Agentic AI Weekly | Berkeley RDI | June 3, 2026
Agentic AI Summit Early Bird Tickets and Expanded Speaker List
Agentic AI Summit 2026 (More Featured Speakers Announced, Early-Bird Pricing Ending Soon, and Limited Number of Tickets Left!)
Save the date! The Agentic AI Summit returns to Berkeley on August 1–2, 2026, welcoming 5,000+ expected in-person attendees for two days of insights and innovation. Building on last year’s sold-out success—with 2,000+ in‑person attendees and 40,000+ global livestream participants—the summit will bring together researchers, builders, industry leaders, and the global agentic AI community for keynotes, technical talks and panels, hands-on workshops, live demos, and more!
In addition, we are excited to showcase our expanded list of speakers for the Summit! We are honored to have such a great group of academics, founders, executives, and investors participate in this year’s event, and more will be announced soon!
🎟️ Early‑Bird Pricing (Limited Capacity)
A limited number of early‑bird tickets are still available:
Student Early-Bird: $199 (very few student tier tickets left; ensure you buy your tickets as soon as possible before they sell out!)
Standard Early-Bird: $399
Sponsorship Opportunities
Partner with us to shape the future of Agentic AI. If you’re interested in sponsoring the summit, please complete the sponsorship application form. Sponsorship opportunities are limited and reviewed/allocated on a rolling basis, so we encourage you to apply early.
Trends This Week
At Computex 2026, Nvidia announced RTX Spark, a new AI-focused PC chip platform designed to run AI agents locally on personal devices. Built on Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture, RTX Spark delivers up to 1 petaflop of AI performance and up to 128GB of unified memory, with systems expected from major PC manufacturers later this year. Nvidia also announced Cosmos 3, an open world foundation model designed for robotics and physical AI applications. The model is intended to help robots and autonomous systems understand, simulate, and predict real-world environments using multimodal data. The company expanded its local AI agent ecosystem with the release of NemoClaw and a new Agent Toolkit for building and deploying agents. In addition, Nvidia announced OpenShell, a runtime for deploying AI agents on Windows that integrates with Microsoft’s new agent security framework.
This past week, Anthropic announced Claude Opus 4.8, an upgraded version of its flagship model with improvements across coding, reasoning, agentic workflows, and knowledge work tasks. The company said Opus 4.8 is available at the same price as its predecessor and includes a new user-controlled effort setting that allows users to adjust how much reasoning the model applies to a task. According to Anthropic, Opus 4.8 is more reliable during agentic tasks and substantially less likely to make unsupported claims or overlook flaws in its own work. The company reported lower rates of misaligned behavior than Opus 4.7 and said the model performed similarly to Claude Mythos Preview on its alignment evaluations. In addition, Anthropic also introduced dynamic workflows for Claude Code, enabling the coding agent to tackle larger and more complex software projects.
This past week, Google officially launched Gemini Spark, a 24/7 AI agent that can work in the background on behalf of users. Unlike a traditional chatbot, Spark runs on cloud infrastructure and can continue executing tasks even when a user’s devices are offline. Google said the system can coordinate workflows across Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and connected third-party applications. Spark can monitor inboxes, generate summaries, manage recurring workflows, draft documents and emails, and coordinate actions across multiple applications. The company also announced support for integrations through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling connections to external services and tools.
This past week, AI coding startup Cognition announced a $1 billion funding round at a $26 billion post-money valuation, more than doubling its valuation from eight months ago. The company said annualized revenue has reached $492 million, with enterprise usage of its AI software engineering agent Devin growing more than 10× since the start of 2026. Cognition reported that Devin is now used by organizations including Citi, Mercedes-Benz, Goldman Sachs, Dell, Santander, the U.S. Army, and the U.S. Navy. In addition, Cognition said 89% of the code committed by its own engineering team is now written by its coding agent.
This past week, Anthropic announced a $65 billion Series H funding round, bringing the company’s valuation to $965 billion. Anthropic said annualized revenue has surpassed $47 billion as adoption of Claude continues to grow across enterprise customers worldwide. The company said the funding will be used to expand compute capacity, advance safety and interpretability research, and support growing demand for Claude and products such as Claude Code and Cowork. Anthropic also announced new infrastructure agreements with Amazon, Google, Broadcom, and SpaceX, including access to additional cloud, TPU, and GPU capacity for future model training and deployment.
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