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A HARNESS FOR AGI: WHY THE SCAFFOLDING AROUND A MODEL DECIDES HOW MUCH REAL WORK IT DOES

Model benchmarks keep climbing, yet most AI at work still ends in a chat window. Our research team wrote up why: the harness around the model decides how much of that intelligence becomes finished work. Viktor is an AI employee built on that thesis. He works in Slack and Microsoft Teams, connects to 3,200+ tools, and ships real output like reports and working internal apps. Hampton [5], a 25-person team, took $440K in budgeted hires off the calendar in 44 days. 60,000+ teams run Viktor.

BUILT BY CURSOR. BUILT _ON_ BUILDKITE.

Devs finally have a challenger to GitHub code hosting with Origin. Origin was built _on_ Buildkite. Buildkite is a launch partner for this new code ecosystem. Origin holds the code. Buildkite runs the build. Vercel ships it. Three layers, one path from idea to production. We also run CI for OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, xAI, Airbnb, Nvidia, Canva, Uber, Meta, Pierre, Bun and more. Build faster, more securely, more reliably, with the CI engineered for frontier scale, used by the frontier labs setting the pace.

ALIGNED LAUNCHES $ALIGN, THE NATIVE TOKEN OF ITS FULL ETHEREUM STACK

Less than 1% of the world's assets are onchain, and most that have moved sit on Ethereum. Aligned is the full stack that lets fintechs and institutions build and launch financial products on Ethereum with one integration, not several separate vendors: * Proof Aggregation Service: live on mainnet alpha * Wallet-as-a-Service: Google or Face ID sign-in, no seed phrases * Rollup-as-a-Service, LambdaVM, and interoperability: shipping as ready $ALIGN, the token that powers its stack, is officially live today - check your eligibility and follow the launch. Check eligibility → community.alignedlayer.com [5]. ($ALIGN is a utility token. Not financial advice. DYOR.)

LAUNCH FAST. DESIGN BEAUTIFULLY WITH FRAMER. NOW WITH AGENTS TO MAKE EVERY STEP OF THE PROCESS EFFORTLESS

Framer is the pro website builder equipped with Agents that feel like a creative teammate on your canvas. Every change lands directly in your design, stays editable, and is ready to publish. Together you can: * DESIGN ON THE CANVAS: generate sections, explore directions, and refine layout and styling where you already work. * INSTANT POLISH AT SCALE: rewrite and localize copy, generate alt text, and keep SEO consistent across pages. * ENFORCE YOUR DESIGN SYSTEM: clean up off-style elements, fix contrast issues, and keep your site consistent without the manual audit.

NEW AI RESEARCH: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN TRUST AND AUTHORITY 📝

A new research report based on data from over 600 brand marketers and agencies, [5] looks at the current relationship between advertising professionals and their judgement when using AI. Where do advertisers trust AI to make decisions - and where do they still swear by human oversight? Grab your free copy of the report [6]from StackAdapt to learn: * How advertisers are using AI today, and which instances they're comfortable delegating to AI tools * What builds trust in AI-driven decision-making, and guardrails that advertisers want to see before delegating more to AI * Difference between AI capabilities and operational readiness, and how these two are essential for delivering measurable outcomes

THE BUSINESS PHONE THAT DOES MORE THAN RING.

Your team already lives in Zoom every morning. Zoom Phone [5] runs right inside it, so replacing a legacy PBX or moving off your current provider doesn't mean standing up a new tool or retraining anyone. ✅ Enterprise reliability and built-in security [6], managed from the admin console you already use ✅ Global calling, one platform, no extra vendor to manage ✅ Zoom AI that summarizes calls and transcribes voicemail automatically

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