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In today's edition: Here is roundup of Hermes Agent, Claude visual mockups, Agentic SDLC Platforms. 👇
📊 AI usage patterns in software teams
🎨 Claude Code /design ships visual mockups directly in your CLI
👥 Nous Research introduces bot mode
🔪 Rare Books Are Sliced Apart to Feed Amazon's AI
💡 AI Tutorial:How to automate multiple tasks at once with Grok bot
🤖AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
SpaceXAI’s coding platform Cursor just launched Origin, an early beta that hosts code repos and pull requests with agents built in, moving the company onto GitHub's turf the same day it suffered a massive outage for a large chunk of the day. The platform pairs each hosted repository with Cursor’s agent and review tool, keeping code browsing, follow-up edits, and human approval in one product.
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Agentic SDLC platforms are judged on what happens around the code, not just inside it. Five criteria shaped this ranking: Ask most AI development tools to do something, and they wait for a prompt. That works for a developer sitting at a keyboard. It does nothing for the bug filed at 2 am, the security finding that sat untriaged for a week, or the pull request comment nobody followed up on.
Tens of thousands of teams build software inside Linear every day. The company is unusually well placed to see the entire workflow behind building a product. This post provides a picture of AI adoption within Linear's customer base. It looks at who is using AI, how it reshapes where teams spend their time across Linear, and whether it has changed how much they ship.
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Claude Code just got a /design skill, and it changes how you build UIs from scratch. Now you run /design inside Claude Code, and it generates multiple editable artboards, think of them like visual mockup options side by side. You pick the one you like, adjust it, then tell Claude to actually build it into real code. Design and code in one place, no switching tools.
Nous Research just shipped Bot Mode for Hermes Desktop, and it flips how you think about AI agents on your machine. Before this, you had one agent doing everything. Now you build a roster of named, specialized bots, each living in its own lane. It is open source, free, and runs entirely on your machine. To try it, download Hermes Desktop. Bot Mode is now bundled and on by default under Settings → Plugins.
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Aimfox Avatars allows you to rent dedicated LinkedIn profiles that start conversations and hand interested replies to your existing sellers. Expand outbound capacity without adding another SDR seat.
👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
DriftDB
A real-time data backend for browser-based applications.
Jampack
Optimizes static websites for best user experience and best Core Web Vitals scores.
Promptable is a library that enables users to build AI applications using LLMs, Embeddings providers, databases, and APIs. It offers a flexible and extensible API that makes it easy to compose LLMs with data and tools to quickly and easily create complex applications.
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Grants went to 14 groups across five countries, and the ideas are bigger than the check. One hands citizens a Right to AI, another pays livelihood insurance when a whole occupation disappears.
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Every sales leader knows the feeling. You walk into a pipeline review with a number you believe in, and twenty minutes later, you're defending every line item to a CEO who just wants to know what's actually going to close.
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Anthropic is heading for a stock listing on a run rate that grew sevenfold this year.Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate reached $65 billion at the end of July, up from $9 billion in December. OpenAI's comparable figure doubled to $40 billion over the same stretch, while Anthropic's multiplied more than seven times.
ByteDance agreed to a formal framework with Hollywood’s Motion Picture Association (MPA) that will implement film and TV copyright protections into its Seedance and Seedream models, months after it received a cease-and-desist notice. A viral Seedance 2.0 clip of Tom Cruise fighting sparked the initial legal feud, which marked the MPA’s first cease-and-desist against a major AI company.
Amazon's LAS8 warehouse in Las Vegas prints and ships books to order, and the tracked volume stopped at a door painted with a T. rex holding an open book. A federal judge ruled in June 2025 that buying print books and cutting them apart to scan them is fair use, since the digital copy replaces an original that no longer exists. Amazon says it buys books through commercial channels to help develop and improve its products and services.
Nvidia is charging up. The chipmaker is investing $1.5 billion in SB Energy, a data center linked to SoftBank and OpenAI, ensuring it will be the sole supplier of compute infrastructure at OpenAI’s Ports-Pike data center near Cincinnati, OH. Nvidia will also provide up to $105 billion in credit to help build the facility.
AI Tutorial
How to automate multiple tasks at once with Grok bot
Source: Grok Bot
Go to Grok Bot, download the desktop app, and sign in
Click the “+” icon in the top-left corner > Create new Bot
Describe what you want the Bot to do in plain language. Grok will use your instructions to set up the Bot for that specific workflow
Once it’s ready, name your Bot so it’s easy to identify from the sidebar
Create additional Bots for different roles or workflows.
You can run several Bots at once and use @mentions to have them collaborate on the same task
Sample Prompt: @InboxManager review my latest emails and pull out anything that needs a response, decision, or follow-up.
@Calendar review today’s meetings and flag anything I should prepare for, including relevant context and action items.
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Undress AI Tool is a website that offers a deepnude application, allowing users to create modified images
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