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Gemini 4 Argon: Google's Best Model Nobody Can Access

Google's Gemini 4 Argon tops new AI benchmarks over GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5, but it's locked behind a cybersecurity-only partner program with no GA date. Here's what its pricing signals for automation costs once it actually opens up.

Prakhar Vohra·4 min
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DigitalOcean Managed Agents: What It Changes for You

DigitalOcean's Managed Agents just left the gate in public preview, bundling sandboxing, inference, and tool access into one runtime billed by active use — here's what it actually changes for builders.

Prakhar Vohra·4 min
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Shopify Script Tags Are Dying: Fix Your Tracking Now

Shopify stopped taking new script tag updates on October 1, 2026, and shuts the whole system down March 1, 2027. Here's what breaks for tracking and how to migrate.

Prakhar Vohra·3 min
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OpenAI's Dots: What the Always-On Agent Changes for You

OpenAI's dots launched as an always-on ChatGPT agent on 29 September 2026. Here's what it actually does, what's missing, and whether it changes anything for businesses already running automation on n8n or similar tools.

Prakhar Vohra·4 min
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Google AI Overviews Now Cover 80% of Brand Searches

Google's AI Overviews jumped from 26% to over 80% of brand searches in September 2026. Here's what that means for how your business shows up on its own name search.

Prakhar Vohra·4 min
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The AI Validation Bottleneck: What Pantheon's Survey Shows

A new Pantheon survey of 1,000 marketing, engineering, and IT leaders finds manual validation, not AI itself, is now the top barrier to scaling AI at work.

Prakhar Vohra·4 min
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Decagon's Personal Agent Gateway: What Changes for You

Decagon's new Personal Agent Gateway tries to tell a customer's AI agent from the customer, then gate what it's allowed to do. Here's what it changes, and what it doesn't, for WhatsApp bots and chat flows running at normal SMB volume.

Prakhar Vohra·4 min
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Google's Publisher Payments: What the AI Pilot Pays

Google has started paying about 100 invite-only publishers when their content significantly shapes AI Overviews, AI Mode, or Gemini answers: here's who qualifies, what it pays, and what to do if you weren't invited.

Prakhar Vohra·4 min
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Mercury Voice: What a 320ms AI Phone Agent Changes

Inception Labs' Mercury Voice answers phone calls in a 320ms median, fast enough to feel human and cheap enough to pilot. Here's what it means for your call flow and what we're testing first.

Prakhar Vohra·4 min