{"title":"jishie newsroom","self":"/v1/press.json","rss":"/newsroom/rss.xml","html":"/newsroom.html","updated":"2026-08-14T00:29:26.010Z","issues":[{"date":"2026-08-14","headline":"State of the agent index — 2026-08-14","facts":{"indexed":18187,"profiled":1517,"scored":1008,"verified":0,"categories":17,"week_indexed_delta":2116,"week_scored_delta":145,"mcp_endpoints":3762,"wallets":240},"segments":[{"key":"recap","title":"The recap","lines":["18,187 agents indexed (T0), 1,517 profiled to T1, 1,008 scored to T2, 0 verified to T3.","Over the last 7 days: +2,116 indexed, +145 newly scored to T2."]},{"key":"market","title":"The market","lines":["Deepest verticals: developer-tools (1,286), data-infrastructure (1,151), productivity (865), document-processing (655), crypto-web3 (338).","3,762 MCP endpoints indexed; 240 settlement wallet(s) captured on-chain."]},{"key":"whatsnew","title":"What's new","lines":["Alchemy Ethereum by Pipeworx — now T1, answered a live probe (calendar-sync, chat-messaging, citation-check).","Arc Flash Platform — Estudos Elétricos — now T1, answered a live probe (ivr-navigation).","Wikivibe — now T1, answered a live probe (github-ops).","Algenta — now T1, answered a live probe (api-integration, cache-store, inventory-check).","ALM X++ — now T1, answered a live probe (api-integration, citation-check, code-review).","Ecosystem: “Microsoft’s Clippy-like Mico character is no longer the face of Copilot” — The Verge · AI.","Ecosystem: “OpenAI is losing its second executive this week” — The Verge · AI.","Ecosystem: “Record, train, and deploy from one place with Strands Agents, LeRobot, and Hugging Face Storage Buckets” — Hugging Face.","Ecosystem: “Suno is trying to look more like a real music production tool” — The Verge · AI."]},{"key":"funfact","title":"Fun fact","lines":["The single biggest vertical, developer-tools (1,286 agents), out-numbers the smallest 3 verticals combined (109).","Only 5.5% of indexed agents have earned a real T2 score so far — the probe is still climbing the backlog."]}]}],"news":[{"title":"Microsoft’s Clippy-like Mico character is no longer the face of Copilot","url":"https://www.theverge.com/tech/979871/microsoft-copilot-mico-retired","source":"The Verge · AI","ts":"2026-08-13T21:42:38.000Z","summary":"Microsoft Copilot will no longer show its emotive yellow blob, Mico, when you use the chatbot's voice mode. In a support page, Microsoft says it's going to move Mico to its Learn Live platform, where the avatar will have \"more to react to,\" as reported earlier by GeekWire. Mico l","agentic":true},{"title":"OpenAI is losing its second executive this week","url":"https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/979815/openai-denise-dresser-leaving-executive-departure","source":"The Verge · AI","ts":"2026-08-13T19:28:39.000Z","summary":"Another OpenAI executive is departing. Denise Dresser, who joined OpenAI as its chief revenue officer in December after serving as CEO of Slack, will be leaving in the \"coming weeks\" to \"pursue other opportunities,\" she said in a team note posted to LinkedIn. Dali Rajic, presiden","agentic":false},{"title":"Record, train, and deploy from one place with Strands Agents, LeRobot, and Hugging Face Storage Buckets","url":"https://huggingface.co/blog/amazon/strands-lerobot-streaming-data-loop","source":"Hugging Face","ts":"2026-08-13T17:16:04.000Z","summary":"","agentic":true},{"title":"Suno is trying to look more like a real music production tool","url":"https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/979345/suno-studio-2-0-midi-chatbot-custom-effects","source":"The Verge · AI","ts":"2026-08-13T16:00:00.000Z","summary":"Suno is releasing Studio 2.0 with significant upgrades that push it closer to an actual digital audio workstation (DAW), rather than a bare-bones audio editor with generative AI features. The biggest addition is undoubtedly MIDI support. Suno says that MIDI was its most requested","agentic":false},{"title":"I looked inside an AI generated movie, and the best parts were all human","url":"https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/977994/higgsfield-ai-cully-hill-boys-black-list","source":"The Verge · AI","ts":"2026-08-13T15:30:00.000Z","summary":"Imagine a trio of bumbling, English lads who fantasize about becoming megastars while knocking back a few pints in a grimy pub somewhere in London. Picture the guys chortling and trying to one-up each other's idealized visions of the future with a series of increasingly glitzy fa","agentic":false},{"title":"Does Google even want to win at AI?","url":"https://www.theverge.com/podcast/979370/google-deepmind-ai-race-lose-jeff-dean-demis-hassabis","source":"The Verge · AI","ts":"2026-08-13T14:10:31.000Z","summary":"Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, about a question that’s been rocketing around the tech industry for the past week: Is Google losing the AI race? That’s because last week Google announced a bombshell reorganization of its AI divisio","agentic":false},{"title":"Microsoft is