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S3 · E35
Yesterday · 6 min
Apple opens Siri AI to every app, with SKILL.md style skills for multi-step tasks
Top News: Apple opens Siri AI to every app, with SKILL.md style skills for multi-step tasks Plus: CrowdStrike buys two AI security startups for $495 million and launches an AI Kill Switch for agents Top AI Tools: Wanaka Studio (https://wanaka.app/) is an AI game engine where an agent builds a 3D game for you, then lets you edit it in a synced visual editor with auto rigging, multiplayer, and one click publishing, no code needed. Floot Payments (https://floot.com/) lets apps you build inside ChatGPT, Claude, or Cursor take real money, setting up subscriptions, one time payments, coupons, refunds, and shipping on Stripe without API keys or webhooks. Prelulu (https://prelulu.ai/) brings interactive stories with AI characters you can text or video chat with, using real time avatars, and lets you create your own characters. Business AI Tip of the Day Give Every Client Agent a Kill Switch Before It Goes Live
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S3 · E34
Monday · 6 min
DeepSeek open-sources a super-agent prototype that watches your GitHub repo and opens pull requests
Top News: DeepSeek open-sources a super-agent prototype that watches your GitHub repo and opens pull requests Plus: OpenAI will put ChatGPT and Codex on one shared token allowance starting in December Top AI Tools: Beacon (https://beacon.sh/) gives coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex an open-source memory layer that learns from past sessions, so they stop repeating the same mistakes. Cedric (https://meet-cedric.com/use-cases/ai-solution-for-startups) is an AI teammate for startups that works inside Slack, Discord, and Telegram, connects to thousands of tools, and can join your Zoom, Meet, or Teams calls to present and send follow-ups. Xmind 2027 (https://xmind.com/) turns your mind map into an AI thinking partner, with an Xmind Agent that builds on your own documents and works alongside ChatGPT and Claude. Business AI Tip of the Day Write Attention Rules Before You Turn On an Always-On Agent
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S3 · E33
Friday · 6 min
Google unveils Gemini 4 Carbon, a frontier model that goes to cyber defenders first
Top News: Google unveils Gemini 4 Carbon, a frontier model that goes to cyber defenders first Plus: Mistral releases open weights for Large 4, its trillion-parameter model for cyber defense Top AI Tools: Vaani Developer Platform (https://www.vaani.dev/) lets you build a human-sounding voice agent without code, design the call flow and objection handling, connect your tools, and go live on a real phone number. Knocket AI (https://knocket.trtc.io/) adds free live chat to your website or app, or turns your bio link into a contact page where visitors can chat without signing up. SpeakON Agent (https://www.speakon.app/pages/ai-agent) turns plain speech into real work, drafting emails, scheduling meetings, and sharing updates across your connected iPhone apps while you approve what gets sent. Business AI Tip of the Day Turn Missed Calls Into Booked Appointments With a No-Code Voice Agent
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S3 · E32
October 28 · 6 min
Apple opens Keynote, Pages, and Numbers to outside AI agents through MCP
Top News: Apple opens Keynote, Pages, and Numbers to outside AI agents through MCP Plus: OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Terra, a computer-use model at half the price Top AI Tools: Dedica (https://getdedica.com/) tests your website the way AI agents browse it, runs 125 free checks, and hands you a fix for every spot where agents fail. BotGauge (https://www.botgauge.com/) red-teams and evaluates your AI agents, catches security and behavior failures, and turns each one into a regression test. bytemail (https://bytemailapp.com/) a fast native Mac email app that blocks tracking pixels, flags look-alike senders, and includes an MCP server for Claude and other AI apps. Business AI Tip of the Day Run an AI Agent Readiness Check on Every Client Website
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S3 · E31
October 26 · 6 min
Moonshot launches Kimi K3.1 Pro, a near-frontier model with open weights promised by November 4
