Happy Thursday Photon Community,

This week at Photon: we shipped rich text styling in our Advanced iMessage Kit, opened applications for Chapter II of the Photon Residency, and are deep in GTC week with side events happening right now. We're making agent conversations feel truly native, one expressive detail at a time.

Feature Updates

Native Text Styling Now in Advanced iMessage Kit

Your agents can now send messages with bold, italic, underline, and strikethrough - rendered perfectly in native iMessage bubbles.

• Conversations feel richer, clearer, and actually human

• Part of our open-source Advanced iMessage Kit

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Mimiclaw x Photon Partnership Spotlight

Last week we partnered with Mimiclaw, running Openclaw on a $5 ESP32 chip, to connect their pocket AI assistant directly to iMessage.

• Zero changes to their core logic, just plugged into our infrastructure

• Made lightweight, hardware-bound agents reachable in real conversations

Read the Blog

Community Highlights

Photon Residency – Chapter II

We just reopened our flagship Photon Residency program.

• 1 week in San Francisco (May 18th–25th, 2026)

• All expenses covered (flights, housing, food, everything)

• Build side-by-side with the world's top talents

APPLY NOW: https://photonhq.typeform.com/residency2

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Community Highlights

GTC House Party with AI Agents

Intimate house party during GTC with founders, researchers, and investors from AnumaAI, Axis Robotics, Rena Labs, eaHash.

Photon team on deck to discuss agent messaging infrastructure and next-gen interfaces.

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Community Highlights

Ambassador Program – Rolling Applications Open

Our $100k Ambassador Program continues accepting applications on a rolling basis.For builders who ship in public, care about product feel, and want to make agents reachable to normal people.

Official support, unlimited SDK access, performance bonuses.

Join the Ambassador Program

We're Hiring

Objective-C Engineer — San Francisco

We're a small team doing big things —
and we need someone who can go deep on the Mac stack.

• Strong background in Objective-C

• Deep experience building for macOS

• Skilled in reverse engineering

• Ships clean, high-quality code only

• Uses AI agents to 10x their productivity

View the Job Listing

That's all for this week.

We believe agents should reach everyone —
and we're building every day to make it happen.

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Photon is building the Twilio for AI agents — enabling agents to live inside existing messaging surfaces like iMessage, phone calls, email, WhatsApp, Instagram, Slack, and more. Our open-source kits have driven 200k+ impressions and adoption from thousands of developers.

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