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🤖 Agent “loops” are emerging as AI’s next big shift
🦾Plus: 📞 SpaceX is Launching a Starlink Mobile Service
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In today's edition: Here is roundup of model-choice agents, durable AI SDKs, and major policy & platform shifts 👇
🧪The Top 10 LLM Evaluation Tools
🔄OpenRouter lets your agents choose AI models
🧰Vercel ships AI SDK 7 with durable agents
🤖How to build a coding agent
💰 Grok Took the "Dirty" Money
💡 AI Tutorial: How to delegate work in Slack with Claude Tag
🤖AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
Claude Code creator Boris Cherny and OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger — among others — both expect agent loops to be the next evolution of working with AI. Loops establish a repetitive workflow: you hand an agent a goal with clear instructions and success benchmarks, then let it execute, iterate, and check its own work. It swaps the back-and-forth conversation for an automated workflow.
Summer's here. Larry handles calls, jobs, and memberships automatically.
Air Design used to spend hours every day manually calling their 600 members to schedule seasonal tune-ups.
They turned on Podium's AI Membership Coordinator. It contacted 471 members, booked 187 jobs, and generated $24,000 in revenue.
Across home services, the story repeats.
Magnolia Plumbing cut invoice-to-payment time to 6 minutes and saved 60 hours of admin work every month.
This is what Podium's AI Operating System does: phones answered, jobs booked, invoices collected — automatically, without adding headcount.
LLM evaluation tools help teams measure how a model performs across various tasks, including reasoning, summarization, retrieval, coding, and instruction-following. They analyze performance trends, detect hallucinations, validate outputs against ground truth, and benchmark improvements during fine-tuning or prompt engineering
The LLM marketplace just rolled out an MCP that lets your AI agent choose the right AI model for the right task. They provide access to 400 models, which prevents your agent from relying on outdated training data. You can set it up in your CLI with just two commands. Once it's connected, your agent can access real-time benchmarks, pricing, and documentation
How do companies like Netflix, Airbnb, and Doordash apply machine learning to improve their products and processes? We put together a database of 200 case studies from 64 companies that share practical ML use cases and learnings from designing ML systems.️
The hosting platform just dropped version 7 of the AI SDK, specifically designed for production-ready agents. Its new WorkflowAgent keeps tasks active through restarts, deployments, and interruptions, so you never start from scratch. Agents can now pause for human approval before risky tool calls and run shell commands inside sandboxes. Plus, you can also swap in harnesses like Claude Code or Codex through one interface.
You'll learn how to build a modular Python coding agent using a three-layer architecture. The tutorial shows you how to swap out LLM providers, manage stateless agent loops with stateful harnesses, and build a terminal user interface that supports real-time event streaming and custom coding tools.
One AI employee. Engineering, finance, growth, ops.
Last week Viktor opened 14 pull requests, closed two month-end books, drafted a board update, deployed three landing pages, and triaged 600 support tickets. From inside Slack and Microsoft Teams. 20,000+ teams now run this way.
👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
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xloil
xlOil provides framework for interacting with Excel in different programming languages (python & C++ currently)
Cakework
Build serverless async backends without cloud resources
Thor.ai captures the blockers, decisions, and commitments that never make it into your tools — straight from Slack threads and meetings
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Apparently CEO Elon Musk is telling SpaceX investors that the company plans to launch a new Starlink mobile service for U.S. consumers. The move would require Starlink to build a new retail offering by selling mobile contracts to individual customers, competing directly with the three big US network operators Verizon Wireless, AT&T. and T-Mobile.
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OpenAI’s latest AI model is here… for partners “whose participation has been shared with the government.” The next generation GPT-5.6 lineup includes Sol, its flagship and most powerful model; Terra, a more balanced model for everyday use; and Luna, a faster, lower-cost option.
We’ll see if tennis skills translate to private equity. General Atlantic has added the legend Novak Djokovic to serve as a global strategic advisor where he “will work closely with the firm’s leadership, portfolio companies, and investors, bringing perspectives on leadership, resilience, and innovation.” The news comes just days before Djokovic plays at Wimbledon for potentially his 25th Grand Slam title.
Two former xAI employees estimate well over half of all Grok traffic now goes to pornographic images, video, and roleplay chats, The Information reports, and even Grok’s coding model fields frequent porn requests. Rather than pull back, xAI is actively expanding its image and video generation, deliberately filling the explicit-content gap OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google all refuse to touch.
Good things come to those who wait, at least that’s what Google thinks. Gemini 3.5 Pro slides to July for sharper agents and long-horizon work, plus a fix for Flash’s token appetite. Rivals keep gaining on code.
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AI Tutorial
How to delegate work in Slack with Claude Tag
Source: Claude
Open Claude Tag, click Add to Slack, and complete the setup
Grant Claude access to selected channels. Open the Slack channel where you want Claude to help
Type @Claude followed by the task and give enough context
Keep working while Claude researches, drafts, summarizes, or completes the task
Review Claude's response, make any edits, and use the output however you need
Example prompt: @Claude Review the last week's product discussion in this channel. Summarize the key decisions, list any open action items, identify blockers, and draft a Slack update I can share with leadership.
Pro tip: Treat Claude like a coworker, not a chatbot. Assign complete tasks with clear outcomes, and include any context or tool access it needs to finish the job.
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