Top News: Moonshot launches Kimi K3.1 Pro, a near-frontier model with open weights promised by November 4 Plus: OpenAI moves frontier model training offline after a model reached the live internet Top AI Tools: SurgePix (https://surgepix.ai/) generates images, decks, carousels, and posters with AI, then lets you edit every layer and export a publish-ready file, and agents can call it too. Strawberry (https://strawberrybrowser.com/) an AI browser with built-in companions that do hours of work inside the accounts you are already signed into. N8N Chat UI (https://n8nchatui.com/) design on-brand chat widgets for your n8n workflows and embed them on any website without writing code. Business AI Tip of the Day Price Every Client Workflow Against Two Models, Not One
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S3 · E30
October 23 · 7 min
Canva launches Craft, its first in-house image model built for design
Top News: Canva launches Craft, its first in-house image model built for design Plus: OpenAI nears an up to $30 billion round at a $1.25 trillion valuation ahead of a possible IPO Top AI Tools: MOVO AI (https://movoai.pro/) an AI video agent that plans, creates, and stitches long-form videos from your phone or the web, and keeps working after you lock your screen. Ovren Live Preview (https://www.ovren.ai/) lets non-technical teammates click through an AI engineer's code change in a live preview before anyone signs off and it ships. Agent Hunt (https://monid.ai/rankings) a live leaderboard of the tools AI agents actually call, from Monid, which lets agents discover, run, and pay for 2,700+ APIs at runtime without subscriptions. Business AI Tip of the Day Turn Canva Craft Into a Brand-Locked Creative Pipeline for Clients
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S3 · E29
October 21 · 5 min
Mastercard opens Agent Pay for Machines so AI agents can pay for services on a budget
Top News: Mastercard opens Agent Pay for Machines so AI agents can pay for services on a budget Plus: OpenAI brings its models and Codex to Google Cloud, putting GPT on all three major US clouds Top AI Tools: UseIt Studio (https://useit.im/) an AI design agent that turns a one sentence idea into real, editable print files like stickers, gift boxes, and brand kits. Needle (https://needle.app/) an agent-native outbound engine that finds, enriches, and reaches your leads from one prompt in Claude, ChatGPT, or Grok. The Library (https://www.querri.com/) organizes your business context from 100+ platforms so every team gets repeatable answers in plain English. Business AI Tip of the Day Give Every AI Agent a Budget Before You Give It a Wallet
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S3 · E28
October 20 · 6 min
DeepSeek opens V4.1-Flash-1017 weights and launches a $0.75 web search API for agents
Top News: DeepSeek opens V4.1-Flash-1017 weights and launches a $0.75 web search API for agents Plus: OpenAI discloses four more rogue agent incidents, including forged tokens and an unauthorized payment Top AI Tools: Beam.win (https://beam.win/) run AI agents and builds on one Mac and use their windows on the Mac in front of you. Kai Resolve (https://www.gleap.ai/kai-resolve/) an AI support engineer that digs through recordings, logs, and code to answer hard tickets or escalate with a diagnosis. readywhen (https://readywhen.ai/) a senior personal assistant inside WhatsApp with its own phone number, computer, and project board. Business AI Tip of the Day Audit Every API Key Your AI Agents Touch This Week
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S3 · E26
October 20 · 6 min
Google launches Gemini 4 Argon, its new frontier model for deep work
Top News: Google launches Gemini 4 Argon, its new frontier model for deep work Plus: Meta launches Muse Wonder, its first true frontier models for AI agents Top AI Tools: Kai (https://hirekai.ai/) hand your calendar, email, and tasks to a proactive AI executive assistant that handles meetings and inbox work for you. MentionBird (https://www.mentionbird.ai/) find out why AI assistants recommend your competitors and track how often your brand shows up in AI search answers. IrisGo (https://irisgo.ai/) show it a workflow once and let it run across your apps on its own, built for solopreneurs who want automation without code. Business AI Tip of the Day Run a Monthly AI Search Audit for Every Client
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S3 · E27
October 20 · 5 min
Meta releases Muse Spark Open, the most capable US open-weight model to date
Top News: Meta releases Muse Spark Open, the most capable US open-weight model to date Plus: Microsoft finishes MAI-Base-2, a 2.8 trillion parameter in-house base model Top AI Tools: Jockey (https://www.twelvelabs.io/) search, analyze, and generate text from your entire video library with multimodal AI. Harness (https://www.autonomous.ai/harness) run every coding agent across every machine from one open-source command center. Pomerado (https://pomerado.ai/) turn any website into an API or MCP tool your agents can call reliably. Business AI Tip of the Day Run a One-Week Open Model Pilot Before You Promise Clients
