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AI Startups Are Clamping Down on Research Publications

The trend of reduced transparency raises questions about innovation and collaboration.

Why it mattersThe move away from open research publication by AI startups signals a shift toward proprietary development, impacting collaboration and innovation. This trend challenges the AI community to find a balance between protecting intellectual property and fostering open scientific exchange.

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Graphify-Labs/graphify

Turn any codebase, with its docs, SQL schemas, configs, and PDFs, into a queryable knowledge graph. A /graphify skill for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Gemini CLI: local determi…

github | stars 98,967

JuliusBrussee/caveman

🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like caveman

github | stars 94,586

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 92,252

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Deep Agents v0.7

Today we're shipping deep agents v0.7. This release simplifies the base harness, resulting in 65% fewer base input tokens at comparable performance.

langchain

Agent Harness: Scaling the claw or harness capabilities

Part 3 of Build your own claw and harness with Microsoft Agent Framework. In Part 2 our personal finance assistant learned to work with your data safely: it reads your portfolio, asks before it trades, and remembers wha…

devblogs.microsoft

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