Submission by Conor Martin

Agora Live is a real-time AI debate platform where you click any country on a globe and two AI characters from that country start arguing about a real current news topic, in their own voice, accent, and slang. It makes current affairs actually engaging by turning live headlines into an entertaining argument between two opinionated characters who genuinely disagree, with a mic button so you can jump in and make your own case. ElevenLabs powers the whole voice layer: Conversational AI handles the Scholar agent as a live real-time voice session that listens and responds when you interrupt, while streaming TTS synthesises the Maverick agent sentence by sentence for near-zero gap between turns, with a distinct ElevenLabs voice matched to each character's persona. Every debate room runs on a Cloudflare Durable Object, a persistent stateful server on the edge that manages room state, enforces turn limits, proxies API calls so keys never reach the client, and sets cleanup alarms if a browser drops, with Cloudflare Workers handling the API, KV caching live news topics per country, and a Cron Trigger refreshing them every 48 hours.