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Practice Verified Free № 1740 · Miles Deutscher

10 Wild Grok Bot Use Cases: A Fleet of Bots Working Together, from Curating Bookmarks and Tracking Competitors to Multi-Agent Delegation

Understand Miles Deutscher's ten prompt cards to learn how to define tasks, verify evidence, and inspect deliverables.

10-24 · About 20 min

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Source · Techartist · Every Joule

Building a 3D Interactive Lesson with AI and Three.js: From Energy Textbook to Working Prototype

Build a working 3D lesson through four rounds of prompts, then add eight-store exploration, a pop-up book, and a five-shot demo. Includes source code, a complete walkthrough, and fixes from testing.

Three.jsAI Coding10-24 · Approx. 35 min
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Source · Diane Sarkis · Anthropic

Official Anthropic Guide: As Models Improve, Many Sub-Agents Can Be Replaced with Skills and Tools

Turn business workflows into skills and business APIs into tools so a single Agent can handle requests end-to-end; evaluate actual tasks to decide which sub-Agents to keep.

AnthropicAgent▶ Play10-24 · 15 min
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Insights
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Source · Moses Sternstein · a16z

a16z Charts of the Week: Attention Struggles to Grow, Older GPU Rents Are Rising, and Where Is AI Infrastructure Still Stuck?

11 charts on the battle for attention, GPU rental pricing, manufacturing supply, and cybersecurity revenue: demand remains resilient, but growth comes with distinct caveats.

a16zAttention Economy10-24 · 15 min read
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Source · Block / Ragavan Thurairatnam⚑ Product

Block Releases Dessa: A Speech-Only AI That Learned to Speak from Scratch Just by Listening to People

Trained solely on human conversational audio, it can listen and speak simultaneously, but can also misremember names. Drawing on four sets of release materials and six bilingual videos, this explainer examines Dessa's novelty, vocal nuances, and local deployment requirements.

DessaBlock▶ Play10-24 · 12 min
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Practice
№ 1735
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Source · 花叔

Does AI Design Always Feel Like a Template? huashu-design 3.0: Letting AI See More, Try More, and Avoid Making Every Design Look the Same

Draft six candidates before picking three real directions; using real references, visual specimen sheets, and local records to pull design directions apart.

AI DesignSkill10-24 · Approx. 20 min
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Launch
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Source · Kimi / Moonshot AI

Kimi K3.1 Pro Released: Building Complete Games, Editable 3D Models, and Linked Financial Spreadsheets

From debugging human walking simulations to Blender modeling and financial workflows, here is what this release does, what the benchmark figures show, and how the Standard and Highspeed editions are priced.

Kimi3D modeling10-24 · About 18 min
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Commercial Visuals
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Source · Agu Seguí

Turning a Person's Story into an Animated Face: Inside Mosaic Studio's Design Method

A custom animation engine built by Agu Seguí for First of Kind: composing portraits from words, linking word meanings to dynamic skins, and applying the same visual rules to both web and video production.

Generative DesignBrand Visuals10-24 · 15 min
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Source · Colin Jarvis · OpenAI

OpenAI's FDE team: Making our earlier work unnecessary means we've done our job well

From chip verification to voice customer service, Forward Deployed Engineers first get customer problems solved in production, then distill that experience into more usable products and more capable models.

FDE企业 AI10-24 · About 10 min
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Product Release
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Source · Manan Gupta / Fermion Research

Phonon-2.5: A 156 MB Speech Transcription Model Supporting 25 Languages, Beating Whisper large-v3 on Average

Fermion Research releases the weights of its next-generation local ASR model: how a tiny file preserves accuracy, and the conditions behind transcribing an hour of audio in 20 seconds.

Speech RecognitionLocal AI10-24 · About 15 min
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Source · NVIDIA

NVIDIA Releases Bolt E4B: A Small Model for Local Assistants and Robots, with Less Chatter and Better Tool Use

Trained further from Gemma 4 to balance concise dialogue with multi-turn tool calling. The ~6GB RAM reference, robot demonstration, and benchmark numbers each come with specific caveats.

NVIDIANemotron10-24 · 15 min
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Deep Dive
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DEEP DIVE
Source · MIT Ad Hoc Committee

MIT Report: The World's Most Famous Institute of Technology Has Just Admitted AI Has Broken Its Teaching Model

As correct answers become ever easier to obtain, curricula must refocus on students' attempts, judgment, and collaboration—while channeling time saved by AI into deeper hands-on practice.

MITAI Education▶ Play10-24 · 15 min
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Product Launch
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Source · Google AI Studio / Dmitry Lyalin

Google Releases Gemini API CLI: Bringing Image, Video, Voiceover, and Research Capabilities Directly to Existing Agents

Equipping Agents like Codex and Claude Code with Google multimodal power: media saves directly into projects, while long-running tasks resume via interaction IDs.

GoogleGemini10-24 ·
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Deep Dive
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DEEP DIVE
Source · a16z · Andy Jassy

Amazon CEO: Merely Adding AI to Legacy Products May Not Secure the Future

Organizational Reinvention: Moving from Over-Specialization Back to Small Cross-Functional Teams

AmazonAndy Jassy▶ Play10-24 · 15 min
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Research
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RESEARCH
Source · Tom Zahavy

Can LLMs Propose New Theories Like Einstein? The Scientific Creativity Debate in “LLMs can’t jump”

Starting from the elevator thought experiment, understanding the difference between deriving from existing premises, proposing new explanations, and testing against the physical world.

AIScientific Discovery10-24 · 15 min
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Practice
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Source · Lemomo / LemoLab

Let Claude Help You Make News and Documentary Shorts: 8 Styles, from a Single Short Film to Your Own Recurring Series

Hand over reports, archives, and game footage to Claude to try eight news and documentary styles; save your chosen palette, fonts, and pacing, and reuse them with new materials next time to build your own recurring series.

ClaudeVideo production10-24 · 18 min
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Insights
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Source · OpenAI

OpenAI Reveals How ChatGPT’s Ad System Works: Placing Relevant Ads Without Changing Its Answers

An ad must pass through intent understanding, retrieval, scoring, and an auction—and even after winning, it may still not be shown if the context is unsuitable or it arrives too late.

OpenAIChatGPT10-24 ·
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Deep Dive
🎧№ 1723
DEEP DIVE
Source · OpenAI · PHP Foundation · Wiz

AI Finds Critical PHP Flaws: Websites Go Offline Globally as OpenAI Coordinates Response

Government portals, commercial websites, and hosting platforms initiate emergency maintenance over PHP2Shell as Sanae Takaichi urges rapid patching. AI makes complex vulnerability verification easier, but defense still requires deployment across the entire service chain.

OpenAIPHP▶ Play10-22 · 18 min read
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Product Updates
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Source · Anthropic

Anthropic Introduces Its Own Personal Agent: Claude Duet Follows Up on Work Proactively and Keeps Going Even After You Close Your Laptop

It checks connected apps, prepares briefings and work deliverables, and surfaces what needs your decision—while sending external communications, making payments, signing documents, and deleting items still require your prior approval.

AnthropicClaude Duet10-22 · 12 min read