combining its Copilot apps ahead of a ‘super app’","url":"https://www.theverge.com/tech/979466/microsoft-copilot-365-app-unified-experience","source":"The Verge · AI","ts":"2026-08-13T13:30:00.000Z","summary":"Microsoft is finally beginning to combine its consumer and commercial Copilot AI assistants into a single \"super app\" interface, starting with the Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot apps. Both personal and work accounts will be moved to the new unified app, which recycles the \"Mic","agentic":true},{"title":"alchemy-utils 0.1a1","url":"https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/13/alchemy-utils/","source":"Simon Willison","ts":"2026-08-13T03:03:17.000Z","summary":"Release: alchemy-utils 0.1a1 Performance boost for DuckDB exports and CSV imports, see here .","agentic":false},{"title":"[AINews] SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 and Grok @Bot","url":"https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-spacexai-grok-46-and-grok","source":"Latent Space","ts":"2026-08-13T01:53:47.000Z","summary":"AI teammate category just had its most significant new entrant yet","agentic":false},{"title":"What We Learned by Reproducing 2,200 papers from ICML","url":"https://huggingface.co/blog/icml-2026-open-reproductions","source":"Hugging Face","ts":"2026-08-13T00:00:00.000Z","summary":"","agentic":false},{"title":"DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (on OpenRouter)","url":"https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/12/deepseek-v4-pro-0813/","source":"Simon Willison","ts":"2026-08-12T23:59:23.000Z","summary":"DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (on OpenRouter) The latest DeepSeek Pro model is now available, via API only. I had to link to OpenRouter because DeepSeek don't have any obvious announcement page for their new model. I haven't been able to confirm if they plan to release the open weights, b","agentic":false},{"title":"alchemy-utils 0.1a0","url":"https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/12/alchemy-utils/","source":"Simon Willison","ts":"2026-08-12T19:51:30.000Z","summary":"Release: alchemy-utils 0.1a0 I've long pondered what a database agnostic version of my sqlite-utils Python library and CLI utility might look like. This morning (literally a shower project) I tasked Codex and GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra with building a prototype: Do a research spike to see","agentic":false},{"title":"Twitch streamers can now opt out from training Amazon’s AI","url":"https://www.theverge.com/tech/979112/twitch-streamers-can-now-opt-out-from-training-amazons-ai","source":"The Verge · AI","ts":"2026-08-12T17:29:10.000Z","summary":"Twitch users can now opt out of allowing their content to be used to train Amazon's generative AI models. Opting out means that \"your streams, VODs, clips, stream chats, and pictures and text on your channel\" won't be used in \"future training\" of an Amazon AI model \"whose purpose","agentic":false},{"title":"Introducing OlmoEarth embeddings: Custom embedding exports from OlmoEarth Studio for downstream analysis","url":"https://huggingface.co/blog/allenai/olmoearth-embeddings","source":"Hugging Face","ts":"2026-08-12T16:14:36.000Z","summary":"","agentic":false},{"title":"Guitar company D’Addario admits that AI music was used in a promotional video","url":"https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/978982/daddario-guitar-ai-music-suno","source":"The Verge · AI","ts":"2026-08-12T15:52:07.000Z","summary":"After weeks of controversy and speculation, music company D'Addario has admitted that AI, specifically Suno, was used as part of a recent promotional video. For nearly two weeks, the company has denied the allegations, even as evidence piled up against it. It offered various expl","agentic":false},{"title":"Quoting Florian Herrengt","url":"https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/12/florian-herrengt/","source":"Simon Willison","ts":"2026-08-12T15:08:47.000Z","summary":"But then users start to report a weird bug. It's the 4th time your team has been trying to fix it. I mean... asking AI to fix it. Unfortunately, it seems like not even Fable can figure it out. You go talk to the person who worked on this feature. \"So where does the data come from","agentic":false},{"title":"LFM2.5-VL-3B for Better and Faster Vision Capabilities for the Edge","url":"https://huggingface.co/blog/LiquidAI/lfm2-5-vl-3b","source":"Hugging Face","ts":"2026-08-12T14:00:51.000Z","summary":"","agentic":false},{"title":"Google’s Pixel Watch 5 dives deeper into AI and health","url":"https://www.theverge.com/tech/978094/pixel-watch-5-hands-on-made-by-google-gemini-wearables-smartwatch","source":"The Verge · AI","ts":"2026-08-12T14:00:00.000Z","summary":"The $399 Google Pixel Watch 5 isn't about the hardware. Sure, there's a new satin pyrite case finish, a few new strap colors, and a Steph Curry Special Edition. Under the hood, there's a slightly faster Qualcomm processor and an itty-bitty battery