Idol is a tool that turns a single photo, render or generated image of an object into a 3D Gaussian splat, removing the background and writing a standard .ply. It runs on consumer GPUs with 7.2 GB VRAM in under two minutes.
A community release offers a Heretic v2 quantization of a Swift 1.5 Flash Next model, built with a collaborator's updated heretic weights to preserve reasoning and output length.
Why it matters: Adds real payment rails including FedNow to agentic commerce workflows.
Natural's Direct product handles the point where an automated workflow still needs a person to move money, adding ACH, wire, RTP and FedNow payment rails for AI agents.
Why it matters: A major retail AI assistant push shows how conversational shopping is being productized.
Amazon introduced over 100 new capabilities for its Alexa for Shopping AI assistant, aimed at making every part of shopping more convenient, said VP of conversational shopping Rajiv Mehta.
Cloudera introduced Blueprints, an offering that connects enterprise data to AI, plus a collaboration with Mistral to bring open-weight models closer to enterprise data workloads.
Why it matters: Reddit is walling off content as AI answer engines erode referral traffic.
Reddit said it will move to a primarily logged-in experience, pushing visitors to sign in, as search traffic declines and AI scraping pressure grows. The change is among the biggest in its 21-year history.
Howler is a chat app that lets users ask AI questions without keeping local chat history, wiping the conversation afterward, styled like a kids' fantasy novel.
Amazon's unrealized AI investments weighed on income, but AWS and advertising continued growing. The company is adding AI features to its ads business.
Fortinet is using its installed firewall base as an entry point for new AI security offerings.
Why it matters: Extends Meta's AI consumer apps into personal styling built on Instagram data.
Style Sketch is a Meta AI app that connects to Instagram to build a virtual closet from photos you've shared, or lets you add items manually by snapping a photo, recording video or uploading images.
A ComfyUI wildcards node bundles 1,500-plus visual styles for the Krea 2 image model, built with Claude, and reportedly works with Qwen 2.1 and Kroma too.
Why it matters: Investors are pricing in AI search cannibalizing Google's core ad business.
Alphabet stock slid sharply amid investor worry over AI disruption to Google Search, with reports saying AI Mode carries lower monetization and is getting more ads. Bloomberg noted a joint-venture contribution to cloud growth.
Suno Studio now has an auto-stretch choice for imported audio, adjusting tracks to fit the project's tempo, a small workflow update for the AI music production tool.
Celestia introduced Voyager, a blockchain aimed at letting AI agents make payments, adding a settlement layer to the emerging agentic commerce stack.
Why it matters: A rogue personal agent on a classified-adjacent network shows agent governance gaps in government.
Sources told WIRED an Accenture employee's personal Claude AI agent operated on a Department of Defense network for two months before it was found and the vulnerability patched, highlighting rogue-agent risk.
Adobe widened Firefly's AI video editing, adding more tools across its applications, according to Softonic, extending generative video work inside Adobe's editing ecosystem.
Meta will now notify parents when teens repeatedly search for self-harm content on Facebook, and will also notify them about teens' conversations with Meta AI.
agentY is a free, open-source AI agent that lives inside ComfyUI and builds node workflows from a prompt. It runs on any LLM, including cheap Qwen and DeepSeek models or local Ollama setups.
Floo AI announced the launch of a platform for building and running AI voice agents, per MarTech Cube.
Baseten's Base Labs released joey-1, a 2B-parameter decision model priced at $0.01 per million tokens via Baseten Model APIs, with open weights on Hugging Face.
XImagineAI updated its multi-model AI video generator, which combines several models behind one tool, with improved image-to-video and text-to-video generation.
Pika-H3-Flex is a finetuned version of MiniMax H3 for video generation, released with open weights on Hugging Face, code on GitHub and ComfyUI workflows.
Anthropic raised the bar for legal AI with new interactive artifact tools in Claude for Legal, according to the ABA Journal, letting legal users work with generated documents and tools inside Claude.
Talk Kit is a voice agent from Bigly Sales that lets any website talk back to visitors, taking spoken questions and responding on the page.
Why it matters: The Model Spec is a public reference for how frontier labs align model behavior to human intent.
OpenAI revised its Model Spec, organizing guidance around five core values to steer model judgment, respect human agency and remain faithful to human intent, with human intent placed at the center.
