AI Agents

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Last week, Cognition — the company behind the AI coding assistant Devin — acquired Poke, an AI agent you text like a friend. The deal valued Poke in the “low nine figures,” which is a lot of money for an AI that uses slang and makes jokes. But it tells you something about where AI tools are heading: personality is becoming a feature, not a decoration. ...

I lost three weekends to open ai automation tutorials that promised everything and delivered nothing. Each one ended the same way: “and then just connect your API” — which, if you don’t write code, is where the tutorial dies and your project does too. So I stopped reading and built one myself. It broke twice. I fixed it. Now it runs my reporting, file cleanup, and Slack summaries between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. while I’m asleep, and I’ve never written a line of code to keep it going. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Anthropic’s interpretability team found a hidden reasoning layer inside Claude called “J-Space” — a zone where the model processes abstract concepts like “this looks like a trick question” or “I should verify this fact” before generating any visible output. Using a mathematical technique called the Jacobian lens, researchers mapped internal activity that influences Claude’s answers but never appears in the response you actually see. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Google’s AI Agent Browses, Shops & Books for You Google’s Gemini Spark runs as a background agent on Google’s Antigravity infrastructure using Gemini 3.5 Flash. It performs multi-step tasks — browsing the web, reading emails, updating calendars — while your devices are off, which separates it from Chrome’s earlier right-click summarizer that required you to be actively browsing. The agent connects to Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Maps, and YouTube natively, giving it access to your entire Google account as a workspace. ...

Update July 2026: recent developments in anthropic may affect the information in this post — see details below. 🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Anthropic just announced it’s going to develop its own drugs. Not partner with pharma companies. Not license Claude to labs. Actually discover and develop treatments — starting with what it calls “neglected” diseases. If you’re a solo builder using Claude to run your business, this sounds like a headline from a different universe. But I think there’s something here that directly affects how you should be thinking about your tools. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I spent two weeks testing every major AI agent framework so you don’t have to. Here’s what I found — and why the “best” framework depends entirely on what you’re actually trying to build. If you’ve been hearing names like LangGraph, CrewAI, OpenClaw, and Hermes thrown around and wondering which one matters for someone who doesn’t write code, you’re not alone. The agent space is moving fast, and most of the content out there is written by developers, for developers. This post is different. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve followed General Intuition since their initial $134M raise last year — the startup trains AI agents on video game clips from Medal’s 10 million monthly users. The pitch: use gameplay data to teach AI how to move through the physical world. My first reaction was the same as everyone else’s. Does watching someone play Fortnite actually help a robot cross an office? ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. General Intuition just raised $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation, less than a year after its initial $134M round, bringing total disclosed funding to $454 million. The company trains AI agents on billions of gameplay clips from Medal’s 10 million monthly users, using embedded action labels (button presses, timing) rather than video alone. Khosla Ventures led the latest round, with participation from Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, and researchers from Google DeepMind and MIT. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. A startup just raised $2.3 billion to train AI agents on Fortnite gameplay footage. General Intuition builds world models from 2 billion video game clips per year, teaching AI to understand space, time, and movement by watching how humans move through dynamic environments. For solo builders, that shifts AI agents from text processors into visual operators: software that can see screens, work through interfaces, and make spatial decisions. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve been thinking about hiring a lot lately — not because I’m hiring, but because the entire process is getting weird. Last week, a Stockholm startup called Fika Jobs raised $4 million to build a platform where AI agents conduct video interviews with job candidates. Not screening calls. Not resume filters. Actual 10-minute conversations where an AI asks questions, records responses, and builds a video profile that employers browse. If you’re a solo builder who’s ever struggled to hire — or wondered how AI agents are going to change the job market — this one’s for you. ...