Software Sausage released six open-source AI workflow kits, each containing a README, an editable evidence ledger, and a dependency-free shell verifier. All 17 verifiers pass at release v0.17.0, and t…
Gooseworks, a Y Combinator-backed startup (YC W23) based in San Francisco, is hiring a Founding Creative Engineer to build self-improving AI agents that automate growth and ad creative for consumer br…
A security researcher found that AI coding agents, including Claude Code, Goose, Grok Build, Hermes, and Qwen Code, run git commands in the background without sanitizing the repository's own configura…
Instagram renamed its AI disclosure tag to "AI-generated profile" and will cut Reels and Explore reach for accounts built around wholly AI-generated people that skip the label, effective August 31, 20…
Instagram announced Monday it is renaming its 'AI creator' label to 'AI-generated profile' and will limit the reach of accounts featuring AI-generated people that are not properly disclosed. The chang…
A vibe-coded social app, Zabriskie, collapsed during a Goose concert at Red Rocks on August 28, when its home page, the Lot, failed to load for up to 40 seconds due to a connection pool deadlock in th…
Goose, an open-source AI agent framework originally created by Block and donated to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), enables users to build reusable, parameterized agentic workflows called recipes, w…
A developer at Dremio has created the Open Agent Profile (OAP) specification, a file format for defining persistent, named AI agents that can move between different tools. The shift from session-based…
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…