An engineer who runs three autonomous agents—an inbox classifier, a blog assistant, and Devin for code—reveals his simple rule for delegating actions: agents can do anything reversible and inbound una…
Spam accounts for 45.6% of global email traffic, and AI-generated cold outreach is worsening the problem. Google's reCAPTCHA protects web forms from bots but cannot gate incoming emails, while email C…
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Scheduled Tasks, a feature for Plus, Pro, and Team subscribers that automates recurring prompts such as daily news briefings and email summaries. Users can set tasks to run…
An analysis of the 12 most-rated productivity apps on the US App Store reveals that AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Perplexity have near-zero reply rates to user reviews, despite havi…
Scammers are increasingly using AI to craft personalized, convincing phishing emails that bypass spam filters, according to cybersecurity experts at McAfee. These AI-powered scams exploit urgency and …
A production incident revealed that autonomous agents with shell and filesystem access consistently over-investigate simple tasks, spending up to 10 minutes on a 30-second job. The behavior, termed 'B…
A user describes using Codex as a personal agent to automate tasks across Gmail, WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage, Google Drive, and other tools, enabling workflows like drafting emails and updating recor…
A new Folderly report finds that 70% of B2B sales teams use AI for outbound email, but 82% believe recipients can detect AI-written messages, and 79% have experienced prospects never receiving their e…
OpenAI introduced a Record & Replay plugin for Codex on macOS, allowing users to demonstrate tasks visually instead of writing prompts. The AI captures the workflow and converts it into a reusable aut…
ConnectAI released a self-hostable version of its company brain tool, which ingests data from tools like Salesforce, Gmail, and Slack into a queryable database for AI agents. The self-hosted option ad…
Two AI agents, Atlas and Oracle, negotiated and settled a USDC payment over email using a non-custodial on-chain escrow on Base Sepolia. The human user hired Atlas to find a provider, funds were locke…
A Claude AI Professional E-Degree is available for $19.99 (regularly $49), offering over 8 hours of video content across four courses to teach advanced prompt engineering, workflow automation, and int…
A bug in Gmail is preventing some Google Pixel owners from replying to emails because the keyboard fails to appear, with the AI-powered "Help me write" feature blocking input. Affected users report wo…
A patient discovered their doctor used AI to create a personalized infographic containing their full name and likeness, sent via WhatsApp, without prior consent or privacy safeguards. The patient, alr…
Google is transforming search by building a personalization system that uses its Gemini AI models to access users' private data from Gmail, Photos, Calendar, and YouTube before they even type a query.…
A developer describes the evolution from prompt engineering to context engineering and finally to building a 'harness'—a persistent structure of files, memory, and tool access that enables AI models t…
Google Docs users can disable AI pop-ups, including the Gemini writing assistant, by adjusting settings in the top menu bar or through Gmail's smart features settings. The article provides step-by-ste…
A new approach to agent safety, called deterministic agent safety, separates the LLM's reasoning from its actions by placing the model in a sandbox with no credentials or network access, and exposing …
Cwmail, a terminal email client written in Go using Bubbletea v2, launched with AI-powered reply drafting via DeepSeek V4 Pro, proper HTML rendering, inline image support, and multi-account IMAP manag…
Proton Mail launched Easy Switch for Business, a tool that lets companies migrate emails, calendars, and contacts from Google Workspace to Proton with no downtime, citing privacy, compliance, and juri…