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Google Built the Search Box. At I/O It Showed What Replaces It.

Google Built the Search Box. At I/O It Showed What Replaces It.

Sundar Pichai walked onto the I/O stage Tuesday and asked the developer crowd for one more month on Gemini 3.5 Pro. He spent the rest of the keynote arguing that the 27-year-old search box was no longer Google's most important product. The bet behind the pivot is $180 to $190 billion in 2026 capex, six times what Alphabet spent four years ago. Wall Street has already priced it in. The question is whether Google has the next quarter to back it up.

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Professional Tutorial: Build a Pi-to-Pi Agent Communication Bus
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Professional Tutorial: Build a Pi-to-Pi Agent Communication Bus

Build a professional Pi Coding Agent communication bus with a local broker, TypeScript extension, role prompts, message acks, TTL pruning, and guardrails for production-to-development handoffs. This tutorial shows how to run two Pi sessions with separate context, exchange redacted fixtures safely, block command forwarding, and add audit-ready message logs before adding agents. You also learn why remote messages are input, not authority.

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Why AI Coding Agents Need Context Compaction Before 100 Percent
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Why AI Coding Agents Need Context Compaction Before 100 Percent

Anthropic put a 1 million-token Claude Code window beside a decision table that still tells developers when to compact, clear, rewind or spawn a subagent. OpenAI, Google and DeepSeek now point to the same pressure from different angles: opaque summaries, attention falloff, cache misses and latency. A Chroma test comparing 113,000-token prompts with 300-token focused prompts shows why the limit is not only size, but what the model can still carry.

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How To Install Pi Coding Agent and Set Up Your First Project
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How To Install Pi Coding Agent and Set Up Your First Project

Install Pi Coding Agent from the official npm package, authenticate one provider, write a practical AGENTS.md file, run a read-only smoke test, and make a controlled first edit. This intermediate tutorial shows the setup order that keeps package choice, credentials, project rules, settings, and MCP tools reviewable before the agent can touch real code. It includes commands, a starter policy file, common mistakes, and package-safety checks for your first repository.

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Hermes Agent Installs in One Command. The Hard Part Is Deciding What It Can Touch.

Hermes Agent is not another chatbot wrapper. It is a server-side personal agent with memory, skills, tools, cron jobs, and chat channels. Here is how it works, what hardware it needs, where OpenClaw differs, and how to test it without over-permissioning it.

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Four GitHub Tools That Stop Claude, Codex, and Gemini From Shipping Bad Code

Four open-source tools fix four different failure modes in terminal AI. Superpowers teaches the agent how to work. Context7 feeds it current docs. Serena gives it IDE-grade code navigation. ccusage tells you what the other three cost. Here is how to install them and the commands that actually matter

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Musk Calls OpenAI Verdict a Technicality After Jury Rejects His Case
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Musk Calls OpenAI Verdict a Technicality After Jury Rejects His Case

A fast Oakland verdict did not decide whether OpenAI betrayed its nonprofit mission. It did something more useful for investors: it turned Musk’s timing problem into evidence of a business fight over control, Grok demand and OpenAI’s IPO path.

Musk called the OpenAI verdict a calendar technicality. The court only decided timing, but the trial record left a sharper business problem, from control to xAI demand to Apple’s next AI choice.

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