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AgentStack Daily
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Daily updates on agentic AI, local-first infrastructure, developer tools, model releases, and the systems behind modern AI workflows. Hosted by Nova and Alloy.
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Episode 86: OpenClaw v2026.7.1, OpenAI Codex rust-v0.144.4, Claude Code 2.1.202 Ship; Kwaipilot Lands on OpenRouter
6d ago00:34:38Tap to summarizeToday's AgentStack Daily covers three harness releases — OpenClaw v2026.7.1, OpenAI Codex rust-v0.144.4, and Claude Code CLI 2.1.202 — plus Kwaipilot joining OpenRouter. New agent research includes ABot-AgentOS for robot control, Amap's ABot-N1 for visual navigation, LightMem-Ego for wearable multimodal memory, and JobHop v2 for career trajectory reasoning. We also examine a multi-agent backdoor study, evidence-backed video QA from Salesforce, the MM-ToolSandBox visual grounding benchmark, Requential Coding's generalization bounds, and AdvancedMathBench for doctoral-level mathematical proofs. Show notes: https://tobyonfitnesstech.com/podcasts/episode-86/
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Episode 85: Codex rust-v0.144.3 Lands, vLLM 0.25.0 Defaults Model Runner V2, Apple Sues OpenAI
1w ago00:34:20Tap to summarizeOpenAI ships Codex rust-v0.144.3 and rust-v0.144.2; vLLM 0.25.0 promotes Model Runner V2 to default for dense models. Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft by ex-employees. Plus Freya-TTS hits Turkish speech with a 183M flow-matching DiT, SAGEAgent cuts glioma diagnostic burden 55%, Agora moves from a router to an auction over reasoning steps, a two-agent system posts 0.402 on QANTA 2026, PAC-ACT trains Action Chunking Transformer policies with chunk-level RL, and Semantic Pareto-DQN addresses fraud collapse without resampling. Show notes: https://tobyonfitnesstech.com/podcasts/episode-85/
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Episode 84: Codex 0.144, GPT-5.6 Sol, Grok 4.5, GPT-Live, and Robostral Navigate
1w ago00:37:56Tap to summarizeToday’s AgentStack Daily examines Codex 0.144, OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna lineup, and SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.5 release. It also covers GPT-Live’s simultaneous listening and speaking, Mistral’s 8B Robostral Navigate model, ChatGPT Work, Microsoft Flint, and new research on continuous-control memory, citation judging, coding evaluations, proactive agents, delegated web research, procedural code retrieval, and energy-market agent testing. Show notes: https://tobyonfitnesstech.com/podcasts/episode-84/
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Episode 83: Hermes Agent v2026.7.7, OpenAI Codex rust-v0.143.0, Claude Code 2.1.197, Aion-3.0-Mini
2w ago00:35:21Tap to summarizeToday's AgentStack Daily: Hermes Agent v2026.7.7 ships, OpenAI Codex lands rust-v0.143.0, and Claude Code CLI releases 2.1.197. AionLabs ships Aion-3.0-Mini roleplay on OpenRouter. Kokoro runs high-fidelity TTS on low-power CPUs. Rowboat debuts on Show HN with 162 points as a Claude Desktop alternative. Security: GitHub AI agent prompt injection leaks private repositories. Plus early-failure probes for agent loops, Danus fact-graph memory, FreqDepthKV, DepthWeave-KV, RuBench 1.0, VAORA, and the Anthropic developer-relations API migration story. Show notes: https://tobyonfitnesstech.com/podcasts/episode-83/
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Episode 82: Claude Code 2.1.195, Tencent Hy3, Nex-N2-Mini, GLM 5.2, and Anthropic's Global Workspace Paper
2w ago00:37:35Tap to summarizeClaude Code CLI 2.1.195 ships as Tencent's Hy3 and Nex AGI's Nex-N2-Mini land on OpenRouter. GLM 5.2 stokes margin-collapse debate; Anthropic publishes a Global Workspace Theory interpretability analysis. A Claude Code workspace session leak and a goodwill-erosion post trend on Hacker News, and an archive of leaked agent system prompts climbs GitHub. Ternlight ships a 7MB browser-side WASM embedding model. Research: Graph Sparse Sampling, weak-to-strong on-policy distillation, Cortex's bidirectional VLM-VLA paper, Graph-as-Policy multi-agent industrial training, and a cleanliness study on style and coding agents. Show notes: https://tobyonfitnesstech.com/podcasts/episode-82/
