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news · November 1, 2026
This Week in Agents (sample strip)
Sample weekly roundup format for AI and agent news. Replace with reported items; no invented launches or stats.
Publication · Directory · Research
Learn AI agents from first questions to frontier research.
A calm, sourced site for curious kids, older and non-technical readers, builders, and researchers — covering news, tools, papers, shopping, task performance, harnesses, and education.
Four doors in
Who are you reading as today?
Ages of wonder
Curious Kids
Friendly explanations, pictures in words, and experiments you can try with a grown-up.
Plain language
Everyone
Large, readable writing for anyone who wants to understand agents without the jargon.
Practitioners
Builders
Harnesses, tools, evals, and how working systems are put together.
Frontier
Research
Paper breakdowns, original notes, and benchmarks written for people who live in the literature.
This Week in Agents
Latest from the desk
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guide · October 22, 2026
How agent harnesses work (a builder's sketch)
Sample guide to the loop around a language model: tools, memory, permissions, and evaluation — without pretending one stack is the winner.
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explainer · October 20, 2026
What is an AI agent? A plain-language map
Sample explainer of what people mean by AI agents, how they differ from a chatbot, and which questions to ask next.
Directory
New this week & editor's picks
Flagship research
Papers with their own pages
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original report
Original report (sample): How to read an agent benchmark
Sample original report on how this publication will read agent leaderboards: task match, contamination, cost, and human review — with pointers to public evals, not invented scores.
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paper breakdown
Paper breakdown: ReAct — reasoning and acting in language models
Sample editorial breakdown of Yao et al. 2022, a widely cited pattern for interleaving free-text thoughts with tool actions.
Coverage
Every beat, end to end
Daily AI & agent news
A calm weekly strip of what actually moved in AI and agents.
New AI tools & SaaS
Launches, product changes, and the directory of tools worth tracking.
Agent research & breakthroughs
Papers, reports, and what they change about how agents are built.
Agents in shopping
How agents search, compare, and buy — and where they still fail.
Agents in task performance
Computer-use, office work, coding, and the gap between demos and reliability.
Agent harnesses
The loops, tools, memory, and guardrails that turn a model into an agent.
Agents in education
Tutors, classroom tools, and how to learn with (and about) agents.
How agents work
First-principles explainers: models, tools, planning, memory, and evaluation.
Newsletter
A digest, not a firehose
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