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Alex Rivera is a staff writer covering culture, technology, and the business of media.
Productivity · Guide · Alex Rivera · Sep 18, 2026 · 16 min
Chat to Set Up WhatsApp Business
Meta's new WhatsApp MCP lets Claude, Cursor, Codex, or ChatGPT create the account, verify the number, and test templates. You still sign in. The agent can also send.
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Benchmarks · Analysis · Alex Rivera · Sep 18, 2026 · 20 min
Claude Now Does a Quarter of Anthropic's Work
As of August, Claude leads 26% of Anthropic's AI research work. Humans still watch. Nothing runs fully on its own. The useful part is the dashboard, not the headline.
Read analysis →SaaS · News · Alex Rivera · Sep 17, 2026 · 20 min
Hang Ten Sells Outcomes
Vishal Sikka's four-month-old firm just added $53M. Hobie is five layers over live systems, not another model. The bet is 10x on budgeted programs, priced on the result.
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Benchmarks · Benchmark · Alex Rivera · Sep 17, 2026 · 18 min
Agents Get a Trustmark
AIUC-1 is trying to be SOC 2 for agents: thousands of evals, a certificate, and now a $40M Series A to sell audits and insurance. A badge is not a kill switch.
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AI Agents · Analysis · Alex Rivera · Sep 17, 2026 · 17 min
Cursor Runs the Fleet Now
Projects is a coordinator that does not write the code. It keeps context for months, farms subagents in the cloud, and watches Slack and CI without a new prompt.
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AI Agents · Comparison · Alex Rivera · Sep 17, 2026 · 14 min
Salesforce Splits the Stack: Koa In-House, Claude at the Door
Koa is a CRM reasoner Salesforce trains and hosts. Claudeforce puts 37 sales skills inside Claude. Same Dreamforce week; two control models.
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AI Agents · Deep dive · Alex Rivera · Sep 17, 2026 · 16 min
A Map of AI That Improves Itself Is Not a Launch Date
A ByteDance–Tsinghua–Shanghai AI Lab preprint ranks 491 papers on five rungs of recursive self-improvement. The interesting part is what the ladder does not measure.
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SaaS · Analysis · Alex Rivera · Sep 16, 2026 · 38 min
Siri AI Is Finally Shipping. Treat It as OS Infrastructure, Not Another Chatbot.
Apple’s rebuilt assistant is in beta with iOS 27. The story is not a smarter Siri voice — it is an on-device plus Private Cloud Compute stack, a hardware and geography gate, and a system API surface developers have to take seriously.
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AI Agents · Analysis · Alex Rivera · 20 min
The Death of Chat: Why Type-Safe, Machine-Native AI Is Changing Software Engineering
Co-inventors of ChatGPT’s foundational RLHF have launched TypeSafe AI, shattering traditional LLM latency and cost limits with 'Jev'—a type-safe, machine-native model built to make instant, structured decisions directly inside codebases.
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AI Agents · News · Alex Rivera · Sep 16, 2026 · 20 min
Claude Drops Extra Tabs
Chat, Cowork, Docs, and Slides now share one Claude. You stop picking a mode. Claude routes the job — Pro and Max first.
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