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Elgato Stream Deck buttons lighting up as AI activates them remotely
AI Hardware

Elgato's Stream Deck Hands the Reins to AI – Your Buttons Pushed by Chatbot

Picture this: your Stream Deck lights up as Claude whispers a command, buttons pressing themselves. Elgato just made your hardware dream of autonomy.

3 min read 1 day, 19 hours ago
Polished AI-generated report visualizing Apple Health trends in exercise and sleep
Computer Vision

AI Devours Data Science: XML to Insights in 30 Minutes

Data science's grunt work? AI just ate it. One dev's Apple Health experiment reveals the end-to-end takeover.

3 min read 4 days, 13 hours ago
AI agent connected to web APIs for real-time data scraping and search
AI Hardware

7 Free Web APIs That Promise to Supercharge Your AI Agent—But Deliver With Asterisks

Your AI agent's gasping for real-time web data. These seven free APIs claim to deliver—but free means catches, and not all shine equally.

3 min read 4 days, 13 hours ago
Architecture diagram of colab-mcp linking AI agents to Google Colab kernels and browsers
AI Hardware

Watch AI Agents Take Over Google Colab: Building Production-Ready Workflows with colab-mcp

Picture this: your AI agent spins up a Colab notebook, cranks through GPU-heavy code, and spits out insights — all without you touching a thing. Google's colab-mcp just made that real, and it's a game-shifter for anyone building agentic AI.

4 min read 1 week, 3 days ago
WordPress dashboard showing AI agent interface for post publishing and site management
Computer Vision

WordPress.com Lets AI Take the Wheel: Bots Drafting, Editing, and Publishing Your Site's Content

What if your website ran itself—mostly? WordPress.com just flipped the switch, letting AI agents handle the heavy lifting from drafting posts to wrangling comments.

3 min read 1 week, 6 days ago
Chart of LLM performance gains from high-aspiration prompting vs pragmatic use
AI Hardware

Raising LLM Aspirations: AI's Highest-ROI Play

Crank your LLM expectations sky-high. OpenAI researcher Aidan McLaughlin nails it: the slightly crazy ones are crushing it while pragmatists stall out.

3 min read 2 weeks ago
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