A developer paired the Kokoro text-to-speech model with OpenVoice's ToneColorConverter so it can clone a voice while adding only about 600 MB of VRAM, reusing the voice-conversion stage separately from the TTS model.
Fanatics rebuilt its AI outfit curation tool Shop the Look using OpenAI; the new version generated 10% higher engagement in a pilot, Retail Dive reports.
Xmind, a mind-mapping app, added an AI agent that builds and edits mind maps for you, and made its platform accessible from ChatGPT and Claude so those assistants can drive it.
Why it matters: Longer AI clips with native audio push video generation closer to usable short-form content.
ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 video model produces 30-second AI videos with synchronized audio, according to The News International, extending clip length and adding sound generation.
A developer built Openjutsu, a free MIT-licensed ComfyUI node for one-click character swap in videos using MiniMax H3, amid reports Higgsfield is threatening to sue ComfyUI over its open-source challenge.
Tencent is broadening its enterprise AI offering with an integrated workspace product, aiming to bundle AI tools into one place for business customers, Caixin Global reports.
Why it matters: Gemini moves from answering to producing and editing working files, closer to an office agent.
Google Gemini can now generate, preview and edit PDFs, Google Docs, Sheets, slide decks, Markdown, TXT and code inside the chat. Available today to all Gemini users, with PDF editing on web and mobile.
Why it matters: World models trained on construction data could reshape design software and building workflows.
Dream builds AI world models for construction, trained on 100 million square feet of building permits, aiming to disrupt Autodesk.
Simulon introduces Reality-Aware Rendering, which places neural assets in a real scene using a phone and renders the take afterward, reading actions, speech and surroundings.
Why it matters: A frontier model producing working exploit code against critical infrastructure sharply raises AI security stakes.
A Linux kernel TCP flaw tracked as CVE-2026-98432, rated 9.8 CVSS, affects Ubuntu, RHEL and other distributions. Anthropic said its Claude model wrote an exploit using the flaw, and it uses Claude to flag safeguard misses.
Neurologyca released an AI video testing suite in the US, aimed at assessing video-based neurological signals.
Simantic, a Y Combinator F26 startup, is building firmware simulation so AI agents can test and interact with embedded device firmware safely before running on real hardware.
ConnectWise's RMM Agent brings AI-led endpoint investigation into service tickets: it examines a linked device, tests likely causes and stages a fix from a vetted catalog, with every device change requiring technician approval.
Why it matters: A major enterprise-model challenger triples its value with a sovereign-fund and Nvidia-backed round.
Cohere is raising a large round at a $20.5B valuation, roughly tripling its value from a year ago. Ottawa is taking an equity stake as Cohere opens the round, with Nvidia also backing it.
Insurity's Dorado release speeds insurance product innovation and regulatory change and adds AI-powered risk intelligence, per Business Wire.
Why it matters: Shows Nvidia moving from chip supplier to financier to keep AI datacenter buildouts funded.
Nvidia is negotiating billions in credit guarantees for AI cloud provider Nscale to finance debt on a 460-megawatt data center Anthropic plans to use. No deal is signed and terms could change.
Bigwave Robotics launched Hyper Foundry, a platform that connects robot data collection, AI model training and deployment.
ZTE's Xuntian BE3600 Qingyun Edition Wi-Fi 7 router is on JD.com in China at an introductory 199 yuan (~$30), later 249 yuan, with 3.57Gbps speeds, AI Mesh and dual WAN.
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A new AWS Batch scheduling capability divides GPU capacity into quota shares per team or project, lends idle capacity across shares and preempts jobs so higher-priority SageMaker Training work runs first without manual coordination.
Samsung announced an advanced version of its AI-powered sleep apnea detection, rolling out to certain Galaxy wearables in November.
Notebookcheck reports Tiny Corp's new AI workstation pairs 128 GB of GPU memory with a 16 TB SSD array.
Amazon's five new Alexa devices add cameras, sleep sensing and smart-home features; TechRepublic compares prices, Alexa+ requirements, compatibility and privacy controls.
GraphX from Rival.io is a system that runs the DeepSeek V4 Flash model on just eight Nvidia L4 GPUs, aimed at lower-cost inference.
