Qualcomm agreed to acquire Modular for nearly $4 billion, while Cursor quietly acquired open-source coding assistant Continue and Elastic acquired AI SRE startup Deductive AI for up to $85 million. De…
A new guide shows developers how to build a private AI coding assistant using Ollama, Continue, and MCP, with benchmarks from real-world workstations.…
Cursor has acquired Continue, the open-source AI coding assistant, in an acqui-hire that disables recurring billing and gives users until July 15 to export data before deletion. The deal, reported by …
A developer reports that running local LLMs for code completion is now faster and more private than using cloud APIs. Using Ollama with a 7B model on an M3 Max MacBook Pro, they achieved sub-second co…
Cursor has acquired Continue, an open-source coding assistant and alternative to GitHub Copilot, in a move that consolidates the AI developer tools market. The acquisition brings Continue's open-sourc…
A developer created claude-init, a CLI tool that generates 13 AI coding-assistant context files (including CLAUDE.md, Cursor rules, and AGENTS.md) from a single command. The tool analyzes a repository…
The Continue plugin v1.2.20 patches memory leaks, unhandled exceptions, and JCEF message chunking crashes across JetBrains and VS Code adapters, fixing crash vectors that cause sidebar hangs and autoc…
Node 26.3.1 patches 11 CVEs in TLS and WebCrypto, requiring immediate updates for untrusted code execution. Ruff v0.7 fixes inconsistent pytest rule defaults from v0.6, with auto-applicable fixes via …
The US government banned Anthropic's new AI model, Fable, restricting its use to US citizens only, which could boost China's influence as other countries turn to open-source models from Chinese develo…
Seven open-source AI projects—Ollama, Open WebUI, Browser Use, vLLM, Unsloth, CrewAI, and Continue—are reshaping production software development in June 2026. Ollama, with 174,000+ GitHub stars, now o…
Sentinel, a new open-source tool, scans codebases of up to 25,000 files in 55 seconds to generate structured, token-efficient context packs for AI coding agents. It operates entirely offline with zero…
A developer has published a guide for setting up a local AI coding assistant in VS Code using Continue and Ollama, achieving tab autocomplete and code chat entirely on-device. The setup requires a GPU…
A growth marketer at a small agency shipped Myco Brain, an open-source memory layer for AI agents, in three months by directing AI coding agents. The self-hosted system runs on Postgres, uses determin…
FusionHarness, an open-source mixture-of-agents compound-model server, was released as a self-hostable alternative to OpenRouter's Fusion API. It fans out prompts to a panel of LLMs in parallel, uses …
Continue, an open-source coding agent startup, has been acquired by Cursor. The acquisition aims to further the mission of amplifying developers rather than automating them. Continue's open-source cod…
QodFlow launched a Kanban board that lets AI agents like Claude and Cursor collaborate with human teams via the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The platform offers token-scoped agent actions, human-in-t…
A solo developer shipping 7 Mac apps uses VS Code with rust-analyzer, a three-tier AI stack of local Ollama autocomplete, Gemini for quick lookups, and Claude for complex Rust bugs, plus iTerm2 and a …
Anthropic's Claude Code can be redirected to any compatible backend using a single environment variable, `ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL`, enabling caching, rate-limit pooling, multi-vendor routing, and audit log…
Vatnode has released vatnode-mcp, an official Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables AI assistants to validate EU VAT numbers, retrieve registered company names, and look up VAT rates for al…
Their journey testing various AI coding tools, including GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Pro, before settling on an optimal setup of VS Code with the Claude Code Extension and the MAX Plan. They fo…