Microsoft owns the entire Outlook interface! Another chatbot on the side that can only take limited actions to help you feels like such a wasted opportunity.
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Outlook Agent vs Claude Cowork: Email Productivity Comparison
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I have been playing with the new Outlook agent, and it is fine, but really awkward to use, since you have to ask for things in a chatbot window, then go to your drafts, etc. And Claude Cowork does the same thing (works with Gmail, too) and has better visibility across your life.
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Conductor Framework Orchestrates AI Agents Using Natural Language
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Learning to Orchestrate Agents in Natural Language with the Conductor Fugu Blog: https://
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Google’s Agent Factory Podcast: Building AI Agents with CLI Tools
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Google's new Agent Factory Podcast is now live. Take a deeper look at Agents CLI and ADK for building AI Agents in minutes. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and any other coding agents.
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OpenAI’s Realtime API Demonstrates Fast Speech Recognition and Function Calling
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The Realtime API is fast.
— Romain Huet (@romainhuet) 28 avril 2026
This demo by @jxnlco is running at real speed! No computer use, just realtime speech + function calling.
The model is listening, deciding when to call functions to update state, and yes, it doesn’t always have to talk back! https://t.co/2cK4jzI7rIThe Realtime API is fast. This demo by @jxnlco is running at real speed! No computer use, just realtime speech + function calling. The model is listening, deciding when to call functions to update state, and yes, it doesn’t always have to talk back!
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OpenClaw Agent Runs on talkie-1930-13b-base Model
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"Yeah, my OpenClaw runs entirely on talkie-1930-13b-base, I connect to it only through telegram. No, not that telegram."
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Agents Get Robotic Bodies and Pendant Devices
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The agents want everything. Like they want to see. So we are making them robots and pendants. 🙂
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Bot Proliferation Creates Recursive Automation Cycle
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Yes, until the app store deploys a bot to keep the bots in check. Then the bots will hire humans to call up and reason with the app store bot, and it, in turn, will hire its own humans to deal with those humans. And so on.
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AI-Assisted Gmail Extraction With Iterative Prompt Refinement
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grabbing gmail is a pretty straight forward read process. i didn’t write the extraction prompt either actually… just asked the ai for a lot of stuff and went through a dozen test runs as i gave it feedback on mistakes i found
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AI Portfolio Monitoring Tool Integrates CRM Gmail and Notes
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introduced our new portfolio monitoring tool reads attio (crm), gmail, and granola notes, extracts data, and turns it into a timeline of quantitative and qualitative data points for each portfolio company