September 2026

One Month of Routing, Context, Cloud Execution, Agentic Browsing, Performance, Security and Verifiable Work. Across seven product blogs and nine newsroom announcements, Cortex advanced from coordinating intelligence and maintaining continuity toward something broader: governed execution across models, search, skills, cloud environments, browsers, development workspaces and longer-running workflows.

Organize the conversation, explore new directions, and carry engineering work to a reviewable result. Useful AI work rarely fits into one prompt. A question becomes an investigation. An investigation produces several possible approaches. One approach becomes an engineering task that needs implementation, testing, review, and a decision about what happens next.

From a connected request to evidence about the software that runs. Cortex Cloud gave users a choice between working locally and sending eligible work to a managed cloud workspace. A request could begin in Visual Studio Code, a browser, or on mobile, continue remotely, and return progress and results through the same Cortex workflow.

How governed context, prompt prefix, and exact response reuse can make enterprise AI faster without losing trust. 150× faster prompt prefill. 11× faster exact-response delivery. 2.25× the throughput at moderate concurrency.

From information on the web to governed action in one Cortex experience. The browser is where enterprise work happens.

It is where teams research markets, review documentation, investigate incidents, manage customer relationships, compare vendors, monitor operations, work through support cases, inspect pull requests, and make decisions across dozens of business systems.