The LinkLoot Blog

7/8/2026 5 min

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Test Grok Voice with 21 new voices before choosing a call-agent stack

xAI added 21 multilingual Grok Voice voices across its realtime Voice Agent API, Text to Speech API, and Voice Agent Builder, giving teams more voice-agent options to test before committing to a call automation stack.

7/8/2026 5 min

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Use Gemini Managed Agents for long-running MCP work without babysitting timeouts

Google expanded Managed Agents in the Gemini API with background execution, remote MCP server integration, custom functions, and credential refresh. The practical shift is simple: agent runs can last longer, call more tools, and survive more real workflow plumbing without forcing developers to keep a client connection open.

7/7/2026 5 min

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Run GitHub Copilot agents on desktop without a paid Copilot plan

7/7/2026 5 min

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Test Tencent Hy3 before choosing your next open agent model

Tencent Hy3 is now public on Hugging Face and OpenRouter with Apache-2.0 weights, a 295B MoE design, 21B active parameters, and a 256K-class context window.

7/7/2026 3 min

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Debug Vercel agent runs from MCP or the CLI

Vercel now exposes eve Agent Runs through MCP tools and CLI commands, so teams can inspect traces, reasoning, tool calls, token usage, lifecycle events, and subagent data without staying inside the dashboard.

7/6/2026 5 min

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Use Alberta's Claude Code rollout as a checklist for AI security reviews

Anthropic says Alberta used Claude Code to scan 466 million lines of government code in 20 hours. The useful lesson is the operating model: parallel agents, human review, controls, and clear limits.