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🫂Your own AI team, no code needed

Eigent is a new app that lets you build a squad of AI agents to handle work tasks for you — like NPCs, but productive. Think of it as a plug-and-play stack of paid neural networks, working for you in the background.

🔸 Set up custom AI workflows without writing code
🔸 Agents take on tasks like cleaning files, reading PDFs, and crunching data
🔸 Handles everything from accounting to market research
🔸 Use cases include: sorting downloads, processing lab results, parsing CSVs for finance
🔸 Feels like Zapier meets AutoGPT — but actually usable

This isn’t just another AI toy — it’s a quiet power-up for anyone drowning in digital busywork.


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💰Why an AI engineer turned down $1.5B from Zuckerberg

In his bid to build the ultimate AI dream team, Mark Zuckerberg reportedly offered ex-Meta engineer Andrew Tulloch a staggering $1.5B deal to return — a 4-year package of salary, equity, and performance bonuses.

But Tulloch said no

🔸 He currently owns 3.75% of his AI startup, Thinking Machines
🔸 Based on current market buzz, that stake could be worth $3B in the next round
🔸 Turning down $1.5B wasn’t irrational — it was mathematical
🔸 Now it’s a race: will Thinking Machines hit IPO before the AI bubble deflates?

Zuck offered a fortune. Tulloch bet on more.


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📣 Bezos on the power shift from marketing to product

In a 2012 interview, Jeff Bezos predicted a major change in how companies should think:
Word-of-mouth is more powerful than it has ever been before.


He argued that the old playbook — 70% marketing, 30% product — was dying.
In the past, you could win with a mediocre product if your marketing was strong enough.

But in the age of social media and instant feedback?
If I build a great product or service, my customers will tell each other.


Bezos’ takeaway: focus relentlessly on product. In a world where people talk, quality sells itself.

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🎬 The ultimate AI toolkit for video creators — in one link

We found a goldmine for content creators: a browser-based platform with every top AI video tool in one place.

🔸 Text-to-video, subnoscripts, noise removal, face cloning — it’s all here
🔸 Supports trending models like Veo 3, Minimax, Kling, and more

👉 Save your dream video editor 👈

Perfect for creators who want speed, quality — and less post-production pain.


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🔍 ChatGPT agent controls live cam, finds boat on request

A ChatGPT-powered agent was given access to a public webcam overlooking a marina — and asked to locate a specific boat.

It moved the camera, zoomed in, scanned the docks… and found it.

The line between digital agents and physical tasks is getting thinner by the day.


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🧪 PlayerZero is building an immune system for your code

Most tools try to speed up developers. But bottlenecks often sit elsewhere — like in QA. That’s where PlayerZero steps in: AI agents that detect and fix bugs before production, trained on your repo’s history.

🔸 Learns from past incidents, patches, and test cases
🔸 Suggests auto-fixes directly in pull requests
🔸 Designed for complex monorepos and legacy systems
🔸 Hooks into CI/CD in minutes
🔸 Used by teams like Zuora to monitor billing infra
🔸 Just raised $15M from the likes of Databricks' founder and Vercel’s CEO

Fun fact: the founder demoed it to the creator of Next.js — who didn’t believe it at first, but then invested.


While tools like Cursor’s Bugbot chase AI code review, PlayerZero goes for the full loop: detectexplainfix.
And they’re betting on enterprise complexity as the wedge.

QA might be the next frontier for AI agents.
If devs write fewer bugs — and agents catch the rest — what’s left for the human tester? 🤔

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🔍 Motive lands $150M to expand its AI fleet platform to the UK

Motive, the AI-powered platform transforming physical operations for fleets and equipment, has raised $150M in new funding led by Kleiner Perkins. The company is now expanding into the UK to help solve challenges in logistics, safety, and driver shortages.