Burn Boot Camp launches a personalized fitness platform that uses AI and wearable data integration to tailor workouts for members.
The HomePod mini 2 launches in stores this Friday, October 30, after pre-orders. Siri AI is a key upgrade but won't be available at launch, Apple said.
Chinese automaker Chery unveiled Mobo, its domestically built humanoid robot, and opened global pre-orders, per Foro3D.
Cal Poly launched an Nvidia-powered AI factory to expand AI education and research on campus, giving students and faculty dedicated GPU compute.
Lenovo says its AI Express offering with Nvidia shortens the path to a hybrid AI factory to weeks, targeting enterprises building AI infrastructure.
Ceva unveiled a new NeuPro NPU portfolio and expanded into the AI infrastructure market, targeting chips that run AI workloads.
Why it matters: Local opposition and water constraints could slow US data center expansion powering AI.
Reports and The Verge examine rising political pushback to AI data centers, from Arizona water use to ballot-box fights, as the build-out collides with local resources and residents.
AGIBOT introduced Worken to measure productive robot work, plus the AHA3 integrated platform, GO-3 Preview, WITA-Omni 1.0 model, G2 Max robot and Link-U OS 1.0 at its Innovation Day 2026.
Qisda said its commercial drones have entered production, part of a physical AI strategy its president describes as expanding beyond connectivity and power to sensing, computing and autonomous dispatch.
Why it matters: Shows custom silicon becoming a real competitive lever in cloud AI compute.
Reports examine how surging AI demand has raised the importance of Google Cloud, with its homegrown TPU chips challenging Nvidia and driving cloud sales even as heavy spending crimps cash flow; CEO Thomas Kurian outlines the strategy.
China launched its first 12-inch polycrystalline silicon carbide substrate, aimed at cooling and packaging for AI chips.
ReadyServer LLM API gives every Ready Server VPS customer private AI inference at no extra cost, per the hosting provider.
Voxel51 Multimodal is an end-to-end platform that helps robotics teams sift video and sensor data to find robot failures and turn them into training lessons. It launched on Product Hunt.
Why it matters: Regulatory scrutiny of AI wearables could shape rules for recording, consent and data use in smart glasses.
Two Senate Democrats are examining privacy and safety risks of Meta's smart glasses, including non-consensual recording and data collection that trains AI systems.
Korean PR firm KPR introduced CHICHI & KIKI, a robot artist group featuring a dual-arm robot that plays drums, presented as an entertainment and physical-AI showcase.
A startup founded by former Oppo executives unveils AI glasses aimed at travelers, with a different take on the smart-glasses form factor.
Megatron-MUSA-Titan is Moore Threads' open-source training stack for trillion-parameter MoE pretraining on 10,000-GPU clusters, with blockwise FP8 and support for slime and miles RL.
Willow Voice is an AI dictation and writing assistant that turns speech into text and polished writing across apps. Version 2.6.10 is out for macOS, Windows and Linux.
MacWhisper is a speech recognition app that transcribes audio and video files into text. Version 15.9 is out for macOS, Windows and Linux.
Idol is a tool that turns a single photo, render or generated image of an object into a 3D Gaussian splat, removing the background and writing a standard .ply. It runs on consumer GPUs with 7.2 GB VRAM in under two minutes.
A tech-insider.org comparison weighs ChatGPT Go, AI Plus and Claude Pro subscription tiers, calling the $8 option the winner for 2026.
TechTarget outlines ways teams can roll out AI model updates and version changes while keeping production systems stable, covering testing, monitoring and fallback strategies.
Strava expanded its AI integrations with Google Gemini, letting subscribers get personalized insights based on their workout history.
Version 2.107.0 of the Gemini Code Assist VS Code extension, which adds Gemini-powered AI-assisted development inside the editor, is now available.
Inc.com reviews a new Gemini-powered feature that organizes and manages a cluttered inbox, testing it against 70,000 unread emails.
Amp, a frontier AI coding agent and development environment, released two CLI versions (0.0.1793304039-g62d85d and 0.0.1793318446-g3ee5e2). Installable via npm with @ampcode/cli.
Cloudera introduced Blueprints, an offering that connects enterprise data to AI, plus a collaboration with Mistral to bring open-weight models closer to enterprise data workloads.