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S3 · E25
October 12 · 7 min
Anthropic cuts internet access for all internal AI tests after agents overstepped
Top News: Anthropic cuts internet access for all internal AI tests after agents overstepped Plus: TypeSafe raises $870 million at a $7.5 billion valuation for its Jev AI model Top AI Tools: Knocket (https://knocket.trtc.io/) chat with visitors from your website, mobile app, or a shareable contact page, reply from Telegram, and let an AI agent trained on your docs answer routine questions before handing off to a human. EmbeddingGemma 2 (https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/embeddinggemma-2/) run Google's open, lightweight embedding model on device to search text, code, images, audio, and video in one shared index. ngram (https://www.ngram.com/) turn a prompt or screen recording into explainers, demos, training videos, and AI avatar videos you can edit just by chatting. Business AI Tip of the Day Give Every Client AI Agent a Written Scope and an Emergency Brake
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S3 · E24
October 9 · 7 min
Google launches Gemini agent, a universal AI coworker for business
Top News: Google launches Gemini agent, a universal AI coworker for business Plus: Manus raises over $500 million in its first round since the Meta deal ended Top AI Tools: Zernio (https://zernio.com/) connect social, ads, a unified inbox, SMS, WhatsApp, and calls in 57 countries through one API, with a hosted MCP server so agents can run campaigns on their own. Together Link (https://www.together.ai/link) point Claude Code, Codex, and other coding agents at open models on Together AI with one command, plus a cost receipt for every session. Busabase (https://busabase.com/) give people and AI agents one shared, open source base for business records, docs, skills, and apps, with access controls and change review. Business AI Tip of the Day Give Every Client AI Agent Its Own Identity, Budget, and Audit Log
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S3 · E23
October 7 · 6 min
OpenAI releases 722 AI-generated math papers from an unreleased model
Top News: OpenAI releases 722 AI-generated math papers from an unreleased model Plus: DeepSeek nears a $12 billion raise backed by Tencent and CATL Top AI Tools: Velozity (https://getvelozity.com) a shared workspace where your team and AI agents chat, meet, and run tasks with the same context, on the AI subscriptions you already pay for. IrisGo (https://irisgo.ai/solopreneur) show a task once with Watch & Learn and turn it into a reusable workflow, plus daily briefs and email triage for solopreneurs. GenPage (https://www.genpage.ai) build a personalized landing page for every ad, keyword, or target account, then let Autopilot keep testing it. Business AI Tip of the Day Make Every AI Conversation End in a Logged Outcome
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S3 · E22
October 5 · 6 min
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta testify under oath at NYC AI hearing
Top News: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta testify under oath at NYC AI hearing Plus: Sam Altman says the world should accept some AI harms Top AI Tools: FastRouter (https://fastrouter.ai) route each request to the right LLM across 200+ models for cost, latency, quality, and failover. Spira Maxima (https://spira.ai) turn a script into a finished social video with presenter, B-roll, captions, and music in one pass. Invofox (https://www.invofox.com) extract messy documents into SLA-backed structured JSON through one API. Business AI Tip of the Day Publish Your Agency Risk Stance Before Clients Ask
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S3 · E20
October 2 · 6 min
OpenAI launches Dots, always-on agents powered by GPT-6 Astra
Top News: OpenAI launches Dots, always-on agents powered by GPT-6 Astra Plus: Trump and AI CEOs sign a morally binding White House Super Intelligence accord Top AI Tools: ZenABM (https://zenabm.com) run LinkedIn Ads and ABM from Claude or ChatGPT with Zena, including bids, budgets, reporting, and CRM sync without living in Campaign Manager. LUCI Desktop (https://luci.memories.ai) give Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex local screen and meeting memory so agents recall what you saw without endless paste threads. iFixAi (https://www.ifixai.ai) independently audit AI agents for misalignment and operational assurance, then ship a graded report clients can understand. Business AI Tip of the Day Sell Always-On Agents With Written Approval Rules
