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Agents & vibe coding · 116 stories, +85 vs last week

Agents & vibe coding: 116 stories in seven days, +85 on the week before.

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OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra model autonomously completes Portal in 24 hours — feat cost just $571 in tokens

Tom's HardwareSiliconOpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra model autonomously completes Portal in 24 hours — feat cost just $571 in tokens An AI enthusiast has conducted an experiment where OpenAI's new GPT-6 Astra played through the entirety of Valve's Portal 3D puzzler game on its own.

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humanlayer/skills

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September 7
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Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanSouth Korea to combine 5 utilities to prepare for AI, chip power demand

September 7
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Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanUS and China eye Trump-Xi talks on AI guardrails despite tech rift

September 7
Run Ray on TPU, Part 1: The foundations

Google Developers BlogLabsRun Ray on TPU, Part 1: The foundations Ray 2.55 introduces official, first-class support for Google Cloud TPUs, enabling developers to run distributed Python workloads on Google's accelerators using the familiar Ray task-and-actor APIs. To handle the strict n

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Scaling Agentic RL: High-Throughput Agentic Training with Tunix

Google Developers BlogLabsScaling Agentic RL: High-Throughput Agentic Training with Tunix Tunix is Google’s new JAX-native post-training library designed to eliminate TPU idling bottlenecks when training multi-turn, tool-using LLM reasoning agents. It maximizes hardware throughput by combining highly concurre

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