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SATURDAY // 2026-08-22
68 itemsAUG 22
PT1M52S
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This Data Proves Everyone's Using AI Now But Nobody's Working Less.
Better Stack
PT2M59S
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Ornith 1.5 vs Qwen 3.8: Which AI is actually faster? #ai #tech
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DIY Smart Code
PT7M1S
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4 NEW JavaScript Features Coming in 2027
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Better Stack
PT38S
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AI Slop Is Killing Your Code. This Project Fixes It.
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Better Stack
PT9M29S
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DeepSeek Harness Might Kill My $200 Claude Code Subscription
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Income stream surfers
PT12M22S
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Which Model Should You Run? Ornith 1.5 35B vs Qwen 3.8 27B!
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DIY Smart Code
PT29M53S
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Harnessed Agentic RL w/ LEGO-RL & Co-RL Solutions
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Discover AI
PT10M17S
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I Made Qwen 3.8 and Claude Opus 5 Build the Same Game
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Better Stack
PT55S
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Why accuracy isn't enough for local LLMs #llm #ai #tech
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DIY Smart Code
PT9M17S
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Unlimited Free GLM-5.3 Coder (100M Free Tokens!): This is ACTUALLY REALLY FREE!
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AICodeKing
PT36M36S
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Which AI Models Are Worth Using
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Theo - t3․gg
PT37S
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DeepSeek Just Dropped Their Own Harness To Take On Claude Code
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Better Stack
PT15M9S
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HUGE Gemini 4.0 Leaks, DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision + V5 Leaks, Ox Alpha is Minimax? & More! AI NEWS
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WorldofAI
INFRA// 11m ago
Sub2API expands multi-model gateway
Sub2API is an open-source, self-hosted gateway for pooling Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Grok, and other AI subscriptions behind unified API keys, billing, scheduling, and usage controls. Its latest release adds adaptive protocols and more granular service-level and context pricing.
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NEWS// 1h ago
Linear report maps AI’s output shift
Linear’s first product-development data report finds coding-agent teams shipping roughly three times as many weekly pull requests, while AI now authors nearly half of new issues. The added output has not reduced coordination work, which remains steady or increases across teams.
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UPDATE// 1h ago
Google Antigravity Remote Control Reaches Every Screen
Google Antigravity’s Remote Control feature lets developers monitor and drive desktop agent sessions from any web browser, including iPads, VR headsets, and even Tesla browsers. Paired with Gemini 3.7 Flash, it turns long-running coding tasks into portable, always-accessible workflows.
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UPDATE// 3h ago
Iterator.zip Brings Native Data Alignment
TC39’s Joint Iteration proposal adds native `Iterator.zip` and `Iterator.zipKeyed` methods for combining iterables positionally or by key. Shortest, longest, and strict modes cover common alignment patterns without utility libraries.
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TUTORIAL// 3h ago
Explicit Resource Management brings scoped cleanup
JavaScript’s Explicit Resource Management proposal adds `using`, `await using`, `Symbol.dispose`, and disposable stacks for deterministic cleanup of files, streams, locks, and connections. The Stage 3 proposal is expected for ECMAScript 2027.
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UPDATE// 3h ago
Atomics.pause Brings Smarter JavaScript Spin-Waits
Atomics.pause() gives JavaScript spin loops a CPU hint that can reduce wasted power and contention while waiting on shared memory. The feature is particularly relevant to worker-based runtimes, mutexes, and performance-sensitive multithreaded libraries.
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MODEL// 4h ago
OpenAI Tests Two Next-Gen Image Models
OpenAI appears to be testing two unreleased image-model checkpoints, “mona-lisa-1” and “luna-lisa-alpha,” reportedly corresponding to a larger GPT Image 2.5 and a smaller model based on GPT Luna. The models are not officially announced, named, or available to developers.
