IA News: 26 July 2025

November 19, 2025, 12:16 AM EST. A Verge Shopping guide with gifts for diverse interests across a wide price range. For both gamers and movie lovers, it spotlights D&D starter sets and Criterion box sets, plus a mix of media and hardware. Highlights include the portable Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 laptop, the nostalgic Lego Game Boy replica, and the flexible Backbone Pro controller. It also covers standout game picks like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, plus TVs, tabletop books, party-friendly board games, vinyl, and other gear. Whether you shop under $20 or well beyond $400, there are options to delight a couch co-op night or a Wes Anderson fan.

November 19, 2025, 12:14 AM EST. Microsoft and Nvidia announced a new tie-up to invest in Anthropic, with the Claude maker committing to use Microsoft's cloud services as part of a $30 billion pledge to Azure. Nvidia could invest up to $10 billion and Microsoft up to $5 billion, underscoring the race to secure scale in AI compute. The deal binds major players to one of OpenAI's rivals and highlights the industry's appetite for cloud services and massive computing power to train next-generation models. As OpenAI and others expand cloud spending, some investors warn of bubble risk and rising questions about the long-term fundamentals behind the AI boom.

November 19, 2025, 12:10 AM EST. Microsoft is expanding its 'agent factory' vision with Agent 365, a control plane to manage AI agents like human workers. The platform provides dashboards, telemetry, and alerts to monitor how agents operate, and integrates with Microsoft Entra for registration and access control. It lets admins constrain agents' data access, connect with Microsoft 365 apps, and guard against internal and external threats. Agent 365 supports a broader ecosystem including Adobe, Nvidia, ServiceNow, and Workday, enabling real-time visibility of connections between agents, people, and data. Available via Frontier, an early-access program, the rollout is designed for IT admins to test adoption scenarios and ensure secure deployment of AI agents across the enterprise.

November 19, 2025, 12:08 AM EST. Microsoft unveiled Agent 365, a tool that automatically discovers and manages AI agents across a company's software ecosystem, including partners like Adobe, ServiceNow and Workday. IT admins can approve new agents, monitor which agents are gaining popularity, and quantify time saved by automation. The system can spot security risks and block agents, while end users can analyze agents' activities. As with provisioning identities for workers, Agent 365 provisions identity and access controls for agents, unifying governance across internal and external agents. Agents from Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio, plus third-party offerings, will appear in the catalog. EY has piloted the approach to gain tighter control. The product will be demonstrated at Ignite in San Francisco.

November 19, 2025, 12:04 AM EST. Google's Gemini 3 is billed as the company's most capable AI to date, with stronger multimodal understanding and nuances in user intent. Beyond chat, it can turn long video lectures into interactive flashcards and analyze real-world tasks (for example, a pickleball match) to spot improvements. Gemini 3 will roll out in AI Mode in Search and, for Pro and Ultra users, in AI Overviews where it can generate interactive elements. Google also touts improved security against prompt injection and presents Google Antigravity, an agentic development platform that pairs with Gemini 2.5's browser-use model. Initially, only Google AI Ultra subscribers at $250/month get Gemini Agent for multi-step workflows like travel itineraries. The release comes amid a broader AI race and concerns about hallucinations and sycophancy in AI behavior.