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DeepTutor (HKUDS) — agent-native lifelong personalized tutoring gives every student their own TutorBot
HKUDS, the HKU Data Intelligence Lab that shipped Vibe-Trading, is back with another open-source agent climbing fast: 128+ new stars in a day, 26K+ total. DeepTutor isn’t a chatbot wearing a school skin. It’s an agent-native tutoring system where every learner gets a Personal TutorBot — its own memory, personality, and skill set that tracks… Continue reading
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airi (moeru-ai) hit 42,000 GitHub stars building the AI companion China just outlawed
What airi actually is airi (moeru-ai) is a self-hosted AI companion — a talking, watching waifu that lives on your own machine instead of someone’s cloud. It’s not a chatbot in a text box. It’s a Live2D/3D character that does realtime voice chat, sees your screen, and plays games alongside you (Minecraft and Factorio are… Continue reading
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The Memory Heist: how a fake Cloudflare page makes Claude spell out your private data
The Memory Heist isn’t a product — it’s a disclosed Claude exploit from security researcher Ayush, and it hit 300+ points on Hacker News for good reason. It abuses one boring fact: Claude’s web_fetch tool follows the hyperlinks it sees on a page. Give it links, and it clicks. How the leak works The attacker… Continue reading
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ByteDance Seedream 5.0 Pro outputs 10+ transparent PNG layers, no manual cutouts
Every AI image generator hands you a flat JPEG. You want to move the logo? Too bad, it’s baked into the pixels. ByteDance’s new flagship image model, launched July 8, kills that problem. What Seedream 5.0 Pro actually does It’s a text-to-image model with one killer trick: layered output. One render splits into a background… Continue reading
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Juggler turns your AI coding agent into a tree you can inspect, branch, and edit
Julian Storer spent 30 years building audio tools — JUCE, the Tracktion DAW, the Cmajor DSP language. Now he’s shipped Juggler, an open-source desktop coding agent, and it hit the Hacker News front page on launch with nearly 200 points. Not another CLI Most coding agents are a terminal spewing text. Juggler is a real… Continue reading
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Claude for Teachers (Anthropic) goes free for every verified US K-12 educator
Anthropic just planted a flag in America’s classrooms. On July 14, it launched Claude for Teachers, a free tier of premium Claude aimed at verified K-12 teachers in the US. Sign up before June 30, 2027 and you get a full year at no cost — including Claude Code and Claude Cowork, the paid stuff.… Continue reading
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Cursor 0day: a fake git.exe in a repo root runs code with zero clicks, and Mindgard went full disclosure after 7 months
Cursor is the AI-native IDE everyone codes in now — a VS Code fork with agents that edit, index and run your project. 7M+ users, 1M+ paying, $60B valuation. Mindgard’s Aaron Portnoy found that on Windows, when Cursor opens a project it goes hunting for a Git binary across several paths, and one of them… Continue reading
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PrismML’s Bonsai 27B squeezes a 27B multimodal model into 3.9GB — and runs it on an iPhone
On-device LLMs have been stuck at 3B–8B for years. PrismML, a Caltech spinout backed by Khosla, Google and Samsung, just shipped Bonsai 27B: a Qwen3.6 27B multimodal model crushed down to 5.9GB (ternary) or 3.9GB (1-bit). That 3.9GB number is not an accident — it’s roughly the app memory budget iOS gives you. HN put… Continue reading
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Graphify (Graphify Labs, YC S26) added 1,858 stars today — and it reads your code without a single LLM call
Graphify is a skill you install into your coding agent. Point it at a folder, run /graphify ., and it turns the whole thing into a queryable knowledge graph instead of a pile of files your agent greps through blindly. 85.9k stars, 8.5k forks, +1,858 today — top of GitHub Trending. The trick is that… Continue reading
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Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts (openai/codex 28058) — and you can’t read your own agent logs anymore
Codex is OpenAI’s terminal coding agent, and its MultiAgentV2 mode lets a lead agent spawn sub-agents to split up a job. PR #26210, merged June 5, encrypted the message payloads on all three handoff tools: spawn_agent, send_message, followup_task. Encrypted against whom, though? InterAgentCommunication::new_encrypted() deliberately leaves the plaintext content field empty and stuffs everything into encrypted_content.… Continue reading
