Zest launches AI agent that books restaurant reservations over text
Zest's AI concierge combines a group's tastes, puts restaurant options to a vote and makes the reservation, all over text message.
Zest's AI concierge combines a group's tastes, puts restaurant options to a vote and makes the reservation, all over text message.
Anthropic renamed its Max5 and Max20 subscription tiers and removed the five-hour usage limits on the Max20 plan, according to a Reddit post.
AWS describes a controlled local setup that routes the ChatGPT desktop app's model inference to Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West) using API-mode sign-in, device policy and network restrictions.
Cognition unveiled an enterprise governance product for its Devin AI coding agents, aimed at giving companies controls over agent access and activity.
MSSP Alert reports SpaceX launched a Grok AI partner network aimed at expanding enterprise adoption.
Crisp launched Halo, a retail AI platform that runs inside a company's own cloud environment, bringing sales and supply-chain analysis closer to existing data and governance systems. It targets CPG manufacturers.
A new Claude feature gives employers analytics on how workers use the assistant, including visibility into AI chat usage across an organization.
Why it matters: Plaid is a key account-data plumbing layer, so its AI risk models reach many fintechs.
Plaid introduced next-generation AI models and upgraded risk solutions across its core platform.
doomformer is a project by alp that compiles an integer neural network into a DOOM map, using 1,355 voodoo dolls for arithmetic, with values read back and compared against NumPy.
Kadmos-1 is a small decoder-only transformer built from scratch that holds short conversations and writes small Python functions; architecture, tokenizer and weights are in the GitHub repo.
Sebastian-Ion Nae put two small neural networks on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W: a world model predicting next frame and reward, and an actor that plays generated games; code on GitHub.
Uwear.ai is a tool for generating fashion visuals: on-model photos and video from garments, aimed at brands and retailers producing product imagery with AI.
TestMu AI launched Kane CLI Exploration, an AI agent that crawls an entire web app from a single URL and turns what it finds into automated tests.
Community quantizer Unsloth released Dynamic V3.1 preview GGUF quantizations of DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, saying they retain the most accuracy for their size across seven benchmarks; a separate post compared ISTA's GSQ-RCO quants.
Local Code is an open-source AI assistant for Mac that lets users download models and run them locally without separately installing dependencies. The Draw Things team built it as a free, private tool.
Synthflow released Vector, an AI agent for lending workflows that it says delivers 40% higher reach and $1M in commitments; the company makes voice AI agents.
The Futurum Group reports Bdeo launched on Vonage's network quality-on-demand API, giving its insurance AI network-aware performance control.
Tria launched Agentic Trading, letting AI agents execute crypto trades while users keep control of their funds; the product targets agents that trade without custody.
Shufti launched a system that links AI agent actions to verified human owners and their permissions, aiming to establish accountability and identity for autonomous agents.
SenseNova-Loop-9B-Preview is a 9B-parameter multimodal language model for long-context and agentic workflows, accepting text and images and combining a looped decoder.
Glog.AI is an AI software-security platform offering vulnerability triage and contextual remediation, pitching AI-assisted fixes for code security issues.
CodeAnt AI is a security platform combining AI code review and penetration testing to catch vulnerabilities before release.
Palmier is an AI video editor with timeline-based media generation and agent-controlled editing.
Whop integrated with MoonPay's PayBox Markets to let AI agents make purchases on its marketplace.
A community fine-tune applies the method behind Qwen3.8-27B-Humanlike-Chat 2.0 (136k GGUF downloads across v1 and 2.0) to Google's official Gemma 4 31B, aiming for more natural, human-sounding chat.
Why it matters: An unusual biological-computing approach to video generation now publicly available.
The Biological Computing Co. released Mischief, described as the first publicly available neuron-derived AI video model, built on Wan 2.2 and aimed at faster video generation; it is pursuing enterprise use with AWS.
Viirtue is now available in OpenAI's plugin marketplace, letting its tools be used inside ChatGPT and Codex.
Why it matters: Apple is buying AI infrastructure talent as it builds out its own agentic tooling.
Apple acquired Ascend.io, a startup building agentic AI engineering and data pipeline automation tools. AGIBOT separately introduced its Worken framework for measuring robot productivity.
