AI Agents & Automation
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Airbyte Agents (Context Store) launches with 50 connectors and 75-90% token savings vs vendor MCPs
Airbyte spent eight years moving data into warehouses. Now they’re moving it into agents. Airbyte Agents is a managed Context Store that pre-replicates and pre-indexes data from Salesforce, Zendesk, Slack, Linear, Jira, Gong and 50+ other SaaS sources. Instead of an agent hitting a vendor MCP and burning thousands of tokens parsing raw API responses,… Continue reading
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Anthropic Claude Dreaming lets agents rewrite their own memory — Harvey saw 6x task completion
Anthropic shipped Dreaming on May 6, a research preview inside Claude Managed Agents. The pitch is blunt: stop letting your agents repeat the same mistake forever. What Dreaming actually does Between live sessions, the agent goes async and chews through its own past — transcripts plus the memory store. It pulls out patterns that survive… Continue reading
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OpenAI Codex in Chrome moves the coding agent into your real browser session
OpenAI just put Codex inside Chrome. The extension runs on macOS and Windows, driving the same tabs, cookies, and signed-in accounts you already have open — no sandbox, no screen takeover. 4 million weekly active users, up 8x since January 2026. Codex went from neat IDE thing to OpenAI’s fastest-growing product in five months. What… Continue reading
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Meta Hatch: Meta’s OpenClaw rival, running on Claude inside Instagram and WhatsApp
The Information dropped this on May 8: Meta is quietly building a consumer AI agent codenamed Hatch. It plugs straight into Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads — that’s roughly 3 billion users of distribution before it even launches. See something in a Reel? Tell Hatch to buy it. Need food, a Reddit thread, an Outlook… Continue reading
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xAI Grok 4.3 cuts pricing 40% and tops legal reasoning at 79.3%
xAI shipped Grok 4.3 on May 6, and the move that matters is the price cut. $1.25 per 1M input tokens, $2.50 per 1M output — roughly 40% below Grok 4.20 — for a model that just hit 53 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the highest in its price tier. The numbers behind the… Continue reading
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DeerFlow 2.0 hits 65K stars: ByteDance open-sources its long-horizon agent stack
DeerFlow 2.0 is ByteDance’s open-source super-agent harness for tasks that run minutes to hours. 65.6K stars, 8.7K forks, still on GitHub Trending. It’s a full v2 rewrite on LangChain and LangGraph — a supervisor agent plans the work, spawns sub-agents in parallel, hands them sandboxed tools, and keeps memory across the run. What it actually… Continue reading
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OpenAI AI Phone Fast-Tracked to H1 2027: Ming-Chi Kuo report says it ditches the app grid
Ming-Chi Kuo dropped a fresh supply chain note on May 5: OpenAI’s first phone is now slated for H1 2027 mass production, pulled in a full year from the prior 2028 timeline. MediaTek, Qualcomm and Luxshare are the named partners, and the SoC is a 2nm MediaTek Dimensity 9600. This is shaping up as the… Continue reading
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Dexter passed 24K stars on GitHub: an autonomous agent doing real equity research
Virat Singh’s Dexter shot past 24K stars this week, adding 600 in a single day, sitting near the top of GitHub Trending. It’s a CLI-based autonomous agent for deep financial research — think Claude Code, but pointed at SEC filings instead of source code. What Dexter actually does Ask “is Constellation Energy fairly valued” and… Continue reading
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Reflex Benchmark: Computer Use Agents Cost 45x More Than Structured APIs
The Reflex team just published numbers that should make every computer use believer uncomfortable. Author Palash Awasthi gave Claude Sonnet the same back-office task — find the customer named Smith with the most orders, process his latest pending shipment — through two paths and timed both. The 45x Gap, In One Run Browser visual agent:… Continue reading
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Anthropic Finance Agents land at Citadel, BNY, and Carlyle
At a closed-door New York event on May 5, Anthropic shipped ten pre-built agents for banks and insurers. Pitchbook generation, earnings analysis, credit memos, KYC, month-end close, policy audits — the spreadsheet-heavy grunt work middle-office teams burn weekends on. What’s actually in the box Three things ship together. Claude Opus 4.7 with a finance tune… Continue reading
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