AI Product Updates: New Features and Releases

Bland launched Blandie, which turns any business website into an SMS support line with a verified brand line, photo reading, Apple Pay checkout, and handoff to a human on request.

Blandie builds branded RCS and iMessage support agents from a business's website, handling bookings and payments and recalling prior calls to the business's phone number.

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Super VL model is now available in Perplexity for Pro and Max subscribers and in the Agent API.

Photon 2.0 upgrades the messaging agent platform to a single API across iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, SMS, email and voice, with a rebuilt iMessage engine and $100 in credits.

Photon rebuilt its engine and released a unified API that puts iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, SMS and voice behind one interface for AI agents.

Texting any website URL to a Bland number spins up a branded iMessage or RCS support line that browses the live site for inventory, sends screenshots and takes Apple Pay orders.

Google rebuilt the Gemma docs site with a global model selector, agent support that turns any page into Markdown, and on-device demos running in the browser.

Photon 2.0 is in public beta: pick a channel, connect your agent, and send your first message in minutes to start building.

Vercel launched Drives, persistent storage for agents, now generally available so you can run stateful agents on Vercel.

Self Labs released Agent Vault, which lets AI agents log in and make purchases without seeing card details while users set spending limits and approvals.

Vercel Connect is in public beta with new MCP Events support, letting apps and agents respond to events instead of waiting for prompts.

Selfxyz launched Agent Vault, which lets AI agents shop, book and log in without seeing card numbers or passwords, with spending limits and approvals across hundreds of stores.