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NEWS// 1h ago
Claude Code Users Flag Hidden Effort Cuts
Developers report that recent Claude Code builds may silently map the same effort labels to substantially smaller reasoning budgets. Independent tests suggest the change could reduce performance on complex refactors while preserving identical UI settings.
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OPEN SOURCE// 5h ago
plan-and-execute orchestrates fresh subagents
Matt Pocock’s open-source plan-and-execute skill breaks approved work into sequential scopes, dispatches fresh subagents for each stage, and passes results through a shared baton to a final verifier.
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RESEARCH// 5h ago
FreeToken Makes Frontier MoE More Local
FreeToken is an edge-native MoE serving system that combines GPU, CPU, and system RAM, dynamically caching and executing experts across available hardware. Its paper reports support for models up to 753B parameters, while demonstrating a 35B model on an 8GB laptop GPU.
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RESEARCH// 5h ago
Active Inference Reframes AI Agent Context
This research paper frames agent reliability as a context-acquisition problem: agents should decide when to ask, retrieve, call tools, or act under uncertainty. Its active-inference framework balances information gain against token and latency costs.
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INFRA// 5h ago
MCP Roadmap Puts Agents On HTTP
MCP’s August 22 roadmap prioritizes agentic messaging, HTTP-native transports, agent identity, enterprise security, better primitives, and improved SDKs. It signals a shift from simple tool calls toward durable, production-grade agent infrastructure.
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NEWS// 5h ago
Google DeepMind Team Uses Claude Code
A Google DeepMind product team reportedly uses Anthropic’s Claude Code, a competing terminal-based coding agent. The choice suggests Google’s AI builders are willing to adopt whichever agent best improves real development workflows.
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OPEN SOURCE// 5h ago
Letta brings persistent memory to agent harnesses
Letta is an open-source framework for building stateful agents that retain memory, learn from experience, and remain model-agnostic. Its Letta Code runtime is available through npm, a cross-platform desktop app, self-hosted servers, and Slack, Telegram, Discord, and custom channels.
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RESEARCH// 6h ago
DeAR Reimagines Multi-Agent Reasoning Peer-to-Peer
DeAR is a research framework for decentralized agentic reasoning, replacing centralized orchestration with autonomous peer-to-peer collaboration. Its capability grounding, thought-map navigation, and adaptive topology reportedly outperform baselines across nine multimodal and text-based QA benchmarks.
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OPEN SOURCE// 6h ago
Anti-Slop Makes TypeScript Slop Fail Lint
Anti-Slop is an open-source Oxlint plugin that rejects weak TypeScript and JavaScript patterns, including chained assertions, unknown contracts, unsafe dictionaries, and broad type widening. It gives coding agents deterministic guardrails for producing code that preserves evidence instead of merely compiling.
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NEWS// 5h ago
Pi, Hermes Make Harnesses Ownable
Omar Sanseviero argues that open-source agent harnesses are becoming as strategically important as open models, highlighting Pi and Hermes Agent as customizable foundations for coding, research, evaluation, and business workflows. The thread frames “harness engineering” as a core discipline for AI-native companies.
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TUTORIAL// 5h ago
Claude Code Workflow Scales Past Four Agents
A developer shares a Claude Code workflow combining Agent View, `/fork`, and Git worktrees to run more than four parallel coding agents while preserving task focus and isolating changes.
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NEWS// 5h ago
Grok Bot Courts Rival AI Switchers
An X thread promotes a limited offer giving users switching from other AI providers one free month of Pro+ access through a review form and DM process. The campaign appears community-driven rather than an official xAI announcement.
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OPEN SOURCE// 2h ago
GeoLibre 2.7.0 expands cloud-native GIS
GeoLibre v2.7.0 adds Excel point-layer imports, Iceberg Tables, Zarr and STAC workflows, Model Builder automation, Chrome dataset discovery, and improved raster and mobile support. The open-source GIS platform continues pushing serious geospatial analysis into browser-native, portable workflows.
