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Hey folks 👋

We just open sourced TrueForge, our vendor-neutral agent harness for building general-purpose agents.

It handles the runtime pieces that get painful quickly : context management, tool/MCP execution, subagents, sandboxing, approvals, persistent state, and more.

We also benchmarked the harness itself. With the same Opus 4.8 model, TrueForge delivered a similar solve rate at ~30% lower cost than Claude Managed Agents. Switching to an open model pushed that to ~75% lower cost on the same benchmark.

Would love feedback from people building agents.

⭐ Star the repo: https://github.com/truefoundry/trueforge

📖 Read the launch article: https://x.com/truefoundry/status/2090081376330715176

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang once pointed to radiology as one of the first professions he expected AI to replace.

The logic seemed obvious. Computer vision was already becoming better than humans at recognizing certain patterns in images, and radiology is built around interpreting scans like X-rays, CTs, and MRIs.

But that prediction didn’t play out quite as expected.

AI has become increasingly capable at detecting abnormalities, prioritizing urgent cases, and helping doctors analyze medical images. Yet instead of making radiologists obsolete, it has mostly become another tool in their workflow.

The job is changing, not disappearing.

And radiology may be an early example of a much bigger pattern: AI doesn’t necessarily replace an entire profession at once. It automates parts of the job, changes what humans spend their time on, and raises the value of skills AI still struggles with.

Eagle Mountain City Council approved a 183% property tax rate increase in August 2026, the first in 15 years, projected to raise roughly $5.5 million annually. Officials stated the funds would support a Utah County Sheriff’s Office contract and additional deputies. Residents organized a referendum effort, citing the scale of the increase and frustration over prior tax incentives granted to data centers.

Meta’s Eagle Mountain campus has operated under multi-year Community Reinvestment Area agreements providing substantial property tax abatements, including large shares of real and personal property increment relief originally valued in the hundreds of millions across phases. Similar Tax Increment Financing arrangements apply to other data center projects such as QTS. These incentives reduce the near-term tax contribution of high-value equipment relative to residential and commercial properties.

Utah’s Truth in Taxation framework and rapid depreciation of data-center personal property create structural volatility. Analyses from the University of Utah’s Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute show large data centers can initially lower certified rates through base expansion, then produce a “boomerang” effect as servers and equipment depreciate, shifting relative burden onto other taxpayers unless rates are adjusted.

Net risk lies in local governments absorbing infrastructure and service costs while large AI and cloud operators receive long-term preferential treatment. Oversight gaps include limited transparency on how freed sales-tax revenue will be allocated and the absence of mechanisms that automatically adjust residential rates when data-center incentives mature or equipment values change.

Sources

Eagle Mountain residents push for referendum following 183% property tax increase

https://www.ksl.com/article/51610115/eagle-mountain-residents-push-for-referendum-following-183-property-tax-increase

KSL reporting on the August 2026 City Council approval, resident opposition, explicit frustration over data-center tax breaks, and referendum organizing.

Eagle Mountain City Council approves 183% rate increase to property taxes

https://www.heraldextra.com/news/2026/aug/07/eagle-mountain-city-council-approves-183-rate-increase-to-property-taxes/

Daily Herald account of the unanimous council vote, revenue target of approximately $5.5 million, and stated public-safety purpose.

Eagle Mountain residents file referendum to repeal 183% property tax increase

https://www.heraldextra.com/news/2026/aug/13/eagle-mountain-residents-file-referendum-to-repeal-183-property-tax-increase/

Coverage of the referendum filing and subsequent discussions of a possible reduced rate.

Data centers could initially lower some Utah property taxes - then create a ‘boomerang effect’

https://kslnewsradio.com/utah/data-centers-property-taxes-utah/2316530/

KSL NewsRadio summary of University of Utah Gardner Institute analysis on data-center personal-property depreciation and resulting tax-rate volatility for existing owners.

What happens to Utah taxpayers when a new data center comes to town? It depends on timing.

https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2026/08/12/new-data-center-impact-on-utah-taxpayers/

Utah News Dispatch report on Gardner Institute findings regarding temporary relief followed by rate increases as data-center equipment depreciates.

Just found that OrcaRouter currently has some free models available to try.

3 free models you can check out right now:

☑️ Qwen3.8 27B
☑️ DeepSeek V4 Pro
☑️ DeepSeek V4 Flash

You can get up to 1 BILLION free tokens and use the models through API keys. 👾

How to get started:

1. For Sign, click here: OrcaRouter
2. Create a new API key.
3. Pick one of the free models and start testing. 😏

Could be useful if you want to experiment with different AI models without paying for model usage.

CBC News

Source: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/panthalassa-unveils-wave-powered-floating-data-center-platform/

I'm really struggling to figure out how the AI decided to include this video. If this is the beginning of context collapse and things are only going to get worse, we're in for a rough ride.

Just got unlimited access to seedance 2.5 on ImagineArt and it is absoooolutely mad. Quality is sooooo crisp and I cant even tell you all about the way it actuallly sticks to the prompt. bytedance outdone themselves at this point- crazy fr.

Posted to Insta. I do not know if it’s real or AI.

Google is offering a surprisingly large collection of AI tools that are either completely FREE to use or open source, and many of us probably aren’t even aware they exist.

Depending on what tools you’re currently paying for, these could potentially save you hundreds or even thousands every month.

Here are 15 Google AI tools worth checking out:

1. Pomelli

https://labs.google.com/pomelli/

Turns your website into a complete brand identity, then generates matching social posts, marketing campaigns, and images.

2. Stitch

https://stitch.withgoogle.com/

Describe the UI you want, and it generates production-ready HTML, CSS, Tailwind, plus a Figma export.

3. Opal

https://opal.google/

Create AI apps and multi-step workflows using plain English instead of code.

4. Antigravity

https://antigravity.google/

An AI coding workspace that can plan, edit multiple files, and build complete applications from a single prompt.

5. Mixboard

https://labs.google.com/mixboard/

Generate, remix, and edit AI images on an infinite canvas for moodboards and visual concepts.

6. Disco

https://labs.google/disco

Transforms your open browser tabs into interactive AI apps.

7. NotebookLM

https://notebooklm.google/

Upload PDFs, videos, documents, or notes and get summaries, study guides, quizzes, and podcast-style discussions.

8. Learn Your Way

https://learnyourway.withgoogle.com/

Creates a personalized AI course on any topic with lessons, audio, quizzes, and mind maps.

9. Google AI Studio

https://aistudio.google.com/

Prototype and build AI apps with Gemini using a free API key and a massive context window.

10. Jules

https://jules.google/

Assign it a GitHub issue, and it writes the code, makes the changes, and opens a pull request.

11. Gemini CLI

https://github.com/google-gemini

Use Gemini directly from your terminal to understand your codebase, run commands, and speed up development.

12. Code Wiki

http://codewiki.google/

Generate a living wiki for any public GitHub repository with architecture diagrams and AI-powered code explanations.

13. Firebase Studio

https://firebase.studio/

An AI workspace for building backend services and cloud applications.

14. Gemini Code Assist

https://codeassist.google/

Google’s free AI coding assistant with code completion, reviews, and IDE integrations.

15. Gemini Code Assist for GitHub

https://github.com/apps/gemini-code-assist

Review pull requests, explain code, and speed up development directly inside GitHub.

Save this list — you may already be paying for tools that one of these can replace.

Which one of these have you already tried? And which free AI tool should we add to the list next?

— r/aiecosystem Community