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Route agent web search through Cloudflare's gateway, at list price
Cloudflare put a Web Search API into beta inside AI Gateway. Agents can call Ceramic.ai, Exa or Linkup through REST or a Workers AI binding, with zero data retention, request logging, and billing at provider list price with no markup.
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OpenRouter compares code sandboxes from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google
OpenRouter published a comparison of server-side code execution tools from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and its own platform, covering sandbox isolation, persistence between requests, network defaults and per-second pricing.
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Candle scopes background dev services and logs per project directory
A developer released Candle, a local process manager that runs dev services in the background, scopes them by project directory, stores their logs in SQLite and ships an AGENTS.md prompt so coding agents can drive it.
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Essay argues RAG memory plugins can't tell current facts from stale ones
An essay on liao.gg argues that RAG-based memory plugins for agents are structurally flawed, because similarity search cannot distinguish current information from stale information, and that maintained documentation serves agents better.
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OpenAI's Tibo Sottiaux says hand-built loops and agent graphs will fade
In a DevDay interview with Lenny Rachitsky, OpenAI's Tibo Sottiaux argued that most internet actions will move to agents and that workflow scaffolding such as loops and graphs is a temporary layer that models will absorb.
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AssemblyAI's support agent resolves 80% of tickets for about $700/month
AssemblyAI described Joey, a support agent built on the Claude Agent SDK with checked-out docs, embeddings, agentic search and a single CLAUDE.md. It resolves 80% of tickets for about $700 a month and has since gained voice over a websocket.
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Temporal shows agents pausing for human approval and surviving crashes
Temporal's Melanie Warrick showed human-in-the-loop agents built on durable execution, using wait conditions and signals with Google ADK and LangGraph, then killed the worker mid-approval and resumed without losing state.
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