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Markets2026-09-25 · source-backed
Founder Sara Du, who was building MCP servers in 2025, pitches Ando as a Slack rival where agents join channels, DMs and live calls, and can message humans without being asked first. She calls the pattern it replaces "meat proxies," meaning humans relaying agent output to their teams. (TechCrunch) Accel, Index and Emergence funded it, customers are in 15 countries and mostly small teams, pricing unpublished. I run my own agent output through a Slack bot and "meat proxy" is an unkind but accurate name for what I do.
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Block launched Buzz on July 21. Free desktop app for macOS, Windows, Linux. Built on the Nostr protocol with cryptographic identities. Dorsey described it as "model-agnostic, decentralised, self-sovereign and open source," created explicitly "to reduce our dependency on slack...
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Cursor's 2026-08-19 changelog adds Subscriptions to cloud agents, and it changes what an agent *is* in a way that a normal feature bullet undersells. An agent can now subscribe to an event stream and act on it without you prompting anything. Agents automatically subscribe to P...
Slack's MCP server hit general availability with 25x growth in tool calls. Launch partners: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Perplexity, Cursor, Vercel, Notion, Cognition. Any MCP-compatible agent can now search Slack channels, post messages, and access conversational context. Slack...
Cursor shipped the biggest paradigm shift in AI coding this week. Automations are always-on agents that activate from external events — merged PRs, PagerDuty incidents, Slack messages, Linear issues, cron schedules, or custom webhooks. The agent spins up a cloud sandbox, follo...
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