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404 Media 1 month ago 13
iLands AI agent platform used autonomous agents to email journalists, lawyers, academics, and other recipients with unsolicited service pitches. The article says iLands has 70,000 active agents that have sent more than 1.6 million emails and posts. iLands founder added an unsubscribe option and is reviewing deduplication, rate limits, and stop-contact controls in response to recipient burden from the spam.
TechCrunch 1 month ago 47
Relay, an AI workflow automation startup and Zapier alternative, shut down entirely on Monday as larger platforms added similar automation directly into their own tools. Relay had been operating for about five years before closing on Monday. The article highlights a broader pattern of AI projects being abandoned or folded into bigger products, citing that about 42% of corporate AI initiatives are ultimately scrapped.
Ars Technica 1 month ago 21
Agility Robotics debuted Digit 5, its first humanoid robot designed to take safety precautions around human coworkers. The robot can squat into a seated position when a person approaches too closely, in addition to avoiding the person or standing still. This changes how the robot can be deployed by enabling warehouse and automotive factory use without isolated work cells and physical separation barriers.
TechCrunch 1 month ago 23 ● 6 sources
TechCrunch is hosting a Real World AI Stage session at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 on scaling a prototype into production across industries including space communications, autonomous systems, and AI infrastructure. The event runs October 13–15 in San Francisco and includes 10,000+ founders, investors, and operators with 250+ sessions. The focus shifts from proving a concept in the lab to addressing manufacturing, infrastructure, reliability, and day-to-day operations required for deployment.
Product Hunt 1 month ago 16
GBrain launched a unified API that provides shared “memory” and connected accounts so multiple AI tools (like Claude Code and ChatGPT, and tools such as Cursor) can access the same saved data. It offers $100 off the first month for a team workspace. Teams can run it on their own inference or on the vendor’s service in a shared workspace, reducing per-tool setup such as key configuration.
Tech.eu 1 month ago 15
Endra launched Power Studio, an agentic electrical engineering platform, and acquired Planlabs to expand into mechanical engineering. Power Studio is claimed to complete electrical design for a 500,000-square-foot commercial building in less than a day versus around two months traditionally. The workflow shifts from multiple disconnected tools to an AI-agent system that generates calculations, simulations, and connected documentation while engineers review and sign off at each stage.
seldo.com 1 month ago 8 ● 2 sources
The article argues that AI agents will progressively take over most of the software development lifecycle, changing what “software developers” do as code-writing becomes cheaper. In July 2026, entry-level hiring at big tech companies was reported down 65% since 2019 (and down 75% at early-stage startups), while engineering’s share of hiring rose from 46% to 55%. As a result, reviewing, maintenance, operations, scaling, and especially deciding what to build and what “good” means are portrayed as the remaining core human work, with juniors’ role shifting away from producing well-specified code.
Product Hunt 1 month ago 33
Holon launched as a local workbench for multiple AI agents with ongoing responsibilities instead of one-off chat sessions. It launches today. It lets you check in via a terminal or browser and resume work without restarting after tests, feedback, or decisions.
Product Hunt 1 month ago 38
Thread launched today as an AI journal and second brain for capturing thoughts, ideas, notes, and voice recordings. It mentions having 10 followers on the page. The app changes how users store and later retrieve ideas by using a private AI-powered memory system to link related items and surface patterns.
Product Hunt 1 month ago 14
MePersona launched as a unified social media inbox for creators that drafts responses in their voice across multiple platforms. The product is described as starting with 37 followers on its page. It adds an AI voice-learning reply workflow that only posts after the creator sends it, supporting both English and Spanish.
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17 October 2026
Microsoft’s MAI-Base-2 announcement sets the pace for the day, shifting attention from flashy model demos to the plumbing that makes large language models practical. The 2T-parameter base model is designed to become a full LLM after additional training, with 80B parameters activated per prompt. Microsoft says it trained the model for 38 days on 16,000 Nvidia GB200 chips using 50T tokens, and that MAI-Base-2 is up to 12× more hardware-efficient. The company’s licensing plan—availability through “trusted partners” on Azure—signals a platform strategy: build a reusable foundation that can spawn multiple task-specific LLM lines, rather than betting everything on a single downstream model.
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