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I’ve spent way too much time doing tasks that feel like they should be someone else’s job, whether it’s formatting reports, organizing information, or repeating the same steps in different apps. At some point, you start thinking, “Maybe I should just hire a VA.” That’s why Claude Cowork’s Record a Skill feature caught my attention….

Microsoft has brought its fourth Indian cloud region online, declaring general availability of the India South Central region in Hyderabad, Telangana on August 6, 2026. The three-availability-zone build is the largest hyperscale region Microsoft operates in the country and, by the company’s count, gives it the biggest hyperscale cloud footprint of any provider in India….

OpenAI said on August 7, 2026 that internal evaluations of Astra, one of its upcoming models, show such strong agentic coding and cybersecurity performance that the company can no longer rule out the Critical cybersecurity capability level defined in its own Preparedness Framework. It is the first time OpenAI has attached that label’s possibility to…

AI agent reliability startup Lemma has raised $2.3 million in pre-seed funding to build monitoring infrastructure designed to catch a particularly difficult class of problem: AI agents that appear to have completed a task successfully while quietly producing the wrong result. The round includes participation from Matrix, Y Combinator, Liquid 2 Ventures, Vermilion Cliffs Ventures,…

Why real customer behaviour matters more than ever in the age of AI Product managers and engineers can spend months shaping a feature before anyone outside the business touches it. When customers get hold of it, they might use it exactly as expected or find a completely different path. They might ignore the main feature…

Anthropic on August 7, 2026 released an update to the biology safeguards on Claude Fable 5 that the company says cut biology-related “fallbacks” by about 85% in testing across its product surfaces — the automatic handoffs that route a user’s query to a less capable model when the system judges a request touches safeguarded biology…

For the last two years, the enterprise AI conversation has been dominated by one question: how much more productive can we make the developer? The metrics have been familiar: lines of code generated, hours saved, user stories completed faster and pull requests merged sooner. These are useful indicators, but they tell only part of the…

OpenAI’s advertising build-out has crossed into Latin America. The company’s Ads Manager availability page, updated on August 6, 2026, now lists Brazil as available to advertisers, with Mexico marked “coming soon” — completing a market set that already spans the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand. The expansion lands…

Ilan Gluck, Head of Go-to-Market, North America at Digital Matter, is an experienced technology and commercial leader with a background spanning the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence, supply chain technology, data analytics, and enterprise strategy. Before joining Digital Matter, he spent more than five years with Cox 2M and GearTrack, serving as General Manager…

AI travel agents have improved rapidly over the past two years. KAYAK launched AI Mode in 2025 and expanded it with Ask AI in 2026. Booking.com has continued to expand the AI trip-planning tools it first introduced in 2023, while adding new products for specific parts of the journey, including AI-powered car rental search and…