Derek Chadwick, cofounder of the gay dating app Goose, resigned after an investigation by Wired revealed the app used AI-generated fake influencer accounts to lure men into signing up. Chadwick announ…
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…
Block released Bird, a free, open-source desktop app that unifies multiple AI coding agent harnesses—including Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Amp, Cursor agent, and Goose—into a single interface,…
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, …
On Thursday, August 13, Goose opened its West Coast run in San Diego with 'Animal,' drawing 16 GOING and 17 COUCH RSVPs in the Zabriskie app, which generated 160 Chomp messages and 48 reactions across…
Gooseworks (YC W23), a San Francisco-based startup founded by the team behind Athina AI, is hiring a founding builder/engineer to develop self-improving AI agents that automate ad creative for consume…
A new comparison of eight open-source agent workspace tools — cmux, Superset, Orca, Paseo, Herdr, T3 Code, Goose, and Warp — finds they split into three distinct categories: agent workspaces, terminal…
Nori Agentic's GTM Intern Gaurav created an interactive web walkthrough of CTO Cliff's blog post explaining the agent stack, from user input to datacenter and back, at the-agent-stack.com. The site ai…
An engineer argues that the term 'agent' has become so diluted that it is causing real engineering mistakes, and that most production agent deployments are narrow, purpose-built pipelines rather than …
A developer has released phi, a 12 MB terminal coding agent written in Go that supports any OpenAI-compatible or Anthropic-native model via a pluggable config. The tool features read-only defaults, ha…
A developer argues that the term 'agent' is being overused, causing engineering mistakes, and proposes a precise definition: an agent is a system with an objective, not just an instruction. The develo…
A developer reports that the AI harness Pi from pi.dev ignored MCP server instructions and deviated from project skills during a Clojure-to-Common-Lisp port, while the Goose harness from Goose-docs.ai…
Jack Dorsey's Block has launched Buzz, a group chat app built on the open-source Goose AI agent framework that lets AI agents like Claude Code and Codex join team conversations as first-class members,…
A new agent skill enforces ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English, the controlled language used in aerospace since 1983, to force LLMs to write unambiguous technical documentation. In 96 runs across …
Block's open-source project Goose is moving to an issues-first contribution model, replacing pull requests as the primary mechanism for outside contributions, because coding agents have made producing…
A developer using Claude Code's desktop app since March 2024 reports that large language models have transformed software development, collapsing traditional two-week sprints into hours and making rol…
A developer warns that the term 'agent' is being diluted, causing real engineering mistakes, and argues that most real agent deployments are narrow, purpose-built pipelines. The developer defines an a…
Block released Buzz on July 21, an open-source workspace where AI agents operate under cryptographic identities, signing every action for auditability. The platform assigns each agent a Nostr private …
Belay, an open-source local-first security layer, gates every tool call an AI coding agent makes, blocking destructive commands, secret leaks, and dangerous MCP tool calls in under 100ms with no LLM i…
At Agents of SigNoz, a team built Goose, an observability tool that catches silent AI quality failures in RAG systems by monitoring quality scores and tool output validity, alerting when quality drops…