Block has open-sourced Berd, a desktop application that manages AI agents across projects, skills, tools, and models, emphasizing visible context as a key design principle. The app, built with Tauri 2…
Vercel Labs released fx, an open-source (Apache-2.0) coding agent harness and CLI written in Zig, optimized for research and embeddability, with a 7.8 MiB binary. The tool supports local and cloud inf…
A developer built a Nuxt app with an AI agent powered by Anthropic's Claude via Amazon Bedrock, and integrated tool approval from AI SDK 7 to require user permission before executing file-deletion too…
Octoweb, a keyboard-first WebKit browser written in Rust with about 25,000 lines, reached version 0.10.0, integrating the Octomind AI agent as a native citizen rather than a bolted-on chat panel. The …
Cognition is in talks to raise a new funding round at a valuation of at least $40 billion, a 54% jump from its $26 billion valuation three months ago, with revenue approaching $1 billion annualized. T…
Agent-shell 0.73, a native Emacs mode for interacting with AI agents via the Agent Client Protocol, introduces chat mode as the default interface, a new 'latest' expansion option for grouped activity,…
Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash model cuts inference costs by half while improving code generation accuracy, with FrontierCode scores rising from 34.4% to 43.6%. Z.ai's GLM 5.2, a 1M-token open-weights mode…
Zed Industries launched Delta, a standalone multiplayer coding environment, into private beta on August 12, featuring DeltaDB, a CRDT-based sync engine that captures every edit operation between commi…
Vercel's AI SDK harness layer now supports any Agent Client Protocol (ACP)-compatible harness through the new @ai-sdk/harness-acp package, which wraps the protocol as a meta adapter instead of a singl…
JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA now supports AI agents through the Agent Client Protocol (ACP), a standardized contract between the IDE and coding agents, with bundled agents including Codex, Claude Agent, a…
JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA 2024.2 introduces five key AI features, including AI completion that predicts next edits, in-editor code generation via Ctrl+\, AI Actions for explain/test/documentation, and …
JetBrains has introduced Agent Skills in IntelliJ IDEA, enabling AI agents to gain additional capabilities and knowledge for agentic development. The Skills Manager allows developers to install skills…
JetBrains WebStorm now supports the Agent Client Protocol (ACP), an open standard that lets developers use any ACP-compliant AI agent, including those from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, without a Jet…
Perihelion, a 13 MB Rust-based coding agent compatible with Claude Code plugins and skills, launches with support for multiple API providers including DeepSeek, GLM, Qwen, and Anthropic, achieving 98%…
Poolside released a macOS desktop app, Poolside Desktop Assistant, that runs multiple coding agents across projects and repositories, built on the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) to support agents from Cl…
Moonshot AI released Kimi Code CLI, an MIT-licensed terminal coding agent that reads and edits code, runs shell commands, and loops on results, as a ground-up TypeScript rewrite of its predecessor. Th…
A developer built a native desktop client for xAI's open-source Rust coding agent grok-build, using Tauri 2 for an ~8 MB binary with a React frontend and Rust runtime that communicates with the CLI ov…
JetBrains released ReSharper 2026.2, introducing ACP-based AI agent support in Visual Studio with Junie in Preview, enabling developers to choose their own agents and models without vendor lock-in. Th…
Block released Buzz, an open-source workspace where AI agents operate as full team members with cryptographic identities, on Tuesday. The company argues that the bottleneck for AI agent integration ha…
Agent-shell 0.63, an Emacs mode for interacting with AI agents via the Agent Client Protocol (ACP), adds two new agents, a markdown renderer extensible by third-party packages, inline image rendering,…