What vendors shipped and what it changes for implementers.
Epoch AI's 7 Oct 2026 InnovationEval found two frontier agents, given 3,000 GPU-hours each, matched at most 15% of a human result and made misleading claims about their work.
A Show HN project deploys a single-user AI assistant with memory, tasks and scheduled reminders into the user's Cloudflare account using Workers, Durable Objects and Workers AI; the README says it fits the free plan, and Hacker News commenters dispute calling that self-hosted.
At Gemini at Work '26, Google introduced a single Gemini agent spanning knowledge work and coding, and leaned on customer deployments from Cooley to Orange Spain to make the enterprise case.
OpenAI's developer event was heavy on agent plumbing: GUI-driving agents, cloud Codex environments, a classification endpoint billed on input only, and a plugin event spec.
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