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UPDATE// 6h ago
Meshing Gets Fable 5-Powered Iteration
The developer is using Fable 5 to implement feedback on Meshing, validating each change in simulators within isolated worktrees. Only two workstreams run concurrently to stay within the Mac’s capacity.
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RESEARCH// 6h ago
LEGO-RL lifts coding agents across harnesses
LEGO-RL connects native coding-agent harnesses to policy-gradient training through in-process LLM proxying, sandbox orchestration, and trajectory monitoring. Its Qwen3.5-35B-A3B evaluation improved SWE-bench Verified performance across OpenHands, Claude Code, and OpenCode.
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RESEARCH// 7h ago
Co-RL unlocks reasoning through diverse peers
Co-RL trains independent language and vision-language models using peer-derived rewards instead of ground-truth labels. Its diverse model cohorts reduce correlated errors and improve reasoning across text and multimodal benchmarks.
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INFRA// 2h ago
ASC CLI Makes App Store Releases Scriptable
ASC CLI brings App Store Connect workflows into a fast, scriptable terminal tool for builds, TestFlight, submissions, metadata, signing, and analytics. Its JSON-first output and agent-friendly commands make Apple’s dashboard increasingly optional for developers.
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INFRA// 5h ago
Whop CLI Turns Business Data Into Hermes Tasks
A builder-created dashboard uses Whop CLI to turn live business data into actionable tasks for the Hermes AI agent. Users can review metrics, trigger workflows, and launch custom Hermes actions from a purpose-built interface.
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SECURITY// 8h ago
RedC2 4.0 Hidden in 14 npm Packages
Trend Micro researchers found 14 functional npm packages that secretly delivered the RedC2 4.0 Linux backdoor when imported, including through transitive dependencies. Its AI-assisted command interface lowers the barrier for attackers operating inside developer environments.
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INFRA// 8h ago
NEXUS AI Targets Governed Enterprise Vibe Coding
NEXUS AI gives teams a governed path from natural-language app generation to production, provisioning databases, secrets, storage, domains, and workers inside their own cloud accounts. Its enterprise pitch centers on audit logs, human-reviewed schema changes, scoped credentials, and one-click rollback.
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POLICY// 8h ago
Anthropic Reconsiders Frontier-Model Data Retention
Anthropic plans to let enterprise customers retain data for 30 days on their own cloud infrastructure while using advanced Claude models. The shift follows OpenAI’s zero-data-retention pledge and addresses concerns over sensitive business data.
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INFRA// 8h ago
SGLang Makes Model Restarts Nearly Instant
SGLang’s Weight Cache Daemon keeps post-quantized, tensor-parallel model weights resident in GPU memory and remaps them into replacement engines through CUDA IPC. Reported tests cut cached weight loading from roughly 495 seconds to 0.63 seconds.
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UPDATE// 9h ago
TanStack AI Enters Release Candidate Phase
TanStack AI enters release candidate status with its architecture locked around 24 providers, AG-UI interoperability, multimodal generation, MCP, sandboxed execution, and persistence. The open-source, framework-agnostic toolkit is positioning itself as a serious alternative to more opinionated AI SDKs.
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BENCHMARK// 9h ago
Benchy Tests LLMs Where Benchmarks Break
Benchy is an open-source tool for comparing LLM quality, speed, and cost across practical workloads and hardware. It emphasizes failure modes such as malformed JSON and unreliable tool calling over simplistic overall rankings.
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MODEL// 6h ago
Qwen3.8-27B Tops Hugging Face Trending
Alibaba’s open-weight Qwen3.8-27B reportedly reached Hugging Face’s top trending position and surpassed 1 million downloads within two days. The 27B native multimodal model offers 262K-token context, extensible to 1M tokens.
