A three-month randomized trial published by the NBER on September 17 found that 133 patent lawyers at eleven US firms using a custom AI drafting assistant improved work quality by 0.34 SD at ten days …
Businesses are moving customer WhatsApp conversations off employees' personal phones onto company-owned WhatsApp Business Platform numbers so that AI can filter spam, answer simple questions, and rout…
This+that, a workflow automation platform, is pitching LLM agents as a way for small teams to automate work that starts itself from incoming messages, citing Microsoft's finding that the average worke…
Hyperspell, a context layer that connects company tools and builds a context graph surfaced as a filesystem for AI agents, is reviewed by a competitor, noting its focus on agent teams rather than end …
DoBox, a company developing an AI-powered email assistant, argues that while extracting tasks from messages is now standard, the more valuable and unsolved problem is capturing non-task facts—such as …
Gartner predicted in June 2025 that over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by the end of 2027, citing escalating costs, unclear business value and inadequate risk controls. Scale AI's Remote…
Y Combinator has added 'Company Brain' to its Requests for Startups, urging founders to build AI systems that capture a company's operational knowledge in plain, model-agnostic text so it can be conti…
Viktor and Skydive, two AI coworker platforms, compete in 2026 with distinct approaches: Viktor integrates with Slack and Teams and sells credits ($50 for 20,000), while Skydive, built by Anything, gi…
Skydive, an AI agent platform from Anything, launched publicly on August 20, 2026, after a closed beta with more than twenty companies, offering agents with their own cloud computers that can browse, …
In June 2026, Town raised a $55M Series A led by a16z and Forerunner, while Anything, the maker of Skydive, raised an $11M Series A, as both AI products compete to automate work rather than just draft…
Ikea's AI chatbot Billie now assists 74% of customers, up from 47%, and the company retrained about 8,500 call center staff as interior design advisors, leading to customer satisfaction rising from 60…
A practical guide from an unnamed source advises teams to evaluate AI assistants on real data and workflows rather than polished demos, warning that staged demonstrations reveal little about long-term…
The bug pipeline at this+that starts and ends with an email: a bug report is triaged by this+that, turned into a DoBox task, assigned via the Brain to the right engineer, fixed by an agent running loc…
Fyxer charges $22.50 to $37.50 per user per month billed annually ($30 to $50 monthly), while Jace charges $20 to $40 per account per month billed yearly ($25 to $50 monthly) with 10,000 or 20,000 cre…
Superhuman Mail connects to Outlook while Shortwave does not, a fact that decides the choice for many Microsoft 365 teams before feature comparison begins. Shortwave's Pro plan costs $18 per seat, Bus…
Upstream, a Paris-based email client that integrates AI to manage inboxes, went generally available on June 3, 2026, backed by a $3M pre-seed from Y Combinator, Connect Ventures, Roosh Ventures, and o…
Viktor, an AI employee platform launched in February 2026, reached a $29M annualized run rate by August and raised a $75M Series A led by Accel in May 2026, the largest Polish Series A on record. The …
Inbox Zero, an open-source AI email assistant with nearly 12,000 GitHub stars, offers hosted plans starting at $20 per user per month, but its free self-hosting is limited to organizations with fewer …
A new essay argues that repeatedly retyping the same prompt into AI chatbots like ChatGPT or Claude constitutes an undocumented workflow, and that these workflows can be automated using tools like Bra…
A lawyer and a finance professional, both non-tech workers, expressed frustration with AI at work, citing mandated AI project proposals, degraded AI writing tools, and worsening Google search results.…