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Business & Career
5/15/2026 4 min

Anthropic launches Claude for Small Business with connectors and ready-made workflows

Anthropic says Claude for Small Business runs inside tools like QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Canva, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365 with 15 ready-to-run workflows.

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Tools & Apps
5/15/2026 3 min

JDS packages a stricter Copilot workflow with design, planning, TDD and verification gates

JDS is a GitHub Copilot-focused skill suite that pushes a more disciplined agentic coding flow with design-first work, task planning, isolated execution, TDD, verification, and a live task graph.

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Business & Career
5/15/2026 3 min

GitHub adds team-level Copilot usage metrics through a new API join workflow

GitHub’s new Copilot usage metrics update adds team membership reports that let admins build team-level adoption and activity views from the REST API, but only through report downloads and joins rather than a built-in dashboard.

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Knowledge & Learning
5/15/2026 3 min

IBM Granite Embedding Multilingual R2 lands with 32K context and a compact 97M retrieval model

IBM’s new Granite Embedding Multilingual R2 release adds two Apache 2.0 embedding models with 32,768-token context, 200-plus language coverage, and a smaller 97M model positioned as a strong open option for multilingual retrieval.

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Business & Career
5/14/2026 3 min

Anthropic and the Gates Foundation commit $200M to AI projects in health, education, and economic mobility

Anthropic says it will pair $200 million in grant funding, Claude credits, and technical support with the Gates Foundation over four years, making this one of the clearer philanthropic AI deployment programs to watch.

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AI & Automation
5/14/2026 4 min

OpenAI brings Codex to the ChatGPT mobile app for approvals, threads, and remote SSH follow-up

OpenAI has started rolling out Codex in the ChatGPT mobile app, turning an iPhone or Android device into a live control point for coding threads, approvals, and remote SSH sessions.

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