What shipped & dropped across AI labs, today.
Today
Mon · Aug 24 · 2 postsHow to Evaluate Live & Voice Agents in ADK
Moving live voice agents from demo to production requires rigorous, automated testing to handle the unpredictability of real multi-turn conversations. ADK now provides native live evaluation, allowing developers to test graph-based agent workflows against LLM-driven simulated users that generate actual audio via Gemini TTS. By defining evaluation scenarios and natural-language rubrics, you can automatically score audio responses and tool executions, inspect the resulting transcripts in ADK Web, or run the CLI directly in your CI/CD pipeline.
How an Anthropic field marketer uses Claude Code to send weekly personalized updates to every sales rep
Adam Ward, on Anthropic’s marketing team, shares how he uses Claude to turn one weekly sales report into a personalized Monday briefing for every account executive he supports.
Friday
Fri · Aug 21 · 6 posts
Grok 4.6 on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
Grok 4.6 is now available via Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.
Grok Bot is now included with more plans
Grok Bot is now available for SuperGrok Plus, Cursor Pro+, and all Cursor Teams plans.
Bringing the cybersecurity capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 to more defenders
We’re sharing an update on our efforts to help more teams leverage frontier capabilities for cyber defense.
Shared agentic work with GitHub Copilot in Microsoft Teams
Turn a Microsoft Teams discussion into a collaborative agent session everyone can see and help direct. Mention @GitHub in a channel, thread, or direct message to start a GitHub Copilot…
The new GitHub Copilot experience in Slack
The GitHub integration in Slack now brings the agentic capabilities of GitHub Copilot CLI and the GitHub Copilot app into Slack in public preview. You can work with @GitHub to…
The AI-Native SDLC playbook
How to transform your software development lifecycle with AI—stage by stage.
Thursday
Thu · Aug 20 · 4 postsBuild production agents with computer use, the Skills API, and the Files API
Computer use, the Skills API, and the Files API are generally available on the Claude Platform today. Computer use also adds a new browser use tool for agents that work in web applications. Together they let you build agents that operate software, apply your team's expertise, and return finished files.
Anthropic’s approach to teaching and learning AI
Claude Academy gives users the educational tools they need to learn how to use AI effectively. In this post, we highlight why we’re launching it and how our own approach to teaching and learning influenced its development.
How monday.com transformed its platform into an agent-first product where humans and agents collaborate
The monday team shares lessons from the transition to an agent-first product after they rebuilt the platform around Anthropic's Claude.
The Claude Code guide for startups
The five rules startups use with Claude Code to ship like teams 10x their size—Anthropic's guide to AI-native building, from everyone-ships culture to AI-native SDLCs.
Wednesday
Wed · Aug 19 · 4 postsGrok Build on web and mobile
Grok Build is now available on every plan, on the web and on mobile.
Turning conversation into knowledge: how Slack builds human-agent teams
A conversation with Jaime DeLanghe, Chief Product Officer at Slack.
Cloud Agents and Cursor Harness Improvements
We're continuing to improve cloud agents and the Cursor harness so always-on agents can operate as a system, building and shipping software on their own without the need for intervention at each loop. With this release, cloud agents can automatically pick up work in response to events, hold a goal until it's met, and stay on course through long-running sessions. #Subscriptions Cursor can now monitor your PRs, watch a Slack thread, or run scheduled tasks. Cursor Agent subscribes to an event source (a thread or conversation) and wakes when something happens. Subscriptions are available for cloud agents only, for now. Cloud agents automatically subscribe to PRs they create and drive them to completion, fixing CI and addressing bot comments. In Slack, ask @cursor check back in an hour and keep going until that feedback is in. #Custom modes Use any skill as a Custom Mode: a skill that stays pinned in the chat. Custom modes keep agents focused on a skill - you can think about it like "always on" skills. From /, pick a skill and press ⌥⏎ (Mac) or Alt+Enter (Windows), or choose Use as Mode. #Subagents on their own machines Subagents can now run on their own virtual machines. Each gets an isolated copy of the project with clean context in its own cloud environment. Have subagents test the parent agent's changes in fresh environments or swarm independent fixes without collisions. Try run a swarm of subagents to test my app for bugs, each in its own environment. #/goal Use /goal to give the agent a long-lived objective to work towards until it's fully complete. Try /goal fix all flaky tests and make CI green in a new chat. Pair it with a custom mode to follow a playbook, or /loop for recurring check-ins. #Steering improvements You can now send a message to steer the agent while it's working without interruption. Follow-ups wait for the next tool call instead of cutting the agent off mid-action. Type a follow-up and hit Send now, or press ⏎ twice.
Grok 4.6 on Amazon Bedrock
Grok 4.6 is now available via Amazon Bedrock.
Tuesday
Tue · Aug 18 · 3 postsEnterprise managed settings in GitHub Copilot for JetBrains
GitHub Copilot for JetBrains now supports enterprise managed settings for plugin governance, MCP server access, OpenTelemetry, and permission modes. Administrators can now apply consistent controls for everyone on your enterprise’s…
Claude on call: How Claude Tag serves as Anthropic’s first responder for CI/CD failures
How Anthropic runs AI incident response for CI/CD: an engineer on our Continuous Integration team walks through the Claude Tag agent that detects, triages, and resolves CI failures.
The Claude Science product guide
We share how to use Claude Science, including setting up common workflows, new life sciences skills, and popular database connectors.