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Cloudflare open sources its internal AI work platform, Cloudflare OS
After three months of company-wide internal use, Cloudflare has open sourced the entire platform — and the most valuable part is the security design, which lets agents keep moving without waiting for approvals.
08-05 · 12 min read
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After the Fields Medal, 20 Mathematicians on What Comes Next
At this year's International Congress of Mathematicians, we asked more than 20 mathematicians how they see the field now—most aren't panicking, but even the calm ones say math won't go back to the way it was.
▶ Play08-05 · 14 min read
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Cloudflare's Unified Coding Rules: How Codex Caught 16,000 Problematic Merges in Four Months
By rewriting standards into a machine-readable format and letting agents enforce them, Cloudflare moved from gentle nudges to hard blocks on unsafe code merges.
▶ Play08-05 · 12 min read
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How Stripe built an internal AI assistant in a week—and why nearly everyone uses it
An engineer at Stripe created an internal AI agent in just one week, and it's now used by nearly everyone at the company—but scaling it past 150 skills starts to make the model dumber.
▶ Play08-05 · 14 min read
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ByteDance launches SeedRealtime, a visual voice model that lets you chat face-to-face with Doubao
SeedRealtime handles full-duplex audio and video simultaneously, so Doubao can see what you see while you talk—now live and free in the Doubao app.
08-05 · 9 min read
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№ 1121
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Black Forest Labs releases FLUX 3 Video with Seedance-2.0-class quality, synchronized audio, and multilingual support
FLUX 3 Video generates up to 20-second, 24fps native HD clips with synchronized audio in over a dozen languages, and a unified API supports three access modes—but video continuation costs 2.5x more and runs 5 seconds shorter, and the benchmark scores are self-reported by BFL.
08-05 · 10 min read
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Deep Dive
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Higgsfield open-sources all prompts and production methods behind its 95-minute AI feature film Hell Grind
We went through more than 40,000 generation records line by line to reverse-engineer the entire pipeline: a shared 12-line technical foundation for every shot, a three-view asset sheet, a focal length reference table, and a set of prohibitions born from model failures. All of it is ready to copy.
08-05 · 12 min read
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Deep Dive
🎧№ 1119
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Treating AI like a colleague actually works. A Google veteran tested it for seven weeks.
After losing his temper at his AI coworker, Steve Yegge turned 'how to treat an agent' into a copyable architectural spec.
▶ Play08-05 · 11 min read
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🎧№ 1118
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Cloudflare launches Wallets: a way to fund your AI agent so it can buy APIs itself
Set per-transaction limits, allowlists, and guardrails for your agent's spending, with each wallet carrying a human-readable identity—usernames are up for grabs today.
▶ Play08-05 · 7 min read
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Google adds Agent Skills support to Genkit, letting AI mount skill packs on demand
Google has integrated Agent Skills, an open standard originally proposed by Anthropic, across all four language versions of its Genkit framework, with two working Go examples and a one-line parameter setup.
▶ Play08-04 · 8 min read
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Deep Dive
№ 1116
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OpenAI's postmortem: How we built the GPT-Live real-time voice system in six months
A fast model alone isn't enough to make AI speak without stuttering—every link in the chain, from the moment you hit the button, has to hold.
08-04 · 13 min read
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🎧№ 1115
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Cloudflare's @cloudflare/computer gives every AI agent a virtual machine
The agent's reasoning stays in a lightweight environment while a containerized sandbox handles the actual work—and Cloudflare's own benchmarks show it can delete files and traverse directories faster than a real disk, though copying large files runs 41 times slower.
▶ Play08-04 · 10 min read
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MiniMax releases and open-sources H3, a single model that understands text, images, video, and audio to generate 2K video with sound
The first video-generation foundation model to combine full multimodality, open weights, and native 2K output — but the open-source coverage varies across its three pipeline stages, and that's worth a closer look.
08-03 · 9 min read
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№ 1112
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Alibaba open-sources Qwen3.8-Max, its most powerful model yet
With 2.4 trillion parameters and the ability to run autonomously for 16 days, the family flagship handles real projects end-to-end—from writing a full codebase to beating a research paper's results and slashing chip-circuit logic gates by 92%.
08-03 · 12 min read
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Seedance 2.5 official user guide: a hands-on manual for cinematic AI video, with copy-ready formulas and examples
The official manual spells out every step from first use to final render, covering parameter ranges, four new entry points, and prompt formulas for seven scenario types.
08-03 · 28 min read
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№ 1110
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ByteDance’s official Seedance 2.5 prompt guide offers copy-ready templates for videos up to 30 seconds
ByteDance’s templates show how to assign roles across 50 reference assets, structure a 30-second video, and revise a single element without changing the rest.
08-02 · 14 min read
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Research
№ 1109
RESEARCH
OpenAI says an unreleased model has cracked 10 long-standing math problems
The model, reportedly called Astra, produced 470,000 lines of open-source proofs for about $2,000 in inference costs; the logic has been machine-checked, but the results have not necessarily been peer-reviewed or independently verified.
08-02 · 30 min read
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Deep Dive
🎧№ 1108
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A Silicon Valley product manager worked in dental offices for months—and landed a $35 million a16z-led round
The founder personally installed the product for the first 100 customers, whose biggest payoff was recovering revenue that had been slipping through the cracks.
▶ Play08-01 · 12 min read
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