Slack Turns Coding Into a Group Project With AI Agents, Asana Saves $6M Using Codex
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of August 21st, 2026. Slack launched Slack Code, putting AI coding agents like ChatGPT, Claude, Devin, Vercel, and GitHub directly inside shared channels where any team member, engineer or not, can watch, steer, and direct a build in real time, with deployment gated behind human approval and finished projects left as a searchable archived record, positioning Slack to own the collaboration venue rather than compete on building the best agent itself. Asana revealed it used OpenAI's Codex to rip out an outdated testing framework in just two weeks for…
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