AWS has released Strands Box, an open-source sandbox that wraps AI agents in macOS isolation and checks their shell commands, Python code, web requests and MCP tool calls against Dogwood rules that can depend on what the agent already did. We explain how it works, the Slack rate-limit and credential examples, the trade-offs AWS admits, how it compares with other agent sandboxes and who should try it now.
Tavus has opened a limited research preview of Griffin Lite, a real-time video AI that sees, hears and talks back with a generated face and voice. In Tavus’s study, 26 of 54 people thought it was human after a one-minute call. We explain how it works, what the NVIDIA VideoFDB scores show, what changed on the Tavus developer platform in September, and the deception risks Tavus itself flags.
Glasser has launched a pay-per-call data broker for AI agents, putting around 1,500 paid endpoints from 29 providers, including Ahrefs, Apollo, DataForSEO and Serper, behind one key and one prepaid balance. We explain how its pricing and charge rules work, what the catalogue really contains, what calls cost, when buying direct is cheaper and the terms that matter.
The United Nations has launched the UN System Data Commons at data.un.org, built on Google’s open-source Data Commons platform. It links statistics from across UN agencies, supports plain-language search and lets AI agents fetch official figures through the Model Context Protocol. A UNICEF benchmark of six AI models found average accuracy of just 21.2% on development statistics. We explain how it works, what it fixes and what it means for businesses.
Google has extended Gemini Enterprise – Business edition so a team administrator can register a custom MCP server connection and hand Gemini a callable interface to systems Google will never build a connector for. This is a documentation-first walkthrough of what that actually involves: the Connected apps path versus the Google Cloud data store path, the four hard requirements that disqualify most existing internal tooling on day one (StreamableHTTP transport, a publicly trusted TLS certificate, a public HTTPS endpoint and a publicly reachable identity provider), the OAuth field-by-field configuration, the 100-enabled-actions cap, the project-level quotas, the Pre-GA status caveat, and the security exposure a public MCP endpoint creates.
TestingCatalog reported on 5 September 2026 that closed builds of the Gemini desktop app carry connections to Obsidian, a macOS Finder action that sends any folder straight to Gemini, and a new toggle splitting the app into Ask and Assign modes. This article covers exactly what was found, why an Obsidian vault is really just a folder, how the features fit Google’s four-month local-file rollout, and what teams should weigh before granting any assistant read access to a knowledge base.
Clipto, the three-year-old San Francisco startup whose on-device AI lets people search terabytes of their own video, audio, images and documents by describing what they want, has raised $15 million at a $250 million post-money valuation. This analysis covers the funding round and its investors, the roughly $15 million in annual recurring revenue and net-income profitability behind it, founder Henry Kang’s path from Carnegie Mellon robotics to a Tencent exit, the new Model Context Protocol connector that lets ChatGPT and Claude query a private media archive, Pro-plan pricing, how Clipto compares with Adobe, Apple, Google and TwelveLabs, and what the “memory layer” thesis means for businesses sitting on years of unused footage.
A pair of VentureBeat guest essays argue that AI agents need their own identity before they need a gateway: a proxy can only enforce what it can attribute, and most organisations have no agent identity layer to attribute anything to. This piece explains the borrowed-token problem, the six-gate dependency-gated deployment model that puts the gateway fifth, the LiteLLM CVE-2026-42271 warning, the 2026 survey data on the machine-identity gap (109 machine identities per human, 68% unable to tell agents from people), what Okta, Microsoft, Cloudflare, Kong, the IETF and NIST have shipped, and a 30-day plan a UK business can run without buying anything.
On 25 August 2026 Keenable exited stealth with a $26 million seed round led by Accel, plus participation from Conviction Partners and business angels, and a web index of more than 100 billion documents built for AI agents rather than people. Fifteen engineers, a search API, an MCP server and an unreleased Web Query Language sit behind it. Here are the disclosed numbers, the published pricing, how it differs from consumer search, who else is competing for the same ground, and the questions Keenable has not answered.
Anthropic has made enterprise-managed authorization for Claude MCP connectors generally available as of 24 August 2026, expanding coverage from seven connectors to ten — with Datadog, Notion and Slack joining and Exa, Miro and Zoom coming soon. Admins on Claude Team and Enterprise plans can now provision connector access centrally through Okta, removing per-user OAuth consent entirely. This article covers how the token exchange works, the MCP credential problem it fixes, how it compares with ChatGPT’s admin controls, and what IT teams should do now.
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