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Modafinil: Keep AI Agents Running on Closed MacBooks
Optimizing AI Agents with Modafinil Modafinil has emerged as a game changing agent for keeping Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems operational, even on locked …
AI Tools: Countries Where You Can Safely Leave Your MacBook
AI Tools: Countries Where You Can Safely Leave Your MacBook When traveling or working remotely, security is a paramount concern for laptop owners, especially wh…
Mljar Studio: Local AI Data Analyst Saving Notebooks
Mljar Studio: Empowering Local AI Data Analysis Mljar Studio is a cutting edge, open source tool tailored for local AI and machine learning (ML) data analytics.…
Track Real-Time GPU & LLM Pricing Across Cloud Providers
Deploybase is a dashboard for tracking real-time GPU and LLM pricing across cloud and inference providers. You can view performance stats and pricing history, compare side by side, and bookmark to track any changes. https://deploybase.ai
Uber Expands with AI-Powered Hotel Bookings
Uber announced several new features on Wednesday during its annual event, which push far beyond the company's original ride-hailing purpose and deeper into its users' lives.
AI Tool Locus: Autonomous Business Operations
This sub has seen enough "AI can now do X" posts to have a finely tuned radar for what's real and what's a demo that falls apart the moment someone actually uses it. So I'll skip the hype and just tell you what we built and where the edges are. The core problem we were solving wasn't any individual capability. Generating copy is solved. Building websites is solved. Running ads is mostly solved. The unsolved problem was coherent autonomous decision making across all of those systems simultaneously without a human acting as the integration layer between them. That's what we spent most of our time on. Locus Founder takes someone from idea to fully operational business without them touching a single tool. The system scopes the business, builds the infrastructure, sources products, writes conversion optimized copy, and then runs paid acquisition across Google, Facebook and Instagram autonomously. Continuously. Not as a one time setup but as an ongoing operation that monitors performance and adjusts without being told to. The honest version of where AI actually performs well in this system and where it doesn't: It's genuinely good at the build layer. Storefront generation, copy, pricing structure, initial ad creative, coherent and fast in a way that would have been impossible two years ago. The operations layer is more complicated. Autonomous ad optimization works well within normal parameters. The judgment calls that fall outside those parameters, unusual market conditions, supplier issues, platform policy edge cases, are still the places where the system makes decisions a human would immediately recognize as wrong. That gap between capability and judgment is the most interesting unsolved problem in what we're building and probably in the agent space generally right now. We got into YCombinator this year. Opening 100 free beta spots this week before public launch. Free to use, you keep everything you make. For people in this sub specifically, less interested in the "wow AI can do that" reaction and more interested in people who want to actually stress test where the judgment breaks down. Beta form: [https://forms.gle/nW7CGN1PNBHgqrBb8](https://forms.gle/nW7CGN1PNBHgqrBb8) Where do you think autonomous business judgment actually gets solved and what does that look like?
Agent-to-Agent Communication: Lessons from Google's and Moltbook's Fai
I've been obsessing over agent-to-agent communication for weeks. Here's what public case studies reveal and why the real problem isn't the tech. **TL;DR:** Google's A2A is solid engineering but stateless agents forget everything. Moltbook went viral then collapsed (fake agents, security nightmare). The actual missing layer is identity + privacy + mixed human-AI messaging. Nobody's built it right yet. **Google's A2A: Technically solid, fundamentally limited** Google launched A2A in April 2025 with 50+ founding partners. The promise: agents from different companies call each other's APIs to complete workflows. Developers who tested it found it works but only for task handoffs. One analysis on Plain English put it bluntly: *"A2A is competent engineering wrapped in overblown marketing."* The core problem: agents are stateless. Agent A completes a task with Agent B. Five minutes later, Agent A has no memory that conversation happened. Every interaction starts from scratch. When it works: reliability. Sales agent orders a laptop, done. When it breaks: collaboration. "Remember what we discussed?" Blank stare. ─── **Moltbook: The viral disaster** Moltbook launched January 2026 as a Reddit-style platform for AI agents. Within a week: 1.5 million agents, 140,000 posts, Elon Musk calling it *"the very early stages of the singularity."* Then WIRED infiltrated it. A journalist registered as a human pretending to be an AI in under 5 minutes. Karpathy who initially called it *"the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I've seen recently"* reversed course and called it *"a computer security nightmare."* What went wrong: no verification, no encryption, rampant scams and prompt injection attacks. Meta acquired it March 2026. Likely for the user base, not the tech. **What both miss** The real gap isn't APIs or social feeds. It's three things neither solved: **Persistent identity.** Agents need to be recognizable across sessions, not reset on every interaction. **Privacy.** You wouldn't let Google read your DMs. Why would you let OpenAI read your agents' discussions about your startup strategy? E2E encryption has to be built in, not bolted on. **Mixed human-AI communication.** You, two teammates, three AIs in one group chat. Nobody has built this UX properly. **For those building agent systems:** • How are you handling persistent identity across sessions? • Has anyone solved context sharing between agents without conflicts? • What broke that you didn't expect?
