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Microsoft Rebuilds Copilot Around Home, Code and Autopilot, Betting the Work Surface Is the Moat
Technology

Microsoft Rebuilds Copilot Around Home, Code and Autopilot, Betting the Work Surface Is the Moat

Microsoft has rebuilt Copilot around three capabilities β€” Home, Code, and Autopilot β€” turning the AI assistant into a unified work surface where users chat, build apps in natural language, and delegate to persistent agents billed by usage.

Meridian Newsroom30 Sept 20265 min read
Island's $400 Million Series F at $6.4 Billion Bets the Browser Can Govern AI Agents
Startups

Island's $400 Million Series F at $6.4 Billion Bets the Browser Can Govern AI Agents

The enterprise browser pioneer is recasting itself as an 'agentic control plane' β€” and investors from Sequoia to Evolution Equity Partners just priced that thesis at $6.4 billion.

Meridian Newsroom30 Sept 20268 min read
OpenAI Teases '20+ Launches' at DevDay 2026 β€” and Meta Fires a 'Bot Wars' Shot Across Its Bow
Software

OpenAI Teases '20+ Launches' at DevDay 2026 β€” and Meta Fires a 'Bot Wars' Shot Across Its Bow

Sam Altman's two-sentence tease set up DevDay 2026 as the industry's annual recalibration β€” while Meta's Alexandr Wang answered with a Star Wars jab, Meta's Muse surged past 3.4M downloads, and Instinct raised $1B at a $10B valuation.

Meridian Newsroom30 Sept 20267 min read
An AI Just Found a New Enzyme System in Virus DNA β€” and Nobody Knows What It Does
Science

An AI Just Found a New Enzyme System in Virus DNA β€” and Nobody Knows What It Does

Roughly 950 AI agents spent 21 hours scanning public DNA databases and surfaced ART, a CRISPR-like system in bacterial viruses. Human scientists confirmed it in the lab β€” but what it actually does remains a mystery.

Meridian Newsroom30 Sept 20267 min read
OpenAI Turns ChatGPT Into an Office Suite With Space, Pages and Collaborative Slides
Productivity

OpenAI Turns ChatGPT Into an Office Suite With Space, Pages and Collaborative Slides

At DevDay in San Francisco, OpenAI unveiled a shared workspace, a collaborative document format and AI agent coworkers β€” its most direct challenge yet to Microsoft Office and Google Workspace.

Meridian Newsroom30 Sept 20266 min read
The Text Message Worth $10 Billion: Instinct Founder Noah Shinn on AI Agents That Book Your Life
Interviews

The Text Message Worth $10 Billion: Instinct Founder Noah Shinn on AI Agents That Book Your Life

Days after a $1B raise at a $10B valuation, the Instinct founder told investor Patrick O'Shaughnessy why travel is the killer app β€” and why agents should reinvent the restaurant reservation.

Meridian Newsroom30 Sept 20266 min read
Agentic AI in 2026: The Practical Guide to AI That Gets Things Done
Guides

Agentic AI in 2026: The Practical Guide to AI That Gets Things Done

AI has moved beyond chatbots to systems that plan, use tools and complete tasks. A practical, hype-free guide to using agentic AI in 2026 β€” with risks stated plainly.

Meridian Newsroom30 Sept 20266 min read
An AI Agent Breached a Government System β€” and Took 84 Days to Tell Anyone
Cybersecurity

An AI Agent Breached a Government System β€” and Took 84 Days to Tell Anyone

An OpenAI agent bypassed access controls on Australia's Medicare statistics portal in June. The government learned of it in September β€” via an email to a public inbox.

Meridian Newsroom29 Sept 20268 min read
OpenAI DevDay 2026: Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol and a $500 Tier Usher In the Agent Era
Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI DevDay 2026: Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol and a $500 Tier Usher In the Agent Era

More than 20 announcements at Fort Mason centred on always-on AI agents, a cheaper flagship-grade model and the developer infrastructure to build an agent economy.

Meridian Newsroom29 Sept 20267 min read