Databricks launched Genie One at its Data + AI Summit, an agentic coworker that reasons over structured and unstructured data using a self-improving context layer. Pay-as-you-go pricing.

Ivalua's IVA Studio puts a single AI agent across the entire source-to-pay process. It inherits user permissions, logs every action, and works with 500-plus brands from day one.

Anthropic calls for a development slowdown, one company ran up a $500M Claude bill, and Vercel now runs 96% of marketing on AI agents. This week's key stories.

Salesforce unveiled four AI agents at Connections 2026 for lead generation, content creation, and campaign management. All four work inside Agentforce and Slack.

A solopreneur built an n8n-powered AI marketing agent that researches leads, scrapes contact info, scores fit, and drafts personalized cold emails with sending limits and review steps.

Microsoft added agent nodes and workflow tools to Copilot Studio, letting agents and workflows call each other. Here is how the two patterns work.

Higgsfield AI Marketing Studio, powered by Seedance 2.0, automatically generates 9 different video ad formats from a single product URL. Here is what it does.

Friday Studio connects to Snowflake, HubSpot, and Slack to automate competitive monitoring, CRM audits, and anomaly alerting. Setup takes under 30 minutes per workflow.

@automatelab/ai-seo-mcp adds citation scoring, schema audits, and llms.txt generation directly to Claude or any MCP-compatible client. No dashboard required.

Anthropic launched Claude for Small Business on May 13, adding 15 workflows, 15 pre-built skills, and integrations with QuickBooks, HubSpot, and PayPal inside Claude Cowork.

The Allen Institute for AI has released MolmoAct 2, an open-source foundation model built to help robots handle real-world physical tasks beyond lab conditions.

Notion's new Developer Platform adds custom code execution, database sync, and external agent support. Workers are free in beta, then shift to Notion credits on August 11.