Upcurrent: agent-autoloop leads Thursday, November 5
Good morning. Here's what picked up speed in AI over the last day.
Top mover: agent-autoloop, score 96. 6 of the top 10 are in Agents.
Climbing fastest
- agent-autoloop (score 96). 让你的命令行 Agent 在后台自己接活、自己跟进到底;平时不烦你,遇到拿不准的事才发卡片找你拍板。
- dsh-superagent-prototype (score 94). Towards a More Autonomous Agent System
- Kimi-K3.1-Pro (score 92). Vision on Hugging Face · open weights · ♥ 605
- unslop (score 91). A Claude skill that turns vibecoded, AI-looking UI into a designed interface
- Mika (score 90). An on-device AI agent for Android that operates apps and the web to get things done for you.
Headlines
- UK found to be ‘dangerously’ reliant on China for critical minerals needed for defence and AI (The Guardian)
- Source: Meta has decided to stop using fruit for its AI model codenames, as they didn't suit its lofty AI ambitions; its latest model was named "Watermelon" (Techmeme)
- Sources: Palo Alto Networks is in talks to acquire Israeli startup Clutch Security, which develops software for tracking passwords used by AI agents, for ~$500M (Techmeme)
- Berlin-based Pliant raised an $80M Series C led by Seaya Nova and Speedinvest, as it opens its B2B payments infrastructure to AI agents (Techmeme)
- OpenAI details a pipeline that used an upcoming cyber model to validate and patch 948 local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux for $1.2M in API costs (Techmeme)
Repos gaining stars
- KKKKhazix/agent-autoloop: about +1,444 stars in 24h
- heydamir/unslop: about +1,341 stars in 24h
- wangzan101/Mika: about +1,017 stars in 24h
Threads people are discussing
- AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt (Hacker News)
- A thousand fewer paths to root (Hacker News)
- Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts) (Hacker News)
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