Sierra announced the Personal Agent Protocol with Meta on October 6, an open standard for how a consumer's personal AI agent authenticates with a business and what access the consumer grants it, with …
Helpin, an open-source shared support and project workspace with configurable AI agents and MCP integrations, shipped its Community 0.2 beta release, with community application code licensed AGPL-3.0-…
Gorgias published a public benchmark testing 13 AI customer-support vendors on 212 live mid-market ecommerce stores, finding the best agents fully resolve about 70% of conversations while the median v…
Anthropic committed $100 million on October 2 to launch Claude Frontier Academy, a program to train 10,000 "Frontier Deployed Engineers" by the end of 2027 through a two-phase residency, with initial …
Anthropic's Messages API added an on-demand conversation compaction feature in beta on September 14, 2026, using the compact-2026-09-04 header to return a signed block that summarizes prior messages s…
AI agents accounted for 66% of measured web traffic across Mintlify-powered documentation in July 2026, according to Mintlify, driving demand for an emerging role the company calls the "knowledge engi…
Together AI posted a Summer 2027 Research Intern, Frontier Agents position in San Francisco paying $58–70 per hour, on-site, for Ph.D. students. The role sits on Together AI's Agents team, which inves…
Deepgram posted a Director of Text-to-Speech Synthesis Research role paying $213,000 to $328,000 per year, remote in the USA, to own the company's TTS research strategy, model roadmap, and production …
Decagon, a conversational AI platform for building and managing AI agents, updated its public trust center, adding "Unique production database authentication enforced" and "Production inventory mainta…
Decagon's Agent Operating Procedures (AOPs) let AI agent skills embed deterministic, code-level rules that execute without model discretion, according to a Medium blog post on packaged skills. The pos…
Anthropic released CLI 1.30.0 on Sept 3, introducing the 'ant apply' command that lets teams declare agents, environments, skills, memory stores, and deployments as files in a repository and reconcile…
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 on September 1, featuring a 1M-token context window by default, always-on adaptive thinking, and prompt cache reads reduced to $0.25 per million toke…
Most CEOs rebuilding their companies for AI are only about 40% of the way there, with growth stuck in the 10% to 30% range, according to a SaaS Capital Index analysis of 58 public companies as of June…
Deepgram, a voice AI platform, is hiring a Director of Research for Text-to-Speech with a salary range of $213,000–$328,000 per year, based remotely in the USA. The role involves owning the TTS resear…
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…
Notion has repositioned itself as an operating layer for AI agents, launching Custom Agents in February 2026, a developer platform with Workers in May, and External Agents in July 2026. These features…
In a test of 48 AI-native startups, a language model with no web access correctly described only 4 by name, while 44 drew a blank. However, when asked category questions, 28 of the 48 were recommended…
Deepgram, a voice AI platform backed by a recent Series C, is hiring an Enterprise AI Strategist for its Deepgram for Restaurants business in San Francisco, CA. The role involves leading end-to-end ex…
Decagon has crossed $100 million in annualized revenue, CEO Jesse Zhang told the company, positioning its AI customer service product against rivals Sierra and Salesforce. Zhang argues that relying on…
Startups in 2026 are replacing customer support headcount with AI agents, but successful deployments treat it as a tiered system, not a blanket replacement. Klarna's OpenAI-built assistant, which repo…