If you're here, you're looking for one of two things: a workflow builder to help you ship automations faster, or an embedded SDK you can drop into your own product so users can connect their accounts without you building OAuth infrastructure from scratch. I work at Zapier, which solves both of these problems, and I'd unsurprisingly argue it's the best Pipedream alternative. But there are, of…
Summary published by The Zapier Blog · 21 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
In this tutorial, we explore a LabPlot-inspired scientific data analysis workflow in Python while preserving the structure and terminology of LabPlot’s aspect tree, analysis kernels, plotting system, and project model. We build reusable components to import tabular data, compute descriptive statistics, smooth and differentiate signals, perform Fourier analysis and filtering, detect peaks…
Summary published by MarkTechPost · 24 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
AI agents have consumed more tokens than humans on OpenRouter since February 6, 2025. Agentic usage has grown 14x since then, while human usage is up just 2.8x. Nearly 70 percent of agent token consumption comes from cheap cached prompts, though, so actual costs are rising far more slowly than the raw numbers suggest.
Summary published by The Decoder · 23 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Build an end-to-end document intelligence pipeline with deepDoctection. This tutorial covers configuring layout analysis, DocTR OCR, and table extraction, while demonstrating how to implement custom services for entity recognition and generate structured JSONL data for your RAG workflows.
Summary published by MarkTechPost · 23 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Vercel and Ora launched Is Agentic, a free audit scoring website readiness for AI agents across 118 checks.
Summary published by MarkTechPost · 23 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
In this tutorial, we explore how to design production-grade safety for LLM-based applications using the NeMo Guardrails framework. We move beyond simple prompt filtering to implement a layered architecture, featuring deterministic PII redaction, retrieval filtering, output masking, and policy-based tool gating. By integrating stateful multi-turn evaluation and detailed activation tracing, we…
Summary published by MarkTechPost · 22 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Most teams treat ‘which model’ as the important decision. The harness engineering literature keeps pointing somewhere else. In LangChain’s Terminal-Bench experiment, changing only the harness—same model throughout—moved a coding agent from roughly 30th place into the top 5. That result reframes the question. If the harness decides quality, then how you run the loop becomes […]
Summary published by MarkTechPost · 22 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
A study from researchers at Princeton University and UC San Diego finds that so-called skills make AI agents better mainly through structured workflows, not through added knowledge. But as the skill library grows, agents have a harder and harder time finding the right set of instructions.
Summary published by The Decoder · 22 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
This tutorial explores AutoFigure, a practical toolkit for generating professional scientific figures directly from text descriptions and research papers. We walk through setting up the environment, configuring an API-backed generation workflow, and converting complex document intelligence pipelines into publication-style diagrams, complete with custom reference styling and gallery exports.
Summary published by MarkTechPost · 21 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Increasingly, AI agents are handling the nitty-gritty admin and due diligence tasks, but agent-powered marketplaces won't replace live human sales reps or engineers anytime soon.
Summary published by Latest news · 21 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Over the past few days, a number of prominent filmmaking content creators including Matti Haapoja and Sam "Kold" Kolder have posted videos of themselves demonstrating what's possible with AI platform Higgsfield. The videos highlight Higgsfield's recently added Seedance 2.5 functionality and pitch these technologies as the future of video production. In response to these videos,
Summary published by AI | The Verge · 21 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
I've been automating small business tasks for over a decade. First, for a small law firm I worked for, and then for my own freelance business. And I can confidently say if you're looking for one tool that does it all, the answer is Zapier. It connects every app you could possibly use, works across every function of your business, and scales from a free plan to enterprise-grade workflows without…
Summary published by The Zapier Blog · 21 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Google will soon allow you to customize your Discover feed by describing what you want to see. The new feature, rolling out to the Google app in the "coming days," will use AI to automatically tweak your feed and "remember" your preferences for future visits. You'll find the option within the three-dot menu on your
Summary published by AI | The Verge · 20 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Slack is introducing dedicated channels where teams can vibe-code together with AI agents instead of jumping between different tools and conversations. The Slack Code launch includes open, project-specific code channels with dedicated user tabs, alongside features that compare coding changes and preview HTML output before the project is shipped. "With Slack Code, when you have
Summary published by AI | The Verge · 20 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
a new OpenAI blog exploring how transformative AI could reshape power, governance, the economy, and individual freedom.
Summary published by OpenAI News · 20 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