Zapier profiles Blue Castle Agency, a recruiter for real estate and property management founded by a longtime automation builder. The agency uses Claude with Zapier MCP to reach strong candidates who are already employed and not job hunting.
Homebase, which makes scheduling and payroll software for hourly teams, launched Homebase Assistant. The AI tool contacts staff to cover missed shifts, builds schedules, screens candidates and flags timecard errors; it is open to a limited number of businesses, with pricing undisclosed.
Security company Blackwall, which sits in front of millions of websites, is now valued at $2.2 billion after a round led by AVP. Its investor argues the company becomes essential as more web traffic comes from AI agents.
New York startup Asymptote Labs raised a $5.5 million seed round led by Tower Research Ventures. It makes Beacon, a free open-source tool that logs AI agent activity, and sells a paid platform that can block risky agent actions.
On the GitHub blog, three Java Champions describe how they use GitHub Copilot to solve problems and speed up development. They stress that humans remain responsible for the results.
A Hugging Face post describes ALTK-Evolve, which uses learned memory to reach the top of the τ²-bench leaderboard on customer service tasks without relying on a frontier model.