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A voice agent that talks fast is nice. One that checks before it acts is what a business actually needs. Yesterday Rime launched Prism, a speech-to-speech model for voice agents. It replies in about 300 ms, runs tool calls while it speaks,…
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A transcript that gets every word right but mixes up who said it is still a bad transcript. NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe on 28 October, an open-weight speech-to-text model for recorded audio. One model transcribes 40 languages, …
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Same AI model. Same 80 questions. One setup got 5% right, the other 98%. Optimized Payments launched the Harmonize MCP Server today, so ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor can read governed payments data in Harmonize, with OAuth sign-in, tenant iso…
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Your AI agent's mistakes are the best training data you have, if you actually collect them. GitHub announced on 28 October that Copilot Automations can now learn from their outcomes. A triage automation watches whether people change the la…
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Two document parsers can read every word on a page and still hand your AI agent two different answers. LlamaIndex published working draft 0.1 of the Document Parsing Protocol (DPP) yesterday. It's a proposed answer key for turning pages in…
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Most companies can tell you what they spend on AI. Very few can tell you what it bought. Anthropic made three Claude Enterprise features generally available yesterday (28 Oct): smart reports, in-app surveys and pooled group budgets. Smart …
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An AI agent can now book you a flight, but it still doesn't touch your card. That's the right design. Etraveli Group, the flight platform behind Booking.com flights, launched its Flight MCP today. Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP-compatible agen…
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An AI assistant that can edit your store's catalogue but can't touch your orders. That split is the smartest part of today's launch. Virid just launched the marketAgility MCP Connector. It links marketAgility online stores to Claude, ChatG…
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Your AI agent writes code and runs it seconds later. Nobody reads it first. That's the gap Akamai is going after. On 27 October it launched Akamai Agent Sandbox in beta, alongside a managed model service called Akamai Inference. Agents run…
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Cheaper AI that clicks through screens is here, and invoices will be the first test. On 26 October OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra, a fast computer-use model. Its standard API price is 50% lower than GPT-5.6 Terra ($1 per million input token…
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An API call that fails loudly is annoying. One that fails quietly is expensive. Laravel 13.39.0 shipped on 27 October, and one fix in it caught my eye: Http::batch() was treating failures as successes when you combined it with retry() and …
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Your email platform can now talk to ChatGPT and Claude. The send button still belongs to you. GetResponse has launched GetResponse MCP, a connector that links your account to AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude through the Model Context …
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AI agents write PHP fast. They also repeat the same mistakes fast. Laravel News covered Sloppy yesterday, a static analysis tool by heyosseus for the maintenance problems AI coding agents leave in PHP and Laravel projects: swallowed except…
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The best part of Airbyte's new MCP server isn't what it lets an AI agent do. It's what it won't let it do. Airbyte released its open-source MCP server today (27 Oct). Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client can now build pipelines, read …
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Swapping your AI agent to a cheaper model is a release. Test it like one. Salesforce announced Agent Evals, API Evals and new cost controls for Agent Fabric, its control plane for AI agents, on 27 October. Their own example stuck with me: …
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Meta wants your WhatsApp to be a shop that never closes. At TechSparks 2026, Meta's Piyush Vaidya walked through Meta Business Agent, an AI agent that answers customers on WhatsApp, recommends items from your catalogue, books appointments …
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You can't switch off an AI agent you've forgotten exists. Today at TechXchange 2026, IBM announced tools to find, contain and track AI agents across a business. watsonx Orchestrate can discover agents built on Amazon Bedrock, Microsoft Fou…
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Create a new paid Gemini API project today and it keeps your prompts and replies by default. Google changed the Gemini API on 26 October. New paid-tier projects now store Generate Content API requests by default (store=true). Existing proj…
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An AI agent making three separate CRM writes is a bug waiting to happen. Microsoft has just added custom API support to the Dataverse MCP Server (Kent Weare, Power Platform blog, 26 Oct). Their example: "Create a high-priority case, add a …
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Reading invoices with AI just got half the price. OpenAI has released GPT-6.1 Terra, a model built for everyday screen work: reading documents, filling in forms and clicking through apps. Standard API pricing is $1 per million input tokens…
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An open-weight model just landed within a point of Claude Opus 5.5 on a coding agent test. Here's how I'd decide whether to switch. Moonshot AI released Kimi K3.1 Pro on 23 Oct: a 1M-token context window, a Highspeed version at 2-3x the sp…
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Before your AI agent sends a single email, answer one question: who is it acting as? LangChain's Harrison Chase and Caspar Broekhuizen have shared how they built their internal agents for sales, engineering and marketing (blog, 24 October)…
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The next AI assistant won't wait for you to type a prompt. Anthropic has opened a research preview of Claude Duet, a new app where Claude works as a proactive agent. Each morning it sends a short brief on what matters across your connected…
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An AI agent can finish the job and still cause harm. A new benchmark from Scale AI shows how often. BARC-Bench, posted on arXiv on 23 October, gives agents 110 ordinary workplace requests across nine simulated workspaces. Nothing malicious…
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SK Telecom now gives its AI agents employee ID numbers. It sounds like a gimmick, but it's a solid management plan. In its first AI Governance Report, published on 26 October, the Korean carrier says every in-house agent gets registered, a…
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Never start your AI coding agent in your Downloads folder. BleepingComputer reported this week that researchers at Forever Security found a malicious AGENTS.md file sitting in a customer's ~/Downloads folder. The coding agent was launched …
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Your AI agent no longer needs someone to press "go". OpenAI has added scheduled automations to its Agents API (beta). You save a schedule, either a cron expression with a time zone or a one-off future time, and the API starts the agent for…
