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richardChenzhihui/OfficeBuddy drives real Word and Excel over AppleScript, exports to PDF after each edit, rasterizes at 144 dpi, then pixel-diffs against the last verified baseline rather than the previous render. Verification is a separate stateless multimodal call seeing only the annotated screenshot, never the edit history or the model's own reasoning. A pass is what advances the baseline. macOS-only and honest about gaps: resaving .xlsx drops charts and images via openpyxl.
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Created August 3, ~3,209 stars/day, the highest velocity of anything created in the last two weeks. Rust core with Node.js, Python and WebAssembly bindings, converting Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OpenDocument, RTF, EPUB, CSV and PDF, claiming median sub-5ms conversion and an 81/1...
On Latent Space July 28, OpenAI core product engineering lead Akshay Nathan said Codex and ChatGPT Work combined reached 10 million users within two weeks of the July 9 launch, with monthly actives up more than 10x since January 2026. The number that should reframe your produc...
ElevenLabs launched a hosted MCP server in Claude letting you create, inspect, update, duplicate, and delete production voice agents, including revising a live system prompt and estimating LLM cost, without opening the ElevenLabs dashboard. ZoomInfo shipped a GTM MCP connector...
SiliconANGLE analysis reveals Microsoft is demoting Word/Excel/PowerPoint to "plugins" inside Copilot Pages. Office file formats function as CRUD databases that agents can read/write directly, bypassing the apps entirely. The "CRUD collapse" thesis has reached the C-suite: Nad...
microsoft/flint-chart hit 3,012 stars and 264 HN points on August 1. The thesis: asking an agent to configure scales, axes, spacing and layout directly is where agent-generated charts break, so Flint has agents emit a compact semantic spec and its compiler derives the rest fro...
The Claude Cookbook moved off the anthropic-cookbook GitHub repo into a documented, contributable collection roughly double the original's ~50 recipes. New surface reflects the last year: Claude Agent SDK, Managed Agents, extended thinking, programmatic tool calling, prompt ca...
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