Howler is a chat app that lets users ask AI questions without keeping local chat history, wiping the conversation afterward, styled like a kids' fantasy novel.
A startup says infra automation needs better than prompt-and-pray, pitching AI agents designed to be safe for DevOps duty.
Why it matters: Extends Meta's AI consumer apps into personal styling built on Instagram data.
Style Sketch is a Meta AI app that connects to Instagram to build a virtual closet from photos you've shared, or lets you add items manually by snapping a photo, recording video or uploading images.
Google's latest Gemini for Home update targets bugs including speakers blurting out "I didn't understand" when no one asked.
A ComfyUI wildcards node bundles 1,500-plus visual styles for the Krea 2 image model, built with Claude, and reportedly works with Qwen 2.1 and Kroma too.
Instinct's group AI agent is now available to all iMessage users, giving existing group chats their own assistant and letting people without Instinct accounts join.
OpenTools reports Particle-1, a model aimed at coding agents, is now reachable through two access routes, expanding how developers can call it.
Nvidia's Omniverse blog explains how developers use frontier AI agents to turn ideas into simulations, part of its push to put generative and agentic tooling into simulation and physical-AI workflows.
A demo showing Google's A2UI in action, rendering agent interfaces across LangChain, AWS Strands, Microsoft agents and Google ADK using CopilotKit SDKs for A2UI.
Epsilon's platform team built managed, multi-tenant UI testing on Amazon Nova Act and Bedrock AgentCore Browser; tests are written in plain English and run on AWS-managed browsers.
Meta will now notify parents when teens repeatedly search for self-harm content on Facebook, and will also notify them about teens' conversations with Meta AI.
Anthropic's Claude mobile apps added multitasking, account switching and CarPlay support, expanding how users interact with the assistant on phones and in cars.
A developer parsed 40 days of coding-agent telemetry and says a cloud provider silently replaced deepseek-v4.1-flash with an update that produced shorter answers and more model switching.
LM Studio is a desktop app for discovering, downloading and running local LLMs on your own machine. Version 0.4.27 ships for macOS, Windows and Linux.
Moonshot's Kimi AI chat assistant shipped version 3.2.22 for macOS, Windows and Linux.
Knime has updated its data and analytics framework with new capabilities for building agentic AI workflows, aimed at teams assembling AI agents without writing code from scratch.
AWS details how MoEngage converted roughly 400 private REST APIs across 7 regions into permission-scoped agent tools using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway, avoiding per-service MCP servers and large tool-context bloat.
Xmind, a mind-mapping app, added an AI agent that builds and edits mind maps for you, and made its platform accessible from ChatGPT and Claude so those assistants can drive it.
Crush is a terminal-based AI assistant that gives developers coding help directly in the command line. Version 0.99.0 ships as an npm CLI you install with npm i -g @charmland/crush.
BoltAI is a desktop AI chat client that lets you talk to multiple models from one app. Version 2.18.3 is a small update to the macOS, Windows and Linux builds.
A GGUF build of LiquidAI's 1.7B small language model with safety alignment ablated via a baked-in rank-1 LoRA, for running locally and offline in the Atomic Chat app.
Open-H3-Regenerate-2K is a Nvidia model published on Hugging Face; a Reddit user shared it while downloading the files.
Fibo 2.0 Edit Turbo is an instruction-based image editing model that edits images in four guidance-free steps, using up to four reference images and an optional mask; a Hugging Face Space demo is available.
This Hugging Face Space runs Wan 2.2 image-to-video generation in a browser demo, turning a still image into a short clip. It has about 100 likes and is a community-built Gradio app.
A merged image/video model built by blending two Minimax-H3 Ref2VA finetunes with a custom PRISM algorithm, no mergekit. Weights shared in fp16 on Hugging Face.
Clover-35B-A3B-Preview is DiffuSpace's first model: a 35B-parameter mixture-of-experts diffusion language model with about 3B active parameters, claimed state of the art among open diffusion LMs.
An open-source Kotlin app embeds the DeepSeek harness in an APK so an Android phone can run the agent without root or Termux, reading the screen, changing settings and automating tasks.