🔸 Motive serves 100,000 customers and 1.3M drivers, with nearly $500M ARR
🔸 AI detects risky driving with 4x better accuracy than competitors
🔸 Clients report 80% fewer accidents and up to 2,000% ROI
🔸 Platform covers safety, compliance, maintenance, and fraud prevention in one dashboard
🔸 The funding will accelerate global rollout, R&D in India, and UK go-to-market efforts

Motive’s edge lies in precision at scale — using AI trained on billions of miles to drive real-world impact across the global physical economy.


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🧠 OpenAI drops its first open AI model since GPT‑2

OpenAI has released GPT‑OSS, its first open-weight model family in over six years. It includes a 120B and 20B version — both available under Apache 2.0, optimized for local use, and surprisingly powerful.

🔸 GPT‑OSS 120B matches o4-mini in reasoning benchmarks
🔸 GPT‑OSS 20B runs on a laptop and rivals o3-mini
🔸 Supports chain-of-thought reasoning and tool use
🔸 Full commercial use allowed under a permissive license
🔸 Designed for transparency, privacy, and autonomy
🔸 First OpenAI release meant to compete with LLaMA, DeepSeek, Qwen

👉 Try it here 👈

This is OpenAI’s biggest step back toward open AI — and it’s fast, free, and local.


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🖌 New image model drop: Qwen Image goes public (and free)

China just dropped a beast — Qwen Image, a free, open-source image generator that’s already turning heads.

🔸 Handles any style: realistic, stylized, cartoons, posters, comics
🔸 Understands prompts like ChatGPT — with strong visual-text alignment
🔸 Can edit images with precision (think Flux Kontext quality)
🔸 Preserves original style — no plastic mess, no hallucinated chaos
🔸 Fully open-source and no usage limits

👉 Test the model here 👈

This might be the strongest free image model yet.


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📊 Excel killer? Meet NanoCell — a blazing-fast, privacy-first spreadsheet tool

A new tool just dropped that might be the cleanest Excel alternative we’ve seen — NanoCell, built by a veteran analyst for speed, simplicity, and control.

🔸 Handles huge datasets, financial models, formulas, and visualizations — all lightning-fast
🔸No complex macros or formulas needed
🔸 Built with only the essentials — no bloat, no noise
🔸 Keeps all data intact — no auto-loss like some competitors
🔸 Runs fully on a static server — safe for sensitive docs, no data leaks

👉 Try it here 👈
Open-source on GitHub

One-click tables, no Excel pain.


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⚙️ How to build a voice-enabled second brain in 3 hours

Capture ideas in seconds and turn them into content, strategy, or action — without dashboards or overengineering.

Here’s how the setup works:


🔸 Use Voicenotes.com to record and transcribe voice memos
🔸 Connect Voicenotes to Make.com via Webhook
🔸 A Gemini 2.5 model classifies each note: content, business idea, observation, or reading
🔸 Notes are routed into Notion databases automatically
🔸 Content ideas trigger AI-generated LinkedIn drafts, sent to Typefully
🔸 Business ideas get enriched with SWOT analysis and action plans

Built with just four tools: Voicenotes, Make, Notion, and optional AI APIs. Total setup time: ~3 hours.


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💳 The hidden history behind modern card payments

Before Apple Pay, Stripe, or embedded checkout, there were paper vouchers, magnetic stripes, and punched cards. This short timeline shows how payments evolved — from forgotten wallets to biometric tokens.

🗓 From 1914 to 2024:

🔸 1914 — Western Union issues the first metal “buy now, pay later” cards
🔸 1949 — A forgotten wallet inspires the birth of Diners Club
🔸 1958 — AmEx launches a paper card, replaced by plastic in 1959
🔸 1967 — Barclays rolls out the first ATM in England
🔸 1974 — The smart card is patented in France
🔸 1979 — Visa introduces the magnetic stripe reader
🔸 1983–84 — Holograms become standard to prevent fraud
🔸 1990s — Chip & PIN and global EMV specs transform card security
🔸 2007 — Contactless payments go live
🔸 2023 — Mastercard announces a shift to biometrics and tokenization by 2030

From punched cards to payment tokens, this is what 110 years of financial UX looks like.


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