Last month we hosted an AI Nerd Meetup @Workato HQ featuring builders tackling the hardest problems in agentic AI. Highlights: @yuan_sihan of Fireworks - how open-source agents can use a frontier model as a reviewer to hit much higher quality without paying frontier costs at every step. The research behind our latest post, "Frontier AI at a fraction of the cost": @KovacVeljko of @cognee_ - fact disambiguation and agent memory: how agents retain, retrieve, and use info over time, and why open-source memory infra matters in production. @mat_pichler of @wordware - collaborative filesystems for agents: how shared file and workspace layers help agents coordinate, persist work, and collaborate. Thanks to our speakers and Workato for hosting!

Sources: Anthropic moves to close loopholes that let Chinese firms like Ant use its models via workarounds including cloud providers and overseas subsidiaries (Financial Times) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

🔥🚨 JUST IN: Sen. Marsha Blackburn moved $4.8 million from her U.S. Senate campaign account to a Club for Growth PAC. A legal “workaround” to get federal funds into her state race for governor. Shortly after, a related Tennessee PAC spent nearly the EXACT SAME amount boosting her gubernatorial bid and attacking John Rose. This comes after the latest scandal of leaks from inside her campaign, with staff being told to "Break the Law." Tennessee voters should take note.