The agent wars, launch by launch. Here are the new autonomous agents the big labs and software companies have released, what they say each one does, and a link to every announcement.
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Spotted in the changelog
Tucked into Replit's 23 October changelog: a 'Monitoring Agent' that Replit calls 'your autonomous on-call engineer'. It reads your app's logs and metrics, triages alerts in the background and tries fixes. Flip the experimental 'Auto-republish' setting and it publishes validated fixes to your live app without waiting for you.
Shopping
On Meta's earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg said about 10 million people in the US and Canada have set up the Muse agent app. Shopping is the most common use, with an average purchase of over $200. Meta plans to make money by taking a small cut of sales made through the agent.
Launch
Anthropic previewed Claude Duet, an agent for small businesses and professionals. It sends daily briefs, keeps watch on connected apps, and builds dashboards, schedules meetings and makes financial forecasts. Anthropic says it "checks with you before it acts on your behalf". It's a direct shot at Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots.
Launch
Oracle announced AI Agent Studio for Industry Applications, a no-code and low-code tool for creating, testing, deploying and managing AI agents and teams of agents. It is built for industry-specific processes and builds on Oracle's Agent Studio for Fusion Applications.
Launch
At Gemini at Work 2026, Google Cloud announced the Gemini agent, which it calls a universal agent for work. Google says it connects to your business systems and automates workflows from a single prompt.
Always on
OpenAI announced Dots at DevDay: always-on agents powered by GPT-6 Astra that keep working on the tasks you give them. They pull context from your connected apps, learn your preferences, and can be messaged in ChatGPT, Slack and Teams. The rollout started with the $100-a-month ChatGPT Pro tier.
