It's Wednesday, May 20th. This week Notion turned your workspace into a runtime outside agents can plug into, while Anthropic went the opposite direction — letting Claude's agents run on your own infrastructure through self-hosted sandboxes. Plus: sign up for Eazo's Global Hackathon this weekend, 5/23–5/24, before sign-ups close tomorrow, 5/21.
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In Today’s Top Tools, we spotlight some of the most innovative, creative AI apps that we recommend adding to your stack.
TOOL SPOTLIGHT
🖥️ Notion Turns The Workspace Into A Runtime For Outside Agents
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Notion shipped its Developer Platform on May 13, letting any AI agent run code, read documents, and write into databases through the workspace. The workspace becomes a runtime, not a destination.
Free during beta with a one-click signup. Workers move to Notion credits starting August 11.
TOOL SPOTLIGHT
🛡️ Anthropic Moves Claude's Agents Onto Your Own Infrastructure
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Anthropic shipped Claude Managed Agents updates on May 19. Self-hosted sandboxes let agents execute tool calls inside your own infrastructure, and MCP tunnels reach private databases without exposing them publicly. The model walks into your network, not the reverse.
Run sensitive agent workloads on Cloudflare, Daytona, Modal, or Vercel while Anthropic handles orchestration.
Give agents read access to internal databases and APIs through encrypted MCP tunnels with no public endpoints.
Replicate the reliability of a cloud agent without sending tool execution to Anthropic's servers.
Self-hosted sandboxes are in public beta; MCP tunnels are in research preview with request access required.
GLOBAL HACKATHON THIS WEEKEND
🚀 EAZO Global Hackathon 2026 — $300K Prize Pool, 253 Teams Win (May 23-24)
Hurry - don’t wait to register before slots fill up!
Most hackathons end at Demo Day. EAZO Global Hackathon 2026 ends when real users stop coming back. Eazo is running a 48-hour hackathon May 23–24 across SF, New York, Shanghai, and globally online, structured around a different belief about what a hackathon is for: not the pitch, the product.
What makes this hackathon unique:
Every submission goes live on Eazo Mobile the moment it's submitted. 50% of the final score comes from public votes, 40% from an expert panel, 10% from peer review. A team that never makes Demo Day can still win if their product is good enough that people keep using it.
No code, no servers, no deployment — Eazo Creator handles the full stack automatically.
Submitted apps stay live on Eazo community permanently. Anyone can remix them, and qualifying apps earn ongoing revenue share through the Eazo Skills marketplace.
Five tracks: Superparent (family coordination, memory, decision-making), AI Companion (companionship, emotional support, focus tools — including ADHD/ASD communities), Life OS (personal planning and productivity), Body Intelligence (health, fitness, body awareness), and Wildcard (open, experimental, cross-disciplinary).
Eazo Creator handles the technical work, so the only requirement to compete is an idea worth building. 253 teams will take home prize money out of a $300,000 pool, and 1,000+ builders have already registered!
Register in your city: San Francisco · New York · Shanghai · Online / Global. Don’t wait - registration closes May 21.
In this section, we feature a few standout opportunities leading AI companies, non-profits, policy groups, and other organizations.
🔬 Work at a Lab/AI Safety
Roles at frontier labs, safety organizations, and research institutions
RESEARCH SCIENTIST, INTERPRETABILITY — Anthropic | San Francisco, CA | $350,000–$850,000
RESEARCH ENGINEER, INTERPRETABILITY — Anthropic | San Francisco, CA | $315,000–$560,000
RESEARCH ENGINEER, ALIGNMENT SCIENCE — Anthropic | London, UK | £260,000–£370,000
MEMBER OF TECHNICAL STAFF, RESEARCH — METR | Berkeley, CA | $258,000–$341,000
🚀 Work in Industry
Roles at funded AI startups and private companies
MACHINE LEARNING ENGINEER, STRIPE ASSISTANT — Stripe | SF / NYC / Seattle / Remote | $212,000–$318,000
AI ENGINEER — Vercel | San Francisco, CA | $192,000–$288,000
FORWARD DEPLOYED ML ENGINEER — Triomics | New York, NY | $170,000–$190,000 + Equity
APPLIED AI ENGINEER, AGENTIC WORKFLOWS — Cohere | US / Canada | Competitive Salary + Equity
PHD ML ENGINEER, SUMMER 2026 INTERN — Stripe | South SF / NYC / Seattle | $123,500–$182,000
🏛️ Work in AI Policy / Governance
Roles in government, think tanks, NGOs, and policy organizations
FRONTIER AI RESEARCH LEAD (FELLOW / SENIOR FELLOW) — CSET, Georgetown | US-based | $100,000–$190,000
TECHNICAL AI SAFETY PROGRAM OFFICER — Open Philanthropy (Coefficient Giving) | Remote | $126,234–$286,737
POLICY ANALYST, ECONOMIC AND SOCIETAL TRANSFORMATION — Americans for Responsible Innovation | Washington, DC | $80,000–$100,000
PROGRAM ASSOCIATE — AI Now Institute | Remote (ET preferred) | Competitive (apps due May 25)
FROM COLLECTIVE HQ
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🧑💻 About the Editors
About Noah Frank
Noah is a researcher, innovation strategist, and ex-founder thinking and writing about the future of AI and the workforce. His work and body of research explores the economics of emerging technology and organizational strategy. Outside of AIC, Noah heads research for Centaurian AI.
About Joy Dong
Joy is a news editor, writer, and entrepreneur at the intersection of AI and blockchain. Whether she is demystifying complex systems in her newsletter, TEA, or building streamlined solutions through her automation agency, Ownly, Joy’s mission is to make emerging tech accessible and actionable for everyone.