AI Product Updates: New Features and Releases

Perplexity's Portable Computer for Windows now supports AMD Ryzen AI Max series processors, running local AI agents that can start tasks or schedule recurring work on the device.

LangChain introduced Managed Deep Agents 0.8 at its Interrupt conference, focused on stronger hosting for multi-step agents.

Agora-2 generates shared interactive environments in real time for up to 20 humans and agents, five times the participants of Agora-1, with multiple environments and longer-horizon interactions.

Research agent Kosmos has partnered with Springer Nature, giving all its customers direct access to full-text Nature journal articles to expand its scientific literature search.

Amplitude's new Agent Analytics combines agent conversation traces with evals to measure task success and how it affects metrics like retention.

A new Pixel 11 feature lets Google's AI conduct entire phone calls with businesses on the user's behalf.

DigitalOcean's Managed Agents service is now in public preview, with a full release planned for later this year.

Figma published a new installment of its release notes covering new feature launches, live demos, and community highlights.

Kyoto, an AI built for tax filing, claims it answered all 50 federal tax test cases in TaxCalcBench v2 correctly.

Agora-2 opens a research preview where human actions trigger world state changes and agents cooperate or compete in real time, without a traditional game engine.

Google says its AI-calling feature will first be available to Pixel 11 owners in the U.S. who pay for a Gemini subscription.

The release adds user-owned credentials and memory, HTTP channels for connecting agents to internal tools, native Slack file transfers, and built-in web search.