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Trump Slows the Review. Spotify Locks the Library. GitHub Goes Local. DeepSeek Still Wants AGI. Beijing Is Writing Part of the Check. Standard Chartered CEO Apologizes After AI Remark on More Than 7,000 Job Cuts Repo Radar: 5 GitHub Projects Worth Your Week Trump Pulled His AI Order in a Morning. His Former Czar Made the Call. Zoom Raises 2027 Sales Forecast as AI Companion Paid Users Jump 184% Trump Slows the Review. Spotify Locks the Library. GitHub Goes Local. DeepSeek Still Wants AGI. Beijing Is Writing Part of the Check. Standard Chartered CEO Apologizes After AI Remark on More Than 7,000 Job Cuts Repo Radar: 5 GitHub Projects Worth Your Week Trump Pulled His AI Order in a Morning. His Former Czar Made the Call. Zoom Raises 2027 Sales Forecast as AI Companion Paid Users Jump 184%
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Repo Radar: 5 GitHub Projects Worth Your Week
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Repo Radar: 5 GitHub Projects Worth Your Week

Repo Radar tracks five GitHub projects pulling AI onto hardware teams control: openhuman, a Rust personal agent with on-device inference; LEANN, a private retrieval index that runs on a laptop; supertonic, on-device speech across 31 languages; archestra, a governance plane for company MCP servers; and NVIDIA's video-search-and-summarization blueprint for self-hosted vision agents. Stars, license, push date, and a difficulty score for each.

Marcus Schuler · 11 min read ·
TypeWhisper Founder Built His Dictation App After a Stroke
Tools & Workflows

TypeWhisper Founder Built His Dictation App After a Stroke

Marco Hillger built TypeWhisper after a stroke three years ago left him unable to type for sustained periods. The open-source app now earns about 2,000 euros a month while staying free under GPLv3, and it lets users pick their own speech engines and cleanup models.

Marcus Schuler · 9 min read ·
Professional Tutorial: Build a Pi-to-Pi Agent Communication Bus
Tools & Workflows

Professional Tutorial: Build a Pi-to-Pi Agent Communication Bus

Build a professional Pi Coding Agent communication bus with a local broker, TypeScript extension, role prompts, message acks, TTL pruning, and guardrails for production-to-development handoffs. This tutorial shows how to run two Pi sessions with separate context, exchange redacted fixtures safely, block command forwarding, and add audit-ready message logs before adding agents. You also learn why remote messages are input, not authority.

Marcus Schuler · 20 min read ·
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Hermes Agent Installs in One Command. The Hard Part Is Deciding What It Can Touch.

Hermes Agent is not another chatbot wrapper. It is a server-side personal agent with memory, skills, tools, cron jobs, and chat channels. Here is how it works, what hardware it needs, where OpenClaw differs, and how to test it without over-permissioning it.

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Four GitHub Tools That Stop Claude, Codex, and Gemini From Shipping Bad Code

Four open-source tools fix four different failure modes in terminal AI. Superpowers teaches the agent how to work. Context7 feeds it current docs. Serena gives it IDE-grade code navigation. ccusage tells you what the other three cost. Here is how to install them and the commands that actually matter

Spotify’s Next Product Is Private Audio. The Library Is the Lock-In.
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Spotify’s Next Product Is Private Audio. The Library Is the Lock-In.

Spotify is turning personal context into private AI audio. Studio can use email, calendar, notes and listening history to create podcasts saved to a user library. The bet is that generated briefings belong inside the same account that already holds music, podcasts and audiobooks.

Spotify's Studio app turns email, calendar, notes and listening history into private AI podcasts saved to the library. The feature starts as a preview in more than 20 markets, while Personal Podcasts reaches U.S. Premium users next month. The hard question is whether listeners will let a generated briefing sit beside their shows.

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