Latest News | Brian Hanson

Anthropic can’t reliably control its AI agents. It’s cutting off its internal evals from the live internet instead

Anthropic said it "turned off live internet access" for "all our internal evaluations" until further notice.

techcrunch.com•Oct 10, 2026

Mastek launches AI-native services to cut software costs

Mastek launched AI-native services intended to simplify sales, finance, and procurement processes, reduce spending on underused software, and support workforce reskilling.

itbrief.co.uk•Oct 10, 2026

The maker of non-text AI model Jev valued at $7.5B just weeks after launch

TypeSafe AI raised $870 million in a round led by a16Z.

techcrunch.com•Oct 9, 2026

An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police

Anthropic did not discover this behavior until over two months after its AI submitted the false tip.

techcrunch.com•Oct 9, 2026

GCCI, govt, 2 cos to offer free AI training for small biz owners

The Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industry and partner organizations announced a free three-week AI residency for 100 small-business owners covering operations, analytics, marketing, social media, customer communication, and other business functions.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com•Oct 9, 2026

Sales

Note taking for BDRs: How to run more discovery calls and follow up faster

A business development representative’s (BDR) job is fundamentally about conversation: finding the right people, asking the right questions, and determining whether there is something worth pursuing. Everything else, including the documentation that follows each call, is overhead.

blog.hubspot.com•Oct 9, 2026

Amazon and others are done keeping data center deals secret. Is it enough to build trust?

Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year. Secrecy has fueled community backlash against AI infrastructure, with opposition leading to hundreds of proposed and enacted moratoriums from New York to San Francisco.

techcrunch.com•Oct 9, 2026

Danu Robotics’ fight to build a better recycling robot

For six years, Danu founder Amy Ma has been working on a better way to sort recyclable waste.

techcrunch.com•Oct 9, 2026

We can’t help treating AI like it’s human. But should we?

"When we are drawn into even the most primitive exchanges with a relational artifact, we believe it cares for us," Dr. Sherry Turkle writes. "And we are wired to care for it in return."

techcrunch.com•Oct 9, 2026

A16z’s Olivia Moore on the state of consumer AI

Moore sees a huge opportunity in consumer AI, particularly if the industry can tap into revenue streams beyond just subscriptions and API charges.

techcrunch.com•Oct 9, 2026

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techcrunch.com•Oct 9, 2026

Hexaware Becomes a Preferred Partner in the Claude Partner Network, Bringing Claude to the Core of Its AI-native Platforms

Hexaware announced a multi-year Anthropic partnership involving joint customer deployments and expanded Claude training across its delivery teams, with more than 1,100 Claude-certified professionals cited in the announcement.

tribuneindia.com•Oct 9, 2026

Asana cuts model costs 76x in browser tests with GPT-6.1 Sol

Using GPT-6 Astra in Codex, Asana made its browser agent 76x cheaper and 5x faster in tests to offer customers more capable models.

openai.com•Oct 9, 2026

Sophos cuts threat investigation time by 96% with OpenAI Daybreak

Discover how Sophos uses OpenAI’s Daybreak to cut cyber-threat investigation time by 96% and automate 52% of MDR cases while preserving human oversight.

openai.com•Oct 9, 2026

SMEs need tailored hybrid work and flexibility, says SFA director

The Small Firms Association is calling for expanded access to targeted AI masterclasses, mentoring, and a proposed €10,000 AI-training grant to help small businesses overcome technical-expertise and time barriers to adoption.

irishexaminer.com•Oct 9, 2026

Marketing

Ghostd Releases Guide to Help Small Businesses Earn Recommendations From AI Search Tools

Ghostd released a free guide for small and midsized businesses explaining how to improve their chances of being recommended by AI search tools through consistent listings, customer-focused content, reviews, expertise, and structured websites.

commercialappeal.com•Oct 9, 2026

Marketing

Ecer.com Expands AI-Powered Services to Help SMEs Grow Their Global Trade Businesses

Ecer.com announced multilingual AI customer-service capabilities for SMEs that combine real-time translation, industry terminology, and automated responses to help manage international inquiries and routine digital operations.

