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OpenAI has released Gpt-Image-2, a text-to-image generation model on Replicate that offers strong instruction following, sharp text rendering, and detailed image editing capabilities. The model accepts text prompts and o…
A new Chrome extension called Perplexity to Obsidian enables users to batch export and download their PerplexityAI conversations as Markdown files for use in Obsidian and other knowledge management tools. The tool suppor…
Zedra, a new mobile code editor built on Rust with GPUI, connects directly to desktop environments to allow users to run AI coding agents remotely via terminal. The app uses peer-to-peer networking over QUIC/UDP for secu…
A veteran software engineer with over 20 years of experience questioned why the Hacker News community is overwhelmingly critical of AI-generated code, arguing that users only care about working products, not how code is …
A new file format called `skill.md` provides agents with concise, actionable instructions for using a product's documentation, telling them where to start and what to avoid. Unlike `llms.txt`, which serves as a map of do…
Agent-ML-skills, a curated pack of 15 battle-tested machine learning skills, has been released to teach AI coding agents like Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor how to avoid common ML mistakes such as data leakage and scorin…
A new open-source tool called Apple Contacts MCP enables local AI agents to search, edit, and maintain Apple Contacts on macOS through a local-first MCP server. The server uses AppleScript automation and macOS privacy pr…
McDonald's is testing an AI voice-ordering system called ArchIQ at five U.S. drive-thru locations as part of its new McDonald's NEXT strategy, which CEO Chris Kempczinski unveiled this week to replace the prior Accelerat…
Cinderwright has built a payment bridge that allows an AI agent holding only USDC on Base to pay a Lightning Network invoice for the first time. The agent requested a joke from an L402 service and was charged $0.066 USDC…
Lite Agent, a new browser extension, redefines the AI agent by combining chat, page automation, voice input, memory, and encrypted backups into a single tool. The agent clicks buttons, fills forms, and takes voice comman…
Apple's current success remains driven by iPhone sales, with artificial intelligence not yet significantly impacting the company's business, according to Ranjan Roy, cofounder of Margins. Roy said the tech industry curre…
Two developers, Francis Tran and Elmar Chavez, built ClassifierAI, a prototype Chrome extension that automatically detects AI-generated content on the DEV platform. The extension analyzes an entire article and its cover …
A Java engineer learning TypeScript built a Weather API CLI that retrieves current weather data from the Open-Meteo API using async/await and fetch. The project demonstrates modeling API response shapes with TypeScript t…
OpenAI on February 13, 2026 launched Lockdown Mode, an optional advanced security setting for ChatGPT that deterministically disables tools attackers could use to exfiltrate data through prompt injection. The feature, in…
A new tool called Local MCP (LMCP) gives AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor direct access to desktop apps including Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Teams, Outlook, and Excel — all running locally without cloud serv…
A game developer has built FreeUltraCode, a local desktop application that provides access to over 20 free and low-cost large language model channels for AI-assisted coding. The tool, built with Tauri 2 and Rust, allows …
Apple's Mac Studio with M3 Ultra, offering up to 512 GB of unified memory at 819 GB/s, is the most practical desktop solution for running large local AI models like 70B to 400B-class quants without multi-GPU setups. Owne…
Mercor CEO Brendan Foody stated that AI models have become the core product, making software defensibility increasingly difficult, and that hiring top AI researchers can cost tens of millions of dollars in stock annually…
A developer has published Throughline, a hook plugin for Claude Code that offloads tool I/O to SQLite to reduce token consumption. In a 50-turn session, the plugin reduced context from 125,000 tokens to within 13,000 tok…
A developer at Humanswith.ai has open-sourced four MIT-licensed tools that measure and improve how AI engines cite client content rather than merely mentioning brand names. The tools, released as a free kit without requi…