The AI agent ecosystem hit a new velocity this week. OpenAI dropped GPT-5.6 as a limited preview — a three-model family (Sol, Terra, Luna) led by flagship Sol, with Sam Altman noting restricted launch at the request of the US government. OpenAI also published research showing agent usage in research workflows jumped 56x since November 2025. Salesforce's $3.6B acquisition of Fin signals agentic AI M&A is accelerating. A coalition of Google, Microsoft, GitHub, and Hugging Face shipped the Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) specification — essentially "DNS for AI agents." Security concerns continue scaling: malicious skills targeting OpenClaw's ClawHub marketplace were exposed, with attackers using poisoned SKILL.md files for supply-chain attacks. Marc Andreessen captured the macro picture: "The AI:AC Hypothesis — the amount of AI will be proportional to the amount of AC."
June 26 limited preview. Sol is the flagship frontier model, Terra delivers GPT-5.5-level performance at half the price, and Luna is fast and affordable for high-volume work. Access is restricted at the request of the US government.
A wave of malicious skills targeting the OpenClaw AI agent marketplace has exposed a dangerous new frontier in software supply chain security. Attackers are using poisoned SKILL.md files to push harmful code into AI agent installations.
Agentic Resource Discovery is an open spec standardizing how AI agents discover and verify tools online — think "DNS for AI agents." GitHub already shipped Agent Finder for Copilot implementing the spec, developed with Google, GoDaddy, Hugging Face, and Microsoft.
OpenAI published data showing enterprise agent adoption exploded. Research saw the biggest jump — median use 56x higher than November 2025. Customer Support rose 32x, Engineering 27x, Legal grew 13x.
Salesforce deepens its agentic AI push, acquiring autonomous AI agent platform Fin to complement Agentforce. A direct counter to Microsoft and ServiceNow's AI agent offerings. Expected to close Q4 FY2027.
Selected posts from the edition, with links to the originals.
"The AI:AC Hypothesis. In the future, in each country, the amount of AI will be proportional to the amount of AC. And vice versa."
View post on X ↗"Crypto sentiment is terrible. Bitcoin is bleeding. AI has stolen the spotlight. But Franklin Crypto's Chris Perkins says fundamentals are improving, and institutions are still moving in."
View post on X ↗"@jackfriks I haven't used an IDE in I think 12 months now. Claude Code on the server 95%"
View post on X ↗(Bloomberg): "OpenAI hired former Uber executive Prabhjeet Singh to lead its operations in India, deepening its investment in one of its fastest-growing markets."
View post on X ↗"Open, Decentralized AI, and Self-Sovereign Intelligence theses are all getting the biggest validation this week. BUT..... investable opportunities remain quite limited — high revenue DeAI projects accrue value to equity and only use token as incentives"
View post on X ↗"the toxic urge to use 10 subagents for every task"
View post on X ↗"Satya Nadella is building infrastructure for 20 million AI agents to work alongside Microsoft employees. When the CEO of the world's largest software company makes agent deployment at scale his top priority..."
View post on X ↗"Google, Microsoft, GitHub, Hugging Face + 7 others just changed how AI agents work forever. They shipped ARD — Agentic Resource Discovery. Think of it as DNS for AI agents."
View post on X ↗"🚨 33,000+ GitHub stars in less than a month. This isn't another AI wrapper. This might be the closest thing to a real AI operating system we've seen. Meet OpenHuman."
View post on X ↗"$CRM announced its acquisition of customer service automation vendor Fin for $3.6 billion. The move is a direct counter to Microsoft and ServiceNow's AI Agent offerings, with plans to deeply integrate Fin into Agentforce."
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