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Schedules for Managed Deep Agents: Cron jobs, prompts, and Slack delivery

LangChain · Sep 23, 2026

LangChain adds cron-based schedules to Managed Deep Agents for recurring, tool-invoking messages delivered to Slack.

“Schedules can be configured and added to your agent to allow it to send recurring or regular messages that invoke its tools or leverage context that it has available.”
From VLM/VLA's to Embodied Agents — Armen Aghajanyan, Perceptron AI

AI Engineer · Sep 23, 2026

Perceptron AI wants to unify VLMs, VLAs, and world models into 'embodied foundational models' for real-time physical-world interaction.

“we want to move away from the distinction between VLM, VLA, world models, whatever you want to call it, to what we call embodied fundamental models”
We got @unsloth a DGX Station!

NVIDIA GTC · Sep 23, 2026

NVIDIA gave Unsloth a DGX Station to accelerate its model quantization and RL research.

“We're going to be use utilizing this to do all of the models. And just provide more and more for the community.”
Two years of OpenAI Academy

OpenAI · OpenAI Blog · Sep 23, 2026

OpenAI marks two years of OpenAI Academy, expanding AI skills training to more communities.

What Is LangChain, Actually?

LangChain · Sep 23, 2026

LangChain has evolved from an open source framework into a full agent development lifecycle platform anchored by LangSmith.

“Turns out building the agent is really fun. Super fun. And kind of easy now, but actually keeping it from going completely sideways in production is the hard part.”
3. What is Databricks Unity AI Gateway and how it works

Databricks · Sep 23, 2026

Databricks Unity AI Gateway centralizes access control, model routing, and cost tracking for AI models and agents.

“You define access and costs once in a single control panel instead of configuring each tool separately.”