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Google’s AI note-taking app now allows you to interact with books

Google's AI note-taking app, Gemini Notebook, can now pull information from the books you've purchased. The new "Expert Intelligence" feature allows you to bring titles from Google Play Books directly into Gemini Notebook, which means you can ask questions about the material, as well as generate plans, infographics, AI podcasts, and more based on their […]

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When Should You NOT Use an Agent?

Everyone is asking "should we use agents?" The real question is "when should we NOT?" I keep seeing teams bolt an agent on because it's the hot thing — then discover they reinvented a state machine…

  • Agents are not inherently useful; they defer decisions to runtime.
  • A single well-defined task with known tools doesn't need an agent.
  • Failure non-recoverable scenarios benefit from not using an agent.

·dev.to

Looking beyond natural sequences

A new machine-learning framework aims to improve the success rate of computational protein design while moving away from results that reproduce sequences found in nature.

·news.mit.edu

Looking beyond natural sequences

A new machine-learning framework aims to improve the success rate of computational protein design while moving away from results that reproduce sequences found in nature.

·news.mit.edu

What I Accidentally Built When I Connected Claude to a Product Catalog

I wanted to build a simple price comparison tool. What I ended up with made me rethink how AI agents interact with the real world. Every AI assistant I tried had the same blind spot.

  • Author inadvertently created AI system challenging AI agents' real-world interaction limits.
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP) server enabled Claude to access external tools for price comparison.
  • Claude successfully found cheapest AirPods Pro 2 in Singapore from real storefronts.

·dev.to

Anthropic Opens MHS Research Preview for AI Agents Operating Physical Hardware

Anthropic has opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS) , a shared specification intended to help AI agents safely operate physical devices .

  • Anthropic launches MHS research preview for AI agents to operate physical hardware.
  • Claude AI assists in interpreting hardware documentation and generating tests in UST pipelines.
  • Preview aims to standardize interface for AI-device interaction with safety as priority.

·dev.to

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