A team of Apify web-scraper developers traced raw JSON-RPC traffic against Apify's hosted MCP server (mcp.apify.com, v0.17.1) on Oct 2, 2026 to see what an agent actually receives when a remote MCP to…
Google officially appealed the European Commission's Digital Markets Act mandate requiring it to share search history data with competitors, saying the decision would force it to share people's privat…
VOYGR team (YC W26) released PlaceCall, an agentic API that places real phone calls to US businesses, navigates phone menus, waits on hold, and returns a structured response with the call outcome, a r…
VOYGR, a Y Combinator W26 company founded by former Google Maps and Search engineers Yarik and Vlad, launched PlaceCall, an agentic API that places phone calls to US businesses on a user's behalf, nav…
A new online Google Maps scraper lets users find businesses by keyword and location and export up to 36 columns of listing data to CSV, Excel, or JSON on eligible plans. The tool exposes the same busi…
A solo developer is building Yield, an Android task management app, and detailed the free "Basic Unit" tier in a new writeup. The free tier centers on offline, on-device processing, including OCR and …
Search Engine Journal published a tiered reference table categorizing data sources by their usefulness for AI search, ranking Google Search, Bing Search, Google Merchant Center, OpenAI merchant feeds,…
Google LLC opened its experimental AI agent CC to families, allowing up to six people in a household to share one agent that compiles a shared daily brief, calendar entries and a running task list. To…
Google announced on September 17 that its experimental CC AI agent now supports up to six users in a single household, expanding the Google Labs tool from a single-user productivity assistant into a s…
Snow Leo Leads & Contacts, an MCP server for local business leads from Google Maps, seven directories, DuckDuckGo and OpenStreetMap, was published to the official MCP registry as version 1.0.2 on 2026…
Fast Company named Conway's Arcade by Special Guest X for Google the winner of the artificial intelligence category in its 2026 Innovation by Design Awards. Conway's Arcade is an AI-powered arcade cab…
A developer ran the same 47 buying questions through ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Mode on the same day and classified every citation across the resulting 141 answers, finding Perplexity averaged …
Claude Desktop users connect Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers by editing the claude_desktop_config.json file, located at ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json on macOS an…
Blasa launched a free AI website generator that converts a single Google Maps link into a hosted, multilingual business website built from a business's own customer reviews, photos, logo and hours, pu…
Claude Desktop fails to initialize Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers when the claude_desktop_config.json file specifies "npx" as the command, because the app does not inherit shell environment vari…
A developer benchmarked a Claude Sonnet browser agent against a hand-written Playwright scraper for pulling 60 coffee-shop listings from Google Maps across three US cities, finding the agent extracted…
Locus, an open-source lead-generation tool, added bulk CSV search, real SMTP email verification, and cross-session lead deduplication, according to its Show HN announcement. The self-hosted pipeline s…
Google said its compliance with the European Union's Digital Markets Act produced the largest reduction in search quality in Europe, according to Search Engine Roundtable's weekly recap. Google also c…
The MCP server io.github.jlucasmcrell/apify-scrapers reached version 1.0.2, published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-10 and distributed as apify-data-scrapers on PyPI, according to the mcpind…
Google released WeatherNext 3, an AI weather model that ingests 12 recent hourly frames from an 11-channel geostationary satellite mosaic alongside ECMWF analysis fields to refresh forecasts hourly at…