AI-assisted cold email sequences increased average send volume by 4x compared to manually written campaigns, according to Lavender.ai internal data, while the cost of GPT-4-class language model infere…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the first one-person billion-dollar company could emerge this year, built on top of Claude, and his interview examples point to three conditions for such a business: it…
A developer has published a role-based guide to building MCP agents, arguing that every useful agent consists of four parts: a model, two or three MCP servers, a system prompt, and a write guardrail. …
Spellbook CEO Scott Stevenson has implemented a new AI-writing policy at the Toronto-based AI contract-drafting company, asking its 200-plus employees to submit the 'D+ version' of their project propo…
In a 20VC podcast episode, Jason discussed how AI agents are reshaping software development and procurement, noting that agents' tool preferences signal buying signals and that agent-driven teams gene…
AI-native companies are moving beyond simple chatbots to deploy agentic workflows that autonomously execute high-friction tasks like onboarding, account management, and developer integrations, accordi…
OpenAI's September 1 case study highlights Basis, Clay, and Exa Labs as examples of founders turning internal processes into agent workflows, with Basis using Codex to cut first-day onboarding from tw…
OpenAI reports that AI-native companies Basis, Clay, and Exa Labs are using AI agents to improve onboarding, account management, and developer integrations, offering lessons for enterprise leaders. Th…
Clara, a Latin American payments company, is hiring an AI Growth Automation Engineer in São Paulo to build AI-powered prospecting, SDR, and lifecycle automation tools, aiming to accelerate sales and o…
Retriever AI launched a free browser agent that performs tasks like lead generation, exam completion, job applications, and connection requests, funded by ads. The company reports 35K+ users and 7M+ w…
OpenAI released ChatGPT Work, a $20-per-month agentic AI product aimed at non-engineers, as part of its push to expand beyond coding into broader white-collar tasks. The product, built on its Codex to…
A developer built an AI-powered tool that extracts firmographic data from company websites for about a cent per company, challenging the per-credit pricing model of traditional B2B enrichment vendors.…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) announced the 50 fellows selected for its inaugural 8-week Talent Engineer Fellowship, an AI-focused program for talent leaders building AI-native recruiting systems. The co…
Clay, a New York-based go-to-market platform, is hiring a Software Engineer, Applied AI with a salary range of $170k–300k/yr, to work on AI agents that execute real go-to-market workflows. The company…
Clay, a San Francisco-based company that helps organizations turn growth ideas into reality, is hiring a Machine Learning Engineer with a salary range of $170k–300k/yr. The role involves building lear…
Author Ted Gioia received scam emails purportedly from actress Reese Witherspoon and producer Jerry Bruckheimer offering to adapt his books into films, which he shared as a humorous warning to other w…
Anthropic announced on Tuesday that it will add watermarks to text generated by its AI models, such as Claude, in response to European regulations, though the company did not specify how the watermark…
A new guide highlights eight AI agents for marketing in 2026, including Jasper AI, Hellyeah, Smartly.io, HubSpot AI, Persado, Clay, Anyword, and n8n, which are designed to automate marketing operation…
Email sending volume grew by over 50% between 2022 and 2024, driven by AI-powered outreach tools like Instantly, Lemlist, and Apollo, which now defeat traditional spam filters by personalizing at scal…
On July 16, Google Cloud integrated Parallel Web Systems, a search engine founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, into its Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform as a native grounding provider, alongsi…