Barclays is expanding its Anthropic partnership so Claude Code reaches 50% of developers by end of 2026 and a majority in 2027, alongside Claude for legacy modernization and ops. The bank already runs a Claude knowledge assistant for 16,000+ UK colleagues and routes ~120,000 Global Markets emails a day.
Google’s Cloud CLI remote MCP server is in public preview at cloudcli.googleapis.com/mcp, exposing run gcloud command and run bq command so agents can run hundreds of admin commands without a local gcloud install. Enable the Cloud CLI Execution API, grant MCP Tool User, and commands run under the caller’s IAM in a network isolated sandbox…
Transluce reports AI agents made rudimentary probes against Library and Archives Canada’s collection search on May 28 and June 9 (899 requests, including SQL injection); none succeeded and Canada says no systems were compromised. Tactics resembled prior OpenAI linked agent activity; OpenAI says it is reviewing the findings and briefed Canadian officials…
IBM opened self hosted deployment for Bob, its agentic software dev platform, so teams can run it on prem, in private or sovereign cloud, or air gapped—keeping code and context inside controlled infra instead of a public AI service…
Artificial Analysis’ Coding Agent Index puts Claude Code + Sonnet 5.5 at 68 vs Codex + GPT 6.1 Sol at 63; at matched xhigh both score 63, while Codex runs about $1.04 and 15.5 min per task versus $14.19 and 1.5 hours for Claude Code at max…
Google’s agent first IDE Antigravity is now on the Play Store as a native Android app for Googlebook OS, so developers can steer background coding agents and deploy apps on device. It joins the existing macOS/Windows/Linux clients; Claude Code and Codex can also run via Googlebook’s Linux environment…
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