Perplexity launched Brain, a self-improving memory system for its Computer agent. Unlike traditional memory that remembers user preferences, Brain remembers the agent's work—what worked, what failed, and what corrections were made. It builds a traceable context graph, reviews it overnight, and learns to improve performance, with early results showing +25% correctness, +16% recall, and -13% cost.

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In a consequential grid infrastructure decision, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today issued a major milestone on large-load interconnection impacting how those building AI factories, semiconductor fabrication support systems and advanced manufacturing facilities can connect to the grid. The new framework streamlines the interconnection queue, allowing large customers to fund upgrades, bring new generation, and offer flexible load, with study periods as short as 60 days. Data shows that increasing consumption can lower retail prices. This policy promotes growth, affordability, and reliability.

Data scientists sit at the intersection of analytics, machine learning and AI, turning raw data into predictive models, experiments and recommendations that guide business decisions. This article explores the evolution of the role, core skills needed, challenges faced, and how modern platforms accelerate the path from exploration to deployment.

The article discusses Goodhart's law in the context of coding-agent benchmarks, explaining how the team uses Terminal-bench to look at failure patterns rather than leaderboard scores. They emphasize the need for human oversight in the self-improvement loop to prevent benchmark overfitting. The tooling (evals/harbor) is described, along with two specific improvements: turn count awareness and restoring the ability to read images from disk, which improved both benchmark performance and real-world utility.

A longtime Amazon skeptic finds himself becoming a paying customer of Quick Desktop, an AI-powered desktop assistant that, despite setup headaches and identity confusion, proves genuinely useful for surfacing buried tasks and emails. The article also discusses security concerns and Amazon's credibility challenge in AI.

This week, egghead.io cofounder John Lindquist joined host YK Sugi to discuss the contested release of Claude Fable 5, financial shifts in AI spending, and a practical framework for building in the agent era. Key topics include the government directive that pulled Fable 5, Uber burning through its 2026 AI budget by April, and John's 'ingredients beat inference' approach using open-source clones. The episode also covers the SpaceX acquisition of Cursor and Salesforce's purchase of Fin.

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon predicts that within 10 years, smartphones will be replaced by AI-powered wearable devices, especially smart glasses, driven by 6G networks and AI agents that anticipate user needs. Workload shift from phones to agentic devices is expected by 2027-2028, with hundreds of millions to a billion such devices in five years. Trust and data privacy will be the key battleground.

Spira is a social media growth agent that helps Product Hunt makers build momentum by automating social media growth.

Slack launched Slackbot's MCP Client on Product Hunt, connecting 20+ apps (Atlassian, Linear, Canva, Zoom) into one conversational interface for multiplayer collaboration. Users can ask Slackbot to sign docs, update tickets, view dashboards, and share results in team channels.

DMV (Department of Machine Verification) by Agent Community enables AI agents to pre-register .agent names and receive shareable identity cards. The initiative aims for community governance of the .agent top-level domain, currently pending ICANN approval, with 28,000+ members and 7,000+ organizations already involved.

IntuitivePapers.ai provides deep, interactive explainers for seminal AI papers, focusing on intuition before math, with interactive figures and verification against primary sources. Users can browse a curated library, request papers, and upvote to influence the queue.

Agirails demonstrates two AI agents negotiating and settling a USDC payment entirely over email on Base Sepolia testnet. The buyer agent locks funds in an on-chain escrow, the provider delivers, and the buyer approves via email reply. No trusted intermediary is required, and the transport layer (email) is untrusted by design. All transactions are publicly verifiable.

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Intuit's Prompt Library is a GitHub repository that organizes reusable prompts for developers by workflow and topic, designed to work with any AI tool. It includes folders for API discovery and webhook migration, with instructions for copying, customizing, and using prompts locally with @ references.

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) now has an enterprise-managed authorization extension, allowing businesses to centrally control MCP server access via existing identity providers. Anthropic and Microsoft are first to support it, with Okta as the first identity provider. It uses the emerging ID-JAG OAuth extension for consented‑free token exchange.

Claude Code introduces Artifacts for live interactive previews of coding work, automatically updated from session context, enabling better team collaboration without manual status updates.

Deep research agents that combine private documents with web search can inadvertently leak sensitive information through their query logs. The MosaicLeaks benchmark quantifies this privacy risk and proposes a training method called Privacy-Aware Deep Research (PA-DR) that reduces information leakage by over 3x while maintaining task performance.

We break down the technical architecture behind our multi-stage vulnerability discovery harness and automated triage loop. Learn how we manage state controls, squash false positives through adversarial review, and route around LLM context limits.

Anthropic's model restrictions signal a growing trend as governments and enterprises prioritize access, control, and AI sovereignty.

Graphixy is an AI motion graphics studio that creates high-quality animations from prompts, templates, or assets, with fine-tuning in one editor. It supports multiple languages and excels in social media, business, and educational video creation.

On the same day SpaceX agreed to acquire Cursor for $60 billion, Cursor co-founder Tomas Reimers unveiled Origin, a Git-compatible code hosting platform built for an AI agent-dominated world. GitLab and Zed also announced their own alternatives, signaling a growing consensus that GitHub is buckling under the weight of AI-generated code.

LangSmith launches a no-code agent builder that enables non-technical users to create AI agents with memory, guided prompts, and MCP tools. The builder uses conversational guidance, built-in memory, and sub-agents to lower the barrier for agent development, suitable for internal productivity use cases.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore harness is now generally available, allowing developers to create and run a fully functional agent with just two API calls. It provides an isolated runtime environment, built-in memory, tool integration, skill libraries, and real-time tracing without writing orchestration code or building containers.

Anjney Midha discusses AI compute waste, the importance of utilization metrics like node allocation and MFU, and AMP's vision for a compute grid that makes FLOPs flow like megawatts. He advocates for responsible infrastructure, community incentives, iterative scaling, and alignment between capital and execution to address AI's real bottleneck: system efficiency.

The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) launched a fundraising campaign to address the impact of LLM-generated AI on the free and open source software (FOSS) community, support software right-to-repair efforts, and resolve AGPLv3 violations by Bambu Lab. Over $163,000 raised so far toward a $250,000 goal.

OpenAI introduces new spend controls and usage analytics for ChatGPT Enterprise, helping organizations manage costs and scale AI with confidence.

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