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Multi-Agent Systems with Strands and Bedrock Automate Lead Analysis

Thrad.ai's new system reduces lead research time from 45 minutes to seconds, though integration complexity remains.

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Around the Web

Worth a look

Tools

ultraworkers/claw-code

An agent-managed museum exhibit, built in Rust with Gajae-Code / LazyCodex — developed and maintained with no human intervention.

github | stars 194,805

DietrichGebert/ponytail

Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.

github | stars 85,110

nexu-io/open-design

🎨 The open-source Claude Design alternative. 🖥️ Local-first desktop app. 🖼️ Your coding agent becomes the design engine: prototypes, landing pages, dashboards, slides, images &…

github | stars 79,218

calesthio/OpenMontage

World's first open-source, agentic video production system. 12 pipelines, 52 tools, 500+ agent skills. Turn your AI coding assistant into a full video production studio.

github | stars 39,463

esengine/DeepSeek-Reasonix

DeepSeek-native AI coding agent for your terminal. Engineered around prefix-cache stability — leave it running.

github | stars 27,140

zai-org/GLM-5.2

Trending AI model on Hugging Face — text-generation.

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Research

Can We Trust Item Response Theory for AI Evaluation?

AI benchmarks increasingly leverage item-level statistical models, particularly item response theory (IRT), to estimate model capabilities, rank systems, select informative examples, and diagnose benchmark quality. Howe…

arxiv

A lower bound of 4 for online graph exploration

In the online graph exploration problem, a single agent needs to visit every vertex of an initially unknown graph, which is learned over time in an online fashion, and return to its starting position. We prove that the…

arxiv

News

A scorecard for the AI age

Sarah Friar, CFO of OpenaAI, introduces a practical AI scorecard to measure ROI through useful work, cost per successful task, dependability, and return on compute.

openai

Why teens deserve access to safe AI

Learn how OpenAI is making ChatGPT safer for teens with age-appropriate protections, learning tools, parental controls, and expert partnerships.

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