Big Tech’s $770 Billion AI Bet Isn’t as Reckless as It Looks
Two years ago, the standard line on AI capital spending was that it couldn’t possibly be sustainable, too much money going out, too little revenue to show for it, a…
Zoom, Teams, and Slack Are All Racing to Take Your Meeting Notes
Three different companies decided this month that you should never have to take a meeting note again. What changed Microsoft Teams is rolling out AI-powered meeting notes this month, with…
Time Is Now Selling Ads to AI Bots, Not Just Readers
Time started serving advertisements to AI agents this month, and the ads aren’t banner images or video, they’re sponsored FAQ-style text blocks written specifically for a machine to read. Ally…
OpenAI Is Shutting Down Its Browser. Here’s Where It’s Going Instead
OpenAI announced on July 9 that it’s retiring Atlas, its standalone AI browser, on August 9. The agentic browsing features don’t disappear though, they’re moving into a ChatGPT extension for…
Atlassian Just Turned Jira Into an AI Coding Hub
Atlassian rolled out a set of AI-native development features into Jira on July 15, and the headline number is the kind that’s actually worth checking: agents given access to Atlassian’s…
Notion AI 2.5: The Features Actually Worth Using
Notion pushed a major AI update this month, and most of the changelog is the usual pile of feature-list additions. Buried in it, though, is a real shift: Notion’s agents…
Ushur’s AI Agents Now Finish Customer Tasks End to End
Ushur launched the Ushur Agentic Platform on July 22, and the pitch is narrower than most “AI agent” announcements: instead of an assistant that drafts a reply or fills out…
The Protocol Powering AI Agents Just Hit a Major Milestone
Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol just published its official specification release candidate on July 28, the clearest sign yet that the industry has settled on one shared way for AI agents…
HubSpot Just Gave Every Team One Place to See Its AI Agents
HubSpot opened Agent Hub and Agent Builder to public beta on July 23 for every Professional and Enterprise customer, and the problem it’s solving is one a lot of teams…
Adobe Firefly 4 Adds Style Match, and Designers Actually Wanted It
Adobe rolled out Firefly 4 this month, and the headline feature is Style Match: give it a reference image, and it generates new images that closely follow that image’s visual…