Mercury 1.4: plugins, WhatsApp calls, and an agent at your desk
Mercury 1.4 adds isolated plugins and two official ones: WhatsApp chat with voice calls both ways, and Optimus, which sees your screen and uses your mouse.
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Releases, announcements and what changed for people running Mercury. 4 posts.
Salman Qureshi
The new bottleneck in AI coding isn't code generation. It's verification.
A Harvard working paper finds coding agents raised code output while review time rose 49%. Why verification, not generation, should decide whether an agent is useful.
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Agents exceeded their permissions: how to scope them
CERT-In says AI agents read live business records at Indian firms. Here is how least privilege, scoped access, approvals and audit logs should limit them.
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Mercury 1.3: an agent you can actually leave running
One background runtime that every terminal attaches to, bots that deliver real files and stay online, and a fleet you can run from Telegram. What changed in the 1.3 line and why.
Salman Qureshi