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Your AI agent's web searches are about to get a price tag. DeepSeek has opened its Search and Fetch APIs to all developers. Search finds web pages and returns structured results. Fetch pulls a single page back as Markdown. Each costs $0.75…
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Google just gave every AI agent its own computer, and left the keys outside. On 22 October at AGNTCon + MCPCon, Google Cloud announced Agent Compute Engine, the service that already runs Gemini as an agent for work tasks. Each agent gets i…
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An AI agent worked 11 hours overnight on Google's own code. Only 2 of its 6 ideas shipped, and that's the good news. Google's Developers Blog shared how Gemini 4 Argon ran unattended on the roughly 205,000-line Agent Development Kit codeba…
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An AI agent that stops to ask you is worth more than one that guesses fast. Anthropic has shipped MCP Tasks and Elicitations in the Claude Code CLI, in public beta. Two changes: • Tasks: a slow MCP tool (a report, a build, deep research) h…
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Deleting a leaked key is not the same as revoking it. LiteLLM has published the root cause of the poisoned litellm 1.107.0 release on 21 October, and it starts with one config file. On 27 May, the master key to its internal agent platform …
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A voice agent that completes 87% of its tasks still fails roughly 1 in 8. This week ElevenLabs launched Eleven Realtime, two speech-to-speech models where one system handles listening, turn-taking, reasoning and speaking. v1 Mini is the ch…
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Not every step in an AI agent needs your biggest model. On 22 October, OpenAI made its Decisions API generally available. You give it a question and a fixed set of answers, and it returns a probability, a choice or a score, built on GPT-6 …
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Your AI agent can now set its own alarm clock. OpenAI has added Scheduled Automations to its Agents API (announced 23 Oct). You give it a cron expression for recurring work, or a timestamp for a one-off job, and it either starts a fresh se…
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The attackers didn't need anyone's password. They came in through an app the victims already trusted. Microsoft Threat Intelligence has published details of a campaign by Storm-0940, a China-state aligned group, using ARTEX, an open-source…
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Upgrading your AI model is a migration, not a find-and-replace. Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3.1 Pro, the first model in its new K3.1 series: a 3T-class open-weight model with a 1-million-token context window, plus a Highspeed version th…
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The hardest part of a proactive AI agent isn't what it can do. It's knowing when to bother you. This week Anthropic opened a research preview of Claude Duet, an agent app built for professionals and small business owners (US Pro and Max su…
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WordPress is moving to make MCP part of the default experience, and that could change how a huge number of business websites work with AI. According to The Repository, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg has approved the AI Team's plan to …
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Agent Skills just got a neutral home, and that's good news for anyone building AI workflows for a business. Yesterday Anthropic donated Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation, the same home MCP moved to…
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An AI agent's answer is only as useful as your ability to check it. Nuix just launched the Nuix Neo AI Agent for legal, regulatory and compliance teams. It answers plain-language questions across emails, chats and documents, links every an…
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Anthropic just shipped its first new Claude API version since 2023, and it can break agents that upgrade without looking. On Oct 21, Anthropic released API version 2026-10-21 along with new major SDKs (Python 2.0.0, TypeScript 1.0.0, PHP 1…
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"One founder plus AI agents" is now a real way to run a company's money. Yesterday Stripe announced Stripe Treasury for agents. Startups can let agents like ChatGPT and Claude check balances, pay invoices, move money between accounts and c…
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Your AI agent is probably paying full price to re-read the same instructions every time it runs. On Oct 20, OpenAI added 12-hour prompt caching to its Responses API. On GPT-5.6 and later, cached prompts last 30 minutes by default. Now you …
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A voice agent that can book an appointment during a live call now costs about 4 cents a minute. Mistral AI just released Voxtral 3: new speech-to-text and text-to-speech models plus a voice agent SDK built on LiveKit. It listens, works out…
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The hard part of AI agents was never the model. It's the data, tools and approvals around it. Oracle just announced AI Agent Studio for Industry Applications, a no-code and low-code environment for building, testing and running agents insi…
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Fujitsu just put nine AI agents into a live e-commerce operation in 2.5 months. The interesting part isn't the agents. Fujitsu announced today that it built a multi-agent workflow for MISUMI Group's product information management, covering…
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Your auditors might soon ask Claude, not a spreadsheet, "Are we ready?" Delinea just launched the Fastpath MCP Server. It connects access governance data to the AI assistants teams already use, so finance, IT and audit people can ask plain…
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If your business runs on PHP, put a server update on today's list. Yesterday the PHP team released PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 to fix two critical vulnerabilities that can allow unauthenticated remote code execution. Laravel News…
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OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud. A year ago I wouldn't have bet on that sentence. On October 21, OpenAI and Google Cloud announced a partnership that brings OpenAI's frontier models and Codex agentic workflows into Google Cloud's …
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Walmart just told AI agents: stop borrowing your customer's login. On Oct 21, Walmart announced three things for shopping with AI agents. Agent Profiles give each agent its own profile inside a customer's account, so its purchases show up …
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MCP just walked out of the browser and into the meeting room. Epiphan has launched Epiphan MCP, a hosted server that lets Claude or ChatGPT manage a whole fleet of Pearl recording and streaming devices. You can ask which rooms are recordin…
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Your online store might already be talking to AI shopping agents, and you didn't have to write a line of code. Yesterday Commerce (the company behind BigCommerce) and Cloudflare announced WebMCP support for BigCommerce stores. WebMCP is a …
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Anthropic just launched an AI agent built for small business owners, and the design choices matter more than the headline. Claude Duet opened as a research preview yesterday (US Pro and Max users, by waitlist). It sends you a morning brief…
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Stripe just made it possible for AI agents to pay your invoices. With your approval, of course. Yesterday Stripe announced Stripe Treasury for agents. Startups can now let agents like ChatGPT and Claude check balances, pay invoices, move m…
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