Today, AutomationBench joins Fireworks' Specialized Intelligence Index (SII), bringing business workflow automation to a growing collection of practitioner-built benchmarks that compare AI models on real work. We're one of 32 new partners in this round, alongside teams covering fields like finance, healthcare, software, and ML research. AutomationBench measures whether an AI agent can finish a…
Summary published by The Zapier Blog · 28 Oct 2026 · Read the original ↗
MiniMax has open-sourced MCode Stack, an MIT-licensed repo of 17 SKILL.md skills and 5 checklists that its MiniMax Code team uses daily for code review, subagent splits, context budgets and long-running commands.
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Google is opening up Android Studio to third-party AI agents. Through a new "Bring Your Own Agent" feature, the IDE now supports more than 40 coding agents, including Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex. Google says new terminal tools also help agents finish UI tasks 77 percent faster while using up to three times fewer tokens. Android development is becoming agent-centric too.
Summary published by The Decoder · 28 Oct 2026 · Read the original ↗
At DevDay Exchange in Berlin, OpenAI mostly repeated what it had already announced, but it did share a few new details. The AI assistant Dots should roll out more widely in Europe "in a few weeks," and weekly Codex users in Germany have grown twentyfold since January. A clear subtext ran through the sessions and the repeated nods to ChatGPT's 1.2 billion weekly users: OpenAI wants developers to…
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OpenAI and ServiceNow expand their partnership to bring OpenAI models and agents into ServiceNow and ServiceNow workflows into ChatGPT and Codex.
Summary published by OpenAI News · 28 Oct 2026 · Read the original ↗
Anthropic manager Felix Rieseberg says the classic coding interview is dead because Claude now solves small programming tasks better than job candidates do. He'd rather see prototypes that show taste, empathy, and principled thinking, since in his words, "hunger beats tenure." That sounds empowering, but it pushes the bar for newcomers toward entrepreneurial thinking and assumes a hustle…
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How AI might enter the org chart—beneath, beside, and between us.
Summary published by OpenAI News · 28 Oct 2026 · Read the original ↗
See how Legora uses OpenAI models, ChatGPT, and Codex to accelerate legal workflows, expand contract analysis, and free lawyers to focus on higher-value work.
Summary published by OpenAI News · 28 Oct 2026 · Read the original ↗
Notion is a special app. Starting from an empty screen, you add notes and documents in a freeform way. Then, when the original page is too crowded, you create your first database and the possibilities explode: you can create a custom productivity system and change it as you evolve. But productivity is evolving. Knowledge management platforms need to support human teams while making room for AI…
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There comes a time in every professional's life when they have to choose a favorite AI assistant. I didn't expect to pick a search engine. Someone recommended Perplexity to me as a research tool. Since I'm a content writer, I spend a lot of time checking facts and tracking down references. AI-powered search with sources I could easily inspect sounded promising, and as I used it more, I kept…
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How Greptile uses GPT-6 Astra to test user workflows, Daybreak to strengthen security, and Codex to reduce rework.
Summary published by OpenAI News · 26 Oct 2026 · Read the original ↗
Explore OpenAI Signals data on 165 work activities across nearly 100 countries, revealing how people use ChatGPT for work and how usage changes over time.
Summary published by OpenAI News · 26 Oct 2026 · Read the original ↗
Staying up to date on the latest AI models is like trying to keep my house vacuumed in the height of my dog's shedding season (a losing battle). New AI models drop practically every week, and it's not exactly obvious which ones deserve a spot in your workflows. This guide is your cheat sheet, with every model you can automate on Zapier right now, sorted by provider. If you just want to cut to the…
Summary published by The Zapier Blog · 23 Sep 2026 · Read the original ↗
Keeping track of all the new AI models getting released at the moment is practically a full-time job. The GPT-6 models were first released about two months after the GPT-5.6 series, which itself was released less than three months after GPT 5.5—you get the picture. I've been writing about OpenAI's models for the past few years, and it feels like every time I publish an article, another new…
Summary published by The Zapier Blog · 22 Sep 2026 · Read the original ↗
AI image generators have been brewing (generating?) up a storm for the last few years. If you've been on social media, watched prime time news shows, or ordered from GrubHub, AI-generated images have been impossible to miss. These kinds of AI-generated images are everywhere, and sometimes you won't even realize. If you want to join in the fun, or add some AI-powered features to your business…
Summary published by The Zapier Blog · 3 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