AI Agents & Automation
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Kimi Work Turns Moonshot K2.6 Into a Full AI Workspace
Most AI tools are a box you paste a prompt into. Kimi Work, Moonshot AI’s new desktop for knowledge work, is built on a different premise: real work spans documents, research, and code, so the AI should live across all of it rather than in a single chat window. It’s powered by Moonshot’s Kimi K2.6… Continue reading
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MetaMask Agent Wallet Lets AI Agents Trade DeFi With Guardrails
Letting an AI agent touch your crypto has been a scary proposition — one bad transaction and the funds are gone. MetaMask Agent Wallet, which opened early access on June 8, is built to make that safer. It’s a self-custodial wallet designed for AI agents, giving them access to swaps, perpetual futures, prediction markets, and… Continue reading
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Microsoft Scout Joins Your Teams Chats and Acts on Its Own
Microsoft used Build 2026 to introduce Scout, a personal work agent that does something its Copilot features mostly don’t: it acts without being asked. Rather than a sidebar you prompt, Microsoft Scout sits inside the tools people already live in — Teams and Outlook — and handles routine work on its own. ## What Microsoft… Continue reading
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Brandfetch’s Brand Context API gives AI agents structured data on 50M brands in one call
LLMs are confidently wrong about brands they barely know — the logo, the positioning, the competitors. Brandfetch’s Brand Context API is built to ground that: one API call returns structured data on 50M+ brands, including voice, mission, positioning, audience, and competitors. ## What it’s for The pitch is grounding AI features so they stop hallucinating… Continue reading
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Universal Memory Protocol wants to be MCP for agent memory
AI agents still can’t carry memory across sessions, agents, or vendors — every harness reinvents it privately. The Universal Memory Protocol (UMP) is a bid to fix that the way MCP standardized tools: a transport-neutral protocol for how agents store and recall memory. ## What it standardizes UMP defines negotiated memory operations over a portable,… Continue reading
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Manus’s Shopify connector builds and runs a whole store from one chat
Manus added a Shopify connector that turns running an online store into a conversation. Tell it what you sell, who it’s for, and the vibe you want, and by the end of the chat you have a full draft store — branding, products, pages, a working cart — sitting in your own Shopify account. ##… Continue reading
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MLEvolve is a self-evolving agent that hit #1 on MLE-bench in 12 hours
MLEvolve is an open-source multi-agent system that designs machine-learning solutions end to end — planning, coding, validating, and iterating the way a human ML engineer would on a Kaggle problem. Built by Shanghai AI Laboratory and East China Normal University, it reached #1 on the MLE-bench leaderboard with 12 hours of runtime. ## How it… Continue reading
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Extella chains specialized AI agents into one pipeline with memory that compounds
Extella is an AI execution platform built around one idea: connect specialized agents into a single pipeline and let the system get smarter the more you use it. No glue code, no tool sprawl — words in, results out. ## The dynamic system prompt Its standout claim is a “dynamic system prompt.” Instead of static… Continue reading
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Agent-Reach gives AI coding agents zero-API-fee access to 16 web platforms from one CLI
Most AI coding agents are blind to the live web — or they pay per call to get there. Agent-Reach, an open-source CLI trending on GitHub, hands them eyes for free: unified read-and-search access to 16 platforms through a single install. ## What it reaches The list is broad and unusually international: Twitter/X, Reddit, YouTube,… Continue reading
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Leni is a vertical AI analyst that beat OpenAI and Google on deep-research benchmarks for finance
Leni is a purpose-built AI analyst for commercial real estate and private equity — not a general chatbot pointed at finance, but an agentic system that handles underwriting, portfolio reporting, market research, and memo generation off data pulled from property and finance systems. ## The benchmark claim What got it attention is accuracy. Leni placed… Continue reading
