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Microsoft Memora cuts agent context tokens by 98% — and still beats full-context memory
Long agent sessions have one dirty secret: the longer they run, the more expensive every turn gets, because you keep stuffing the whole history back into the prompt. Microsoft Research’s answer is Memora, a long-term memory system for AI agents that dropped June 29 and lands as an ICML 2026 paper. The headline number: up… Continue reading
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NOX puts iMessage, WhatsApp and Slack in one Mac inbox that drafts in your voice
The messaging assistant that started as RPLY grew up. NOX is a native macOS app — a personal AI agent that pulls iMessage, WhatsApp, Slack and email into a single inbox, then drafts replies that sound like you. It never hits send on its own. You edit, approve, or ignore. What it actually does NOX… Continue reading
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Your coding agents get desks and robot bodies in Termi Protocol
Multi-agent coding has a blind-spot problem. Run three agents on one repo and you’re staring at three scrolling terminals with no idea who’s touching what. Termi Protocol turns that black box into a 3D room you can actually watch. What it actually is It’s a desktop app that gives your real CLI agents — Claude… Continue reading
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pxpipe turns a $42 Claude Code session into $6 by rendering context as PNGs
Steven Chong found a pricing crack and built a tool to drive a truck through it. pxpipe is an open-source local proxy that sits between Claude Code (or Fable 5) and Anthropic’s API. It grabs the bulky, static parts of your context — system prompt, tool docs, old chat history, giant tool_results — renders them… Continue reading
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Microsoft Frontier Company: $2.5B to put 6,000 engineers inside customers’ offices
Microsoft just admitted the quiet part out loud: selling AI models isn’t the hard part — getting them to actually work inside a business is. On July 2, it launched Frontier Company, a $2.5 billion unit built to fix exactly that. What it actually is Frontier Co. is a services organization, not a product. Microsoft… Continue reading
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Google Search Information Agents turn 1 billion AI Mode users into agent operators
Google is rolling out Information Agents inside Search, starting with AI Pro and Ultra subscribers this summer. These aren’t chatbots you poke at — they run 24/7 in the background, watching news, shopping, finance, and whatever topics you care about, then ping you with a summary and next steps at the moment it actually matters.… Continue reading
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jamesob/local-llm — the 2026 field manual for running SOTA models on your own hardware
James O’Beirne dumped everything he knows about running LLMs locally into one repo. It hit 381 points on HN’s front page, and it’s not a framework or an app — it’s a reference. One giant hardware × model cheat sheet for 2026 self-hosting, plus ready-to-run vLLM configs. What you actually get A price-to-tokens table you… Continue reading
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Alibaba Page-Agent (in-page JavaScript GUI agent) skips screenshots — it reads the DOM instead
Everyone building web agents right now points a multimodal model at screenshots — browser-use, UI-TARS, OpenAI’s computer use. Alibaba’s new open-source Page-Agent went the opposite way: no screenshots, no vision model, no browser extension, no headless browser. It’s plain JavaScript that lives inside your page, reads the live DOM as text, and clicks and types… Continue reading
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Microsoft Copilot merges into one app and ships AutoPilot background agents
Microsoft is collapsing two Copilots into one. Come August 2026, the consumer Copilot and the enterprise Microsoft 365 Copilot become a single app — same identity, capabilities that flex based on your subscription and data permissions. Low-use features like Copilot Podcasts get cut. This is Microsoft’s answer to the AI super app race Anthropic and… Continue reading
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Meta Pocket turns one sentence into a playable game, then wraps it in a TikTok feed
Meta shipped this one without a press release. Pocket showed up on the App Store and Google Play around June 29, spotted by reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi before Meta said a word. Still gated to a few regions, still no US download. What it actually is Type a sentence, get a playable mini-game. Meta calls… Continue reading
