Robinhood unveils sweeping trading overhaul at HOOD Summit 2026

Robinhood just laid out its most ambitious product roadmap to date. At the 2026 HOOD Summit in Houston on September 29, the company unveiled a stack of new features that collectively signal a shift from “beginner-friendly brokerage” to “full-spectrum trading platform.” The headline additions include AI trading assistants called Robinhood Agents, crypto perpetual futures with up to 10x leverage, weekend equities trading, extended options hours, and a new social layer. AI agents enter the brokerage The most eyebrow-raising announcement is Robinhood Agents, an AI-driven trading assistant powered by models from OpenAI and Anthropic. The feature is designed to handle automatic trading assistance, essentially letting users delegate certain execution tasks to an AI co-pilot. A future capability called “Loops” will let users set standing instructions for their agents. If you’ve ever wished you could tell your brokerage “buy X when Y happens” without manually building complex conditional orders, that’s the general idea. Robinhood is also opening the door to third-party AI agents, which suggests the company sees itself as a platform rather than the sole provider of intelligence. Crypto perpe...