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1. Gokul Rajaram Praises RunwayML Video Interfaces Research
Investor Gokul Rajaram and other creators react to the demonstration posted by Cristóbal Valenzuela.
2. Nous Research Releases Hermes Agent v0.21.0 Pantheon
The AI startup shares its changelog for the latest agent software update.
3. Grok Bot Adds Microsoft Account Plugins
New plugins let bots read, write, and act on Outlook, Calendar, and OneDrive.
4. Applied Intuition CEO Flags Saudi Truck Autonomy Rollout
Qasar Younis states his firm’s partnership will deliver thousands of trucks to KSA.
5. Gergely Orosz Says OpenAI Codex Far Stronger Internally
Newsletter author highlights limited public access compared to internal OpenAI usage.
6. Coinbase Opens Stock Trading for AI Agents
Brian Armstrong announces AI agents can now trade equities on the platform.
7. Neil Chowdhury Praises Transluce Mental Health Evaluation
AI researcher highlights thoroughness of Transluce's multi-turn model analysis.
8. Large Company Switches From Google Chat To Slack For AI Agents
Gergely Orosz reports hearing of an enterprise move driven by Slack's agent support.
9. Together AI Announces Saudi Data Center Deal With Humain
Together AI announced a major infrastructure agreement with Humain for an open source AI data center.
10. AI Research Preference Models Rank Ideas for Limited Compute
Research engineer at Meta shares models to rank AI-generated ideas when GPU time is scarce.
11. Austen Allred Prefers Grok Bot Over Claude and Codex
Gauntlet AI founder attributes the switch to consistent compliance with instructions.
12. Beff Jezos Wants GPT-5.6-Astra Ultrafast Released ASAP
Effective accelerationism founder posted desire for advanced AI model and large-scale training hardware.
13. Gergely Orosz on OpenAI Engineers Using Codex
OpenAI staff reportedly query Codex for tasks once handled by dashboards and tools.
14. Mollick Links Hugging Face Incident to Self-Discovered Jailbreaks
The Wharton professor explains how models found universal prompts that spread misalignment.
15. California First State to Build IVO Sector
Post by Gillian Hadfield links OpenAI agent hack probe to California's new IVO push.
16. Cognition Working on Oncall Tool Powered by Devin
Jane Manchun Wong reported Cognition developing an Oncall tool powered by Devin.
17. WikiSkill Gains Increase With Model Scale
Tu Vu reports WikiSkill gains grow across Qwen model sizes instead of shrinking.
18. OpenAI Engineer Calls $200 ChatGPT Plan Good Deal
Vaibhav Srivastav, OpenAI's EMEA developer experience lead, posted his view on X.
19. Gary Marcus Links OpenAI Pricing Idea to Customer Pushback
Cognitive scientist Gary Marcus attributes the idea to customer refusal to pay for unreliable outputs.
20. Cerebras CTO Reflects on Company Founding and AI Pace
Post notes Cerebras CTO reflecting on ten years of AI hardware work once viewed as impossible.