Opus 5 >> Fable 5
Codex plus Voice is the new openclaw
Hey folks,
I’m back from holiday and straight back to messing around building. I’ve been kinda obsessed and enamoured with the demos from tldraw. It’s a free canvas/whiteboard app but their offline app (recently updated) is cool because agents can do all sorts with it; create visualisations to explain stuff, make games, interactive blog posts and a ton of other stuff.
Like turning our logo into a little animating mascot. He’s called ‘bites’ btw.
or little widgets like a timezone checker
or a daily weather timeline
I’m not good using agents when everything is just text in a file. It’s boring, I don’t read it and I sure as shit don’t do enough (anything?) with it. So if it’s visual and all on one canvas, maybe I will?
My idea here is to create a little ‘one-stop’ canvas for some widgets I use regularly as well as showing me my todos/emails to sort and things like that. I’m then planning on making my personal site an interactive canvas too, then some more explainer-like stuff too.
And maybe I’ll get the mascot hooked up to an agent so i can drag him to my todos and ask him to do stuff…
I’ll share more soon 😊
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Headlines
Claude Opus 5 is out - Anthropic says it gets close to Fable 5 at half the price. Claire hated using Opus 5, but when asked to rank model outputs in a blind test, she ended up rating it first.
Every’s review lists some behaviours that might explain this: it argues, stops early and fights the skills people built for older models.
And maybe we are overprompting it.
Anthropic says it removed more than 80% of Claude Code’s system prompt for Opus 5 and Fable 5 with no measurable coding-eval loss.
ChatGPT Voice can now run the ChatGPT desktop app. You can use it in ChatGPT Work and Codex both; just start a “Voice” session and speak to it. It can create new sessions for individual tasks and then report the results to you in the main thread. It feels a lot like OpenClaw with voice.
I didn’t have a great time using ChatGPT Voice for “serious” work. The delegation of tasks to new sessions via ChatGPT Voice doesn’t feel as smart as doing it in a chat with 5.6 Sol in Codex. Maybe it’s the lack of control on what models/thinking level is used for each new session.
I imagine Voice to work great for productivity type tasks, checking emails, creating draft replies, pull some info from a dashboard and create a chart etc.
For serious work, I still prefer using a speech to text app (currently using one I built — optionafk.com) and sending that to the agent of my choice with full control over model/thinking effort.
— Keshav
Also, I wouldn’t blame you if you missed it, but Claude also has a voice mode. Till now, it could only use Haiku, but now it can use Sonnet and Opus as well as call multiple tools like Gmail, Calendar and Slack mid-conversation. I don’t remember when I last used Claude’s chat option. It’s been Claude Code for a long time now.
Kimi K3’s weights and technical report are out. It’s already available in Droid at 50% off until 10 August.
Following rumours that the US might ban companies from using Chinese open-weight models, NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang made his first-ever post on X - a long statement backing open-source AI. Over the weekend, everyone signed that statement (OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and 150+ more) - except Anthropic.
Of course, that led to some backlash, and Anthropic did what it does: published an essay to save face, saying it never pushed for an open-weights ban. The reaction to it is people calling Anthropic out on their hypocrisy — they are okay with open models as long as they are cute little 8b toys, but not if they are “big, dangerous models” (to Anthropic’s business).
Quick links
FLUX 3 - one model for image, video, audio and action prediction; video is in early access.
Health in ChatGPT - US users can optionally connect Apple Health and supported medical records, then ask about changes in context.
BackSearch - search the web as it was on a particular date in the past. Right now, it only works for news in 2026.
here.now Workspaces - private team home for the sites, docs and dashboards your agents publish.
open-git - a code host built for agents, with an autopilot that fixes your PR when CI goes red.
OpenWorker - open-source Mac agent that finishes everyday work and asks before consequential actions.
Pilot Protocol - a network of over 250,000 agents that you can use to gain distribution for your app. (I’m an investor)
Notion as code - define your whole workspace in TypeScript and deploy it through the API. (beta)
The Stack v3 - open code dataset with about 5T filtered tokens across 770 languages.
box - full VM sandboxes for your agents at $0.00001 a second, with snapshots, SSH and a desktop.
Mintlify - turns resolved support tickets into proposed documentation fixes.
Cognition acquired Interaction - the team behind Poke joins the makers of Devin.
Skills section
Interface Craft - four new lessons on advanced animation, plus an updated DialKit skill for timelines. (tweet)
/prototype - asks your agent for several UI versions and saves the chosen one in a shareable URL. (example run)
Transitions.dev - 33+ polished UI transitions as copyable CSS or React, or an installable agent skill. (tweet)
sharechat - share a Claude Code or Codex session as an unlisted link; no signup, no login to read it.
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