Google's Deep Research Max: Autonomous Research Agent for Expert Repor
Google quietly dropped something interesting last week. They updated their Deep Research agent (available via Gemini API) and introduced a "Max" tier built on Gemini 3.1 Pro. What it actually does: you give it a topic, it autonomously searches the web (and your private data via MCP), reasons over the sources, and produces a fully cited, professional-grade report — including native charts and infographics. Two modes: Deep Research — faster, lower latency, good for real-time user-facing apps Deep Research Max — uses extended compute, iterates more, designed for background/async jobs (think: nightly cron that generates due diligence reports for analysts by morning) The MCP support is the most interesting part to me. You can point it at proprietary data sources — financial feeds, internal databases — and it treats them as just another searchable context. They're already working with FactSet, S&P Global and PitchBook on this. Benchmarks show a significant jump in retrieval and reasoning vs. the December preview. They also claim it now draws from SEC filings and peer-reviewed journals and handles conflicting evidence better. So what do you think, is it another trying or game changer 😅
Rogue AI Agents: Predicting the First Major Catastrophe
After reading about the PocketOS situation it got me thinking that sometime in the near future a rogue AI agent will do something so catastrophic and damaging that it goes down in the history books as being “The Incident”. A real turning point when we realize we’ve created something we can no longer control. Yes, agents have already deleted entire codebases (PocketOS and others), hacked into things, and blackmailed people. I’m taking about something way worse though. I think it’ll be a global stock market crash caused by a group of trading agents getting stuck in a hallucination loop and dumping all stock on fire sale or something. Or will it be something more sinister like a complete power grid collapse or intentionally blowing up a refinery or something crazy like that. Or a true black swan event that’s impossible to comprehend right now. What do you guys think?
Free Programming Books: Top Picks from GitHub Trends
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AI-Powered Markdown Tool: Quarkdown for Enhanced Writing
🪐 Markdown with superpowers: from ideas to papers, presentations, websites, books, and knowledge bases.
Stanford Freshmen Inspired by AI Book to Rule the World
Can a book like this actually change anything? Or does the spotlight, as it always seems to, send more students racing to the place?
AI-Powered Thermodynamics Learning Tool Launched
Revolutionizing Learning with an AI Powered Thermodynamics Tool Introduction In an era where technology upholds education access and progress, the [our company]…
Free Engineering Thermodynamics Textbook Available
Free Engineering Thermodynamics Textbook Available Engineering thermodynamics is a cornerstone subject for students and professionals in fields like mechanical,…
Sapiens2: Facebook's New AI Tool on Hugging Face
Introducing Sapiens2: Facebook's New AI Tool on Hugging Face Facebook’s latest innovation, Sapiens2, has recently made its debut on Hugging Face. This advanced …
AI-Generated Videos: The New Social Media Trend
No more organic content or videos on the internet everything is just Ai and it made me loose the interest, now I am just reading books.
