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ProductMerit AC adds a progress checklist to its 30-day prompt challenge2026-09-16 · A checkbox on each day tile on /prompts, plus a live "N of 30 days checked off" counter. It's stored in localStorage only, with no backend change, to give visitors a reason to come back and finish the archive.ProductMerit AC closes a double-counting gap in its own spend-ingestion pipeline2026-09-16 · A retried /ingest/* call, a normal failure mode for any billing proxy or webhook, used to insert a duplicate row every time. An optional, caller-supplied event_id now makes a replay a no-op, enforced at the database level.ProductSalesforce builds its own reasoning model instead of buying one from Anthropic or OpenAI2026-09-15 · Koa, post-trained on Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron and tuned on synthetic CRM scenarios rather than customer data, is Salesforce's bid to stop paying frontier-lab token prices for the reasoning behind its Agentforce agents.ProductAnthropic launches Claude for Financial Advisors, wiring Claude into Schwab, BlackRock and a dozen wealth platforms2026-09-14 · The new plugin bundles connectors to custodians, asset managers and CRM tools with pre-built workflows for meeting prep, portfolio reviews and compliance checks, keeping every consequential action subject to advisor approval.ProductAn unreleased "Claude Money" feature turned up in the Claude iOS app2026-09-14 · Screenshots surfaced by TestingCatalog show a bank-linking onboarding screen under a new Money tab in Claude's mobile navigation. Anthropic has not announced or confirmed it.ProductApple ships its rebuilt Siri, running partly on custom Google Gemini models2026-09-14 · iOS 27's English-only Siri AI beta splits work between on-device processing and Apple's Private Cloud Compute, with the heaviest reasoning routed to Apple Foundation Models built in collaboration with Google.ProductBox brings enterprise files into ChatGPT -- with its own permissions layer intact2026-09-13 · Box expanded its MCP-based integration beyond Claude to ChatGPT, Microsoft 365 Copilot and Glean, letting employees search, preview and act on company content from inside whichever AI assistant they already use.ProductServiceTitan doubled AI-product locations in a quarter -- and trades customers are paying for it2026-09-13 · Fiscal Q2 earnings show Max, ServiceTitan's AI layer for HVAC, plumbing and electrical contractors, on pace for over 700 enrolled locations by fiscal year-end, alongside 21% revenue growth.ProductYelp puts OpenAI's newest voice model to work answering the phone for local businesses2026-09-13 · Yelp Host and Hatch, which together have handled over a million calls for restaurants and service pros, are adopting GPT-Live-1 to let callers interrupt and talk over the AI mid-sentence.ProductOpenAI pauses new sign-ups for its $200 ChatGPT Pro tier, citing demand for GPT-6 Astra it can't yet serve2026-09-11 · OpenAI says compute demand from Astra, which reached general availability on September 3, has outrun the capacity it has to support new $200-tier subscribers -- with no date given for when sign-ups reopen.ProductSalesforce gives Agentforce seven named agents and a runtime that works for weeks unattended2026-09-11 · Casey, Paige, Carter, Hunter, Marshall, Piper and Fin ship as pre-configured agents for specific jobs rather than a platform to build one, with Hunter piloting a "long-horizon" runtime that pursues a sales pipeline across sessions instead of a single chat.ProductAbacus.AI ships open-weight Smaug models it says close the gap to frontier agents at a fraction of the cost2026-09-10 · Smaug Agentic, Flash and Mini are open-weight models fine-tuned for long-running agent loops, pitched as a 10-100x cheaper substitute for Opus- and GPT-class models in enterprise agentic workflows.ProductCognition hires the entire Dioxus team to work on Devin's desktop app2026-09-10 · Jonathan Kelley and the rest of the open-source Rust UI framework's team are joining Cognition, which says it will keep backing Dioxus, Blitz, Taffy, and Subsecond as open source while the team builds out Devin.ProductCognition ships SWE-2: near-frontier coding quality at roughly a quarter of GPT-6 Astra's cost2026-09-10 · Post-trained from Moonshot's Kimi K3, the new Devin model scores within one point of Claude Fable 5.1 on Cognition's own benchmark while running about 64% cheaper -- a direct cost-per-task data point rather than a capability claim.ProductCursor's new "Projects" agent keeps working after you close your laptop -- for months2026-09-10 · A coordinator agent that doesn't write code itself, only plans and delegates to subagents, runs in the cloud and can trigger itself from Slack, a schedule, or an incoming PR -- a shift from IDE copilot toward an always-on agent product.ProductGoogle brings Gemini to the Windows desktop as a system-level utility, not a browser tab2026-09-10 · An Alt+Space shortcut summons Gemini over any open window, bundling an always-on personal agent, image and video generation, and a Notebooks panel -- putting it on the same operating-system footing as Copilot.ProductOpenAI launches a ChatGPT built specifically to automate junior banker and analyst work2026-09-10 · Built with Morgan Stanley and Evercore as design partners and bundling data from PitchBook, LSEG News, and Crunchbase, ChatGPT for Financial Services targets company research, financial modeling, and pitchbook generation, the highest-margin junior-analyst labor on Wall Street.ProductOpenAI adds a Data agent to ChatGPT Work that builds live dashboards from a plain-language question2026-09-10 · The new plugin connects to warehouses like Snowflake and BigQuery plus BI tools like Tableau and Power BI, so employees can investigate a business question and get an interactive dashboard back without writing a query. OpenAI says most of its own product and go-to-market teams already use it.ProductOpenAI puts its full-duplex voice model in the API at 5 cents a minute2026-09-10 · GPT-Live-1, the model behind ChatGPT's voice mode, is now available to any developer building a voice agent -- with telephony support and a claimed cut in turn-taking latency to under a second.ProductAnduril pitches autonomous "loyal wingman" aircraft to pair with Poland's incoming F-35s2026-09-09 · Fury and Thunder would make Poland Anduril's first European operator of these autonomous platforms, building on an existing cruise-missile partnership with Polish state defense firm PGZ.ProductApple's Siri overhaul ships September 14 -- with an always-listening 'Recap' feature2026-09-09 · iOS 27's rebuilt Siri, co-developed using Google's Gemini models, ships alongside a watch-plus-phone feature that passively summarizes conversations through the day -- no stored audio, auto-deleted after seven days.ProductBoston Dynamics spins off a robotics company built around personality, not industrial tasks2026-09-09 · Dynamic Creatures builds interactive "character" robots for theme parks, hotels, and casinos -- writing its own software while sourcing hardware from Unitree, AgiBot, and Boston Dynamics itself.ProductInception Labs ships Mercury 2.5, a diffusion LLM pitched at latency-sensitive production workloads2026-09-09 · 1,107 tokens per second on standard Nvidia GPUs, a 260K context window, and an 80%-off launch price of $0.04/$0.15 per million tokens, aimed at voice agents, coding subagents, and support workloads where speed and cost matter more than leaderboard rank.ProductSuno replaces its entire model lineup with versions trained on licensed music, not scraped catalogs2026-09-09 · v6, v6-wild, and v6-mini are Suno's first models built on officially licensed material from Warner Music Group, BMG, and Believe, with built-in revenue-sharing for rights holders -- a shift from "scrape and get sued" to a licensed business model.