AI Tools

At the Socitm President's Conference, local public service technology leaders discussed the challenges of local government reorganisation (LGR) and artificial intelligence (AI). Councils like Essex County Council are upg…

Elastic has agreed to acquire AI startup DeductiveAI for up to $85 million. DeductiveAI uses AI to detect and fix software bugs, and its technology will enhance Elastic's observability platform. The deal reflects a trend…

Anthropic launched Claude Code Artifacts in beta for Team and Enterprise subscribers, converting AI coding sessions into live, interactive HTML pages hosted at private URLs. The feature builds on the original Artifacts s…

Clioloop's Agentic Fusion pipeline uses multiple AI models with strict security boundaries to improve quality and safety. Planners and reviewers are read-only, while only the main model has tool access, enabling frontier…

Developer Toby released Flashback, an agent skill and browsable website that references 127 years of design trends from 1900 onward, built as a GitHub Pages project. The tool allows AI agents to look up historical design…

Drydock, a new open-source tool, runs autonomous coding agents like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex in hardware-isolated VMs on macOS, preventing compromised agents from accessing API keys, filesystems, or the internet. The…

Anthropic plans to shift to token- and credit-based billing for its Claude Agent SDK after developers raised concerns about unpredictable costs, while The Clearing House unveiled plans to move regulated commercial bank m…

Florida-based public safety technology company Aurelian has deployed an AI call-taker named Ava to answer police non-emergency phone lines, take reports, and route complaints. Aurelian CEO Max Keenan said roughly 70% of …

Recording meetings with AI tools is safe when vendors prioritize privacy through architecture, not just policy. A 9-question checklist helps buyers evaluate data storage, AI training opt-outs, and bot presence before com…

Email marketing teams that outperform competitors do not write individual emails; they write decision rules that automatically determine whether and which email to send based on user conditions. By optimizing deciding ov…

Anthropic added --safe-mode to Claude Code v2.1.169 to help users isolate whether a customization layer—such as CLAUDE.md rules, hooks, skills, plugins, or MCP servers—is causing broken behavior. Running with the flag di…

AI builders are losing income by pricing work based on time spent rather than value delivered, as AI tools drastically reduce task duration. Experts recommend fixed-price per outcome, value-based pricing, or retainers to…

Zoom's free plan lacks native transcription, but five genuinely free third-party methods exist in 2026, including Granola which captures device audio without a visible bot. Most alternatives are free trials or require pa…

Granola, an AI notepad, offers a method to record and summarize meetings across Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, and in-person settings without visible bots or stored audio. The tool captures device audio directly, deletes the …

A new workflow using AI notepad Granola allows users to jot key decisions during meetings and have AI expand them into structured minutes using full transcript context, avoiding generic summaries. The method distinguishe…

Manticore Search released version 27.1.5 with built-in authentication and authorization, sharded tables, conversational search, and faster vector search. The update also includes improvements to HNSW builds, faceting, an…

Amp announced a new feature allowing users to create custom agents via plugins, which can serve as main agents, subagents, or worker agents with custom orb colors. The Plugin API provides primitives for defining agents, …

AMD Radeon GPUs, both integrated and discrete, now support running large language models locally through open-source tools like Lemonade, LM Studio, Ollama, and llama.cpp. A new guide provides step-by-step instructions f…

The Open Knowledge Format (OKF) bundle is a new convention for packaging knowledge bases as a tree of Markdown files with typed front matter, enabling AI agents to ingest an entire corpus in a single fetch instead of scr…

A developer outlines a three-step process for authoring technical content with AI assistance, using separate prompt files for brainstorming and section generation. The method emphasizes crafting detailed initial prompts …