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Chert, a Y Combinator P26 company, has open-sourced a WebRTC framework that lets AI agents join FaceTime audio and video calls, according to the project's GitHub repository. The release includes managed inbound call hand…
Cognition shipped macOS support and a Fusion local inference capability for its Devin coding agent in Devin Desktop and CLI, according to the company's blog. The releases move Devin beyond web-only sandbox execution to l…
Agentbox, a GitHub project by developer madarco, enables running multiple AI agents in parallel inside isolated sandboxed virtual machines on either a local PC or cloud infrastructure from a single command, according to …
Cursor released a Projects feature and a self-hosted machines capability that lets developers run coding-agent workloads on their own infrastructure instead of only in Cursor's default environment, according to the compa…
Pizza Bot released a self-hosted desktop application for Mac, Windows, and Linux that runs AI agents in the background behind an email-like interface for reviewing completed work and approvals, built on DeepAgents and La…
Skillsynch released txcript, a Rust library and CLI tool that converts and transfers agent sessions between Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Cursor, preserving messages, reasoning, and tool history where the target plat…
A developer published a troubleshooting guide explaining how to diagnose why Ollama falls back to CPU inference instead of using a GPU on Linux, Windows, and WSL. The guide centers on the `ollama ps` PROCESSOR column and…
A developer benchmarked llama.cpp serving Google's Gemma 4 E2B Q4_0 GGUF on a single laptop, comparing CPU-only inference against the machine's 4 GB GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q, with the two arms differing only by the -ngl flag. T…
A developer has launched Radio, a provider-agnostic communication layer that lets AI agents from different vendors and machines join a single shared conversation via a URL. Built as a core primitive of the team's Fractal…
SmartBear has made its BearQ agentic QA system available as an assignable testing agent in Atlassian Jira, following BearQ's March launch, letting teams set autonomy levels for autonomous testing of agentic software deve…
A developer running 84 containers across two servers as a one-person company described a self-healing setup built from three bash scripts totaling just over a thousand lines, designed to handle infrastructure failures th…
Unity Technologies launched the Unity CLI, a self-contained command-line binary for managing Unity, alongside the experimental Unity Pipeline package (com.unity.pipeline), according to a beginner's guide by Unity Technol…
A developer published an initial provisioning specification and compose templates on GitHub for running local LLMs, Open WebUI, and dev agents in isolated rootless containers with direct GPU acceleration. The specificati…
A browser-based tool converts Markdown into Discord-compatible Markdown, handling tables, code blocks, links, and long messages, with all conversion performed locally so no data leaves the user's browser. The tool also i…
A developer documented a reliable method for running GPU-accelerated VMAF video quality analysis on Windows using WSL2, Docker Desktop, the NVIDIA Container Toolkit, and a CUDA-enabled FFmpeg via the easyVmaf project. Th…
NeuroGrid released nrgrd, a terminal user interface coding agent that connects to any OpenAI-compatible inference endpoint, including NeuroGrid Marketplace deployments, vLLM, Ollama, and LM Studio. The tool runs an itera…
A developer released Padwan-LLM, a lightweight async Python client that unifies access to OpenAI, Gemini, Mistral, Grok, Anthropic, and any OpenAI-compatible API through a single interface. The package ships with one run…
Vercel has made AI Gateway Budgets generally available, a spend-cap feature that lets teams set dollar limits at the team, project, API-key, or individual-teammate level and rejects requests with an HTTP 402 once a limit…
VillageSQL demoed an early, unmerged build of custom HNSW vector indexes for MySQL at Percona Live in Amsterdam on September 9, 2026, adding vector search that stock MySQL 9.x lacks. In the demo, an HNSW-indexed table of…
A developer released taskpods, a dependency-free Python CLI that uses Git worktrees to give each coding-agent task its own working directory, branch, and index within a shared repository. The tool wraps any agent command…