Cursor, now part of SpaceXAI, launched Origin, a code hosting platform that rivals GitHub, on the same day GitHub suffered a six-hour worldwide outage with a nearly 20 percent error rate. Origin allow…
A new open-source macOS app, DesktopFly, simulates a 3D fruit fly on the desktop using a live spiking simulation of the real FlyWire connectome, with 23,210 neuron soma positions from FlyWire v783 and…
Qualcomm open-sourced its Modular AI software platform at ModCon 2026, making the Apache 2.0-licensed code available on GitHub. The move aims to create a cross-platform AI stack that runs on various h…
Claire Vo, host of the How I AI podcast, tested xAI's Grok Bot, Grok 4.6, and Cursor Origin, finding that Grok Bot's multi-account connectors are a unique feature that made her actually use the produc…
GitHub shipped two upgrades for JetBrains Copilot users on August 11: Ollama is now a supported bring-your-own-key provider in the plugin, and persistent memory now carries context across agent sessio…
Mistral.AI in Paris now hosts Z.ai's GLM-5.2 model on its EU infrastructure, offering users enhanced digital rights protections. Developer simbo1905 has patched the Mistral Vibe coding harness to supp…
HarnessRouter Community Edition, an Apache 2.0 licensed project on GitHub, has been released as a self-hosted unified API for running Codex, Claude Code, Hermes, and other agent harnesses on a single …
An engineer from the project argues that AI agents must treat network timeouts as a distinct 'outcome_unknown' state rather than as failures or successes, to prevent duplicate operations in production…
Block Inc., the fintech company behind Square and Cash App, has open-sourced Berd, a desktop application for managing AI agents, on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license. Built on Tauri 2 and React 19, …
A four-week effort using Anthropic's Claude Code CLI with Sonnet 5 agents has decompiled 34% of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009), producing nearly 7,000 commits and consuming 199.8 billion tokens…
SineKAN, a new variant of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) that replaces B-spline activations with sine functions, may outperform traditional B-splines for certain tasks such as physics-informed neur…
A developer known as pleomax00 created claude-speaks, a zero-dependency Python tool that integrates Claude Code with ntfy to send iOS push notifications, enabling a locked iPhone to announce when a pr…
Block Inc. has added an experimental self-hosted Git forge called Buzz Projects to its open-source workspace Buzz, enabling users to host Git repositories, code reviews, and discussions on a user-cont…
Liquid AI, an AI company, released an open-source byte-pair encoding (BPE) tokenizer trainer called toktoktok on GitHub, built autonomously by two coding agents using Claude Opus 4.5 and Codex with GP…
A developer detailed an event-driven architecture for AI agents that replaces polling loops with Redis Streams and idempotent workers. The approach eliminates tail latency, cascading API rate limits, …
GitHub's August 17, 2026 outage, which lasted nearly eight hours and affected API requests, Actions, pull requests, Issues, webhooks, and Copilot, was exacerbated by authentication-token retries that …
Flownie, an AI-powered visual data pipeline tool, reduces the time needed to build and deploy data workflows by using an AI agent to handle glue code and transformation logic, according to a field rep…
Modular Inc. has open-sourced the Mojo programming language compiler and toolchain under the Apache 2.0 license with LLVM exceptions, making the full source code available in its GitHub repository. Th…
A developer has released StackBridge-MCP, an open-source Model Context Protocol server that tracks cross-boundary contracts in full-stack codebases to prevent AI coding agents from silently breaking f…
GitHub suffered a widespread service degradation on August 17 that disrupted its web interface, API, Actions, pull requests, webhooks and Copilot, with BleepingComputer reporting error rates of about …