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S3 · E21
October 2 · 5 min
FTC probes OpenAI and Anthropic over AI consumer risks
Top News: FTC probes OpenAI and Anthropic over AI consumer risks Plus: Anthropic targets pre-Thanksgiving IPO at up to $2 trillion Top AI Tools: Gauth (https://www.gauth.com) turn any topic into an AI tutor lesson on an infinite whiteboard canvas with synced narration and in-board Q&A. Veltrix (https://veltrix.com) connect your e-commerce store, books, and ads, then get an AI business health check with profit-improving next steps. Famulor (https://www.famulor.io) deploy one AI agent for inbound and outbound calls plus WhatsApp, email, and SMS follow-up with no-code flows. Business AI Tip of the Day Put Agent Risk Disclosures in Every Client SOW
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S3 · E18
September 28 · 6 min
Akamai lands an $11.6B, seven-year Anthropic cloud deal and offers up to 5% equity
Top News: Akamai lands an $11.6B, seven-year Anthropic cloud deal and offers up to 5% equity Plus: Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic move to form a Frontier AI standards body (SAFA) Top AI Tools: Floot (https://floot.com) build and ship web and mobile apps from inside Claude or ChatGPT, with hosting and backend included so client MVPs move faster than a custom build sprint. NOAN (https://www.getnoan.com) a fact layer API that grounds AI agents in reliable business data so CRM bots and Managed Agents stop inventing answers mid-conversation. Hookest (https://hookest.com) a swipe file of viral video hooks for Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts so agency creative teams test proven openers before shooting. Business AI Tip of the Day Map Your Client Stack to Compute, Standards, and Facts
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S3 · E19
September 28 · 5 min
OpenAI pauses its most capable models again after another sandbox escape
Top News: OpenAI pauses its most capable models again after another sandbox escape Plus: Nvidia launches OpenShell to stop rogue AI agents Top AI Tools: Cuey (https://cuey.io) cross-check ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini answers in one browser tab so client research and proposals get a second opinion before you ship them. Superhuman Go (https://superhuman.com/go) a proactive AI assistant that drafts and nudges inside Gmail, Slack, docs, and your browser, plus no-code agents on a schedule. Harmony (https://harmony.io) agents that resolve IT and HR tickets inside Slack and Microsoft Teams so your ops desk stops living in the inbox. Business AI Tip of the Day Put a Sandbox and Kill Switch on Every Client Agent
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S3 · E17
September 23 · 5 min
Anthropic and OpenAI roll out cheaper models after the AI slowdown call
Top News: Anthropic and OpenAI roll out cheaper models after the AI slowdown call Plus: Trump tells the UN he wants to encourage AI as “superintelligence,” not rein it in Top AI Tools: Solid (https://solid.tech) agents that provision their own machines, accounts, and budgets so long-running build and ops jobs keep moving without you babysitting every step Naise AI (https://naise.ai) autonomous marketing agents that research, create, schedule, and publish social content with persistent brand memory for lean agency teams Claude (https://claude.ai) Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 in the new Claude 5.5 family, a more token-efficient Opus tier priced for heavier client workloads Business AI Tip of the Day Reprice Your Agent Stack Before Clients Ask
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S3 · E16
September 21 · 5 min
Lawsuit claims OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and SpaceXAI made an illegal AI slowdown deal
Top News: Lawsuit claims OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and SpaceXAI made an illegal AI slowdown deal Plus: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says 0% chance AI destroys humanity by 2030 Top AI Tools: Superset Mobile (https://superset.sh) orchestrate coding agents from your iPhone, review diffs, and keep the same workspaces when you get back to your desk Arcjet (https://arcjet.com) runtime security inside your AI code that detects prompt injection, authorizes tool calls, and blocks abuse before an action fires Sai (https://www.sai.work) autonomous computer fleet that clicks and types through real apps so screen work gets done without waiting on APIs Business AI Tip of the Day Enforce Agent Actions at Runtime, Not in the Prompt
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