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Florida-based public safety technology company Aurelian has deployed an AI call-taker named Ava to answer police non-emergency phone lines, take reports, and route complaints. Aurelian CEO Max Keenan said roughly 70% of …
Recording meetings with AI tools is safe when vendors prioritize privacy through architecture, not just policy. A 9-question checklist helps buyers evaluate data storage, AI training opt-outs, and bot presence before com…
Email marketing teams that outperform competitors do not write individual emails; they write decision rules that automatically determine whether and which email to send based on user conditions. By optimizing deciding ov…
Anthropic added --safe-mode to Claude Code v2.1.169 to help users isolate whether a customization layer—such as CLAUDE.md rules, hooks, skills, plugins, or MCP servers—is causing broken behavior. Running with the flag di…
AI builders are losing income by pricing work based on time spent rather than value delivered, as AI tools drastically reduce task duration. Experts recommend fixed-price per outcome, value-based pricing, or retainers to…
Zoom's free plan lacks native transcription, but five genuinely free third-party methods exist in 2026, including Granola which captures device audio without a visible bot. Most alternatives are free trials or require pa…
Granola, an AI notepad, offers a method to record and summarize meetings across Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, and in-person settings without visible bots or stored audio. The tool captures device audio directly, deletes the …
A new workflow using AI notepad Granola allows users to jot key decisions during meetings and have AI expand them into structured minutes using full transcript context, avoiding generic summaries. The method distinguishe…
Manticore Search released version 27.1.5 with built-in authentication and authorization, sharded tables, conversational search, and faster vector search. The update also includes improvements to HNSW builds, faceting, an…
Amp announced a new feature allowing users to create custom agents via plugins, which can serve as main agents, subagents, or worker agents with custom orb colors. The Plugin API provides primitives for defining agents, …
AMD Radeon GPUs, both integrated and discrete, now support running large language models locally through open-source tools like Lemonade, LM Studio, Ollama, and llama.cpp. A new guide provides step-by-step instructions f…
The Open Knowledge Format (OKF) bundle is a new convention for packaging knowledge bases as a tree of Markdown files with typed front matter, enabling AI agents to ingest an entire corpus in a single fetch instead of scr…
A developer outlines a three-step process for authoring technical content with AI assistance, using separate prompt files for brainstorming and section generation. The method emphasizes crafting detailed initial prompts …
Action items are specific tasks with a single owner, defined deliverable, and concrete deadline, structured as 'who does what by when.' AI notepads can automatically extract action items from meeting transcripts, allowin…
Apple's native iPhone apps like Notes and Voice Memos capture audio but require manual post-processing to create structured meeting notes, while AI-powered apps like Granola, Otter, and Minutes offer automated transcript…
Lightpanda released a native agent that achieves 0.830 accuracy on GAIA and 0.697 on AssistantBench, cutting task completion time to 86 seconds on GAIA by eliminating MCP serialization overhead. The improvements stem fro…
Conductor 0.68.0 introduces markdown frontmatter separation, experimental OpenCode support, and new keyboard shortcuts for editing and previewing files. The update also fixes several issues including GitHub API rate limi…
CodeRabbit CEO Brandon Gubitosa argues that the real bottleneck in code review is understanding code, not reviewing it, as AI-generated code increases volume and complexity. He claims AI-written pull requests have 75% mo…
Datasette launched a new plugin, datasette-apps, that allows users to host custom HTML+JavaScript applications inside a Datasette instance. The apps run in a sandboxed iframe with strict CSP headers to prevent data exfil…
GitHub will deprecate the Opus 4.6 (fast) model across all Copilot experiences on June 29, 2026, urging users to migrate to Opus 4.8 (fast). Enterprise administrators must enable the alternative model through Copilot set…