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Weekly digests of the AI agents, services, and companies that shipped — and what each means for picking the right tool. Newest first.

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Voice agents hit the call center; GPT-5.6 and Mythos 5's return

The quarter closes with voice agents scaling into frontline support via TELUS × ElevenLabs — plus OpenAI's GPT-5.6 preview and a partial restoration of Anthropic's Mythos 5.

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Securing the agent workforce — and the Mythos 5 standoff

As companies deploy AI agents 'as employees,' a new security layer emerges: NewCore launches to give agents identities — while Anthropic's Mythos 5 stays restricted under export controls.

Automation & AI agentsCustomer support
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ElevenLabs adds avatars; Abridge teams with Nvidia — and Claude Mythos 5 ships, then stops

Creative and vertical agents level up — ElevenLabs launches Avatars and Abridge expands with Nvidia and Eli Lilly — while Anthropic's Fable 5/Mythos 5 launches and is pulled days later.

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Meta's WhatsApp agent goes global; Canva plugs into Perplexity

Agents reach consumers and creators: Meta's Business Agent goes live globally in WhatsApp, Canva becomes a design partner for Perplexity's Computer — plus Microsoft's seven in-house MAI models.

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Devin closes $1B; Glean crosses $300M ARR

The agent economy's revenue and raises keep climbing: Cognition closes $1B at $26B, Glean tops $300M ARR, and Perplexity's agent moves into Office.

Coding assistantsResearch & answers
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Cursor's Composer 2.5; ElevenLabs powers Spotify audiobooks

Coding agents get faster and cheaper with Cursor's Composer 2.5, Anthropic ships new Claude Code agent features, and ElevenLabs lands inside Spotify.

Coding assistantsVoice & audio
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Voice agents win big: Vapi takes Amazon Ring, SAP backs n8n

Voice and automation agents land enterprise wins: Vapi raises $50M after Amazon Ring picks it over 40 rivals, SAP doubles n8n to $5.2B, and Copilot's agent reaches JetBrains.

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Sierra's $950M raise; Perplexity's agent goes enterprise

A huge week for applied agents: Sierra raises $950M for customer-service agents, Perplexity pushes its 'Computer' agent into the enterprise, and Anthropic ships finance-workflow agents.

Customer supportResearch & answers
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Regulators unwind Meta–Manus; legal AI Legora hits $5.6B

Agent M&A meets geopolitics as China blocks Meta's Manus deal, while vertical AI keeps compounding — Legora reaches $5.6B and Abridge extends its raise.

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Devin's reported $25B round; Sierra's buy-and-build

Coding-agent maker Cognition (Devin) is reportedly raising at $25B, and customer-service agent company Sierra makes its third acquisition of the year.

Coding assistantsCustomer support
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Cursor's reported $50B talks; Bolt overhauls its agent

The coding-agent race heats up: Cursor is reportedly raising at a $50B valuation, while Bolt.new retires its old agent for a simpler Standard/Max lineup.

Coding assistantsDesign & app builders
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A quiet week — and the capital fueling the agent boom

A genuinely slow week for product launches, so the story is the backdrop: the compute and capital piling up behind the AI-agent companies you use.

Coding assistantsAutomation & AI agents
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Cursor goes multi-agent; Genspark's 'AI employee'

The application layer opens April strong: Cursor rebuilds around running many coding agents at once, Genspark raises for its 'AI employee,' and ElevenLabs widens its voice toolkit.

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Independent editorial summaries of publicly reported news, written by the Multra AI Team with sources cited in each post. Multra AI is not affiliated with the companies covered; product and company names belong to their owners.