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In today's edition: Here is roundup of Agentic Testing, OpenAI's Astra, Google Pics 👇
🤖How to Build a Reliable Agent Harness
🧠Qwen upgrades its 2.4T parameter model with 1M token context
🔄OpenAI Astra and Looped Transformers
🔓 Anthropic Open Sources Its Commerce Agents
💡 AI Tutorial:How to do professional product photography with ChatGPT
🤖AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
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Meta and Google both just shipped new models, with Mark Zuckerberg pitching Meta’s Muse Spark 1.3 as “frontier performance almost too cheap to meter,” and Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash showing a stronger bounce-back from its 2026 struggles. Spark 1.3 (Max) comes in at a 62 on AA’s Intelligence Index, now trailing only Claude Fable 5.1 and Opus 5 despite being significantly cheaper to use.
This post lays out a detailed architecture for agent harnesses, covering state management, runtimes, control planes, inference, tools, interfaces, and language choices. The central argument is that unavoidable complexity should be absorbed by core abstractions rather than repeatedly pushed onto extensions and users.
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Alibaba just pushed an update to Qwen3.8-Max, and the new version is called Qwen3.8-Max-0902. Same giant model underneath, but with extra post-training focused on coding and collaborative work tasks. Quick recap of what this thing actually is: a 2.4-trillion-parameter model with 95B active parameters and a 1M-token context window. That context window means you can feed it an entire large codebase in one shot.
OpenAI's model is a looped transformer, which means it reuses layers in the transformer block to increase capacity without adding parameters. This can significantly increase the size of the model without increasing the amount of storage and RAM needed to host it. However, it also increases the costs of running the model as embedded text has to run through more layers. The looped transformer aspect is just a small architectural tweak and is not the reason why Astra is a really good model.
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AI News:
X would very much like you to open an X Money account, and it is no longer asking. Starting Wednesday, all U.S. payouts from Elon Musk's platform, both Original Content Rewards and subscriptions, run through X Money instead of Stripe. The upside is instant access, with no two-week cycle and no $30 minimum. The downside is there is reportedly no opt-out. Creators outside the U.S. stay on Stripe.
How Jennifer Aniston’s LolaVie brand grew sales 40% with CTV ads
For its first CTV campaign, Jennifer Aniston’s DTC haircare brand LolaVie had a few non-negotiables. The campaign had to be simple. It had to demonstrate measurable impact. And it had to be full-funnel.
LolaVie used Roku Ads Manager to test and optimize creatives — reaching millions of potential customers at all stages of their purchase journeys. Roku Ads Manager helped the brand convey LolaVie’s playful voice while helping drive omnichannel sales across both ecommerce and retail touchpoints.
The campaign included an Action Ad overlay that let viewers shop directly from their TVs by clicking OK on their Roku remote. This guided them to the website to buy LolaVie products.
Discover how Roku Ads Manager helped LolaVie drive big sales and customer growth with self-serve TV ads.
The DTC beauty category is crowded. To break through, Jennifer Aniston’s brand LolaVie, worked with Roku Ads Manager to easily set up, test, and optimize CTV ad creatives. The campaign helped drive a big lift in sales and customer growth, helping LolaVie break through in the crowded beauty category.
The Justice Department backed OpenAI as a national security interest in the NYT copyright suit. Government lawyers filed in the New York Times case, the first time the US has entered an AI training lawsuit. The filing said the country would fall behind rivals abroad if the court ruled against OpenAI.
Claude Commerce Agents splits the job across two separate agents standing on opposite sides of the counter. The shopping agent lives inside a store's app and searches the catalog, compares options, remembers what a customer said months ago, builds the cart and answers questions about orders and refunds in the same conversation.
A new feature lets users ask Alexa for Shopping to verify whether a message actually came from Amazon by checking it "against a record of every message Amazon has sent."
Turns out Uber decided seven layers of management was about four too many. The ridesharing giant is cutting roughly 3,300 jobs, 10% of global headcount, shrinking its manager ranks by 20% and halving teams that had only one or two members. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's internal email blamed complexity from years of growth. Remote work is going away too, for all but 1% of staff.
Vultr makes it easier to get self-hosted agents running without the usual setup work. Deploy OpenClaw & Hermes Agent from the Vultr Marketplace in one click, then let OpenClaw handle recurring research and scheduled tasks while Hermes Agent keeps memory across sessions & builds new skills over time.
AI Tutorial
How to do professional product photography with ChatGPT
Source: CodebyPoonam on X
Go to ChatGPT
Upload a clear photo of your product
Use a slash command to choose your preferred camera angle:
ChatGPT Image 2.0: [upload image]
Angles: /lowangle, /topview, /birdseye, /groundlevel, /closeup
Styles: /crosssection, /microscope, /explodedview, /blueprintSend one command at a time to generate different versions
ChatGPT will recreate your product photo from the selected command while preserving its design and key details
Refine the result by asking it to adjust the lighting, background, composition, or styling
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Machine Learning Engineer – Hybrid – Boston
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