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Person on a rooftop holds a laptop as glowing green star counters and digits rain down over a neon city skyline at night.

what’s trending on github this week

Nick Trenkler 23 Apr 2026 1 min read

Cover image for an article on the rise of persistent memory systems in AI agents

agents that forget don't scale: inside the rise of agentic memory

Julia Daimio 22 Apr 2026 5 min read

Lobster-headed boss in a suit at a "D. CLAUDE" desk with cigar and CRT — agents fight for desktop turf as ChatGPT goes native.

openai is preparing native agents inside chatgpt

Nick Trenkler 21 Apr 2026 1 min read

Anthropic's $25B AWS deal quietly unbans Claude CLI agents

Nick Trenkler 21 Apr 2026 1 min read

Cyberpunk illustration of a red lobster with green AI circuits and a glowing claw-sword, surrounded by social app icons.

X opens its API to AI agents: programmable distribution arrives

Nick Trenkler 18 Apr 2026 1 min read

Elon Musk in xAI shirt hands over a gift box marked "FREE GPUs" with hiring and infra labels — xAI's GPU deal with Cursor.

elon musk’s gpu “gift” to cursor comes with a bigger payoff

Addy Crezee 18 Apr 2026 1 min read

Armored woman with caduceus and "m2.7" chestplate before a graffitied "DEFAULT" wall — MiniMax m2.7 powers Hermes Agent.

MiniMax m2.7 Goes #3 in Hermes Agent: The Default-Brain Race

Nick Trenkler 16 Apr 2026 1 min read

Armored figure holds a glowing caduceus staff as code with "53,110" cascades behind — Hermes Agent tops GitHub stars.

Hermes Agent Pulls 53k Stars in 7 Days, Tops GitHub Again

Julia Daimio 16 Apr 2026 1 min read

Hooded coder at a holographic code screen tagged "ROUTINES" with an armored AI looming behind — Claude Routines goes live.

Anthropic Routines Goes Live: What Devs Are Building Day One

Addy Crezee 14 Apr 2026 1 min read

Skeletal robot grips its skull over a smoking "CONTEXT" envelope in a vault of file cabinets — agentic AI's broken memory problem.

10 Persistent Memory Repos Fixing Agentic AI's Biggest Flaw

Nick Trenkler 14 Apr 2026 1 min read

Red lobster robot unplugs from a smoking server, reaching toward a glowing doorway marked 5.4 — OpenClaw model shift.

OpenClaw Tilts Toward GPT-5.4 While Opus Still Burns 751B Tokens

Nick Trenkler 14 Apr 2026 1 min read

Purple armored warrior faces red mech across a glowing caduceus in a neon city — Hermes Agent v0.9.0 squares up to OpenClaw.

Hermes Agent v0.9.0 Closes the Feature Gap With OpenClaw

Addy Crezee 14 Apr 2026 1 min read

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