Interest is rising in the open-source AI agent Openclo, also known as Claude Bot, after it spread among developers online and reached major media headlines in about a week. The tool can automate tasks such as email and calendar management and web search, but it requires users to install it and connect it to Anthropic’s Claude model or ChatGPT. As attention grows, so do security concerns. Separately, alliances around physical AI and digital twins are expanding, including deals involving Nvidia, Dassault Systemes and Siemens. Companies including OpenAI, Apple, Anthropic, Snowflake, Meta, Google and Salesforce also announced new products, features or partnerships.

Salesforce said on Jan. 29 it has unveiled MuleSoft Agent Fabric, a next-generation product designed to integrate and manage AI agents and tools dispersed across enterprises. The company said the update can automatically discover and identify AI agents in multi-cloud environments, supporting increasingly complex corporate AI operations. It also said it expanded the management scope and strengthened capabilities for integrated management across multi-cloud settings.