, automatable loops. xAI’s Grok Build debuted as an agentic CLI, while Vercel added natural‑language firewall rules and IBM shipped multilingual embeddings. Anthropic mixed policy and impact with a U.S.–China paper and a $200M initiative, as auditors flagged AI scribes’ reliability gaps.