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WebMCP is an emerging web standard that lets websites expose structured tools that AI agents can use directly.

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Google Shopping Ads now arrive directly inside AI answers

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WebMCP is an emerging web standard that lets websites expose structured tools that AI agents can use directly.

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Enterprise MCP by Workato is making connecting AI agents to business software surprisingly easy.

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AI agents are making business workflows faster. Unfortunately, that applies to cyberattacks too. Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 has documented an intrusion where a human attacker used multiple frontier AI agents to breach an enterprise network, map its infrastructure, search source-code repositories for credentials and eventually obtain highly privileged access.

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AI agents compressed a two-week cyberattack into less than 10 hours

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Webflow is giving AI agents considerably more control over websites with MCP 2.1, an upgrade announced at Webflow Conf 2026 that expands what tools like Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and Cursor can actually do inside Webflow. The biggest addition is native GSAP interaction support. Instead of asking an AI assistant to generate animation code that you then have to implement, you can describe the interaction you want and let the agent build it directly. That includes complex timeline-based animations, while keeping Webflow’s visual controls available for manual tweaking.

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Webflow MCP 2.1 lets AI agents build much more of your website

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ChatGPT adds Zendesk and OneNote plugins

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ChatGPT Is Slowly Becoming the Front End for Your Business Software

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Webflow Source introduces AI agents that continuously monitor, build and optimize websites

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Webflow’s New AI Agents Don’t Just Build Your Website. They Keep Working on It.

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OpenAI has launched GPT-6 Astra, aimed at computer-use work: filling forms, updating CRM records, calendar tasks, browser QA and longer agent loops. It is rolling out to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise over the coming days, and to the API as gpt-6-astra.

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GPT-6 Astra is here, but the bill comparison with Claude Fable 5.1 depends on your stack

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From 10 September, Yoti will remove its Digital ID app from the Apple and Android stores in Spain.

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Yoti is leaving Spanish app stores on 10 September. Here is what that means for age gates

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Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5.1 on 1 September

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Claude Fable 5.1: agentic work got cheaper on paper. Art. 50 is the EU bit

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If you built Sales or Leads brand safety by unchecking placements, that control is leaving the ad set. Meta has not published a hard kill date. The replacement is a value rule that can cut a bid by 90%, not a block.

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Meta brand-safety exclusion just became a discount while Ads MCP can edit budgets by default

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Google’s Ads API team set the clock on 12 August.

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Your Google Ads just joined AI Max without asking. Audit the defaults this week

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For SMBs, the real AI breakthrough is cheaper repeated agent runs. Claude Fable 5.1 and Gemini 3.7 Flash change cost per completed task.

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AI Agents Cost Per Task: the Real Story of Claude Fable 5.1 and Gemini 3.7 Flash

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