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Explaining how to build a real-time collaborative whiteboard, similar to Excalidraw, using Next.js, HTML5 Canvas, and the Velt collaboration SDK. It details using Velt's MCP (Model Context Protocol) and AI agents to auto…
Agent.Email, a signup flow from YC S25 company AgentMail that allows AI agents to create their own email inboxes via curl commands, bypassing traditional human-centric verification. The process involves an agent signing …
A self-hosted AI agent built by an engineering manager to automate invoice data extraction from photos sent via WhatsApp. The system uses a workflow orchestration tool (n8n) to receive images, pass them to Google's Gemin…
At Google I/O 2026, Google announced it is expanding the Google Home platform into a full-stack AI offering called Gemini for Home, providing service providers and hardware manufacturers with APIs and tools to build proa…
Markus is an open-source platform (AGPL-3.0) for building and managing teams of AI agents that work collaboratively with defined roles, skills, and communication protocols. Unlike proprietary systems, it allows users to …
Building a custom on-device Agent Skill called "Offline Brain" for Android using Google's new AI Edge Gallery, which allows AI inference and tool execution to happen entirely on the device without sending data to a serve…
AI2Work, an on-chain marketplace built on Celo where autonomous AI agents solve GitHub bounties and receive payment in USDC, CELO, or cUSD. Users post bounties (e.g., "Fix this Rust memory leak — 100 USDC"), AI agents cl…
The article benchmarks six communication methods for AI agents, including REST polling, webhooks, WebSockets, and MQTT, testing each for round-trip time and reliability under real network conditions. The author found tha…
Markus is an open-source (AGPL-3.0) platform that functions as an operating system for creating and managing AI digital employees, allowing users to hire agents with specific skills and assign them autonomous tasks withi…
DevLab, a new feature of the web agency tool SiteBrief that automatically detects common website misconfigurations—such as exposed debug modes, missing security headers, and absent robots.txt files—and generates fixes wi…
0.1.0 release of the Agent Development Kit (ADK) for Kotlin and a specialized ADK for Android, enabling developers to build AI agents for backend and on-device applications. The Android version allows agents to run local…
Runtime (YC P26) is a platform that provides sandboxed, pre-configured coding agents for entire teams, integrating with tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot. It allows users to build specialized agents for tasks s…
A 30-day production test at Nexus Labs compared three AI gateways—Bifrost, LiteLLM, and Portkey—measuring failover latency and overhead. Bifrost added 11ms p99 overhead with automatic provider fallback, while LiteLLM and…
A global AI platform failed for users in Cameroon because it did not support French and pidgin English, leading to encoding errors and inaccessible models. After initially failing to adapt the platform's existing APIs, t…
New AI tool built using DigitalOcean's Inference Router that determines whether a task requires a meeting or can be handled via email. The router uses different large language models (LLMs) for each task—a cheaper, faste…
At Google I/O 2026, Google announced expanded integration between AI Studio and Google Cloud, allowing new users to deploy up to two full-stack applications on the Starter Tier without a billing account or credit card. T…
Public preview of AppLifecycle Manager Feature Flags (ALM FF) on Google Cloud, which allows teams to deploy code to production with new features disabled by default and gradually enable them using rule-based toggles. Thi…
GitHub has published a new accessibility strategy focused on engaging the global developer community, shifting from an internal focus over the past five years to outward initiatives. Key efforts include an Open Source As…
Technical guide for platform engineers and .NET developers on building an AI-powered Internal Developer Portal (IDP) using Backstage. The tutorial explains how to create a .NET CLI tool that scans source code and uses a …
MacPaw, the company behind Setapp and CleanMyMac, announced two major updates to its developer experience: a new AI Gateway providing secure access to multiple AI models, and new marketplace capabilities allowing develop…