Hello everyone,
I’m back from vacation and diving straight into my creative projects. Recently, I’ve become quite fascinated by the capabilities of tldraw, a free canvas and whiteboard application. The recently updated offline version is especially impressive, allowing users like us to create engaging visualizations, develop games, and even interactive blog posts among many other uses.
For instance, I’ve transformed our logo into a lively animated mascot known as ‘Bites.’
Additionally, I’ve crafted nifty widgets, such as a timezone checker, which you can see below.
Ben Tossell@bentossell
Ok, I’m obsessed with creating small widgets in @tldraw.
Ben Tossell @bentossell
Timezone checker in @tldraw offline
12:09 PM · Jul 27, 2026 · 7.08K Views
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Visuals indeed capture my interest far more than plain text, which often goes unnoticed. If everything is presented visually on a single canvas, I’m more likely to engage with it.
My plan is to create a comprehensive canvas displaying various widgets I commonly use, along with my to-do lists and emails. Eventually, I want to transform my personal website into an interactive canvas as well, along with additional explanatory materials.
And who knows, I might even connect our mascot to an agent where I can drag him to my to-dos and ask him to perform tasks for me!
Stay tuned for more updates soon 😊
Ben’s Bites is sponsored by Ability AI
This startup operates with 17 AI agents and open-sourced the platform. They handle everything from marketing and client relations to competitive intelligence and finance, ensuring all actions are tracked and approved by humans. These agents are yours to own, not rent, under Apache 2.0: github.com/Abilityai/trinity
Claude Opus 5 has been released – Anthropic claims it rivals Fable 5 at half the cost. Claire had a rocky experience using Opus 5, but in blind tests, she rated it as the best performer.
Every’s review highlights behaviors that might shed light on this, including its tendency to argue, stop early, and challenge previously established skills.
This might suggest we are overpushing it.
Theo – t3.gg@theo
I spent considerable time improving the CLAUDE․md/AGENTS․md files and refining several skills, even auditing and deleting a few along the way. I can confidently say that it was entirely worth the effort.
7:44 AM · Jul 28, 2026 · 109K Views
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Anthropic has reported that they removed over 80% of Claude Code’s system prompt for Opus 5 and Fable 5 without any measurable loss in coding evaluation.
ChatGPT Voice is now compatible with the ChatGPT desktop app. Users can utilize it within both ChatGPT Work and Codex environments; just initiate a “Voice” session and speak to it. It creates new sessions for specific tasks and reports the findings back to the main thread, resembling OpenClaw’s functionality.
My experience using ChatGPT Voice for serious projects wasn’t very positive. Delegating tasks to new sessions using ChatGPT Voice felt less intuitive compared to managing them directly in a chat with 5.6 Sol in Codex. Perhaps this is due to the limited control over which models or thinking levels are applied in each session.
I anticipate Voice to excel in productivity tasks, such as sorting emails, drafting responses, and retrieving data from a dashboard to generate charts.
For more critical assignments, I still prefer employing a speech-to-text application (the one I developed is called — optionafk.com) and forwarding that input to the agent of my preference, so I maintain full control over the operational model and cognitive effort.
— Keshav
Moreover, you may have overlooked it, but Claude now features a voice mode. Previously restricted to Haiku, it can now utilize Sonnet and Opus, allowing it to interact with various tools like Gmail, Calendar, and Slack in real-time conversations. It’s been a while since I’ve used Claude’s chat option, as it has focused heavily on Claude Code lately.
Kimi K3’s weights and technical report have just been released. It’s currently available on Droid for 50% off until August 10.
In light of rumors regarding a potential U.S. ban on using Chinese open-weight models, NVIDIA’s CEO, Jensen Huang, has made his inaugural post on X. In it, he expressed support for open-source AI. Following this announcement, over the weekend, numerous companies signed this statement — including OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and more than 150 others — all except Anthropic.
This spurred backlash, which prompted Anthropic to publish a response, attempting to clarify that they never advocated for a ban on open weights. This has led to criticisms accusing Anthropic of hypocrisy, as they seem open to smaller models but resistant to larger, more powerful models that could threaten their market position.
Andrej Karpathy@karpathy
@PjoyAI @lakshyaag I thought the way to announce such a thing was not to change your bio but to post the 10-paragraph essay that I just shared with the team?
1:51 AM · Jul 26, 2026 · 264K Views
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Ethan Mollick@emollick
I’ve had to revise the guide I created on which AI models to use to incorporate both Opus 5 and Codex’s voice feature, launched just last Friday. Staying on top of these developments can be quite challenging, even for those closely following the latest trends.
oneusefulthing.org
An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff
8:25 PM · Jul 26, 2026 · 35.9K Views
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