AI at Work edition

AI at Work · 10 Aug 2026

10 Aug 2026 · 15 articles

How to build safe and trustworthy AI agents with Zapier

The idea of autonomous AI agents that research prospects, qualify leads, create content briefs, and enrich data across your business systems while you sleep sounds appealing. But an agent is only useful if you can trust it to do the right thing securely. Speed without control is just chaos with better branding. With Zapier MCP, you can have it all. With it, you can easily and securely build AI…

Summary published by The Zapier Blog · 6 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗

ByteDance Seed Introduces SeedRealtime: a Native Audio-Visual Full-Duplex LLM That Watches, Listens and Speaks in One Model

ByteDance’s Seed team has introduced SeedRealtime, a native audio-visual full-duplex LLM. The model fuses audio, video and text in a single unified architecture. It interacts in real time over continuous multimodal streams, rather than one turn at a time. Seed positions it as a step toward omni-modal interaction, and claims three breakthroughs: joint audio-visual understanding, […]

Summary published by MarkTechPost · 10 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗

AI detectors are creating a new era of distrust

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about how AI is changing our daily lives, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Long before ChatGPT became a thing,

Summary published by AI | The Verge · 9 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗

Anthropic sets Claude Code to Auto Mode by default to protect developers from bad approvals

Starting August 14, Anthropic will make Auto Mode in Claude Code the default for Pro, Max, and Team plans. The company says it's safer. In tests, the classifier caught 89 percent of dangerous commands, while human reviewers caught only 13.6 percent. For the most widely used AI coding tool, this means developers are shifting further from writing code to monitoring AI output.

Summary published by The Decoder · 8 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗

Backflip AI turns 3D scans into editable CAD models in minutes instead of hours

Backflip AI has released an AI model that converts 3D scans into fully editable, parametric CAD models, a process that normally takes significant time and expertise. According to CEO Greg Mark, most factories have digital models for less than one percent of their parts. The startup, backed by $30 million in funding, offers its tool as an add-in for Autodesk Fusion.

Summary published by The Decoder · 8 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗

Tencent Cloud Open-Sources TencentDB Agent Memory v2.0: A Team-Level Memory Hub for AI Coding Agents

Tencent Cloud has open-sourced TencentDB Agent Memory v2.0, a team-level memory hub that turns conversations, documents and code into four governed, reusable assets — Chat Memory, Skill, LLM-Wiki and Code-Graph. It is MIT-licensed, self-hosted via Docker, and integrates with Claude Code, OpenClaw, Hermes and CodeBuddy. The differentiator is not retrieval but governance: ACL-based visibility…

Summary published by MarkTechPost · 7 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗

Building a Multimodal RAG Pipeline with NVIDIA NeMo Retriever, Hosted NIMs, LanceDB, Reranking, and Grounded Generation

In this tutorial, we build an advanced multimodal retrieval-augmented generation pipeline with NVIDIA NeMo Retriever. We begin by configuring a Python 3.12 environment, installing the required packages, and performing offline PDF text extraction without relying on a GPU or external API key. We then extend the workflow with hosted NVIDIA NIM endpoints to detect page […]

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ZoomInfo data just got easier to use in Zapier

If your team uses ZoomInfo's Go-to-Market Intelligence Platform, you know the power of its buying signal data and built-in tools for enrichment and conversation intelligence. But when your tools don't talk to each other, work stalls. A rep gets a new lead, but the context lives in another app. A meeting gets booked, but the account research still has to be done by hand. A pipeline record goes…

Summary published by The Zapier Blog · 7 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗

What Salesforce customers are actually building with Zapier

This month, we're spotlighting what Salesforce customers are actually building with Zapier. The short answer: a lot more than syncing a lead form to an account record. The two builders in this month's showcase work in different industries, at different scales, on different problems. In each case, Salesforce provides the trusted customer intelligence, Zapier keeps it clean, connected, and flowing…

Summary published by The Zapier Blog · 7 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗

How to connect Google Sheets to ChatGPT

I've been connecting Google Sheets to other apps since long before ChatGPT was even a sparkle in an algorithm's eye. I use all sorts of Google Sheets add-ons, and more commonly, I use Zapier so Google Sheets can talk to every other app I use for work. Once ChatGPT was released, I embedded it right into my Google Sheets workflows with Zapier. But there's an embarrassment of riches when it comes to…

Summary published by The Zapier Blog · 7 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