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earshot: open-source ears for AI coding agents
AI agents can write the code that renders a film, but they can't hear it. earshot turns sound into words and numbers an agent can reason about, and it runs on a plain CPU.
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Maestro: a 100% local AI studio for video, images and music
Give Maestro one prompt and it plans the shots, writes the screenplay, generates the clips and stitches them together, all on your own PC. Here's what it does and what hardware you need.
ESP-Mosaico: Espressif's modular board built for AI agents
Chat with an AI, and it writes, deploys and tests code on a real device. ESP-Mosaico is a small square ESP32 board with a touch AMOLED screen, magnetic modules and open-source firmware.
AI agents that live in WhatsApp and iMessage
No new app to install: a wave of AI agents now works over text messages. Who's building them, which ones are free or open source, and how to stay safe.
Unitree H2-X: the 'kung fu' humanoid that lifts a car
Kung fu kicks, a jump from a 4-metre platform and a car rescue. What Unitree's H2-X video shows, and what it doesn't tell us yet.
A touchscreen woven into a shirt sleeve
Researchers at NUS Singapore wove the world's first touchscreen out of thread. It shows video, takes touch input and survives 50 washes.
Kling 4.0: AI video with sound, lip-sync and 4K
Kuaishou's Kling 4.0 makes 3 to 30 second videos up to 4K, with stereo audio and lip-sync. It's not free, but it's one of the biggest AI video launches this year.
Google OKF: teaching AI agents about your company with markdown
Open Knowledge Format is Google Cloud's open spec for giving AI agents curated context: a folder of markdown files that links into a knowledge graph.
Carbon-X: an open AI model you can chat with about DNA
Hugging Face's Carbon-X reads DNA sequences and answers plain-language questions about them. It's open, runs on your own computer, and comes with clear warnings.
Top 10 official Claude skills you should be using
Skills teach Claude repeatable workflows, from Excel files to full web apps. Here are the ten official ones worth turning on, and how to enable them.
Claude Duet: an AI that tells you what needs doing
Anthropic's Claude Duet is a proactive agent: it checks your apps, sends a morning brief and does tasks on its own cloud computer, asking before anything risky.