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A new evaluation benchmark, AA-Briefcase, measures frontier knowledge work performance, with models like Claude Opus 4.8 averaging 24 minutes per task and achieving an Elo of 1356, while MiniMax-M3 takes longer but score…
Amazon SageMaker AI now emits over 100 detailed inference metrics and provides a built-in Insights dashboard in Amazon CloudWatch, enabling teams to monitor and debug generative AI inference endpoints at scale. The dashb…
A developer launched an MCP server offering 337+ tools on a pay-as-you-go basis with no subscription, charging $5 for 500 calls. The server includes tools for weather, crypto, finance, web search, DNS, colors, AI chat, t…
Peter Harris published a Hackster.io project on June 12, 2026, demonstrating natural-language control of a Raspberry Pi 4 using Cursor AI and the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The project uses Orbit OS, an Android-like e…
Florida tech firm Aurelian has developed an AI-powered call taker named Ava to handle routine non-emergency police calls in Los Angeles, where 911 response times are lagging. The system addresses chronic dispatcher short…
A developer released Hermzner, an open-source tool that provisions a hardened Hermes AI agent on a Hetzner VPS using rootless Podman and Tailscale. The setup includes Terraform and Ansible scripts for deployment, with se…
Unsloth launched Unsloth Studio, a desktop application for Mac and Windows that runs AI models offline, supporting GGUF and Safetensors formats with tool-calling, web search, and an OpenAI-compatible API. The tool enable…
A developer canceled their $240/year ChatGPT subscription and built a private AI system running entirely on a 2018 laptop. Using Ollama, the nomic-embed-text model, and Qdrant vector database, they created a semantic mem…
Microsoft released VS Code 1.125 on June 17, fixing the remote browser proxy for SSH tunnels, adding a two-hour delay for extension auto-updates to improve security, and introducing a Copilot budget dashboard in the stat…
Luma Ray 3.2 Image to Video defeated Bernini-R Edit Video 16.2 to 12.3 in a head-to-head comparison of two AI video generation models, based on two fresh video tasks scored by GPT-5.4. Luma delivered superior mood, conti…
OpenMontage, the first open-source agentic video production system, has been released, enabling AI coding assistants to handle research, scripting, asset generation, editing, and final composition from plain-language des…
Intelica launched version 4.5.0 of its competitive intelligence API, charging AI agents $0.05 per call via the x402 payment protocol on Base and Solana mainnets. The API offers endpoints for single analysis, batch analys…
Everpure vice president Hope Galley and World Wide Technology technical solutions architect Justin Field said production-ready AI requires clean, governed, and well-understood data, not just high-performance storage. Fie…
The rise of AI-driven software development and CI/CD pipelines is challenging traditional vulnerability management systems like CVE and CVSS, as codebases are rapidly rewritten and vulnerabilities are automatically remed…
Frontpage launched an AI website builder that autonomously creates, edits, and A/B tests sites using real traffic data to optimize conversions, SEO, and growth. The platform targets marketers and creators, enabling them …
Nebula Security disclosed a new Nginx remote code execution 0-day affecting Fortune 500 companies. The vulnerability impacts Nginx Open Source versions 1.31.0 and 1.31.1 with HTTP/3 or QUIC enabled. Users are urged to up…
Alan Yahya details how Microsoft Word's multi-document agent workflows separate agent sessions, active documents, turn documents, and document versions to prevent errors when users move between documents. The system supp…
OpenAI introduced a Record & Replay plugin for Codex on macOS, allowing users to demonstrate tasks visually instead of writing prompts. The AI captures the workflow and converts it into a reusable automation skill that c…
A new study from Iowa State University finds that writing with AI requires more critical thinking from students, not less, challenging the assumption that AI serves as a shortcut. Researchers Abram Anders and Emily Dux S…
Signet launched a new open-source tool that preserves agent identity, memory, and secrets across model switches, storing state outside any single model or harness. The tool automatically distills sessions into structured…