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8 Grok Bot templates officially shared by SpaceXAI: turn workflows into reusable assistants
Eight everyday assistants show how skills, memory, and tool connections combine into repeatable workflows—and what recipients still need to configure.
09-05 · 12 min read
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Business & AI
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xAI shares how it built Haggle Bot, a procurement bot that has identified over $100,000 in direct savings
From responsibilities and data access to decision criteria, permissions, and memory: how xAI gives a bot an ongoing role in procurement.
09-05 · 8 min read
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An OpenAI employee explains how to get more from GPT 6 Astra: rethink how people and AI share the work
From LEGO bridges and image editors to a 3D bar, Dominik Kundel's five lessons show how letting GPT 6 Astra fill in the details works best when you set the direction, hand over the tools, and define what "done" looks like.
09-05 · 9 min read
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Microsoft releases MAI-Image-2.6: quality rivals GPT-Image-2, Flash is over twice as fast
Handles multiple reference images, web-assisted generation, precision edits, and variable aspect ratios; the flagship prioritizes quality while Flash cuts wait times and costs for batch work.
09-05 · 8 min read
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Deep dive
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Why enterprise AI stalls at the demo: Prove one workflow before scaling
Pick a workflow tied to a customer pain point, define permissions, accountability, baselines, and evaluation before building, and use real data for evidence before expanding. What a pilot leaves behind—context, metrics, and operating know-how—makes the next workflow easier to start.
▶ Play09-05 · 16 min read
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Google Workspace puts voice to work: Gmail finds answers, Docs drafts, Keep organizes
One real-time voice interaction, three Workspace apps, three escalating tasks: retrieving facts, shaping thoughts, and structuring documents.
09-05 · 7 min read
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Deep Dive
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How the Grok Bot team designed a bot that keeps working across sessions
From chat history to bot rosters, avatar states to standalone computers and proactive triggers: the SpaceXAI team walks through how they turned a single bot into something that stays on task across sessions.
▶ Play09-04 · 12 min read
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Tools & tutorials
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One pickle soda photo, a whole brand: how to build an AI brand system from a single reference
Amir Mušić's Juicee case study demonstrates a more reliable method for AI-assisted branding: extract the rules from the reference image, lock down a brand anchor, and assign control over each piece of source material.
09-04 · 14 min read
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MIT Team Open-Sources Reef: Turning Inference Servers into Continuous Learners for AI Agents
Live traffic becomes attributed experience. Recipes generate model or harness candidates, and a review-and-versioning pipeline decides which changes make it back into production.
▶ Play09-03 · 12 min read
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AI tools
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26 Grok bot templates worth stealing: the real trick is how they define the job
From writing code and designing to watching webpages, editing video, and finding cancer drug assistance, this list shows the same thing: a good bot spells out its task, inputs, tools, deliverables, stopping conditions, and human handoff points.
09-03 · 22 min read
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Gemini 3.8 Flash launches as the 'workhorse' model for software engineering, autonomous agents, and deep reasoning
Google has shipped three generations of Flash in six weeks. On September 2, the new Gemini 3.8 Flash model arrives with the same low cost and high speed as its predecessor, 3.7 Flash, but delivers major gains in long-horizon coding, complex reasoning, and cybersecurity offense and defense.
09-03 · 9 min read
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Cursor launches self-hosted machines: run tasks on your infrastructure, keep reasoning in the cloud
Cloud Agents can now execute tasks on a company's own hardware, while Cursor's cloud continues to handle the agent loop, reasoning, and planning.
09-03 · 10 min read
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Tool tutorial
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Claude Fable 5.1 prompt guide: 16 tips and an agent runtime migration checklist
From launch context to all 16 official recommendations, this explains effort, tool loops, message history, long-task delivery, and vision handling, with ready-to-adapt bilingual prompt templates.
09-02 · 25 min read
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AI Research
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Google DeepMind gives Gemini agentic video understanding: it now decides how to watch
Gemini replaces fixed frame sampling with a goal-driven observation loop: it hunts for clues, then picks subtitles, audio, or key frames, and rewatches at higher FPS when needed.
09-02 · 15 min read
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Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1: longer autonomous runs, 75% cheaper cache reads
Performance, cache pricing, safety guardrails, and enterprise data controls all land in one release. To understand these two models, you first need to see how they're delivered.
09-02 · 17 min read
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Deep Dive
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How a former Apple design and engineering leader gets AI to produce world-class design
Anshu Chimala turned the exploration, critique, and pruning methods he developed while leading software engineering and design teams at Apple into a practical guide that AI agents can execute.
09-02 · 18 min read
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Product launch
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World Labs releases Atlas, an all-purpose world model for spatial intelligence that accurately simulates position, orientation, and motion in 3D space
World Labs folds text, images, camera poses, and depth into a single 3D context. The result: video generation along specified camera paths, plus point clouds, Gaussian Splatting, and robot sensor views.
▶ Play09-02 · 12 min read
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Deep dive
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Turning learning into a feedback loop: how seven principles connect into one method
Start with a real task so the gaps become visible. Then use feedback to correct, retrieval to verify, and connections to build reusable knowledge.
▶ Play09-02 · 10 min read
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