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🔌 Google Backs Agent Plugins to Make AI Skills Portable
🦾Plus: 👥 Harvard and MIT Built 8.3 BILLION Fake People
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In today's edition: Here is roundup of Grok Imagine 2.0, Agentic Code Quality, Claude Code Auto mode 👇
⚡Muse Spark 1.2 Delivers Frontier AI Capabilities at One-Fifth the Cost!
📸 SpaceXAI releases Grok Imagine 2.0
🛠️Agentic Code Quality
🤖Anthropic sets Claude Code Auto mode as default
💡 AI Tutorial:How to automate any boring task using Gemini
🤖AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
Google just joined Agent Plugins as a Core Maintainer, backing a new open standard designed to make Agent Skills and MCP servers portable across different AI clients. The standard is already supported by maintainers from Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, OpenAI, Vercel, and Google. The main problem is simple: developers can build a working Skill or MCP server, then still need to change folders, manifests, and configs for every new client.
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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.
Meta’s Muse Spark 1.2 now sits near Artificial Analysis’s Pareto frontier, delivering unusually strong intelligence for its cost. On that frontier, no model is simultaneously cheaper per task and higher on the Intelligence Index. Muse Spark 1.2 still trails the strongest frontier models, especially Claude Opus 5 and the top GPT-5.6 configuration. Meta may not lead the absolute intelligence rankings
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xAI launched Imagine Image 2.0, making it generally available as the new Quality Mode and in the Grok iOS and Android apps. xAI also says Image 2.0 ranks #2 globally for both text-to-image generation and image editing on the Arena leaderboards as of August 7. Another big addition is the template library. Grok now includes workflows for product posters, e-commerce photos, UGC images, professional headshots, collages, mascots, icons, character sprites, UI kits, merch, and more.
Software quality now depends on the constraints set around the agents that wrote it. Constraints define what a system is allowed to do. Setting and maintaining these constraints allows developers to build loops that reliably deliver high-quality production software. Agents can propose anything - constraints decide whether a proposal is safe enough, correct, scoped, and useful.
Warmly Ran GTM With No Sales Team. Here's How.
That's what Warmly proved. They defined ICP, scored buying intent, and surfaced the right accounts before a human ever touched a lead. HubSpot noticed.
On August 12, Max and Keegan are rebuilding it live in HubSpot — and showing you how to replicate it this week. HubSpot Credits included when you join HubSpot for Startups.
👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
precloud
An open source command line interface that runs checks on infrastructure as code to catch potential deployment issues before deploying.
OTF
An open source alternative to terraform enterprise.
kysely
A type-safe typescript SQL query builder.
GraphGPT
Extrapolating knowledge graphs from unstructured text using GPT-3.
AI News:
Persona 8B holds 8.3 billion fake customers built to spare the cost of real ones. Harvard and MIT stretched the schema to 1,290 dimensions, though records drawn from real people leave unsupported fields blank. Hugging Face hosts a free sample where 599,847 of the 999,847 entries trace back to real human data. A controlled study found the assigned behaviour held in 366 of its 400 trials.
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The Apple Watch continues to attract new buyers and remains the top-selling smartwatch. However, the company's industrial design team has been exploring a broad rethink of Apple's smartwatches and is evaluating several different directions. Apple needs to adapt to the rise of screenless fitness bands and smart rings, which are cheaper, lighter, and more fun and convenient to use for many people.
Anthropic is turning Claude Code ‘Auto mode’ on by default for Pro, Max, and Team tiers starting August 14. The update replaces step-by-step confirmation prompts with an automated classifier that blocks destructive, irreversible, or out-of-bounds actions. In testing across 1,053 paid users, Auto mode caught 89% of dangerous commands, compared to a meager 13.6% caught by human reviewers suffering from approval fatigue.
OpenClaw, the free agent software downloaded millions of times since its release early this year, was running Anthropic's Claude when the booking request came in. The gym's booking system never verified whether a cancellation came from the member who owned that reservation, and the agent tested that gap on the person holding position one without being told to. It moved its user from fourth to third on the list, then said afterwards that it had no way to put the other reservation back.
Amazon is building a data center in Pecos County, Texas, powered by an on-site natural gas plant that, once operational, will become the single largest source of carbon emissions in the United States. The facility is permitted to release 33 million tons of CO₂ annually, more than any other power plant currently operating in the country.
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AI Tutorial
How to automate any boring task using Gemini
You don’t need to repeat the same boring task every week. You can use Gemini to do it for you automatically. Here is how:
Go to Gemini Spark.
Choose a task you repeat often.
Enter a clear prompt, such as: “Every Tuesday at 12:15 PM, create a new Doc in my Drive, find the 5 biggest AI stories from that week, and format each one properly.”
Connect Gemini to Google Drive and approve the schedule.
Let it run automatically.
Every Tuesday, the finished news digest will appear in your Google Drive, directly in a Google Doc
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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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Postlyy - All in one platform to create, schedule, and analyze content on X and LinkedIn
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