Zapier, Notion, Perplexity, AI agents and the other tools that take repetitive work off your team. What's new, and whether it's worth your time.
18 updates
2 October 2026
On 30 September ElevenLabs said its voice agents handle more than 15 million conversations a week, three times more than in February. AI on the phone is going mainstream, so it's time for a plan.
Read update2 October 2026
On 30 September Cloudflare launched Pay Per Use in beta. AI companies make offers to use publishers' content, and Cloudflare handles the billing and monthly payouts.
Read update1 October 2026
Perplexity's new Fast Search mode, built on its in-house Photon engine, returns 95% of web results in 230 milliseconds or less for US$1 per 1,000 requests. It's aimed at AI agents that search the web many times per task.
Read update1 October 2026
Sign in with ChatGPT now lets Plus and Pro subscribers spend their plan's usage in 16 partner apps, including Notion, Devin and Vercel, with a weekly cap per app. Logging out of an app doesn't disconnect it.
Read update1 October 2026
On 30 September Meta launched Muse for Small Business, connecting its AI agent to more than a dozen tools, including Shopify and QuickBooks. It's free with usage limits.
Read update30 September 2026
At DevDay on 29 September, OpenAI launched dots: agents inside ChatGPT with their own computer and browser that work on your goals around the clock. The first one comes with Pro and Business Premium. Brilliant, as long as you set the house rules first.
Read update28 September 2026
Zapier announced Next Gen Zaps at ZapConnect 2026. You can describe an automation in an AI tool, run lists past the old 500-item limit, and pause a run for a person to check it.
Read update27 September 2026
Perplexity's 21 September update lets you set how hard its Computer agent works on a task, from Light to Ultra. It also added a Microsoft 365 connector for SharePoint and OneDrive.
Read update27 September 2026
Microsoft announced a new version of Copilot on 25 September. It adds a single Home screen, a way to build small apps by describing them, and an agent that keeps working when you're not there.
Read update26 September 2026
An AudioEye study sent 1,560 AI agents to complete everyday tasks. On one site they finished 96% of tasks when it was accessible and 31% when it was not.
Read update26 September 2026
From 24 September you can edit photos and designs with Adobe tools from a Gemini chat on any plan, and Adobe's Claude plugin now includes Acrobat for PDF work.
Read update24 September 2026
Amazon has opened its seller tools to outside AI assistants, starting with Anthropic's Claude. The plugin is in beta for the US marketplace.
Read update17 September 2026
Notion is closing its standalone email app on all platforms. Your emails stay in Gmail, but anything that lived only in the app - drafts, scheduled sends, snippets, auto-label rules - is deleted unless you save it by 21 September.
Read update17 September 2026
OpenAI has added Sponsored Agents, AI-drafted campaigns and its first CRM and ecommerce integrations to ChatGPT Ads. Here is what changes for a business that advertises.
Read update7 September 2026
Notion has given its agents a suggestion mode. The agent proposes changes to a page and you accept or reject them line by line.
Read update4 September 2026
Google added latency and error-rate views to Gemini Enterprise, so admins can see agent performance instead of guessing at it.
Read update3 September 2026
OpenAI's new Site tools let ChatGPT agents work inside websites through your own logged-in session - booking, ordering and admin included - wherever a site chooses to support it.
Read update27 August 2026
McKinsey's latest State of AI survey shows enterprises scaling AI agents while smaller firms stall. The difference isn't budget — it's ownership.
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