Tesla Autopilot shows why partial autonomy is the sweet spot. It handles highway driving but keeps humans in control for complex decisions like intersections and city streets. Ship the 80% that works reliably, let humans handle the rest.
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AI Superpowers: Partial Autonomy Keeps Humans in the Loop
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The Future is Partial Autonomy AI won't replace designers and developers overnight. It will give them superpowers. Smart products will let humans stay in the loop where it matters.
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LLMs Excel in Structured Workflows Today
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People still underestimate what LLMs can do with structured workflows. This thread makes it very clear. It’s not the future, it’s right now.
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Job as Bundle of Tasks and Glue Variables
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Very interesting to think about. Job = bundle of tasks + glue. Probably a bunch of other variables involved, e.g. the number of tasks, how long each task is (e.g. METR-like notion of task length ~= difficulty), how contextual it is, how high reliability it needs, whether it can
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Codex to Speed Up with Env Snapshots
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WIP : Codex will be able to execute its tasks faster as it will be possible to save env snapshots. * Currently in development
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First Flying Humanoid, Robotic Heart Transplant, and Military Robots
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Top stories in robotics today: – The first-ever flying humanoid
– U.S. gets fully robotic heart transplant – Hexagon unveils AEON humanoid with Nvidia – Danish military tests unmanned robot sailboats
– Quick hits on other robotics news Read more: https://
robotnews.therundown.ai/p/worlds-first
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Suna: Open-Source AI Agent for Autonomous Workflows
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I found a 100% open-source generalist AI agent! Suna is a fully open-source agent that takes natural-language instructions and turns them into real, autonomous actions It combines web scraping, file editing, and API calling to run full multi-step workflows.
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Midjourney video launch, OpenAI scrutiny, and AI job trends
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Top stories in AI today: – Midjourney's long-awaited video model
– AI watchdogs detail OpenAI concerns
– Automate browser tasks with natural language
– MIT study: ChatGPT’s detrimental cognitive impacts
– 4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities Read more: https://
therundown.ai/p/midjourney-m
akes-its-video-debut
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Minimax Releases MiniMax Agent for Complex Task Automation
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Minimax dropped MiniMax Agent — it's third consecutive release this week
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 19 juin 2025
It's an intelligent agent built to tackle long-horizon, complex tasks end-to-end
Also includes programming & tool use, multimodal understanding & generation, and MCP integrationpic.twitter.com/ClACSWteD1Minimax dropped MiniMax Agent — it's third consecutive release this week It's an intelligent agent built to tackle long-horizon, complex tasks end-to-end Also includes programming & tool use, multimodal understanding & generation, and MCP integration
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Apify Expert Encountered at Singapore Tech Conference
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I landed yesterday at Singapore and just came to the conference this morning. The first person I talked to knows Apify.