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TURN ANY WEBPAGE INTO LLM-READY CONTENT WITH SERPAPI

Your agent found the right page. Now it needs to read it without wading through messy HTML. SerpApi's Extract API turns public webpages into clean Markdown. 👉 EXTRACT ANY PAGE WITH A SIMPLE GET REQUEST and get token-efficient output your agent can use right away. 👉 Scrape Google, then EXTRACT THE TOP RESULTS for deeper research. 👉 NEED A WHOLE SITE? Map Mode [4] finds a domain's URLs, and Crawl Mode [4] fetches connected pages.

A PILE OF MCP CONNECTORS IS NOT A CONTEXT ENGINE

Your team connected Slack, Jira and GitHub over MCP, and engineers still spend their time steering agents to the right answer. This article looks at why: connectors fetch from one tool at a time, so every agent stitches the pieces together itself, trusts the first doc that looks right, and adds a search to your token bill each time. Read what changes when a context engine sits on top of your connectors: the same coding task finished 83% faster at 48% lower cost.

STOP TRYING TO CONTROL AI AGENTS. CONTROL THE DATA INSTEAD.

Most vendors police agent behavior at runtime. That's betting the agent behaves. Control the data and it doesn't matter. The Virtru Data Harbor Platform [5] cryptographically binds policy to the data itself, using the Trusted Data Format, an open standard. Keys go only to agents entitled to them. No entitlement, no key, no data. Protect what matters most, wherever it goes. Watch live online, on November 17 at 3:00 PM ET.

54% OF TEAMS HAD AN AI AGENT MAKE A MISTAKE LAST QUARTER. APPROVAL GATES DIDN'T LOWER IT.

Leadership wants agents doing more on their own, but nearly half of teams can't fully trace what agents did. The State of Agentic AI: H2 2026 surveyed 1,030 people who build, buy, or influence AI systems: * THE PRESSURE IS RISING: 25.3% adopt agents to meet leadership expectations, nearly double December's 13.5%. Teams letting agents act without approval rose from 4.2% to 7.5%. * APPROVALS AREN'T THE FIX: Teams that approve every action reported mistakes at 58%, vs. 52% with no approval. * VISIBILITY IS THE GAP: Only 53% can fully trace which agent did what last week. See the full research (ungated) →

THE SKETCH YOU CAN STILL FIND IN SIX WEEKS

A lot of design thinking happens before the art board. The flow on paper. The wireframe that isn't a wireframe yet. The idea with no edges. Then it's gone. Goodnotes [5] is a note-taking app for people who think on a tablet. Draw with your stylus on a canvas that keeps going. Search your notes every canvas you've made - whether they're typed, handwritten, or diagrammed. Try Goodnotes for free. [5] Start a 30-day free trial, and see how it feels day-to-day. No card payment required.

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