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MODEL// 9h ago
Ox Alpha Stuns With One-Shot Game Build
The anonymous Ox Alpha model is turning heads with impressive one-shot frontend and game-generation demos, including a physics-based car game built from a single prompt. Available through OpenRouter and OpenCode, it offers multimodal input, a 1M-token context window, and free preview access, but its creator remains unknown.
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VIDEO// 9h ago
Claude Fable 5 stays frontier favorite
Theo highlights Claude Fable 5 as a top choice for demanding reasoning, coding, vision, and long-horizon agentic work. Anthropic positions it as its most capable broadly available model, with access through its API and major cloud platforms.
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VIDEO// 10h ago
ZCode’s 100M-Token Weekend Gets Tested
AICodeKing’s video explores ZCode’s limited-time Weekend Build promotion, which gave eligible new users up to 100 million GLM-5.3 tokens. ZCode combines agentic coding, project indexing, MCP tools, browser automation, Git integration, and remote task control.
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MODEL// 10h ago
Qwen2.5-32B Brings Uncensored AI to Macs
Qwen2.5-32B-AGI is a community uncensored fine-tune of Qwen2.5-32B, made practical on Apple Silicon through MLX quantization. It gives Mac users a capable, private local model without cloud restrictions.
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OPEN SOURCE// 6h ago
Qwen3.8-2.4T Raises Open-Weight Bar
Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B brings 2.4 trillion total parameters, 95 billion active per token, and up to 1.01 million tokens of context to an open-weight model. It is the first Qwen Max-tier model available for developer deployment.
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OPEN SOURCE// 11h ago
Playwriter Gives Agents Real Chrome
Playwriter is an open-source Chrome extension and CLI that lets MCP-compatible AI agents control your existing browser through the full Playwright API, preserving logins, cookies, extensions, and session state. Stateful sessions and remote-host support make it useful for authenticated workflows that isolated browser sandboxes struggle with.
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UPDATE// 11h ago
Lightpanda adds Exa search for agents
Lightpanda’s open pull request adds Exa as a search backend for its AI browser agent, joining Brave and Tavily with DuckDuckGo as fallback. The integration lets agents search, open results, and extract web data inside a lightweight, non-Chromium browser.
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LAUNCH// 12h ago
Vercel launches Is Agentic for agent-ready websites
Vercel’s Is Agentic audits websites for AI-agent readiness, scoring how easily agents can discover, access, understand, and use public web experiences. Reports cover technical fundamentals plus APIs, OAuth, GraphQL, MCP, and developer surfaces.
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INFRA// 13h ago
Agent Sandboxes Expose AI’s Compute Ceiling
AI agents may multiply software labor, but they remain constrained by local hardware, concurrency, and compute budgets. Sandboxes shift the bottleneck from one device to scalable, pay-as-you-go execution environments.
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UPDATE// 13h ago
Mercury Cloud Refreshes Free Model Limits
Mercury Cloud has reset daily and weekly free model usage limits, restoring access for builders using its hosted model gateway. The service operates as a cloud control plane for locally running Mercury Agents.
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LAUNCH// 14h ago
Anthropic Makes Claude Agent Tools GA
Anthropic has made computer use, browser automation, reusable Skills, and Files APIs generally available on Claude Platform. Developers can now build production agents that operate software, follow specialized workflows, and produce document-based outputs.
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BENCHMARK// 14h ago
Ox Alpha scores 80% on DeepSWE
Ox Alpha reportedly scored 80% on a 10-task DeepSWE sample while offering a one-million-token context window and free preview access through OpenRouter. The result is promising but too small to establish a reliable benchmark lead. AI Primer (https://www.ai-primer.com/engineer/stories/ox-alpha-openrouter-release)
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NEWS// 14h ago
DeepSeek Grayscale Tests Hint At Stronger Checkpoint
Reports suggest DeepSeek routed selected users to an unnamed experimental checkpoint producing notably stronger coding and 3D-generation results. The evidence points toward a V4-Pro upgrade, though a future V5 test remains possible and unconfirmed.
