What happens when you give 40,000 employees access to AI agents and let them build whatever they want? Prosus found out. The global tech investment company published the results in May 2026: 60,000 agents deployed, across dozens of portfolio companies, without any central mandate from headquarters. The playbook they’ve written from that experience — distilled in a report called The Coming Age of AI Colleagues — is one of the most data-rich enterprise perspectives on agentic AI published so far this year. The headline finding is counterintuitive and important. ...

Google I/O kicks off tomorrow — May 19 at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View — and if you care about autonomous AI agents, this is the conference to watch. The 2026 edition is shaping up to be the most agent-centric I/O in years, with Google positioning the entire event around the shift from assistive to agentic AI. Here’s what the schedule reveals and what to expect. The Core Thesis: From Prompts to Autonomous Action Every major Google event in 2026 has carried the same throughline: AI is graduating from reactive helper to proactive agent. I/O 2026 appears designed to put that thesis center stage, not just in product demos but in developer education. ...

An AI agent that fails silently is one of the most expensive debugging problems you’ll face. It picks tools, branches, retries, rewrites its own plan — and without visibility into those decisions, you’re flying blind. That’s the premise behind Motus Tracing, and it’s a compelling one. Lithos AI released Motus Tracing in May 2026 as a fully open-source observability layer for AI agents. It’s framework-agnostic, requires zero code changes to your agent, and the entire tracing stack is free to use. Here’s how it works and how to set it up. ...

If you’re building agentic AI systems for a living, there’s now a formal certification for that — and the beta window is open with a significant discount. GitHub and Microsoft launched Exam GH-600: Certified Agentic AI Developer in beta on May 13, 2026, with general availability planned for July 2026. It’s the first role-based certification focused specifically on how developers build, operate, supervise, and integrate AI agents across the software development lifecycle. ...

OpenClaw is moving fast in 2026, and the latest pre-release — 2026.5.16-beta.4 — brings a cluster of improvements that multi-agent pipeline operators have been asking for. The highlights this cycle: smarter subagent handoffs, cron scheduling refinements, Grok OAuth for SuperGrok subscribers, and a Control UI that finally shows you where your quota is going. Here’s a breakdown of what changed, why it matters, and what to check after upgrading. Cleaner Subagent Handoffs (Delegated Completions) The most significant change in beta.4 is how subagent handoffs are labeled and surfaced when they complete. Previously, completions from child agents could arrive in a way that made it unclear which task was being reported — especially in long pipelines with multiple agent depths. ...

Code extracted from Google App v17.20 reveals that Gemini Spark — Google’s forthcoming always-on Android AI agent — is built around two architectural pillars: a modular skill system and a background task scheduler. If you’re building with AI agent frameworks or evaluating the agentic AI landscape ahead of Google I/O 2026 (May 19–20), understanding this architecture will help you contextualize where Google’s platform play fits relative to what already exists. ...

Before Google has even officially unveiled it at I/O 2026, Gemini Spark’s architecture is already an open secret — written in plain sight inside the code of Google App v17.20. A forensic deep-dive by Forbes’ Paul Monckton has surfaced two capabilities that explain exactly how Google intends to evolve Gemini from a conversational assistant into a persistent, proactive AI agent on Android: a task scheduler and a modular skill system. Together, they represent a fundamental shift in how AI works on your device — moving from “respond when asked” to “act on a schedule.” ...

It’s official: in April 2026, more U.S. businesses paid for Anthropic’s Claude than for OpenAI’s ChatGPT. For the first time since the enterprise AI market took shape, Anthropic leads OpenAI in this particular — and highly meaningful — metric. The data comes from Ramp’s May 2026 AI Index, which tracks actual corporate card payments across tens of thousands of U.S. businesses. This isn’t a survey, an analyst estimate, or a benchmark — it’s real payment data reflecting genuine buying decisions by real organizations. ...

When people talk about multi-agent AI development teams, they usually mean two or three agents working together on a task. Peter Steinberger means something different. Steinberger — founder of OpenClaw and now an engineer at OpenAI — runs approximately 100 Codex instances in continuous operation. They write code, review pull requests, find bugs, deduplicate GitHub issues, monitor benchmarks, and even attend meetings to draft PRs for features discussed in conversation. In 30 days, his team’s OpenAI API bill hit $1.3 million for 603 billion tokens across 7.6 million requests. The top model powering it all: GPT-5.5. ...

For nearly six months, OpenClaw owned the top spot on OpenRouter’s global daily inference rankings. As of May 10, 2026, it doesn’t anymore. Nous Research’s Hermes Agent crossed the threshold on May 10th, processing between 224 and 291 billion tokens per day — decisively outpacing OpenClaw’s 186 billion daily token throughput and claiming the #1 position on the world’s largest open inference platform. This is the first time any agent has led OpenRouter’s rankings since OpenClaw launched in late 2025. ...