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Field notes — week of August 27, 2026

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 tokens. Salesforce's Winter '27 release on August 31 introduced agents that run full workflows, including resolving service cases and underwriting risk, and reported a 13% conversion lift from its Agentic Commerce Search. Intercom added webhooks for translated replies and background activation for complex Series, while Decagon launched Campaign Composer and integrated live web search via Perplexity's API; KT began rebuilding Woori Bank's AI chatbot infrastructure with an Agent Connector.

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Field notes — week of August 27, 2026
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What changed in AI-support tooling this week. Every item was checked against its source before it entered this list.

Anthropic- launchedClaude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1(Sept 1): a 1M-token context window by default, always-on adaptive thinking, and prompt cache reads cut to $0.25 per million tokens.

Salesforce- theWinter '27 release(Aug 31) pushes agents from answering questions toward running full workflows - resolving service cases, booking appointments, underwriting risk - plus an Agentic Commerce Search feature the company reports lifted conversion 13%.

Intercom- a new pair of webhooks fires when translated replies are saved, delivering the text in each language alongside the original (Sept 2 changelog entry); the next day, background activation let more complex multi-step Series deploy without errors (Sept 3).

Decagon-Campaign Composerlets teams configure channels, hours, retry logic, and suppression rules for outbound campaigns without engineering help (Sept 2); a few days earlier its agents gainedlive web search through Perplexity's Search API, letting them answer time-sensitive questions with cited sources instead of escalating (Aug 28).

KT- the South Korean carrier won a project torebuild Woori Bank's AI chatbot and consultation-bot infrastructure, linking chat, consultation-bot, and AI-banker channels through an "Agent Connector" that carries conversation context across them (Aug 31).

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