Stop Getting Good at Protocols. Get Good at Agent Experience.
In 2025, if you weren’t building with MCP, you weren’t serious about agents. The Model Context Protocol dominated the agent conversation for the better part of the year. Conference talks, roadmaps, hiring plans, all of it revolved around MCP. Then late 2025 into 2026, AI Skills arrived and the backl...
Using Graphify and NetworkX to Map Python Codebase Structure with God Nodes, Communities, and Architecture Visualizations
In this tutorial, we build a fully offline Graphify pipeline that turns a multi-module Python application into a knowledge graph. We install Graphify, generate a connected sample app, and extract the graph locally using tree-sitter, with no API key or LLM backend. We load graph.json into NetworkX an...
Nous Research Adds /learn to Hermes Agent’s Skills System, Capturing Workflows as Slash Commands Without Hand-Writing SKILL.md
Nous Research has added /learn to the Hermes Agent Skills System. The command authors a standards-compliant SKILL.md from a local directory, a doc URL, a past conversation, or pasted notes. The live agent sources the material with its own tools, then writes the skill — no hand-writing and no separat...
DFlash Speculative Decoding Drafts Whole Token Blocks in Parallel for Up to 15x Higher Throughput on NVIDIA Blackwell
UC San Diego's DFlash replaces autoregressive drafting with a lightweight block diffusion model for speculative decoding. It drafts whole token blocks in a single forward pass and conditions on target hidden features through KV injection. The paper reports up to 6.08x lossless speedup on Qwen3-8B, w...
Mistral OCR 4 Brings Citation-Ready Structured Output to RAG, Agentic, and Enterprise Search Pipelines
Mistral AI released OCR 4 on June 23, 2026, moving from clean text extraction to structured document output. Each block returns a bounding box, a typed classification, and per-page and per-word confidence scores. The model supports 170 languages, runs in a single self-hosted container, and feeds cit...
Datalab Releases lift: A 9B Open-Weights Vision Model That Extracts Structured JSON From PDFs Using Schemas
Datalab released lift, a 9B open-weights vision model that turns PDFs and images into schema-matching JSON. It uses schema-constrained decoding for valid structure and trained abstention to return null instead of hallucinating absent fields, scoring 90.2% field accuracy on a 225-document benchmark.
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OpenAI helps build shared standards for advanced AI, supporting evaluation frameworks, safety practices, and global cooperation through the Appia Foundation.
Over the past year I’ve reviewed enterprise agent architectures at roughly two dozen organizations, including banks, retailers, healthcare systems, and a couple of regulators. The architecture diagrams have been reliably impressive. There are boxes for the MCP gateway, the tool registry, the vector ...
The $400 million machine powering the future of chipmaking
Jos Benschop is climbing a ladder to get to the top of his newest machine. It’s a bit of a schlep. The contraption is the size of a double-decker bus—more than 150 tons of gleaming precision-milled aluminum covered in thousands of snaking tubes, colored cables, and pressurized tanks. From the groun...
Prime Intellect Releases prime-rl 0.6.0 to Train Trillion-Parameter MoE Models on Agentic RL Workloads
Prime Intellect has released prime-rl 0.6.0, an open framework for asynchronous reinforcement learning on trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts models. It trained GLM-5 on SWE tasks at up to 131k sequence length, with sub-5-minute step times and 256 rollouts, on 28 H200 nodes. This breakdown covers ...
xAI Launches /goal in Grok Build, Adding Long-Running Autonomous Execution With Built-In Verification for Multi-Step Coding Tasks
xAI introduced /goal in Grok Build, a mode for long-running, autonomous task execution. You hand off one objective, and the agent plans an approach, executes a progress checklist, and verifies the result until the goal completes.
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Sakana AI Launches Sakana Fugu: An Orchestration Model That Routes Tasks Across a Swappable Pool of Frontier LLMs
Fugu and Fugu Ultra route tasks across a swappable model pool, leading most coding, reasoning, and agentic benchmarks.
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Three things to watch amid Anthropic’s latest feud with the government
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. For those of you enjoying your summer unaware of Anthropic’s latest feud with the US government, here’s a recap: In April the company said it had built an AI mode...
The founder conference built for growth: TechCrunch Founder Summit pass rates increase June 26
Save up to $190 on your pass to TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 by June 26, 11:59 p.m. PT. Designed for founders first on November 4 in Boston. Register here.
The following article originally appeared on Addy Osmani’s blog and is being reposted here with the author’s permission. Loop engineering is replacing yourself as the person who prompts the agent. You design the system that does it instead. A loop here can be thought of as a recursive goal where you...
Patch the Planet: a Daybreak initiative to support open source maintainers
OpenAI introduces Patch the Planet, a Daybreak initiative helping open-source maintainers find, validate, and fix vulnerabilities with AI and expert review.