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Ethan Mollick had Claude Fable 5.1 assemble an annotated guide to Eliot's The Waste Land with multiple pathways through the poem, recordings and scholarship, as an example of AI use outside coding.

With the same retriever and agent loop, improving the first retrieval step raised GPT-5.5 from 83.1% to 90.5% on BrowseComp-Plus, with the gain coming mainly from the opening context.

After shutting down, the Eidon team released 13,451 first-person clips of everyday human manipulation for free to the embodied AI community for training.

Deel says its month-end close, which previously took over 10,000 hours a month, is now run autonomously by Akai agents, including cash reconciliation and cross-system transaction matching.

Akai builds a workflow after being shown a process once and keeps learning from the team's exceptions, targeting approval-style office automation across tabs.

Former Adobe and Intercom designer Jakub Antalik open-sourced a dependency-free voice glow animation with 3 styles, multiple states, light and dark themes, and an online demo.

Diogo Almeida says his new model Jev is 20-200x faster and 40-400x cheaper than existing options, does not generate text, and is optimized for decisions.

A free, publicly documented benchmark runs identical real tasks against text-based AI assistants, with Muse and Instinct currently leading and every score linked to its evidence.

Rokid is launching its 38.5g display-free STYLE AI glasses in Japan with ChatGPT and Gemini voice control via "Hi Rokid," a 12MP camera, and free dimming lenses.

Instinct remembered a user was looking for US Open tickets last week and said it will soon coordinate with friends' agents to book them.

A user lists 11 copyable Instinct prompts for tasks like reconciling medical bills, auditing Amazon refunds, claiming flight delay compensation, and cleaning up subscriptions.

A roundup of over 10 slide-generation skills for Codex, sorted by use case such as lecturing, reporting, knowledge cards, and converting images or PDFs back into editable PPTs, with repo links.