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PM Status Report - 31 August 2026 Anthropic and OpenAI each made a distribution move this week that matters more to how an agent reaches your team than a new model launch would. Anthropic bought its way into the CRM and workplace chat tools large organisations already run everything through, embedding Claude across Salesforce, Agentforce and Slack. OpenAI cut a widely used coding tool off from its models after the tool’s new owner took over, and said directly it doesn’t trust that owner to...
Stop Re-Briefing AI From Scratch Every Monday AI skills for project managers are encoded, reusable workflows that run from the same instructions each time, without you re-explaining them. That’s the step up from writing good prompts. If you’re re-explaining your process every time you open a new chat, that’s the equivalent of briefing your team from scratch every Monday. Moving one rung up, from prompts to skills, is the change that actually compounds. If that sounds small, it isn’t. It’s the...
PM Status Report - 24 August 2026 No new flagship model launched in the week to 24 August. Anthropic took computer use, browser use, the Skills API and the Files API out of beta on 19 and 20 August, giving a supported toolset for putting an agent to work on software that has no API. Separately, its enterprise customers can now hold their retained logs in their own cloud rather than on Anthropic’s infrastructure. Both bear on the same question: whether an agent can be put to work on a legacy...