Who is building the agent operating system?
Twelve dimensions across seven providers. Re-graded as announcements land, with the market's reaction shown alongside.
Google · Cross-App Actions
Real orchestration · updated 2026-06-01
Workspace actions and Android intents let it actually do things; coherence is the open question.
Can the assistant reach across apps and services to actually do things (book, send, schedule, edit) rather than describe how you'd do them? The difference between a chatbot and a control plane.
- NewsWWDC 2026: What to expect, from Siri's revamp to Apple Intelligence and iOS 27TechCrunch · 2026-06-08
Day-of preview of the conversational Siri revamp, Gemini backing, and cross-app multi-step capabilities in iOS 27.
- NewsGoogle introduces Gemini Spark, a 24/7 agentic assistant with Gmail integrationTechCrunch · 2026-05-19
A continuously-running cloud agent that uses existing Gmail/Workspace access to act on a user's behalf.
- AnalysisA Guide to Which AI to Use in the Agentic EraOne Useful Thing (Ethan Mollick) · 2026-02-18
A models/apps/harnesses framework: the harness that lets a model take real actions now matters as much as IQ.
- PrimaryOne Year of MCP: November 2025 Spec ReleaseModel Context Protocol · 2025-11-25
MCP's rise from open-source experiment to de facto standard adopted across OpenAI, Microsoft, GitHub, and Google.
- PrimaryGemini as a universal AI assistant (Google I/O 2025)Google DeepMind · 2025-05-20
Google's intent to fold Project Astra and Mariner into Gemini as a 'universal assistant' that sees, acts, and remembers.