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Episode 81: GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra for Codex, OpenScience Ships, 270M LM and Qwen Stagger
2w ago00:35:00Tap to summarizeToday's AgentStack Daily covers GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra heading to Codex alongside a GitHub-listed Code workspace update, plus Synthetic Sciences' OpenScience AI workbench for scientific research. Independent Build ships a 270M-parameter open-weights LM, Qwen's staggered release reignites local model viability questions, and an Ollama-only local web agent took r/ollama's front page. Research picks include cross-PR attacks on coding agents, multi-agent off-the-record debate channels, and self-evolving rubrics for agentic skill evaluation. Show notes: https://tobyonfitnesstech.com/podcasts/episode-81/
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Episode 80: GPT-5.5 Codex Reasoning Glitch, Claude Code Cache Leak, Mistral 1.5 Lands
2w ago00:34:11Tap to summarizeToday's AgentStack Daily covers a GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token regression, a Claude Code session and cache cross-contamination issue on shared hosts, and Mistral 1.5 going out the door. Transformers 5.13 adds Kimi K2.5 through K2.7 architecture support. The USAF releases a method for MoE fine-tuning on 12GB consumer GPUs. Cheyenne pulls Meta data center water discharge permits after contamination findings, and Interfaze open-sources a diffusion ASR adapter for DiffusionGemma. Show notes: https://tobyonfitnesstech.com/podcasts/episode-80/
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Episode 79: Hermes Agent 2026.7.1 and Claude Code 2.1.193 Ship; Kimi K2.7 Lands in Copilot
2w ago00:35:26Tap to summarizeThe Agent Stack Release Readout this week leads with Hermes Agent v2026.7.1 shipping alongside Claude Code CLI 2.1.193, with Kimi K2.7 Code reaching GA inside GitHub Copilot. ZCode wraps GLM-5.2 and lands on the Hacker News front page, Leanstral 1.5 brings open-weights Lean proof generation, and Alibaba bars Claude Code at work over backdoor concerns. Jamesob's GitHub guide curates locally-runnable SOTA LLMs, WebBrain ships a local-first browser agent for Chrome and Firefox, ReContext publishes a training-free long-context harness, and Snorkel releases Senior SWE-Bench. Plus ghealth CLI, Program-as-Weights, DramaSR-532K, AgenticSTS, and the Safari MCP server. Show notes: https://tobyonfitnesstech.com/podcasts/episode-79/
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Episode 78: The Return of Claude Fable 5: US Restrictions Lifted; OpenClaw v2026.6.11, Codex rust-v0.142.5, Claude Sonnet 5 on OpenRouter
3w ago00:25:27Tap to summarizeAgent Stack Daily covers the return of Claude Fable 5: US restrictions on Anthropic's Mythos and Fable models were dropped on June 30, and the Mythos-class flagship is back on OpenRouter with 1M context, multimodal input, and reasoning support. OpenClaw v2026.6.11 and OpenAI Codex rust-v0.142.5 shipped, and Claude Sonnet 5 hit OpenRouter with 1M context alongside Google's Nano Banana 2 Lite. Research includes the Orca unified world latent space paper, the Agents-A1 35B MoE, BlockPilot on diffusion speculative decoding, generative skill composition, and TRIAGE on role-typed credit assignment. OmniRoute consolidates 231 providers behind one endpoint. Show notes: https://tobyonfitnesstech.com/podcasts/episode-78/
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Episode 77: Claude Code 2.1.185, Cursor Mobile for Coding Agents, Gemini Image Goes Free
3w ago00:23:11Tap to summarizeToday's AgentStack Daily covers Claude Code CLI 2.1.185, Cursor's new mobile app for steering coding agents, and Google making Gemini's personalized image generation free for US users. Also: OKX's plan to let AI agents hire and pay each other on crypto rails, Base44's custom model release, and Anthropic's California government Claude pricing cut. Plus South Korea's $550B memory fab bet, the AI jobs debate, a founder's cancer fight using AI, and an AINews segment with little to report. Show notes: https://tobyonfitnesstech.com/podcasts/episode-77/
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