Changelog
Version 3.0.0 is the first major version number we've shipped in a while, and it earns it. Your AI employees can now pick up a video call, look you in the eye while they talk, and change outfits when you ask. Underneath the showpiece there'
Business
Most small businesses that give up on an AI employee don't give up because of the AI. They give up because they skipped steps they would never skip with a person: no job description, no introduction to the team, no idea who the new hire is allowed to
AI Agents
An OpenAI agent was told no by a government website in June and kept going until it got in. Australia found out this week, from a three-month-old email in a public inbox. That same week, Amazon threw Meta's shopping agent off its store, Meta gave that agent its
Business
Sixty-two percent of small business leaders say they are very or extremely confident handing high-stakes tasks to AI agents. That comes from the Upwork Research Institute's Q1 2026 Business Leader Landscape survey, which looked at 195 leaders running companies with 10 to 99 employees. Nearly a third of
Trends
Today, in a room in New York, Sam Altman sat down in front of the fifteen members of the United Nations Security Council. Dario Amodei joined remotely. Yoshua Bengio was there as co-chair of the UN's Independent International Scientific Panel on AI, and Clement Delangue came from Hugging
Future of Work
Founder Reports asked 2,078 employed adults in the United States a question that most AI adoption surveys skip. Not "do you use AI" (most do) and not "does it make you faster" (most say yes), but: when you find out a colleague used AI on
AI Agents
The three most powerful people in AI agreed on something this week, and it was to go slower. Within hours of Dario Amodei's essay on Saturday, Sam Altman and Elon Musk had signed on, the European Commission President repeated the argument in her State of the Union, and
Changelog
A patch release with one dramatic number in it, one bug that had been quietly killing individual employees, and a gap we left open in the last release and have now closed. Employees with very long instructions start up again If one of your Claude employees suddenly stopped working entirely,
Trends
Salesforce shipped a product this week whose main selling point is that you don't have to open Salesforce. It's called AIforce, and it's an interface layer that pushes Salesforce data, workflows, business logic, permissions and governance out into whatever tool the person is already
Changelog
The version number went from 2.7 to 2.8 for one reason. Until this release, when your employee published a website, it published a website: files, a URL, done. Now it can publish an application. A real one, with a database, server-side functions, webhooks, live realtime channels and your
Changelog
This is one of the bigger releases in a while. Community Edition gets the connectors people reach for first. Editing an employee's instructions now actually reaches the conversation you're having. Codex employees get a batch of fixes that make them behave the way the picker says
Trends
Here's a quick test for any AI agent you're thinking of paying for. Give it a job that takes an hour, then close the tab. If the job dies with the tab, you haven't got an agent. You've got a very clever