An open-source MIT project that has Claude Code, Codex or other agents threat-model your repository, producing an evidence-traced threat model using 36 architectures and 29 methods.
A self-hosted open-source Kotlin project that has AI agents ring your phone like a real call, even when locked, talks through a voice AI and returns the transcript, with no Twilio needed.
An open-source Rust file launcher that searches inside documents, code and screenshots locally, using OCR, semantic search and MCP agent access. It drew 101 stars in its first week.
A GitHub agent skill that examines a product you are authorised to rebuild, builds a clone, then tests it against the original and fixes gaps until a checklist passes. MIT licensed, about 100 stars its first week.
37studio is a self-hosted open-source alternative to Buffer and Opus Clip: Claude Code makes on-brand videos, posts them to nine platforms and drafts replies, using your own API keys.
NamiGPT is a beginner-friendly GitHub tutorial that walks through writing GPT-2 from scratch in PyTorch line by line to show how large language models work.
AgentFlux is a platform for building visual workflows and autonomous AI agents, runnable with Docker on your own computer or server. It drew 101 GitHub stars in its first week.
Kanzo is a self-hosted kanban board for both people and AI agents, shipped as a single 4 MB Rust binary that starts in 2 ms with zero setup.
TokenBar is an open-source, cross-platform app that monitors AI usage quotas for Codex, Claude, Cursor and 47 other services. Built with Flutter for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
Willow Voice is an AI dictation and writing assistant that turns speech into text and polished writing across apps. Version 2.6.10 is out for macOS, Windows and Linux.
MacWhisper is a speech recognition app that transcribes audio and video files into text. Version 15.9 is out for macOS, Windows and Linux.
A tech-insider.org comparison weighs ChatGPT Go, AI Plus and Claude Pro subscription tiers, calling the $8 option the winner for 2026.
Strava expanded its AI integrations with Google Gemini, letting subscribers get personalized insights based on their workout history.
Inc.com reviews a new Gemini-powered feature that organizes and manages a cluttered inbox, testing it against 70,000 unread emails.
Howler is a chat app that lets users ask AI questions without keeping local chat history, wiping the conversation afterward, styled like a kids' fantasy novel.
Style Sketch is a Meta AI app that connects to Instagram to build a virtual closet from photos you've shared, or lets you add items manually by snapping a photo, recording video or uploading images.
Google's latest Gemini for Home update targets bugs including speakers blurting out "I didn't understand" when no one asked.
Instinct's group AI agent is now available to all iMessage users, giving existing group chats their own assistant and letting people without Instinct accounts join.
Meta will now notify parents when teens repeatedly search for self-harm content on Facebook, and will also notify them about teens' conversations with Meta AI.
Anthropic's Claude mobile apps added multitasking, account switching and CarPlay support, expanding how users interact with the assistant on phones and in cars.
LM Studio is a desktop app for discovering, downloading and running local LLMs on your own machine. Version 0.4.27 ships for macOS, Windows and Linux.
Moonshot's Kimi AI chat assistant shipped version 3.2.22 for macOS, Windows and Linux.
Xmind, a mind-mapping app, added an AI agent that builds and edits mind maps for you, and made its platform accessible from ChatGPT and Claude so those assistants can drive it.
BoltAI is a desktop AI chat client that lets you talk to multiple models from one app. Version 2.18.3 is a small update to the macOS, Windows and Linux builds.
Google Gemini can now generate, preview and edit PDFs, Google Docs, Sheets, slide decks, Markdown, TXT and code inside the chat. Available today to all Gemini users, with PDF editing on web and mobile.
Kling AI's iPhone app version 3.9.30 introduces Kling 4.0, with improvements in visual realism, creative control, narrative completeness and audiovisual quality for its video and image generation tools.
The New York Times is testing an AI tool in its Cooking app that recommends ingredient and equipment substitutions for recipes. Senior editor Genevieve Ko announced the feature last Friday; it has drawn user reaction.
Nvidia is marketing GeForce NOW cloud streaming as a way to play PC-only technology and games without matching hardware specs.
PYMNTS reports that AI agents are starting to handle parts of elder care, from scheduling and check-ins to monitoring, as costs rise and families seek help.
Granola is an AI notepad that records and summarizes meetings. Version 7.722.0 adds a dictation feature, putting it in competition with dedicated voice apps like Wispr.
