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Wednesday, 19 August 2026

Quoting Jeremy Morrell

Simon Willison’s Weblog 2 months ago 13

Jeremy Morrell argued that LLMs and modern sandbox primitives create an opportunity for Extensible Software on the web by reducing the cost and risk of building extensions. The quote was posted on 19th August 2026 at 10:56 pm. The approach shifts from building a closed app to shipping a core users can safely extend, with LLMs filling in missing pieces.

Shape

Product Hunt 2 months ago 46

“Shape” is a page that links to a discussion about an agentic IDE for designers and programmers. No date, price, or other concrete benchmark is provided in the available text. As a result, there’s not enough information here to confirm features, releases, or any real-world change beyond pointing to the discussion.

Calendly throws its hat into meeting note-taker circus

TechCrunch 2 months ago 29

Calendly is launching a meeting note-taker that records meetings, transcribes audio/video, and then generates summaries, action items, and draft follow-up emails. The note-taker is testing a Granola-like feature that uses system audio to transcribe meetings. Calendly is also planning to release an AI assistant named Callie to schedule meetings, check availability, and pull context from past meetings, competing with other note-taking apps and productivity suites.

Salesforce expands Headless Data 360 for MCP so developers can bring insights to agents

SiliconANGLE 2 months ago 38

Salesforce launched Headless Data 360 for Model Context Protocol, exposing over 200 APIs as programmable endpoints so AI agents can access customer data and perform transformations without a user interface. The tool is available now with Skills launching in August, enabling agents to build queries from natural language descriptions like "lifetime value of all customers for electronics purchases." This reduces data work that previously took months or weeks to hours or minutes, allowing teams to work across tools and systems without switching between interfaces.

Prevalent AI secures $22M growth investment to scale enterprise AI platform

Tech.eu 2 months ago 38

Prevalent AI, a nine-year-old enterprise data platform company, raised $22 million from Integrity Growth Partners, its first major funding round. The platform creates a sovereign knowledge graph connecting data across hundreds of enterprise systems to provide organizational context for AI agents and decision-making. The capital will fund expansion of sales, marketing, and customer success operations while extending the technology beyond cybersecurity into broader risk and enterprise applications.

Engram and Harvey trained a legal agent that cut query costs and improved accuracy

Engram 2 months ago 49

Engram and Harvey trained a legal AI agent that combines parametric knowledge, text notes, and search to handle law firm queries. The agent achieved $0.13 per query at 30% accuracy versus $1.32 per query at 25% for Claude Opus 4.8 on a synthetic 100M-token legal firm dataset. The trained agent learns to perform targeted searches instead of exhaustive document reads, reducing inference costs by an order of magnitude while improving accuracy.

Grok 4.6

Product Hunt 2 months ago 15

The provided page only shows a title, “Grok 4.6,” and a link labeled “Frontier Intelligence for Long-Running Agents Discussion,” with no article text included here. No numbers, dates, or specific claims are given in the content you shared. As a result, there’s nothing concrete to report about changes from this story beyond the existence of the linked discussion page.

Exclusive: Accounting AI startup Rillet reaches unicorn status with $1 billion valuation. Its founder says he wants to give CFOs back their weekends

Fortune 60 ● 2 sources

Rillet, an AI-native accounting platform startup founded two years ago, raised $100 million in Series C funding at a $1 billion valuation led by ICONIQ and existing backers including Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz. The company has doubled new annual recurring revenue in the three months before this raise and now serves over 600 customers across tech and non-tech industries. Rillet positions itself as replacing legacy ERP systems like Oracle and SAP by automating accounting work through AI agents, allowing finance teams to operate at a fraction of traditional size while shifting CFO focus from manual tasks to strategic planning.

OneCLI

Product Hunt 2 months ago 31

OneCLI proposes giving every employee a secured, sandboxed “pro assistant agent.” The description provides no specific number, date, or benchmark. As a result, it frames the main change as company-wide rollout of a sandboxed assistant setup rather than a detailed feature release or research finding.

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