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ElevenLabs launched a hosted MCP server in Claude letting you create, inspect, update, duplicate, and delete production voice agents, including revising a live system prompt and estimating LLM cost, without opening the ElevenLabs dashboard. ZoomInfo shipped a GTM MCP connector for Copilot Studio Aug 11 exposing 500M+ contacts inside Excel, Word, and Dynamics 365. S&P Global expanded its Microsoft 365 Copilot integration Aug 12 with an Excel connector for analyst modeling. Voice infrastructure, sales intelligence, and financial data all concluded within a week that the surface worth owning is the assistant's context window, not their own front end. If your product's moat is its UI, that's now a liability line item.
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Finextra reports finance teams can query live AR data in plain language from either assistant. Data stays in Billtrust, the assistant becomes the query surface. Expect more B2B SaaS to ship MCP-style connectors rather than fund their own conversational interface, because the s...
A GitHub Issue. No code, no credentials, no access. Just a paragraph of English that tells an AI agent to copy your private repo into a public comment. That's GitLost, and it works whether the agent runs on Copilot, Claude, Gemini, or Codex. (Noma Security) Noma Security discl...
Microsoft's March 2026 Patch Tuesday (79 flaws, 2 zero-days) includes a Critical vulnerability where Excel's Copilot Agent mode silently exfiltrates data with zero user interaction. An attacker crafts a malicious document; when opened, the Copilot Agent triggers network egress...
A spec is a press release until someone who didn't write it implements it. GitHub made Agent Plugins 1.0 generally available on August 12 across VS Code, Copilot CLI, the Copilot SDK, and the Copilot app on all plans. The spec, published August 6, was co-authored by AWS, Anysp...
1. Flip your multi-model pipeline to review-then-generate. Instead of using a reasoning model to plan before code generation, let the specialist generate freely and use reasoning tokens for review. Paper shows 90.2% pass@1 vs 87.2% for the planning pattern. Source 2. Audit you...
An ArXiv study analyzing Claude Code's design space found something that should make every "auto-generate your context files" workflow uncomfortable. Human-curated CLAUDE.md files improved task success rates by roughly 4 percentage points. LLM-generated CLAUDE.md files reduced...
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