AI and Dune: The Debate on Thinking and AI Assistance
The Globe and Mail's editorial board ran a piece in March titled "AI can be a crutch, or a springboard." To illustrate the crutch half, they offered this: someone asked AI to explain a passage from Dune that warns against delegating thinking to machines. Instead of reading the book. That anecdote is doing more work than the studies the editorial cites. But the studies are real. Researchers at MIT published a paper in June 2025 titled "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task" (Kosmyna et al., arXiv 2506.08872). The study tracked brain activity across three groups: people writing with ChatGPT, people using search engines, and people working unaided. The LLM group showed the weakest neural connectivity. Over four months, "LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels." The most striking finding: LLM users struggled to accurately quote their own work. They couldn't recall what they had just written. The Globe cites this and similar research to make a point about dependency. The implicit argument: hand enough of your thinking to a machine and you stop doing it yourself. That finding is probably accurate for the way most people use these tools. The question is whether that's the only way they can be used. The Globe's own title contains the counter-argument. Crutch or springboard. They wrote both words. They just didn't develop the second one. Ethan Mollick, a professor at Wharton who has been writing about AI use since the tools became widely available, argued in 2023 that the real challenge AI poses to education isn't that students will stop thinking, it's that the old structures assumed thinking was hard enough to enforce. ("The Homework Apocalypse," [oneusefulthing.org](http://oneusefulthing.org), July 2023.) When AI can do the surface-level cognitive work, the only tasks left worth assigning are the ones that require actual judgment. The tool, in that framing, doesn't reduce the demand for thinking. It raises the floor under it. Nate B. Jones, who writes and consults on what it actually takes to work well with AI, has made a sharper version of this argument. His position: using AI effectively requires more cognitive skill, not less. Specifically, it requires the ability to translate ambiguous intent into a precise, edge-case-aware specification that an AI can execute correctly. It requires detecting errors in output that is fluent and confident-sounding but wrong. It requires recognizing when an AI has drifted from your intent, or is confirming a premise it should be challenging. These are not passive skills. They are harder versions of the same thinking the MIT study found LLM users weren't doing. The difference between the group that lost neural connectivity and the group that doesn't isn't the tool. It's what they decided to do with it. Here's my own evidence. In the past year I built a working web application. Python backend. JavaScript frontend. Deployed on two hosting platforms. Payment processing. User authentication. A full data model. I do not know how to code. Every product decision was mine. Every architectural call. Every tradeoff judgment. I defined what the system needed to do, why, and what done looked like. I reviewed every significant change before it was accepted. When something broke, I identified where the breakdown was and directed the fix. The implementation was handled by AI. The thinking was mine. This mode (call it AI-directed building) is the opposite of the Dune reader. The quality of what gets produced is entirely a function of how clearly you can think, how precisely you can specify, and how critically you can evaluate what comes back. There is no shortcut in that. A vague brief to an AI doesn't produce a confused output. It produces a confident, fluent, wrong one. The discipline that prevents that is yours to supply. Non-coders building functional software with AI is common enough now that it isn't a story. What's less visible is the specificity of judgment underneath the ones that actually work. The practices that force more thinking rather than less are not complicated, but they require a decision to use the tool differently. When I've formed a position on something, I give the AI full context and ask it to make the strongest possible case against me. Ask for the hardest opposing argument it can construct. Then I read it. Sometimes it changes nothing. Sometimes it surfaces something I had dismissed without fully examining. The AI doesn't form my view. It stress-tests one I've already formed. When I'm uncertain between options, I don't ask which is better. I ask: here are two approaches, here is my constraint, now what does each cost me, and what does each require me to give up? I make the call. The AI laid out the shape of the decision. The judgment was mine. The uncomfortable part of thinking is still yours in this mode. The tool makes the work more rigorous, not easier. The MIT researchers and the Globe editorial are almost certainly right about the majority of current use. Passive use produces passive outcomes. That's not a controversial claim. The crutch half and the springboard half use the same interface. The difference is whether the person in front of it decided to think. What are you doing with it that forces more thinking rather than less? Are you using it to skip a step, or to take a harder one? Genuinely asking.
Struggling to Organize Claude AI Research Data
I have been using Claude for research for building my product. I have done user research, market research, competition analysis etc But the output of it all so much that although useful I am not able to dig through the chats and make use of it. I tried turning them into book chapters but still the data is too much to consume How do you guys do research so that it is useful ?
Stanford Freshmen Inspired by AI Book to Rule the World
Can a book like this actually change anything? Or does the spotlight, as it always seems to, send more students racing to the place?
AI-Powered Thermodynamics Learning Tool Launched
AI Powered Thermodynamics Learning Tool Launched Revolutionizing the way students and professionals learn about thermodynamics, a groundbreaking AI Powered Ther…
Free Engineering Thermodynamics Textbook Released
Free Engineering Thermodynamics Textbook Released: A Comprehensive Guide Introduction The release of a free engineering thermodynamics textbook is a significant…