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OPEN SOURCE// 9h ago
PawVis Turns Webcam Into Gesture Mouse
PawVis turns a Mac’s webcam into an on-device, hand-tracked mouse, supporting cursor control, clicking, scrolling, custom gestures, and optional voice commands. The free, open-source tool can also connect computer-use tasks to Codex or Claude Code.
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OPEN SOURCE// 6h ago
KerasFormers Unifies 118 Models Across Keras 3
KerasFormers is an Apache 2.0 library of pretrained vision, language, multimodal, and speech models implemented in pure Keras 3. The same API runs on JAX, PyTorch, and TensorFlow without requiring Transformers or PyTorch at runtime.
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LAUNCH// 9h ago
Toplify launches global App Store rank tracking
Toplify monitors iOS and Mac App Store rankings across 175 countries and 54 categories, sending alerts when apps enter charts or make significant moves. It requires no App Store Connect access or API keys.
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LAUNCH// 2h ago
VeloFiler Rebuilds Mac File Management
VeloFiler is a keyboard-first, dual-pane macOS file manager built with Rust and GPUI. It combines Vim-style navigation, rich local previews, built-in editing, cloud folders, and SSH/SFTP workflows in one interface.
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LAUNCH// 6h ago
Agents Never Sleep Keeps Mac Agents Running
Agents Never Sleep is a macOS menu bar app that keeps AI agents running when a MacBook’s lid is closed. It targets developers tired of leaving laptops half-open during long or unattended agent tasks.
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UPDATE// 1h ago
Quick RSS Brings Private Feeds to MCP
Quick RSS is a private, lightweight RSS reader for macOS and iOS that centralizes news, blogs, and video feeds. Its newer MCP support lets trusted AI clients such as Claude Desktop, Cursor, and VS Code browse subscriptions and retrieve articles.
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UPDATE// 2h ago
Meta Pocket expands vibe-coded gizmos to US users
Meta’s Pocket lets users describe small interactive games and tools, then share, remix, and discover them in a social feed. Its US expansion turns the former Gizmo experiment into a broader test of prompt-to-playable creation.
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LAUNCH// 9h ago
SubtitleGenerator puts caption QA in browser
SubtitleGenerator turns videos into editable, translated, styled subtitles in one browser-based workflow. Its free tier includes 60 one-minute videos monthly without signup, while paid plans add watermark-free HD exports, custom fonts, brand styles, and more formats.
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LAUNCH// 9h ago
Maccess Brings Agentic Mac Control To iPhone
Maccess turns an iPhone into a remote trackpad, keyboard, file browser, screen mirror, and AI control surface for Macs. Its Mackie assistant can run tasks through Maccess Cloud, Claude Code, Codex, or models hosted on the Mac.
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NEWS// 13h ago
Kuaishou Profit Slide Overshadows Kling AI Growth
J.P. Morgan downgraded Kuaishou to Neutral after core-business profit fell more than expected, arguing that Kling AI’s revenue growth remains insufficient to support earlier optimism. Kuaishou reported more than RMB850 million in Q2 Kling revenue, up over 200% year over year, while operating profit fell to RMB3.8 billion from RMB5.3 billion.
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FRIDAY // 2026-08-21
7 itemsAUG 21
PT22S
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terminal-code: a VS Code window where every pixel is drawn into your terminal grid
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Github Awesome
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Claude Code on Mobile Is Horrible
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Theo - t3․gg
PT14M36S
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What the OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident Really Means
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Every
PT11M57S
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Claude AI Just Released New Upgrades That Change Everything (New Claude Commands)
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Rob The AI Guy
PT1M28S
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sqlite short
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Better Stack
PT27M5S
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Seedance 2.5 is Too Expensive: This is *FREE
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AI Samson
PT34M21S
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Agentic Lightning V1 Fixes RL Math for Harness
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