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China Mobile has open-sourced Open-RAIL, an engineering base that connects vision-language-action (VLA) and world-action-model (WAM) systems with robot bodies, supporting four heterogeneous robots and 10 VLA or WAM model…
The Model Context Protocol released its 2026-07-28 version, formally locking in the MCP Apps extension that lets servers return isolated, interactive, stateful UIs embedded inline with agent responses. MCP Apps were prop…
A developer-authored explainer outlines what AI agents are and why companies are adopting them, defining an agent as an AI system that perceives its environment, plans, takes actions, and retains memory to complete goals…
A developer published a reusable prompt that instructs a coding agent to build a production-quality admin insights and operations dashboard inside an existing repository, adapting to the project's stack and business mode…
A developer published a step-by-step tutorial showing how to evolve a customer-support assistant from deterministic rule-based code into a full agentic AI system using Python. The progression moves through ten stages, in…
A developer outlined a five-step method for building a campus IT helpdesk chatbot using Tencent EdgeOne Makers, an integrated AI platform that lets institutions deploy AI agents without standing up their own server or AI…
RomeAILab has released Rome, an early-stage open-source "agentic OS" written in TypeScript that aims to let AI agents accumulate state, memory, and self-improvement across runs rather than starting from zero each convers…
A developer has published a step-by-step guide for migrating stateful agent logic from n8n prototypes into LangGraph production agents, arguing that only the orchestration layer needs to move rather than the entire workf…
OpenAI released GPT-Live-1 into its API on September 10, a full-duplex voice model priced at $0.05 per minute for the voice layer, with backend reasoning billed separately at the chosen model's own rate. Real-world total…
Vivo previewed BlueCode, a phone-based coding agent for AI-assisted software development on mobile devices, at vivo Developer Conference 2026. The company also said it is exploring a 30-billion-parameter BlueLM MoE model…
A full stack developer compared Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, concluding that no single AI coding tool is universally fastest and that each fits a different part of the development loop. The developer recommends Cursor…
A developer published a guide on tamiz.pro arguing that AI-generated tests should be treated as untrusted input and gated through four SDLC checks before merging. The proposed pipeline enforces test execution, coverage t…
A developer known as the_leon_odor is building ShrekOS, an operating system whose implementation was largely carried out by AI agents working against an architecture the developer defined. The developer argues that while…
A new security tool lets developers paste an npm package or MCP server install command and receive an automated risk assessment of the published files before running them, without executing any code. The scanner checks n…
A developer analyzed 35 days of Claude Code MCP connection logs covering 27,257 connections and found that OAuth token refreshes inside the connection window make sessions 5.8× slower (3,170 ms median vs 550 ms), with th…
A developer building agent UIs argues that teams should decide where the agent loop runs before designing the chat interface, sorting five libraries into three architectural shapes: a vendor runtime in the request path, …
Apple's iOS 27 introduces Region-Based Isolation, a Swift compiler feature that enforces data-race safety at compile time by tracking the memory regions of mutable values across async execution boundaries, eliminating th…
Patent.dev shipped single sign-on support in its self-hosted patent connector v1.14.1, letting self-hosters log in with Microsoft Entra or any OIDC provider and manage access through their existing organizational identit…
Developer dmtrKovalenko released Bashka, a static analyzer that inspects scripts run through the `curl … | bash` install pattern and scores them against more than 20 checks across four severity levels: 💀 critical, 🚩 red,…
Herdr 0.9 launched this week with multi-machine support, letting users manage AI coding agents running on multiple computers — including remote dev servers reachable over SSH — from a single window. Adding a machine once…