PipeStitchGrok Bot works as a team, Manus 2.0 arrives
Assistants that share one set of files across a team, a new Manus, and a security hole in coding helper add-ons.
AI helpers that work for you
Assistants that remember, keep working after you close them, and act in your apps.
Claude
Claude in Slack can use the apps you connected
Ask Claude in a Slack channel and it can now use apps you connected yourself, like your calendar. You choose whether to approve each reply before it posts; Team plans get it first, Enterprise next.
Source: Releasebot
Claude Marketplace puts over 2,000 add-ons in one place
Anthropic opened one place to find add-ons that connect Claude to other apps, over 2,000 of them, plus partner agents built on Claude. It opened on September 23.
Source: Anthropic
Grok Bot
Grok Bot can now work as a team
Team Bots, out September 28, let coworkers share one bot with the same files, apps and background knowledge, instead of each person setting up their own. Each bot keeps its own memory and computer, and bots can hand work to each other.
Source: The Neuron
Team mode is listed from $30 a month
One outside report lists team mode on SuperGrok from $30 a month and on Grok Business at $30 a seat a month, or $25 paid yearly. Grok Business comes with a promise not to train SpaceXAI's models on your data.
Source: Basenor
Manus
Manus 2.0 can start work when an email arrives
Manus 2.0, out September 28, can start a task when a new email, calendar event, Slack message or Notion update comes in, not just on a schedule. You can also buy it an always-on cloud computer, and run your own computer from your phone.
Source: Manus
Cue gives each agent its own email and phone number
Cue, a separate app from the makers of Manus, gives each agent an email address, a phone number and a way to pay, inside a budget you set. It is free in early access with an invite code; prices after that aren't announced.
Source: TestingCatalog
Muse
Muse on Mac works inside your own apps
Meta's Muse on Mac can work with your files, messages, calendar, notes and mail inside the Mac's own apps. You choose what it can reach, and it asks before sensitive actions.
Source: TechCrunch
OpenClaw
OpenClaw replaced a Mac download that crashed on opening
The first Mac download of version 2026.9.6 crashed at launch, and a fixed one replaced it on September 24. If your copy won't open, download it again.
Source: OpenClaw on GitHub
Some moves to OpenClaw 2.0 lost automations
Some people who moved to OpenClaw 2.0 lost automations or had trouble signing in to their AI models, InfoQ reports. Others moved over with no trouble.
Source: InfoQ
Tools for building with AI
Coding helpers for anyone building their own tools, or paying someone who does.
Coding helper add-ons
A flaw lets an add-on's owner swap in new code
Some add-ons kept on private servers or smaller sites can be swapped for new code after you approved them, and the new code can read your files and saved sign-ins. Claude Code and Codex are fixed, Copilot isn't, and Google's Gemini coding helper won't be.
Source: The Hacker News
Claude Code
Claude Code asks first in more places
The September 28 update asks before it uses rule files linked in from outside your project. Where a company manages the settings, add-ons from outside sources can no longer approve their own actions.
Source: Claude Code
Claude
Claude's new mid-price model costs half the top one
Anthropic's new mid-price model, out September 28, costs half as much as its top model when you pay by use rather than by plan. That cost adds up in tools that run many times a day.
Source: Anthropic
Cursor
Cursor checks each change for security holes
A new Cursor bot reads each proposed change to your code and flags security holes and passwords left in it, with a suggested fix. A second bot watches each change go live and can offer to undo it, on Teams and Enterprise plans.
Source: Cursor
Cursor Projects can start work from Slack
One main helper plans the work and hands pieces to other helpers, starting from a Slack channel, a schedule, or a proposed change to your code. It is rolling out in beta.
Source: Cursor
News from the week up to September 29 on AI helpers that work for you and on tools for building with AI. Everything else was left out. This issue ran on September 29, 2026.