Field notes
A short weekly digest of what changed in AI-support and AI-localization tooling. Every item cites its source.
Field notes — week of October 5, 2026
Sierra and Meta propose a Personal Agent Protocol, Decagon open-sources PACT, Anthropic ships Haiku 5.5, and DeepL launches an EU-sovereign tier.
Field notes — week of September 28, 2026
Anthropic funds engineer training, OpenAI adds computer use, Sierra and Decagon join OpenAI's marketplace, and Lokalise and Crowdin ship updates.
Field notes — week of September 21, 2026
Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 ship, Sierra argues for transparent agents, Decagon expands to Benelux, and DeepL reaches Copilot, ChatGPT and Claude via MCP.
Field notes — week of September 14, 2026
WPML ships 5.0, Decagon adds Generative Analytics and adversarial testing, Sierra earns AIUC-1 certification, and DeepL Voice preserves speaker tone.
Field notes — week of September 7, 2026
Sierra ships multimodal agents, Decagon governs self-improving Autopilot, Intercom adds Fin connectors, and Lokalise tests AI translation on your own content.
Field notes — week of September 3, 2026
Sierra open-sources a benchmark for agents that build agents, Fin reaches into Snowflake, Intercom times every handoff, and Lilt ships in-context preview.
Field notes — week of August 31, 2026
Anthropic ships ant apply, Salesforce folds Agentforce into every edition, Crowdin and Lokalise post AI-quality updates, Decagon details inference gains.
Field notes — week of August 27, 2026
Claude Fable 5.1 launches, Salesforce pushes agents into full workflows, Intercom syncs translated replies, and Decagon adds campaigns and web search.
Field notes — week of August 25, 2026
Fin gets memory, Zendesk bundles triage for free, Salesforce moves into Claude, Sierra dials the IVR, and the EU's bot-disclosure rule takes effect.