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Perplexity launches always-on AI Teammates at $200 a month, Claude Code was caught putting users' email addresses into web requests, and Palo Alto Networks is reportedly in talks to buy agent security startup Clutch for about $500 million. Gritt Scott, who writes Skill Issue, joins us on Perplexity. Plus four quick hits, and what each one means for you.
Today's stories
- 00:21 Perplexity's new always-on Teammates take separate jobs, run around the clock and work in Slack, but need the $200 a month Max plan. Gritt Scott, who writes Skill Issue, on testing one recurring job before paying for seats, and checking what it can read in Slack. (The Verge)
- 02:29 A GitHub report says Claude Code put signed-in users' email addresses into User-Agent headers sent to third-party sites. Anthropic says a fix lands early next week; update to 2.1.317 or later now, and treat anything in an agent's context as something that can leave. (GitHub issue)
- 03:49 TechCrunch reports Palo Alto Networks is in talks to buy Clutch Security, which secures AI agents' access to company systems, for about $500 million, roughly 50 times revenue. Start with a list of every agent and AI tool that can log into your systems. (TechCrunch)
Quick hits
- Claude Personal Finance connects bank accounts through Plaid, read only, in US beta. (TechCrunch)
- OpenAI releases GPT-6 Cyber to select Daybreak Red members for defensive security work. (The Verge, OpenAI)
- Airbnb says its own AI travel agent launches in the first half of 2027. (TechCrunch)
- Box builds Nvidia Nemotron embeddings into Box Content Retrieval for agents, early next year. (TechCrunch)
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