BeyondTrust has made its AI Agent Security product generally available, aimed at governing and controlling AI agents in enterprise environments.
Modellix.ai, Aurora Mobile's unified AI model access service, launched a ComfyUI integration that lets creators use multiple AI media generation models inside ComfyUI creative workflows.
GitHub added new AI agent features to Copilot in VS Code and launched Copilot Fusion, with agents now starting about 40% of pull requests, according to reports.
Tagbin showed BRIXX at TechSparks 2026, a platform where natural-language prompts handle architectural design, construction planning and cost estimation together.
Why it matters: Investor anxiety over AI capex is now moving major indexes.
Tech stocks dropped after Amazon reported higher-than-expected capital spending and its slowest core e-commerce growth in three years. Reports also said Amazon tapped an $80B supplier loan facility to help fund AI.
Tata Communications' Commotion voice AI was tested across eight Indian languages, aimed at bridging the digital divide in India.
TCS launched its Industrial Intelligence Foundry, a platform aimed at building agentic AI value chains for industrial clients while keeping AI use aligned with organizational rules, per diginomica.
Salesforce plans marketing and e-commerce Einstein Copilots, while publishing conversion numbers for agent-native shopping search that cover one specific thing.
Dayforce announced a new agentic experience and multiple agentic capabilities for its HR platform at its annual user conference, raising questions about whether customers are ready.
Toonsutra launched a Cinematic Mode that uses AI to convert comics into cinematic video.
Phonic-1 is a released voice AI that begins searching and processing before a person finishes speaking, cutting response wait time. The source gives no pricing or access details.
Why it matters: Usage limits are a key competitive lever among frontier labs.
After backlash, OpenAI reversed a usage cut and doubled Work and Codex limits for Pro 100 and Pro 500 subscribers as competition with Anthropic intensifies.
SwitchBot's K11+ Pro is a compact robot vacuum with a small dock, strong suction and Matter support for Apple Home, aimed at homes where full-size vacuums take too much space.
Misumi Americas started the Misumi Imprint Foundation, a $2 million corporate giving organization, its first in 63 years, to fund engineering education, robotics programs and manufacturing skills in the US.
Samsung added an FDA-approved sleep apnea detection feature to Galaxy Watches, arriving first on the Galaxy Watch Ultra 2, Watch 9 and Galaxy Ring, ZDNET reports.
PsiQuantum built an 8x8 photonic switch that loses 1.2 dB, under a quarter of its light, versus the 3 dB data centers allow; larger devices are planned for AI GPU networks.
IBM said it linked two 120-qubit Nighthawk quantum chips and expanded its AI agent toolkit, extending both its quantum and agent software efforts.
A new UEFI-level pre-driver GPU unlocker is available for Nvidia RTX 20xx, 30xx and 40xx cards on Windows and Linux, lifting the Tensor core cap on consumer GPUs.
Why it matters: Bringing DGX Spark silicon to laptops makes local AI compute portable for developers.
Nvidia's RTX Spark laptops use the same chip as the DGX Spark desktop but add faster memory and features the DGX Spark lacks; Nvidia also convenes an Open Secure AI Alliance citing a forensics gap in closed models.
Why it matters: One of the first wired AR glasses built on Google's Android XR with Gemini.
XREAL's AURA are its first wired augmented reality glasses running Google's Android XR, with transparent Micro-OLED displays, 70-degree field of view, Gemini AI and a Snapdragon Reality Elite chip.
Why it matters: Sub-$1,500 humanoid pricing would push legged robots toward mass-market volumes.
Noetix is selling a humanoid robot for RMB9,998, an unusually low price that reports frame as just the beginning of a push to put humanoids in homes and businesses at consumer prices.
Why it matters: Foxconn is a key AI server builder, and its partnerships signal how fast datacenter capacity is being assembled.
Foxconn chairman Young Liu pitched vertical integration beyond box moving at Hon Hai Tech Day, with Google aiming to cut AI infrastructure deployment to six months and a new OpenAI tie-up in the works.
Beijing startup SynDexy shipped its first small batch of C1 humanoids for precision assembly at electronics plants, six months after development began; key tasks exceeded 98% success in tests.
