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  1. August 13, 2026Experience Fix
    • Fixed

      Smoother Desktop Filter Scrolling

      Fixed content jumping when the desktop filters switch between expanded and compact modes, with steadier behavior near the transition point.

    • Improved

      Improved More Filters Interaction

      The More Filters panel now closes with Escape, outside clicks, and breakpoint changes, then restores keyboard focus.

  2. August 11, 2026Phase 3 · Product Loop

    Currents grows from a content product into a complete, discoverable one: Agent Access and global Feedback are live, and site search no longer covers only the blog.

    • New

      Agent Access Page

      A new Agent Access page: five read-only tools, MCP connection configs, Skill installation, verification questions, and troubleshooting. Invite-only, read-only, bilingual.

    • New

      Global Feedback Page

      A new standalone Feedback page: product issues, feature ideas, source suggestions, and Agent access problems — all anonymous. In-context content correction stays on detail pages, renamed to Report a content issue.

    • New

      Persistent Currents Navigation

      All Currents pages share a persistent left rail — Featured, All Updates, Hot Board, AI Daily, Topics, Favorites, and Agent Access are one click away. On mobile it folds into a drawer.

    • Improved

      Site Search Covers Currents

      Site search no longer indexes only the blog: feature pages, topics, and the changelog are all searchable — searching MCP, Skill, Agent, or Feedback takes you straight to the right page.

  3. August 7, 2026Phase 2 · Event Foundation & Quality Gate

    The Hot Board moves from real-time aggregation to a persistent event layer: every event now has a stable identity, a lifecycle, and a bilingual summary. The main board gains an explicit quality bar, and low-confidence clusters move to a separate Watching section.

    • Fixed

      Report Withdrawal & Event Split

      Withdrawn or invalidated reports now correctly leave their events and trigger a recalculation of heat and qualification, instead of lingering as stale content. Mistakenly merged events can now be split reliably once their semantics are corrected, with the original event identity always traceable.

    • New

      Event Layer

      Reports of the same story are merged into one event with a stable identity that keeps tracking new developments. Merges are traceable, and report updates refresh the event's real activity time.

    • New

      Hot Board Type Tabs

      The Hot Board now switches between All, News, Products, and Research, so you can focus on the kind of events you care about.

    • New

      Watching Section

      Clusters that don't yet qualify — single-source, aggregator-only, or lacking community traction — are listed under Watching, keeping the main board clean.

    • Improved

      Main Board Quality Bar

      The main board now requires at least two independent reports, or one official source with significant community discussion. Paper listing entries (arXiv / HF Daily Papers) no longer qualify on their own.

    • Improved

      Event Summaries & Heat

      High-confidence events get auto-generated bilingual summaries and progress notes. Heat combines independent report count with community traction, sampled every 3 hours.

    • Fixed

      Duplicate Sources & Shared URLs

      Fixed repeated fetches from one source being counted as multiple reports. Different outlets referencing the same URL are now credited independently.

  4. August 6, 2026Batch 2 · incl. Phase 7

    This batch moves Currents beyond a plain timeline — you can now browse by events and topics, and deep reading is completed with full-text translation. It also includes the Phase 7 layout refinement (three densities and a re-layered timeline).

    • New

      Hot Board

      A new Hot Board groups events reported by multiple outlets within 48 hours, showing each event's status, heat score, and distinct source count. When nothing qualifies, it automatically falls back to the last 7 days instead of showing an empty page.

    • New

      Topic Map

      A new Topic Map organizes 38 topics — OpenAI, Anthropic, agents, reasoning, robotics, and more — into company & model, technical direction, and content-type groups, each linking to a full topic feed.

    • New

      Topic Detail Pages

      Every topic now has its own page with a description, a full paginated timeline, bilingual SEO metadata, and sitemap coverage.

    • New

      Original Text Translation

      Detail pages gain an Original Translation tab alongside the AI summary and deep read. Featured archive entries have been backfilled, and new entries are translated automatically as they arrive.

    • New

      Three Reading Densities

      The timeline now offers compact, standard, and comfortable densities (standard by default). Your choice is remembered in the browser and synced across tabs.

    • Improved

      Fuller Source Material

      Both new and archived entries now carry fuller source text. Papers use clean abstracts instead of noisy scraped page content.

    • Improved

      Clearer Card Hierarchy and Timeline Layout

      Recommendation reasons, tags, and multi-source info are re-layered; the desktop timeline breathes more and high-score items stand out at a glance.

    • Fixed

      Read Cards Hiding Their Titles

      Fixed read cards collapsing their titles in standard and comfortable densities — now only the summary folds away, and the title always stays visible.

    • Fixed

      Category and Source Display on Detail Pages

      Fixed detail pages showing untranslated category names and incorrect source or author labels.

  5. August 5, 2026Phase 6

    The largest single-day upgrade since launch: Currents grew from a working MVP into a full AI news product.

    • New

      Standalone Detail Pages

      Every item now has its own shareable, bookmarkable URL with full SEO metadata and structured data. Legacy overlay links redirect automatically.

    • New

      Three Views: Selected, All, Papers

      Three top-level views — Selected, All Updates, and Papers — plus category, source, and minimum-score filters introduced in this phase, so you can browse at your own depth.

    • New

      Currents Daily

      A daily digest is generated automatically: one headline plus five sections — models, products, industry, research, and tips & opinions — with browsable archives.

    • New

      Today's Highlights

      The timeline opens with one lead story and four supporting stories; the section hides itself automatically when there isn't enough material.

    • New

      Read-State Dimming

      Items you've read are dimmed automatically (tracked locally in your browser) so you can focus on what's new.

    • Improved

      Major Source Expansion

      Thirteen field-verified sources were added — official blogs from Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, GitHub, and Cloudflare, plus international and Chinese tech media — with AI-relevance filtering on general outlets to keep noise down.

    • Improved

      Archive Backfilled to Early July

      The archive was backfilled day by day to July 1, 2026 — over two thousand entries — so the timeline has no gaps.

    • Improved

      Fully Clickable Cards

      Cards are now real links, so open-in-new-tab, middle-click, and other native browser behaviors work as expected.

    • Fixed

      All Updates Wasn't Showing Everything

      Fixed the All Updates view silently hiding lower-scored items — it now genuinely shows everything.

  6. August 5, 2026Launch · Phases 1–5

    Currents officially launched — from kickoff to production in a single day.

    • Announcement

      Currents Is Live

      A brand-new AI news section: content is collected daily from arXiv, Hugging Face, Hacker News, and official research blogs, then enriched by AI into bilingual titles, summaries, a 0–100 recommendation score, a one-line reason to read, and an in-depth analysis. Multi-source coverage of the same story is merged and deduplicated automatically.

    • New

      Bilingual Full-Text Search

      Full-text search in both Chinese and English, with category filters.

    • New

      Local Favorites

      Bookmark items without an account — favorites are stored only in your own browser.

    • New

      Bilingual RSS Feeds

      Chinese and English RSS feeds, with per-category subscriptions available.

  7. August 5, 2026Phase 0

    Feasibility checks before the build began, paving the way for same-day launch.

    • Announcement

      Project Kickoff and Environment Checks

      Verified that the AI collection and processing pipeline could run safely on existing infrastructure — at zero added cost and with no impact on services already in production. The build began the same day.

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