cincinnati.com•Oct 9, 2026

Marketing

ZoomInfo Launches Native ClickUp Integration Through GTM.AI

ZoomInfo launched a native ClickUp integration through GTM.AI that lets sales and project teams query company and contact data in ClickUp, replacing manual contact-list exports and data entry.

venturebeat.com•Oct 9, 2026

AI training helps turn technical skills into enterprise opportunities

An ILO AI-for-MSMEs training program in the Philippines helped cookery trainees use AI to develop menus, calculate ingredient costs, and create social-media posts, with some beginning food-sales and catering businesses.

ilo.org•Oct 9, 2026

Marketing

Meta Muse AI agent: what small businesses need to know

Meta launched Muse for Small Business, an AI agent intended to automate tasks such as campaign analysis, customer follow-up, and publishing or purchasing actions with optional human approval.

cleveland.com•Oct 9, 2026

Marketing

NJ-Based Saffron Edge Launches Saffron OS, an AI SEO Agent

Saffron Edge launched Saffron OS, an AI SEO agent that audits pages for technical SEO, schema, programmatic SEO, and visibility in AI-generated answers, while recommending or implementing fixes.

njbiz.com•Oct 9, 2026

Marketing

How Meta's Muse AI Agent Is Helping Small Businesses Save Time

Meta’s Muse for Small Business is presented as a free AI service that can help lean businesses create and evaluate ad campaigns, analyze finances, manage inventory, and plan growth.

uschamber.com•Oct 9, 2026

Marketing

inride Expands Its AI Agent Lineup With Trade Agent Acquire, Now Available, Plus F&I and Service Agents in Beta

inride announced Trade Agent Acquire, an AI agent for automotive dealers that texts trade-in values to shoppers, answers questions, follows up, and books sales appointments.

wowktv.com•Oct 9, 2026

Pretend you’re sitting at Elizabeth Holmes’ desk on this weirdly detailed website

With over a thousand emails, slides, texts, and documents from the United States v. Elizabeth Holmes trial, Extend engineer Bo Lau created a website that simulates what it might have been like to rifle through the Theranos founder's desk.

techcrunch.com•Oct 8, 2026

Sales

Note taking for sales reps: How to spend more time selling and less time on admin

A sales rep’s job is to understand what a buyer needs and demonstrate how a product solves it. That happens in conversation — on calls, in demos, and during negotiations. But the administrative layer around those sales conversations has grown to the point where the admin competes directly with the selling itself.

blog.hubspot.com•Oct 8, 2026

Marketing

Quick Signals Launches AI Social Listening Platform to Help Businesses Capture High-Intent Leads

Quick Signals announced an AI social-listening and sales-intelligence platform that monitors online conversations to identify high-intent leads, buying signals, competitor activity, and opportunities for faster responses.

azcentral.com•Oct 8, 2026

Sales

AI agents for prospecting: How to fill your pipeline without hours of manual research

Building a qualified pipeline has always required research, judgment, and timing. But now, the volume of noise sitting between an SDR and a genuine conversation with the right prospect has changed things.

blog.hubspot.com•Oct 8, 2026

Marketing

AEO for digital PR: How to build earned media presence that shows up in AI results

Digital PR has always been about earning coverage that influences the audience you can’t reach through paid channels. While the value proposition of digital PR hasn’t changed, the definition of “showing up” has.

blog.hubspot.com•Oct 8, 2026

Marketing

AEO for marketing agencies: How to deliver measurable AI visibility results for every client

Clients are asking about AEO. Some have seen competitors show up in AI results and want to know what it means. Others have read that AI is changing how buyers find vendors and want to know what their agency is doing about it.

blog.hubspot.com•Oct 8, 2026

Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effect

Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute allegations of mishandling sensitive information, warning in an open letter that their dismissals are creating a chilling effect on the company’s AI safety culture.

techcrunch.com•Oct 8, 2026

Marketing

Enterprise AEO: How to manage brand visibility at scale across products, segments, and markets

Enterprise brand teams face a complex version of AEO that most tools weren’t built for. A single brand might span a dozen product lines, operate in multiple languages, and compete in markets where local answer engines have their own citation patterns.

blog.hubspot.com•Oct 8, 2026