Adobe’s New Productivity Agent Redefines How People Understand, Create and Share Information

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 6, 2026--

Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) – the global technology leader that unleashes creativity, productivity and customer experiences through innovative tools and platforms – unveiled Adobe's productivity agent, which brings decades of Acrobat document intelligence into a single agentic interface to transform how people understand, create and share information. The agent orchestrates tools and models to generate images, text and rich content like presentations, podcasts and social posts and power conversational PDF editing in Acrobat. It also unlocks the new sharing and publishing capabilities in PDF Spaces, an AI-powered workspace where you can combine files, links and notes to do research, get insights and create content.

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The new productivity agent and sharing capabilities are available in Acrobat Express – a new offer that combines AI-powered document insights, premium content generation and information sharing all in one place – and in Acrobat Studio, which includes all features in Acrobat Express along with AI PDF tools.

Adobe’s productivity agent is part of a broader agentic vision that’s redefining how people work. Designed to operate seamlessly with Adobe’s creative agent and agents developed by third parties, it works across documents, data and systems to execute tactics and orchestrate outcomes – freeing people to focus on the vision, the judgment and the work that only they can do. Adobe’s creative agent is transforming how people create; the productivity agent orchestrates everything necessary so people can get insights faster, generate rich content quickly and share knowledge with interactive experiences. Together, they represent Adobe’s commitment to keeping humans at the center of an agentic future.

“Adobe’s productivity agent is redefining how people work with information,” said David Wadhwani, President, Creativity & Productivity Business, Adobe. “We’re bringing together decades of Acrobat’s document intelligence with agents to help people discover insights faster, generate visually rich content effortlessly and share interactive experiences with customized agents that convey their tone and intent.”

Setting a New Standard for Sharing

Adobe invented PDF, which has defined how the world shares its most important information. Today people open more than 400 billion PDFs and send more than 200 million PDFs in Acrobat every year. With the new publishing and sharing capabilities in Acrobat, the company is setting the next standard, transforming documents and files into interactive, personalized experiences that inform, engage and drive action. The productivity agent works behind the scenes, generating titles, summaries and audio overviews from documents and links in a PDF Space. Senders can add context, reorder files to provide emphasis and customize an AI Assistant for the shared experience that answers questions, provides suggestions and helps recipients easily get the information they need.

This new format enables people to:

“We’re not just adding new features, we’re introducing a new format,” said Abhigyan Modi, SVP, Adobe Document Cloud. “For the first time, sharing documents means sharing an experience that’s tailored to your intended audience, whether that’s a client, a team or a million subscribers. Now every one of those experiences can be as personal and purposeful as the work that went into creating it.”

Share With a Single Person, a Team or Millions

Leading publishers and creators are already using shared experiences in PDF Spaces to build trust and deeper engagement with their audiences. VICE News, best known for its immersive on-the-ground reporting that tackles complex global issues in a real and authentic way, will leverage PDF Spaces in Acrobat in its on-the-ground reporting and cross-platform content reaching more than 20 million followers. The new capabilities in PDF Spaces are enabling VICE News to create interactive, explorable experiences layering primary documents, research and supporting materials directly alongside published stories. Audiences can use an AI assistant to go deeper into every story, exploring sources, following threads of curiosity and engaging further with reporting.

Grammy-winning artist, actor, and cultural icon Kid Cudi and his team are using PDF Spaces to prepare for his new podcast series, Big Bro with Kid Cudi, and help fans go deeper into episodes with behind-the-scenes exclusives, guest stories, and Big Bro advice from Cudi himself. Jessica Yellin, award-winning journalist and founder of News Not Noise, a platform dedicated to making sense of the news for a community of millions, is using PDF Spaces to give her audience rich background on the stories she shares. Mindy Weiss, celebrated event planner and tastemaker whose designs have shaped some of the most iconic celebrations in pop culture, is using PDF Spaces to share her wedding planning expertise so her followers can create the moment of their dreams.

The new sharing capabilities unlock new ways for everyone to engage colleagues and managers, customers and prospects or friends and family.

Sales teams can combine proposals and case studies into a single branded experience, so every stakeholder gets a consistent, compelling story and engagement insights that tell reps who to follow up with and how. Marketers can turn research and launch announcements into guided experiences that move audiences to action. HR and compliance leaders can share onboarding packages and policy updates while engagement data helps them understand where employees need more support. Executives and finance teams can distribute board pre-reads and investor briefings as cohesive, guided narratives that give stakeholders everything they need to make informed decisions.

PDF Spaces also makes it easy to share information in everyday life. From travel itineraries to community updates, anyone can create an interactive experience that gives people everything they need in one place without endless email chains or group texts.