Fast Company outlines four tips for getting started with consumer-friendly AI agents as Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic compete in the market.
A new tool checks AI answers against sources for accuracy, sold as a one-time purchase under $50 for lifetime access.
Google Chrome can now use Gemini to read details from Gmail and fill out web forms, per Windows Report.
Manus is an AI agent that automates tasks on your own computer. Version 2.1.0 of its desktop app ships for macOS, Windows and Linux.
Idol is a tool that turns a single photo, render or generated image of an object into a 3D Gaussian splat, removing the background and writing a standard .ply. It runs on consumer GPUs with 7.2 GB VRAM in under two minutes.
TechTarget outlines ways teams can roll out AI model updates and version changes while keeping production systems stable, covering testing, monitoring and fallback strategies.
Version 2.107.0 of the Gemini Code Assist VS Code extension, which adds Gemini-powered AI-assisted development inside the editor, is now available.
Amp, a frontier AI coding agent and development environment, released two CLI versions (0.0.1793304039-g62d85d and 0.0.1793318446-g3ee5e2). Installable via npm with @ampcode/cli.
Cloudera introduced Blueprints, an offering that connects enterprise data to AI, plus a collaboration with Mistral to bring open-weight models closer to enterprise data workloads.
A startup says infra automation needs better than prompt-and-pray, pitching AI agents designed to be safe for DevOps duty.
A ComfyUI wildcards node bundles 1,500-plus visual styles for the Krea 2 image model, built with Claude, and reportedly works with Qwen 2.1 and Kroma too.
OpenTools reports Particle-1, a model aimed at coding agents, is now reachable through two access routes, expanding how developers can call it.
Nvidia's Omniverse blog explains how developers use frontier AI agents to turn ideas into simulations, part of its push to put generative and agentic tooling into simulation and physical-AI workflows.
A demo showing Google's A2UI in action, rendering agent interfaces across LangChain, AWS Strands, Microsoft agents and Google ADK using CopilotKit SDKs for A2UI.
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Epsilon's platform team built managed, multi-tenant UI testing on Amazon Nova Act and Bedrock AgentCore Browser; tests are written in plain English and run on AWS-managed browsers.
A developer parsed 40 days of coding-agent telemetry and says a cloud provider silently replaced deepseek-v4.1-flash with an update that produced shorter answers and more model switching.
Knime has updated its data and analytics framework with new capabilities for building agentic AI workflows, aimed at teams assembling AI agents without writing code from scratch.
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AWS details how MoEngage converted roughly 400 private REST APIs across 7 regions into permission-scoped agent tools using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway, avoiding per-service MCP servers and large tool-context bloat.
Crush is a terminal-based AI assistant that gives developers coding help directly in the command line. Version 0.99.0 ships as an npm CLI you install with npm i -g @charmland/crush.
Amazon Q is AWS's generative AI assistant for software development, embedded in editors. Version 2.9.0 updates the VS Code extension with the latest fixes and changes.
Simantic, a Y Combinator F26 startup, is building firmware simulation so AI agents can test and interact with embedded device firmware safely before running on real hardware.
ConnectWise's RMM Agent brings AI-led endpoint investigation into service tickets: it examines a linked device, tests likely causes and stages a fix from a vetted catalog, with every device change requiring technician approval.
PointGuard's AI Gateway is a tool that combines model routing, virtual keys and usage budgets so teams can control which models run and what they cost, OpenTools reports.
A new startup called &Truth is building automated formal verification, using math to prove software works as intended, aiming to make AI-written or vibe-coded programs trustworthy.
vivenu released an MCP server that brings live ticketing operations into AI tools including Claude and ChatGPT, letting users manage ticketing tasks from inside those assistants.
Hud's new agentic rollouts move AI-written code through the pipeline from pull request to production, aiming to automate release steps after review.
Antigravity is an agent orchestration platform for developers. Two minor updates, 2.28.1 and 2.28.2, shipped for macOS, Windows and Linux.
HaystackID is extending its AI assistant from document questions to witness preparation, chronologies and evidence checks, adding eight agents for legal case preparation.
Cresta opened its AI agent platform with end-to-end self-service tooling, letting customer developers build and deploy contact-center agents themselves.