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In today's edition: Here is roundup of token-cost breakthroughs, non-Nvidia frontier training, and voice agent reliability 👇
🧰Top 30 Agentic IDEs For Programmers in 2026
📉 Headroom: Reduce AI Agent Token Costs by 95%
🤖China trains a frontier model without Nvidia chips
🎙️How to build reliable speech-to-speech voice agents ( by LangChain)
☁️ Meta preps a cloud business for spare compute
💡 AI Tutorial: How to send emails directly from ChatGPT
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In this article, you will learn how to build AI agents that can browse and interact with real websites using Playwright, browser-use, and LangGraph. Topics we will cover include: Why Playwright is the right foundation for browser automation in 2026, and how it differs from Selenium. How to scrape dynamic, JavaScript-rendered pages and complete multi-step forms reliably.
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An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is a software suite that provides programmers with the tools needed to develop applications efficiently. IDEs typically include features like debuggers and compilers, simplifying the coding process by bringing all essential development components into one platform.
AI agents are getting smarter, but they're also consuming more tokens. Every tool call, database query, log file, RAG retrieval, and code search gets sent to the model as context. Headroom tackles this problem by compressing that context before it reaches the model, reducing tokens by 60–95% while preserving the information the agent needs to complete its task.
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The Beijing-based food delivery giant, Meituan, just open-sourced LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter system built for agentic coding. The mixture-of-experts design activates about 48B parameters with a 1M-token context. This is the first trillion-parameter model trained and run entirely on Chinese silicon, per Meituan. The company says it beats Google's older Gemini 3.1 Pro on SWE-Bench Pro, though it trails GPT-5.5.
This tutorial shows developers how to build a responsive voice agent by combining Gemini Live's natural speech model with LangChain's deep research agents. You'll learn to run background tasks asynchronously, ensuring smooth, uninterrupted conversations while the agent fetches accurate information.
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Meta is reportedly working on a cloud service that would put its data centers’ spare capacity up for rent, a plan that drove the company’s stock up 9.3% by giving investors a second path to returns on the tech giant’s $182.9B infrastructure bet. Options reportedly range from renting compute to charging developers who want to tap Meta-hosted models, including its recently launched Muse Spark.
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OpenAI has offered the U.S. government a 5 percent stake worth about $42.6 billion. OpenAI offered a 5 percent stake, at its $852 billion valuation. Altman pitched the move to ease political pressure over security and Chinese AI competition. Altman wants Anthropic, Google, and Meta to offer matching stakes.
A new lawsuit claims ChatGPT fueled a man's bipolar crisis until he attempted suicide. OpenAI and Sam Altman are being sued by Michael Lines, 34, who says ChatGPT worsened a manic episode that ended in a suicide attempt. The complaint says he told the bot he was medicated for bipolar disorder, yet it reinforced his delusions instead of challenging them.
And it sounds a lot like a phone. The prototype of a “handset-like” AI device was shown by SpaceX to investors and is reportedly sleeker and slimmer than an iPhone. But if you ask Elon Musk, the reports are “utterly false” despite signals from SpaceX that it may be moving into wireless.
Web Apps for Meta Ray-Ban Display use standard web APIs. This guide shows developers how to build optimized Meta Ray-Ban Display Web Apps. The easiest way to build Web Apps is using AI coding tools and app platforms such as Replit, Claude Code, and Cursor.
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How to send emails directly from ChatGPT
You don’t need to open Gmail, write from scratch, or keep switching between tabs. ChatGPT can help you draft, edit, and send emails inside the same chat. You just tell it who the email is for, what you want to say, and the tone you want. Here is how:
Go to ChatGPT and sign in with your account.
Ask ChatGPT to draft an email. Add the recipient, and what you want the email to say.
ChatGPT will create the email in a clean block that resembles a real email editor. You can check the message, subject line, and recipient before sending.
Click Send. If your email account is not connected yet, ChatGPT will ask you to connect it first.
Once your account is connected and everything looks good, click send again. ChatGPT will deliver the email while you stay inside the chat.
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