Notion

2026-10-28

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · The Decoder

Anthropic engineer says AI (Claude) has made classic coding interviews obsolete

Felix Rieseberg, an engineering manager who helped build Claude and Claude Code Desktop, has abandoned traditional coding tests at Anthropic, arguing that Claude now solves small programming tasks better than candidates and that hiring should emphasize entrepreneurial thinking, product sense, and rapid prototyping by newcomers. He cites examples of junior engineers quickly shipping Claude Code interfaces and warns the change raises the bar toward product and business judgment rather than pure implementation skill.

6.0

2026-10-22

STARTUPS · 1 SOURCE · WIRED AI

Aged Intelligence Society hosts invite-only AI dinner events to teach midlife women practical uses of LLMs

Cofounders Shoshana Berger and Nina Willdorf run the Aged Intelligence Society, an invite-only events startup that hosts small dinner salons where midlife women bring personal 'quandaries' and learn to use frontier AI tools (including Claude) to solve practical problems. The events have been oversubscribed, attracted press coverage (including the New York Times), and their Substack has grown to over 1,000 subscribers, with attendees now organizing local meetups.

3.0

2026-10-20

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Figma adds 20 MCP partners while co‑founder says MCP is 'not a perfect protocol'

At its Config conference in India, Figma announced support for 20 new Model Context Protocol (MCP) partners — including Notion, Mistral, Meta Muse, Junie by JetBrains, ClickUp and others — even as co‑founder Dylan Field said MCP is "not a perfect protocol" and flagged concerns about asymmetric context sharing; Figma also said it will support Pi and cited risks from exposing more user data via MCP.

6.0

2026-10-10

MONEY · 1 SOURCE · The Decoder

a16z finds few US consumers pay for AI subscriptions, spending concentrated among prosumers

Andreessen Horowitz's seventh Top 100 AI list incorporates observed US card spending and finds that while nearly half of US consumers use AI, only about 4.5% had paid personal subscriptions (ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude) in August. Revenue is highly concentrated: the top 1% of payers account for nearly a fifth of observed spending (around $900/month on average), typical paying users spend about $25/month, ChatGPT leads usage and Claude has grown as a paid product, and agent products are beginning to trigger sizable purchases.

7.0

2026-10-09

STARTUPS · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Instinct’s invite-only AI assistant holds up against Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s Dots

Instinct AI launched an invite-only, text-based personal assistant in August that integrates with email, calendar, and services like Google Workspace, Slack, and Notion; despite competition from Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s Dots, The Verge found Instinct performs competitively on everyday tasks. The startup has drawn rapid interest and was reportedly valued at $10 billion in late September.

6.0

2026-10-05

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · Cohere

PwC and Cohere form global alliance to deploy Cohere's North for secure enterprise AI, launching in Canada

PwC and Cohere announced a global alliance, launching first in Canada, to help organizations deploy Cohere’s North — a secure agentic AI platform — and turn AI investments into measurable business value. The collaboration pairs Cohere’s enterprise models, search and retrieval capabilities, and deployment options (private cloud, on‑premises, air‑gapped) with PwC’s industry, risk, regulatory, technology, and transformation expertise to identify use cases, connect AI to trusted enterprise data and systems, and establish governance for scaled, responsible deployment.

7.0

2026-09-29

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

OpenAI turns ChatGPT into an app-discovery and usage surface with plugins, extensions, Sign in with ChatGPT and Dots agents

At its Dev Day, OpenAI expanded ChatGPT’s plugin architecture to support interactive extensions, introduced "Sign in with ChatGPT" allowing users to carry AI allowances into third-party apps (with 16 launch partners named), rolled out an enterprise OpenAI Marketplace with 30+ partners, and unveiled autonomous agents called Dots that can use connected apps and run tasks in their own cloud environments. The changes make ChatGPT a discovery, launch and usage surface for apps while improving plugin review and developer workflow.

8.0

2026-09-28

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · xAI

SpaceXAI launches Team Bots — shared Grok Bots that learn from teams

SpaceXAI launched Team Bots, shared Grok Bots that combine contextual files, plugins, credentials, and memories so a team can work from the same AI-driven context. Team Bots integrate with apps like Slack, Notion, Linear, Hex and Datadog, keep individual conversations private while sharing team expertise, and are already used at SpaceXAI in sales, engineering, marketing and analytics workflows.

7.0

2026-09-16

MODELS · 1 SOURCE · Cohere

Cohere releases North Mini Code — open-source 30B (3B active) agentic coding MoE model

Cohere has open-sourced North Mini Code, a mixture-of-experts agentic coding model sized at 30 billion parameters with 3 billion active, released under an Apache 2.0 license. The model — available on Hugging Face, OpenRouter, and Cohere's Model Vault in bf16, fp8 and w4a16 formats and compatible with OpenCode — is optimized for agentic developer workflows and reports a 33.4 score on the Artificial Analysis Coding Index, higher throughput (up to 2.8x) and ~30% better inter-token latency versus Devstral Small 2 in Cohere's tests.

8.0

2026-09-16

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · xAI

Grok Voice releases Voice Agent Builder (beta) — no-code platform for production voice agents

Grok Voice announced Voice Agent Builder in beta, a no-code platform to configure production voice agents in about two minutes. The integrated speech-to-speech interface bundles telephony, knowledge retrieval, tools/connectors, guardrails, MCPs, observability, optional brand voice cloning and SIP number support; calls are recorded/transcribed and billing is quoted at $0.08/min of audio with telephony on a provisioned number at $0.01/min.

7.0

2026-06-24

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · Mistral AI

Mistral Studio expands Connectors with admin controls, scoped API keys, multi-account support, and debugger

Mistral Studio rolled out several Connectors features: enriched admin controls (GA) to set connector/tool access per org or workspace, API keys with connector scopes (GA), multi-account connectors (GA), Connectors Debugger (public preview), Connectors in Vibe Code (GA), and Connectors in Workflows (public preview). The connector directory now lists 60+ integrations and custom MCP options are available; the features are live in Studio.

7.0