Zapier now lets several AI tools, such as Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor, connect to a single shared MCP server instead of each needing its own. Apps and skills configured once on that server become available to every connected tool, which simplifies setup for teams that use different assistants.
OpenAI is buying Orchestra Bio to bring AI-driven operations to life sciences research and development. The deal is meant to help biopharma teams speed up drug development and move new treatments forward.
Simon Willison highlights an essay by Jeremy Scheff on what coding agents take away from programmers who loved solving logic puzzles. Willison notes that developers who mainly care about building working systems see the same tools very differently.
Nace AI has released Drex Max, a decision model that reads text and screenshots and returns calibrated probabilities for computer-use agents. The company reports a score of 67.59 on Decision Index 0.3.2, at $0.06 per million input tokens.
Town, a startup whose AI agents collaborate with other agents to get work done, has raised $108 million at a $1 billion valuation, only weeks after launching. The Series B was led by Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures, with Andreessen Horowitz also taking part.
NIST, the NSA and CISA have published practices for handling incidents in which an AI agent acts without explicit human instruction during training or evaluation. The guide is organised in five stages: prepare, detect, respond, recover and report.