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TUESDAY // 2026-08-25
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🚨🚨 WORKING ON TUI ANIMATION STUFF 🚨🚨
The PrimeTime
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WebMCP now in ChatGPT
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How to Manage Your Workspace With ChatGPT Work
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Build agent-ready sites with WebMCP
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OpenAI
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Codex, but make it weird. Hahahacks.
OpenAI
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Want to Automate Your Content & Marketing? ImagineComputer Makes it Easy!
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Rob The AI Guy
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No Limits on Text Chats with ChatGPT
OpenAI
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AI Beyond Agent LOOPS: The Rise of Graph Engineering?
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Discover AI
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The IQ of Chat
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Ox Alpha DESIGNER: THIS SHOULD NOT BE FREE!!
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AICodeKing
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Turn off Claude Code's Memory
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Theo - t3․gg
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Your Expired Credit Card Might Still Work (Visa Won't Fix This)
Better Stack
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Cheapest Way to Run Every Open Weight AI Coding Model!
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UPDATE// 2h ago
Icon Pivots From AI Admaker to Humans
Icon has repositioned from an autonomous AI advertising platform into “The Human Admaker,” pairing real creator-filmed UGC ads with AI-assisted research, editing, analytics, and campaign tools. Its flagship offer now delivers six human-made ads from two creators, with Admaker 2.0 bundled in.
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UPDATE// 2h ago
ChatGPT Work Adds Secure Website Sign-Ins
ChatGPT Work can now complete tasks on authenticated websites after users securely take over the browser to sign in. The feature is rolling out on web and mobile for Plus, Pro, and Business users.
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UPDATE// 3h ago
WebMCP reaches ChatGPT’s in-app browser
WebMCP lets websites expose structured JavaScript tools that ChatGPT’s in-app browser can invoke alongside the normal interface. Permissioning and confirmation checks keep users in control of consequential actions.
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UPDATE// 4h ago
ChatGPT Extension Adds Four Browser Integrations
OpenAI’s ChatGPT browser extension now supports Microsoft Edge, Brave, Opera, and Vivaldi alongside Chrome. Users can @-mention open tabs for context or let ChatGPT control signed-in browser workflows from the desktop app.
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UPDATE// 5h ago
ChatGPT Work Adds Event-Triggered Tasks
ChatGPT Work now lets Plus and Pro users monitor connected Slack, Gmail, and GitHub activity, responding when meaningful changes occur instead of only running on fixed schedules. OpenAI is also rolling out scheduled tasks to Free users.
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UPDATE// 6h ago
Vercel Connect adds Linq phone numbers
Vercel Connect now lets apps and AI agents provision Linq phone numbers for sending and receiving iMessage, RCS, and SMS. Developers can create the connector directly through the Vercel CLI, bringing messaging infrastructure into the deployment workflow.
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UPDATE// 6h ago
Claude Merges Memory Across Chat, Cowork
Claude now uses one editable memory across chat and Cowork, letting cloud tasks inherit context from previous conversations and carry new context back. Memory is enabled by default on Free, Pro, and Max plans, with sensitive-topic controls and admin management for teams.
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UPDATE// 7h ago
Vercel AI Gateway Adds Async Video Jobs
Vercel AI Gateway now runs video generation as background jobs, supporting webhooks, short polling, or immediate job starts with later status checks. The update removes long-running video renders from request lifecycles and makes production workflows more resilient.
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UPDATE// 9h ago
Greptile adds self-updating knowledge bases
Greptile’s new Knowledge Base feature continuously documents codebase components, maps dependencies, and records past bugs and potential risks for future reviews. The context is editable, available to coding agents, and can incorporate Notion, Jira, Linear, and Datadog data.
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UPDATE// 11h ago
Ox Alpha returns free on Mercury Cloud
Ox Alpha is back on Mercury Cloud at no cost after Mercury reset affected usage limits and expanded token capacity following a demand surge. The anonymous reasoning model targets coding, long-context analysis, and agentic workflows.
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UPDATE// 8h ago
OpenAI restores five-hour Codex, Work limits
OpenAI is reinstating five-hour usage limits for Codex and ChatGPT Work on ChatGPT Plus starting August 25, after temporarily leaving subscribers with only a weekly cap. Users who hit either limit must wait for a reset or purchase additional credits.
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UPDATE// 12h ago
Grok Bot shows end-to-end video work
An Elon Musk-highlighted demo shows Grok Bot transcribing dozens of videos, editing a 19-minute compilation, and generating a Markdown index without code. The workflow illustrates xAI’s push toward persistent agents that complete multi-step tasks inside a cloud computer.
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UPDATE// 14h ago
Your Own AI Rethinks Verifiable Memory
Your Own AI’s latest update redesigns its memory system on top of cryptographically signed Holochain transcripts, linking recalled information to the conversation it came from. The local-first, open-source app supports offline models, optional online routing, and user-controlled memory.
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UPDATE// 15h ago
Grok Build 1.0.9 Adds Workflow Controls
Grok Build 1.0.9 adds child-agent budget and reasoning controls, workflow discovery by name, and toggles for plugin-provided agents in `/agents`. The update advances SpaceXAI’s terminal coding agent toward reusable, multi-agent orchestration.
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UPDATE// 17h ago
Mercury Cloud Adds Gemini 3.7 Flash
Mercury Cloud now offers Gemini 3.7 Flash for coding and agentic workflows through its hosted backend. The model supports a 1M-token context window, tool use, and tunable reasoning levels.
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UPDATE// 11h ago
Hacktron Automations closes vulnerability remediation loops
Hacktron Automations connects vulnerability triggers to AI-driven verification, remediation, testing, and team notifications. It creates reviewable pull requests for real issues while documenting false positives and no-change outcomes.
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UPDATE// 18h ago
OpenCode 1.18.23 fixes provider routing
OpenCode v1.18.23 fixes Cloudflare AI Gateway routing for third-party Google and xAI models, improves GitHub OIDC handling for immutable identities, and makes Zen request forwarding more accurate.
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UPDATE// 18h ago
pstack Teases Another Round of Refactors
pstack, an open-source Cursor plugin for rigorous AI-assisted engineering, is signaling another round of refactors. The teaser offers no changelog yet, but points to active iteration on its task routing, engineering playbooks, and verification workflow.
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UPDATE// 19h ago
Grok Bot Team Targets Runaway Usage
Following reports that Grok Bot limits are draining faster than expected, the team is asking users to share agent IDs to identify inefficient runs and improve consumption. The effort targets a beta agent platform built around persistent cloud computers, parallel bots, and cross-app tool use. Grok Bot documentation.
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MONDAY // 2026-08-24
7 itemsAUG 24
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AI Is a New Storytelling Medium
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Walgit: a Git server where the bucket is the repository and the disk is a throwaway cache
Github Awesome
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AI’s Capability Overhang: Models Outpacing What People Think Is Possible
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How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?
Better Stack
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Stop picking the wrong local LLM runner #localai #ollama
DIY Smart Code
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One of The Best & EASIEST AI Website Builders I've Ever Used (no coding needed or required)
Rob The AI Guy
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This Small AI Will Change Everything
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Two Minute Papers