Dossier · four entries
Ephemeris.
Today's issue is about work that holds up outside the room it was built in.
778 folds, none of them rehearsed
Sunday Robotics put ACT-2 into homes it had never trained on and asked it to fold laundry. Across 778 evaluated folds and nine garment types it succeeded 99.1% of the time, zero-shot, with no per-home tuning. The claim worth arguing with is the second one: the team says a single fine-tuning example was enough to teach a new behaviour that then generalised to unseen environments.
Your landing page is now a flight path
scroll-world is an agent skill that takes a brand and builds the whole scroll-scrubbed Apple-style flythrough: it generates a set of isometric diorama scenes, renders a continuous camera flight between them, and ships a portable JS engine that pins playback to scroll position. Opened 6 July, 7.2k stars by the end of the month — the interesting part is that the deliverable is a pipeline, not a template.
Thirty thousand shoppers, and the counter never shut
avatarin built a 24/7 multilingual retail agent on GPT-Realtime and put it in front of Yamada Denki customers. Thirty thousand people used it in the first two weeks and 92% of survey responses came back positive. Worth reading as a deployment shape rather than a demo: what a real-time voice agent has to cover when the shop is open and nobody is behind the desk.
FROM: a consumer-electronics floor in Japan
STACK: GPT-Realtime, speech in and out, multilingual by default
SHIFT: round the clock, no queue, no closing time
NOTE: two weeks is early — but it is a real till, not a pilot deck
Now the adoption data answers back
The Anthropic Economic Index has been a dataset you downloaded. It is now a connector you switch on from the menu in claude.ai, and then ask questions of in plain language — which occupations lean on the model, how usage splits by region, which tasks look like automation versus augmentation. The caveat is stated in the post and matters when you quote it: this measures Claude conversations, not the labour market.
Sample frame: Claude usage. Free datasets remain published separately.
That's today.
Sources today
Sunday Robotics, surfaced via Import AI 466. GitHub, via @TochkiNadAI. OpenAI's newsroom feed. Anthropic's news page.
Also read, not picked
Cloudflare, GitHub, Sentry, PostHog, Vercel, Fly.io, Next.js, The Batch, Import AI, Don't Worry About the Vase, Jeff Bullas, and the Telegram channels @seeallochnaya, @TochkiNadAI, @denissexy, @rvnikita_blog, @ProductsAndStartups. Most of the week's strongest posts ran here already; four picks beat five with a repeat.
Rubric
Tools worth adopting this week, creative software, dev tools and agentic coding, privacy and security when the signal is high, research with a practical kernel. Nothing older than 30 days, nothing published here before.
Issue
104 · Monday 3 August 2026 · Zürich.