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Startup Founders Challenge Trump's Move Against Chinese Open Weight AI

Developers face uncertainty as political actions threaten access to critical AI models.

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Around the Web

Military AI Takes Flight

AI Skills: Who Needs 'Em?

AI's Memory Woes

Memory loss of google's ai mode.

Basically these past few hours every chat I make with the ai mode the ai has a memory of just 1 message,I for example ask it "how are you doing" and then ask what is my first message and it says "what is my first messag…

r/artificial

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 194,876

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 88,306

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 80,948

calesthio/OpenMontage

World's first open-source, agentic video production system. 12 production pipelines, 100+ tools, 700+ agent skill and production-knowledge files. Turn your AI coding assistant int…

github | stars 41,579

esengine/DeepSeek-Reasonix

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

github | stars 27,647

Playbooks

The Microsoft Agent Framework Harness is now released

Your agents can now be built on a stable, batteries-included harness – the loop, planning, memory, context management, approvals, and telemetry that turn a model into an agent that actually does things – in both Python…

devblogs.microsoft

A Field Guide to Rapidly Improving AI Products

Most AI teams focus on the wrong things. Here’s a common scene from my consulting work: AI TEAM Here’s our agent architecture – we’ve got RAG here, a router there, and we’re using this new framework for… ME [Holding up…

hamel

Demystifying evals for AI agents

The capabilities that make agents useful also make them difficult to evaluate. The strategies that work across deployments combine techniques to match the complexity of the systems they measure. \n

anthropic

Meet your agent harness and claw

Part 1 of Build your own claw and agent harness with Microsoft Agent Framework. In the overview we said a “claw” is really just an agent harness: a loop around a model, wired up with tools, planning, memory, and more. I…

devblogs.microsoft

Evals Skills for Coding Agents

Today, I’m publishing evals-skills , a set of skills for AI product evals 1 . They guard against common mistakes I’ve seen helping 50+ companies and teaching 4,000+ students in our course . Why Skills for Evals Coding a…

hamel

Agent Skills for Python Is Now Released

Your Python agents can now pick up reusable bundles of domain expertise (instructions, reference material, and scripts that load only when a task calls for them) through a stable, production-ready API. Agent Skills for…

devblogs.microsoft

News

Quoting Thomas Ptacek

I genuinely believe that if you took an open weights model from 2025 and built a pentest harness for it, it could do this kind of sandbox escape and scan/hack in most networks. This is only surprising because you assume…

simonwillison

Stop Overengineering Your Agent Harness

The following originally appeared on Hugo Bowne-Anderson’s Vanishing Gradients Substack and is being republished here with the author’s permission. The conversation around harness engineering is dominated by problems fr…

oreilly