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Olaf Alders added a sorting feature to perlimports, the Perl module that tidies use statements, bringing it in line with import tidiers such as Go's goimports. The new --sort flag alpha-sorts contiguous imports, hoists f…
A competitor finished 93rd out of more than 6000 teams in the 3-month ROGII Wellbore Geology Prediction Kaggle competition, earning a silver medal with code written almost entirely by AI agents including Claude Code, Cod…
Supabase began rolling out Notebooks on September 2, 2026, a feature preview that replaces the SQL Editor's single-query scratchpad with a document mixing runnable SQL cells and markdown notes, according to a changelog p…
Hugging Face released Workflow1111, a Gradio Workflow rebuild of AUTOMATIC1111's stable-diffusion-webui feature set as a single canvas graph of eleven media pipelines built from seventy-three nodes. The Space, runnable b…
AI coding agents introduce security vulnerabilities both by writing insecure code directly and by installing third-party dependencies with known CVEs, often buried in sub-dependencies the agent never inspects, according …
Two Foundry released TrueForge, an MIT-licensed, model-agnostic open-source agent harness that adds sandboxing, code mode, human-in-the-loop approval gates, and context management to production AI agents. TrueForge runs …
Vercel is offering Tako Search free exclusively on its AI Gateway through September 30th. Tako Search is a model-agnostic search tool that works with any model on AI Gateway, combining a curated knowledge graph with the …
A 2026 National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, "Writing Code vs. Shipping Code," studied more than 100,000 GitHub developers and found large gains in coding activity across successive generations of AI tools …
Promptfoo version 0.122.2 can preserve citation evidence through its database and JSON exports if the data is captured explicitly, according to September 8 checks by OSS Radar. The built-in OpenRouter summary omitted the…
IMG.LY released CE.SDK v1.82, adding a full captions workflow to the Android video editor and clip-to-clip video transitions to iOS. The web editor gains customizable timeline controls, new Tabs and Stepper input UI comp…
Vercel now supports building and deploying long-running, tool-using agents with the OpenAI Agents API, with OpenAI managing the agent loop and session state while Vercel hosts the application and connects each session to…
A reference published by Digital Applied proposes a field-level policy for AI tool responses, advising developers to keep exact values needed for decisions and follow-up calls, summarize relevant bulk information, and re…
A PR security review benchmark across 16 repositories with planted vulnerabilities found OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra achieved the highest recall at 68% but cost $8.80 per PR, while DeepSeek V4.1 Flash matched Anthropic's Claude…
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash found 64% of planted vulnerabilities across 16 repositories at $0.42 per PR, making it the best value pick in a PR security review benchmark, while OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra found the most at 68% recall bu…
Amp now lets users choose the models behind its builtin modes and add their own custom agents to the Dial, with two tabs in Settings → Mode Dial for configuration. The Tune Modes tab lets users set the model and reasonin…
Claude Code version 2.1.267 adds MCP servers through the `claude mcp add` command, which writes the server entry to a config file and loads its tools on the next session, according to Anthropic's documentation checked 10…
A Digital Applied guide published September 12, 2026 argues that rising AI usage only shows more work is passing through an AI system, not that teams are completing more useful work, and proposes a decision record tying …
A proposed build workflow for coding agents advises developers to construct interactive product demos around a single visitor decision, with explicit labels distinguishing real application logic, sample data, and simulat…
SCX.ai is developing SCXSwiftKit, a toolkit to connect its hosted AI models with Apple's Foundation Models framework, according to Stockhead. The company described the move as an Australian-first entry into Apple's AI de…
Simon Willison released a browser-based .blend URL Viewer that renders Blender 3D model files, demonstrated with a Pluribus-themed Fabergé egg generated by OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra coding agent in Codex. Willison first produ…