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California signs the No Robo Bosses Act: no firing or disciplining by AI alone
Governor Newsom signed SB 947: employers may not fire or discipline workers based solely on AI decisions; human review and notice required from July 1, 2027.
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California signs the No Robo Bosses Act: no firing or disciplining by AI alone
Governor Newsom signed SB 947: employers may not fire or discipline workers based solely on AI decisions; human review and notice required from July 1, 2027.
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SAFETYZimbra flaw CVE-2026-73570 exploited in the wild: patch shipped three weeks before disclosure
The unauthenticated command-injection flaw CVE-2026-73570 in ZCS has been exploited since late July to steal email; 274 servers compromised, fix in ZCS 10.1.20.
POLICYPentagon launches Project Meridian with Musk, Palmer Luckey and Gingrich
Project Meridian, announced September 30: Musk, Luckey and Gingrich co-lead a 120-day future-battlefield study, plus a new Autonomous Warfare Command.
COMPUTEOpenAI and Synopsys announce GPT-Synopsys, a frontier model trained as an EDA expert user
OpenAI and Synopsys announced a multi-year deal on September 30 to co-develop GPT-Synopsys, a chip-design model trained with licensed EDA tools.
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- Anthropic threat report flags GLM-5.3 as the most cyber-capable open-weight model
- Google open-sources AX, a Kubernetes-style orchestrator for autonomous agents
- Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots
- Google announces Gemini 4 Argon, skipping the promised 3.5 Pro — and you still cannot use it
- Anthropic says 950 Claude agents found a CRISPR-like system; researchers want the experiments first
- Manus 2.0 ships: Manus Studio on desktop, Cue gives every agent a phone number and wallet
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100+ AI agent templates you can run today
Agent frameworks140kawesome-llm-apps collects 100+ open-source AI agents, skills, and RAG templates that run with one API key — Apache-2.0, works with Claude, GPT, DeepSeek, Qwen.
LiveTalking
a streaming digital human that talks back live
Audio9.7kLiveTalking by lipku is a real-time streaming digital human: synced audio-video, interruptible speech, multi-session, low-latency WebRTC, Apache-2.0.
LongCat-Video-Avatar 1.5
talking-head video from one photo
Audio8.4kMeituan's LongCat team open-sourced a model that turns one photo and one audio track into a talking video — Whisper lip sync, 8-step distillation, MIT.
VoxCPM2
open-source voice cloning from a short sample
Audio38.2kVoxCPM2 by OpenBMB is a 2B-parameter open TTS: 30 languages, 48kHz output, Apache-2.0 licensed, so voiceovers and podcasts can run on your own machine.
DeskcommCRM
an open-source CRM where AI agents run your WhatsApp sales
Automation4.3kSelf-hosted, MIT-licensed CRM with AI agents that answer, qualify and follow up on WhatsApp — they operate the CRM over MCP, not just chat. No monthly fee.
Chinese Independent Developer List
what everyone is building
Learning resources61.6k1c7's GitHub list catalogs 1,672 products from Chinese indie hackers: working sites and apps with status tags, merged daily. Good for side-project ideas.
Easel
open-source social media agent, from trend watch to publishing
Automation2.6kEasel is an open-source social media agent from ZJU and PKU: it finds trends, drafts content, publishes to 7 platforms, and learns what works.
fastlane
automate app store releases
Developer tools42.2kfastlane automates iOS and Android releases: build, code-sign, screenshot and upload from one lane. MIT-licensed, 42k stars, config lives in your repo.
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View allMultiPost is an open-source browser extension: write once, publish to Zhihu, Xiaohongshu, Weibo, Douyin and 40+ more platforms — no signup, no API keys, free.
Okara's Influencer Agent hands creator marketing to AI — matching, negotiation, scheduling, payouts — TMTPost reported $99/month plus 5% commission at launch.
Starter Story lists 3,032 revenue-generating startup case studies with tools, timelines, and income, so indie hackers can copy a working playbook.
HeyGen turns a clip of you into a lip-synced AI avatar for videos in 175+ languages. Free: 3 videos a month, 1 minute each, watermarked. Paid starts at $29/mo.
ImportYeti is a free search engine for customs data: 712 million US import records, updated daily. Find an importer, see its suppliers, find similar buyers.
LinkedNav is a LinkedIn AI outreach tool: signal agents surface leads, AI drafts the notes and replies you approve in one inbox. 7-day trial, custom pricing.
Skills11 entries
View all- security-audit: make the agent prove a vulnerability before reporting itCloudflare's security-audit skill stops agents dressing up guesses as findings: six phases force source evidence and independent verification first.
- srt-whiteboard-animation: subtitle in, hand-drawn animation outgeeklee's MIT agent skill turns SRT subtitles into whiteboard animation: 25–35 s scenes, strokes synced to the narration, built for explainer videos.
- content-gate: a pre-publish gate for AI-written postscontent-gate turns Google's people-first guidance into a pre-publish gate: project guidelines loaded first, five spam hard-stops, a pass or fail verdict.
- golive: ship agent-built apps to your own cloudgolive is an Agent Skill that makes an agent plan, get approval, apply and verify before shipping your app to your own Vercel, Supabase or Neon accounts.
- startup-skill: the agent that tells you if your startup idea should diestartup-skill bundles four Claude Code skills for startup validation — market research, battle cards, financials, pitch prep — and says if the idea should die.
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View all- Motion showreel prompt: an identity challenge welded to hard engineering railsA copy-ready motion showreel prompt: an identity challenge with time-driven hard constraints. We ran it on GLM-5.3; coding models like Opus 5.5 take it well.
- A product still-life prompt that writes texture, light and lens on separate linesA commercial still-life prompt for a perfume bottle. Subject, material, set, lighting, lens and composition each get their own line, so swapping in another product means editing only the first line. Written for image models such as GPT Image and Midjourney.
Articles10 entries
View all- GitHub is more than code: 8 information-gap repos, verifiedA 224K-view X thread listed 8 GitHub repos as information gaps. We opened every one to check stars, purpose, and the risks each carries.
- Getting more out of GPT: spend your Codex quota where it countsChatGPT desktop's Chat mode doesn't touch your Codex quota: plan and review there, hand chores to Luna, and a 5 a.m. task turns two daily resets into three.
- Making Videos with Opus 5.5: From One Line to a Finished CutOpus 5.5 can’t paint a pixel — it writes the program that renders every frame. The routes, real costs and pitfalls from a week of public post-mortems.
- When the Model Won’t Paint Pixels: Opus 5.5’s Video WeekAnthropic never advertised video for Opus 5.5. Within a week users made it a category: 1,401 videos, four public bills, one fight over whether it is video.
- Muse vs Manus 2.0 vs Grok Bot: three roads to the personal AI agentIn seven weeks, xAI, Meta, and Manus all shipped personal AI agents. Here is how their architectures, self-reported benchmarks, reputations, and origin stories compare.