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How to build an AI agent: an engineer in a greenhouse builds a small robot with tool arms

how to build an ai agent: a practical guide for 2026

Addy Crezee 26 Sep 2026 14 min read

Comic scene: hooded builders board a battered yellow cab tagged $0.04/M as a racer guards a black GPT Luna sports car.

openrouter top 5 by token volume. every model gaining share on openrouter this week is either chinese or free

Alina Fomine 25 Sep 2026 1 min read

Punk-style dev staples $2M prize notes to a graffiti wall as coders watch, evoking Meta Connect's developer payouts.

meta is paying developers to build on it: its top model at up to 80% off and $2m in prizes

Vladimir Arustamov 24 Sep 2026 2 min read

Illustrated raven stealing star coins from vault safes labeled Cloudflare, Alibaba, and Tencent in a graffiti-covered room.

top 5 github repos by weekly star growth. cloudflare, alibaba and tencent repos lead the list

Alina Fomine 24 Sep 2026 1 min read

Holographic AI agent pushes a cart past a startled cashier as a register shows Shop Pay Approved in a graffiti-lit store.

meta connect 2026 day 1 – the best of zuckerberg's keynote

Vladimir Arustamov 24 Sep 2026 1 min read

Man at three monitors showing a desert highway, cooling towers under the Milky Way and a carousel — three AI-made films

opus 5.5 vs fable 5.1 vs gpt-6 astra – three post-apocalyptic films, one html file each

Nick Trenkler 23 Sep 2026 3 min read

Four hands cross purple, red, blue and orange lightsabers over a screen showing the Death Star, marking a four-model test

gpt-6 sol vs grok 4.7 vs gpt-6 astra vs muse spark 1.3 – three star wars worlds each, one html file per world

Nick Trenkler 23 Sep 2026 3 min read

Man holds glowing bonsai beside a giant tree carved Qwen shedding 27B digits – Ternary Bonsai compressing Qwen 3.8

trending models on hugging face: qwen 3.8 lost 622k downloads this week, its 9x-compressed fork gained 480k

Alina Fomine 22 Sep 2026 1 min read

Two coders at laptops showing a rocket and a city, $1.31 vs $4.11 displays – Grok 4.7 vs GPT-6 Astra three.js test

grok 4.7 vs gpt-6 astra in 3d scenes

Max Rabinov 22 Sep 2026 1 min read

Humanoid robot at a school desk crushing an egg, chalkboard reads NEXT? – embodied AI learning the physical world

50,000 humanoid robots by end of 2027 – a data play to build the largest embodied ai training set and teach a model how the physical world works

Alina Fomine 21 Sep 2026 1 min read

Man in a pinstripe suit waters neon vines growing a drone and AI chip in a server corridor, symbolizing AI funding rounds

top ai investment rounds this week. goldman sachs backed an italian cybersecurity startup, samsung co-led a dutch chip company – none of these are typical ai investors

Alina Fomine 19 Sep 2026 2 min read

Qwen vs Gemini: purple and blue armored fighters in a graffiti basement each hold half of the distracted boyfriend meme

qwen3.8-omni-flash vs gemini3.8-flash we asked to explain the memes: rickroll, distracted boyfriend, disaster girl. gemini won 2 to 1

Vladimir Arustamov 19 Sep 2026 2 min read

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