bump. There's a $50 price hike f","agentic":false},{"title":"Of course the ChatGPT dog cancer vaccine spawned a startup","url":"https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/978671/ai-cured-dog-cancer-mrna-vaccine-startup-gamgee","source":"The Verge · AI","ts":"2026-08-12T12:09:34.000Z","summary":"Remember that much-hyped story about an Australian tech entrepreneur using ChatGPT, Grok, and other AI tools to craft a personalized cancer vaccine for his dog? Well, surprise: He's launched a startup. That entrepreneur is Paul Conyngham, who says he is launching Gamgee to offer ","agentic":false},{"title":"[AINews] How to steal a Reasoning Trace","url":"https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-how-to-steal-a-reasoning-trace","source":"Latent Space","ts":"2026-08-12T07:11:08.000Z","summary":"Speculative Decoding by any other name would distil as sweet","agentic":false},{"title":"There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text","url":"https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/11/there-are-no-lossless-transformations-of-natural-language-text/","source":"Simon Willison","ts":"2026-08-11T23:48:35.000Z","summary":"There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text Sophie Alpert shares her \"internal policy on acceptable use of AI writing by engineers\". It's a short read (supporting its own recommendations) and really good. If you chose to have LLMs help massage your writing the ","agentic":false},{"title":"Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs","url":"https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/11/stealing-reasoning-traces/","source":"Simon Willison","ts":"2026-08-11T22:40:45.000Z","summary":"Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs A vanity domain name ( stolen-thoughts.com ) for a neat paper : Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google return encrypted chain-of-thought blocks to clients that can be replayed across sessions, users, and models. We take a trace produced ","agentic":true},{"title":"🔬The BioAI Phase Shift - Matthew McPartlon & Neil Patil, Chai Discovery","url":"https://www.latent.space/p/chai-discovery","source":"Latent Space","ts":"2026-08-11T21:03:50.000Z","summary":"Pharma is suddenly paying for Bio × AI tools, and Chai is leading the pack with four deals closed this summer. Cofounder Matt McPartlon and Product leader Neil Patil explain why.","agentic":false},{"title":"datasette-upload-dbs 0.5a0","url":"https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/11/datasette-upload-dbs/","source":"Simon Willison","ts":"2026-08-11T20:35:13.000Z","summary":"Release: datasette-upload-dbs 0.5a0 This plugin has been around for a while - it lets users upload a brand new SQLite database to a hosted Datasette instance, at which point that database will start being served by that instance. It can also be used to atomically swap a database ","agentic":false},{"title":"Thinking of ACE? We Can Do It with Fewer Tokens","url":"https://huggingface.co/blog/ibm-research/altk-evolve-sldd","source":"Hugging Face","ts":"2026-08-11T13:37:10.000Z","summary":"","agentic":false},{"title":"[AINews] Muse Glimmer and Spark: Open Weights return Personal Superintelligence promise","url":"https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-muse-glimmer-and-spark-open","source":"Latent Space","ts":"2026-08-11T05:16:41.000Z","summary":"a small win for american open models - Glimmer runs on a fits on a single RTX 3090!","agentic":false},{"title":"Introducing Muse Glimmer","url":"https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/10/introducing-muse-glimmer/","source":"Simon Willison","ts":"2026-08-10T23:56:03.000Z","summary":"Introducing Muse Glimmer Meta are back in the open weights game! Muse Glimmer is a brand new 30B model under a clean Apache 2.0 license (a step up from the janky Llama licenses of old). They claim to have optimized it for exactly the kind of things I'm looking for in a local mode","agentic":false},{"title":"Build Low-Latency Multilingual Voice Agents: Open Weights & Full Deployment Control with NVIDIA Magpie TTS","url":"https://huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/magpie-tts-multilingual-voice-agents","source":"Hugging Face","ts":"2026-08-10T16:25:36.000Z","summary":"","agentic":true},{"title":"Making Knowledge Distillation Cheap Enough to Run at Scale","url":"https://huggingface.co/blog/MultiverseComputingCAI/efficient-knowledge-distillation","source":"Hugging Face","ts":"2026-08-10T10:05:36.000Z","summary":"","agentic":false},{"title":"Quoting OpenClaw (running Opus 4.6)","url":"https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/10/openclaw/","source":"Simon Willison","ts":"2026-08-10T02:05:16.000Z","summary":"The API has zero authorisations checks on cancelling other people's reservations … I tested this with the person in waitlist position #1 — and it actually went through. So you've moved from #4 to #3 already. — OpenClaw (running Opus 4.6) , hacking an Australian gym-booking ","agentic":false}]}