How Manus became “James,” the AI chief of staff behind Ascendea’s 90× output shift

Manus deployed an AI chief of staff called James for Ascendea, delivering a claimed 90× increase in output through AI-driven workflow automation and task management.

How Cars24 scales conversations and builds faster with OpenAI

Cars24 deployed OpenAI-powered agents to handle over 1M monthly conversation minutes, recovering 12% of lost leads and achieving 50% higher support resolution rates while reducing turnaround times by 80%.

Introducing PowerPoint Slides on Manus

Manus now generates native PowerPoint files directly from various inputs including spreadsheet data, research topics, and documents, with editable charts and tables that maintain full functionality.

How to manage AI investments in the agentic era

OpenAI outlines five practical steps for enterprise leaders to manage AI investments, including visibility into usage, spend controls, and measuring value per dollar in the agentic era.

Introducing Claude for Teachers

Anthropic launches Claude for Teachers, providing verified K-12 educators free premium access to Claude with curriculum-aligned lesson planning tools and integration with educational platforms.

Introducing Auto-Publish: Build Once, Ship Continuously

Manus launches Auto-Publish feature enabling automatic deployment of websites on successful builds, eliminating manual publishing steps and keeping live sites synchronized with latest iterations.

Introducing a way to reflect on how you use Claude

Anthropic introduces a reflection dashboard feature that helps Claude users track their usage patterns, understand how AI fits into their workflow, and develop better practices through visualization and periodic self-reflection prompts.

Introducing Branch: One Context, Many Parallel Directions

Manus introduces Branch, a feature enabling parallel conversation sessions that share the same context and instructions without diluting accumulated understanding across different work directions.

GPT-5.6 is now the preferred model in Microsoft 365 Copilot

OpenAI announces GPT-5.6 as the new preferred model in Microsoft 365 Copilot, improving content creation and analysis across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other productivity tools.

ChatGPT is now a partner for your most ambitious work

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work, an agent powered by GPT-5.6 that can execute multi-step tasks autonomously, manage complex workflows, and produce finished materials across apps and files.