Clay Valley Daily - Jul 30: Agents Never Clock Out

Yesterday's agent race got weirdly domestic: OpenAI pitched GPT-5.6 as frontier intelligence with markdown pricing, Google introduced Gemini Spark as a background agent that keeps working when your phone is locked, and Meta previewed personal agents that could run 24/7 for your goals, health, relationships, finances, and "whatever you want."

In clay terms: the inbox became an office, the office became a night shift, and the token bill stayed awake with everyone else.