Learn more about how people can use the new sharing features in PDF Spaces in Acrobat.

Pricing and Availability

The new productivity agent and sharing and publishing capabilities are now available in Adobe Acrobat AI Plans, including Acrobat Studio, the essential productivity solution with a complete set of PDF tools, PDF Spaces, AI Assistant and Adobe Express Premium. They’re also available in Acrobat Express, a new offering that combines AI-powered document insights, premium content generation and information and sharing all in one place. PDF Spaces can be viewed by anyone; no account required.

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Customized AI Assistants represent the senders’ tone and intent that can be shared along with the experience to answer questions, provide suggestions and help recipients get the info they need to make confident decisions.

The productivity agent powers new sharing and publishing capabilities in PDF Spaces, an AI-powered workspace where you can combine files, links and notes to do research, get insights and create content.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday that three patients with suspected hantavirus cases have been evacuated from an affected cruise ship and are on their way to the Netherlands.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the U.N. health agency is working with the operators of the Dutch-flagged MV Hondius cruise ship to closely monitor the health of passengers and crew.

“At this stage, the overall public health risk remains low,” he wrote on his X account.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak and which is stuck of the coast of Cape Verde with nearly 150 people on board was waiting Wednesday to head to Spain’s Canary Islands. Meanwhile, health authorities in South Africa and Switzerland identified a strain of the virus that can be transmitted between humans in rare cases in three cases.

Authorities in Switzerland announced Wednesday that a man who returned from South America and traveled on the cruise ship has tested positive for the virus and is receiving treatment.

Three passengers have died and at least five people have been sickened by hantavirus on board the Dutch-flagged MV Hondius cruise ship. Hantavirus usually spreads by inhaling contaminated rodent droppings. There have been three laboratory-confirmed cases.

The ship left Argentina on April 1 on an Atlantic cruise and was scheduled to include stops in Antarctica, the Falkland Islands and other locations. However, the itinerary may have changed because of the situation on board.

Spain’s Health Ministry said in a statement late Tuesday that it would receive the MV Hondius vessel in the Canary Islands after a request from the World Health Organization and the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.

But for now it remains marooned off the coast of Cape Verde, an island nation off West Africa in the Atlantic. The World Health Organization said passengers are isolating in their cabins.

South African health authorities said they identified the Andes strain of hantavirus in two passengers who were on the ship.

The World Health Organization says the Andes virus, a specific species of hantavirus, is found in South America, primarily in Argentina and Chile.

The Andes virus can be spread between people, though this is rare and the spread of the disease is typically contained because it would spread only through close contact, such as by sharing a bed or sharing food, experts say.

The South African Department of Health said in a report that the information came from tests performed on the passengers after they were removed from the ship and flown to South Africa.

One of the passengers, a British man, is in intensive care in a South African hospital. Tests were performed on the other passenger posthumously after she died in South Africa.

A statement from the Federal Office of Public Health said that the man “returned to Switzerland after traveling on the cruise ship on which there were a number of hantavirus cases.” It said his case also involved the Andes virus.

It said he had returned from a trip to South America with his wife at the end of April. After noticing symptoms, he went to the University Hospital Zurich after consulting with his doctor and was immediately placed in isolation.

The patient’s wife hasn’t shown any symptoms but is self-isolating as a precaution, the statement said.

The public health office said that “there is currently no risk to the Swiss public.”

The WHO said in a social media post that the man responded to “an email from the ship’s operator informing the passengers of the health event” and went to the hospital.

The cruise ship will be welcomed to Spain’s Canary Islands, according to Spanish authorities, as the vessel waited off the coast of West Africa for a third day Wednesday for sick passengers to be evacuated.

However, the regional president of Spain’s Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, said Wednesday that he was worried the arrival of the ship could put the local population at risk and demanded an urgent meeting with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.

“Neither the populace nor the government of the Canary Islands can rest assured because it is clear that the danger to the population is real,” Clavijo told Onda Cero radio.

Medical evacuation teams were on standby Wednesday morning in the port of Praia, the capital of Cape Verde.

Associated Press journalists nearby saw a boat approach the ship on Tuesday night before turning back soon after. It was not clear what happened, or whether that was the evacuation team.

A night view of the MV Hondius cruise ship anchored at a port in Praia, Cape Verde, Tuesday, May 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

An aerial view of the MV Hondius Dutch cruise ship anchored in the Atlantic off Cape Verde, Tuesday, May 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Arilson Almeida)

An aerial view of the MV Hondius Dutch cruise ship anchored in the Atlantic off Cape Verde, Tuesday, May 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Arilson Almeida)