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Issue №09 · May 2026

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Inside Issue №09

  1. 01EssayThe Memory Wall — Why every agent demo dies at message four, and the four-axis framework that fixes it.1.4k
  2. 02AnalysisAlphaEvolve, in context — DeepMind’s coding agent isn’t Cursor with better marketing. What it actually proves.1.2k
  3. 03BriefOpenAI’s Voice Intelligence API — What changes for transcription startups, customer support, and the latency floor.900
  4. 04SurveyThe MCP gold rush — Twelve servers worth installing, three patterns worth studying, and the trap to avoid.1.6k
  5. 05NotesThe agent-framework consolidation — LangGraph vs Letta vs Agno vs CrewAI vs the dozen we’re tracking. Where it’s heading.1.1k
  6. 06ReadingCross-LLM memory: a survey — Buffer, vector, graph, and paged memory across providers. What ships in production.1.8k
  7. 07EditorialOn AI bravado — Most launch posts are theatre. A short essay on reading them past the headline.700
  8. 08PicksTwelve repos worth your weekend — The standout open-source AI projects from this month. Why each one matters.900
  9. 09LetterFrom the editor — What we got wrong last month and what we’re going to cover deeper next month.600
  10. 10IndexThe reading list — Every consequential link from the daily briefs this month, organized by theme.500

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