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This week: international tech mafias reshaping Silicon Valley hiring, Apple's new EU App Store rates effective October 1, and why ARR misleads AI acquisition buyers.

HubSpot's July 2026 release brings Agent Hub to centralize AI agents, plus new controls for properties, lead routing, and ads on Microsoft and ChatGPT.

Meta launched Pocket in the US, letting anyone describe a game or interactive experience to AI and share it as social content. Built on Atma Sciences tech, no ads yet.

Slack launched Slack Code, letting teams tag Claude, Devin, Codex, and others directly in channels to spin up dedicated workspaces and write code in real time.

Matt Blumberg and non-engineer Andrew Winston break down the two-part setup that makes vibe coding work: a Claude Project for thinking and Claude Code for building.

AI coding agents generate 12+ model calls and 80K+ tokens on tasks where a chat assistant uses one call and 5K tokens. Here is how to measure the real difference.

Slack launched Slack Code, dedicated project channels where teams can tag Claude or Devin to write, compare, and preview code without leaving the workspace.

Users report Claude Opus 4.8 and Opus 5 ignore repeated style instructions, forcing cleanup passes through cheaper models and pushing token costs up to 2x higher.

A production study of 761 million GitHub Copilot LLM calls found KV-cache reuse at 90% within a turn but only 55% across turn boundaries. Here is what that means for how you build agents.

Base44 was acquired by Wix for $80 million just six months after founding. By March 2026, it hit $100M ARR. Here is what happened next.