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  "title": "AI agents & assistants",
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  "niche_title": "SaaS & AI Tools",
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      "title": "Mark Zuckerberg predicts that billions of people will have personal AI agents in five years",
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      "snippet": "As Meta pours billions into AI infrastructure and agents, Zuckerberg is working to convince investors that the payoff will be worth the price.",
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      "title": "Agent-Manager: A Tmux TUI for Running Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode",
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      "title": "Kuna: Decompiler Development in the Age of Coding Agents",
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      "title": "Microsoft confirms Copilot ‘super app’ coming this year",
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      "title": "Discover what’s next for AI, from the SaaS reckoning to the agent security gap, at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026",
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      "snippet": "At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for Startups.",
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      "title": "Hint, a new AI startup co-founded by Martha Stewart, offers an AI assistant for homeowners",
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      "snippet": "AI home management startup Hint, co-founded by Martha Stewart, wants to become an “AI for your home,” combining property records, maintenance schedules, home documents, and an AI assistant into a single app.",
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      "title": "Encore AI raises $30M to build AI agents that learn from customer calls",
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      "title": "OpenAI’s rogue AI agent didn’t stop at hacking Hugging Face",
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      "snippet": "The AI agent that escaped from OpenAI and hacked developer platform Hugging Face attacked other companies as well, OpenAI revealed on Tuesday. The update substantially widens the scope of an already concerning incident, ",
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      "title": "Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to safeguard proliferating AI agents",
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      "title": "MCP startup Runlayer accuses Rippling of stealing its product idea",
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      "title": "Perplexity’s Personal Computer turns Windows PCs into AI agents",
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      "snippet": "Perplexity has expanded its agentic Personal Computer tool to Windows, allowing computers running the world's most popular OS to be used as a locally run AI system. Like the Mac version that Perplexity launched in April,",
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      ],
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    {
      "title": "Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too",
      "url": "https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/now-defenders-are-embracing-the-prompt-injection-too/",
      "published_at": "2026-07-13T15:06:34+00:00",
      "snippet": "\"Context bombing\" tricks hacking agents into shutting down before they can do harm.",
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        "arstechnica"
      ],
      "tracked_brands": []
    },
    {
      "title": "Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.",
      "url": "https://venturebeat.com/infrastructure/claude-code-costs-up-to-usd200-a-month-goose-does-the-same-thing-for-free",
      "published_at": "2026-01-19T14:00:00+00:00",
      "snippet": "The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive. Claude Code , Anthropic's terminal-based AI agent that can write, debug, and deploy code autonomously, has captured the imaginat",
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    {
      "title": "Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI",
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      "published_at": "2026-01-13T13:00:00+00:00",
      "snippet": "Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot , the company's workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple notification tool into what executives describe as a fully powered AI agent c",
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    {
      "title": "Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that works in your files — no coding required",
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      "published_at": "2026-01-12T11:30:00+00:00",
      "snippet": "Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users — and according to company insiders, the team built the entire featur",
      "sources": [
        "venturebeat"
      ],
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  ],
  "note": "Index of third-party reporting: headlines and short excerpts with attribution and links. Full articles belong to the publishers.",
  "license": "CC-BY-4.0 (index metadata only; linked articles remain with their publishers)",
  "source": "DABYTE topic index, dabyte.ai"
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