Why it matters: Waymo's first major overseas robotaxi push pairs it with Toyota in Japan's right-hand-drive market.
Toyota and Waymo will begin testing autonomous bZ4X robotaxis in Japan in 2027, with an eye toward overseas expansion of the partnership.
Allegro introduced 48 V power ICs and precision sensors aimed at humanoid robotics, per All About Circuits.
ISHO, founded by former Xiaomi executive Wang Teng, unveiled the ISHO Ring smart ring and iFlow bed temperature-control system. Prices start at RMB1,799 and RMB9,999; the ring tracks physiological signals for sleep.
ACM Shanghai shipped its first 310x310mm panel-level plating tool as AI chip packages grow larger and panel-level packaging moves toward customer validation and volume production. Order backlog rose 88%.
A Y Combinator-backed US aerospace startup built and flew an autonomous cargo aircraft in under two months, targeting 1,000-mile freight routes. No payload, timeline or funding details were given.
Why it matters: Debt-financed chip purchases show how AI buildouts are increasingly leveraged.
Indian AI infrastructure firm AM Intelligence is seeking up to $3B in financing for a previously announced purchase of Nvidia's next-generation chips, per Bloomberg.
Hyundai's Grandeur receives a first OTA software update adding Pleos Connect and evolving Gleo AI voice search that reads driver intent, while Hyundai Mobis reported Q3 operating profit and began robot actuator prototype production.
42dot released the first over-the-air update for its Gleo AI service, which suggests places along a driving route and shows gas station prices by fuel type.
Why it matters: Shows how much AI demand is reshaping the global semiconductor supply chain.
Taiwan's TSIA expects member output above NT$9.1 trillion ($279.5B) in 2026, up 40.9% on AI chip demand, while urging stable power. Nvidia holds 69% of AI robot chips, DigiTimes reports.
PokeBot released RoboAPI, letting developers test natural-language control on robot arms. Founder Huazhe Xu says the Poke-Aurora wrist-camera setup is designed to transfer across several arm configurations.
Ramazan Eren Arslan converted a Deutsche Bundespost FeTAp 791 rotary phone into a voice assistant: lift the handset and talk, and Google Gemini answers through the original earpiece, powered by a Raspberry Pi 3B.
Why it matters: Signals how AI chip competition and weak PC demand are squeezing Intel's turnaround.
Intel shares fell sharply after the chipmaker forecast weaker sales, blaming a PC slowdown, while its AI PC push sells but the wider PC recovery lags.
Bigwave Robotics launched Hyper Foundry, a platform that connects robot data collection, AI model training and deployment.
Why it matters: Another major consumer AI glasses launch expands the wearable market.
Samsung plans to launch AI smart glasses in Korea and the US in mid-December; CNIB will lead Canadian AI-glasses training under a Meta partnership, and Meta faces a Senate inquiry over glasses privacy risks.
Zest's AI concierge combines a group's tastes, puts restaurant options to a vote and makes the reservation, all over text message.
AWS describes a controlled local setup that routes the ChatGPT desktop app's model inference to Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West) using API-mode sign-in, device policy and network restrictions.
Digital Information World publishes a how-to on excluding apps from Siri AI and restricting Gemini's access on Android.
Cognition unveiled an enterprise governance product for its Devin AI coding agents, aimed at giving companies controls over agent access and activity.
DevFest 2026 runs October 1 to December 31 across more than 800 global events under the theme "Build, Secure, Scale," with hands-on sessions on Gemini and Google's AI developer stack.
A Hacker News-linked essay argues AI tools are not replacing site reliability engineers but eroding their deep operational skills over time.
Daniel Catt built a tool that converts markdown to handwriting, driving a Bantam Tools NextDraw 8511 pen plotter via his AI assistant Kitty to write todo lists, addresses and packing lists.
The Guardian reports ghost hunters are using AI chatbots and custom apps to interpret signals, raising concerns among paranormal enthusiasts about the technology's role.
HT Tech reviews Android 17, highlighting floating bubbles, a smarter Gemini assistant and one significant catch in the release.
TechTarget reports enterprise metadata practices are moving from documentation toward supplying context and controls for AI systems and agents.
TestMu AI launched Kane CLI Exploration, an AI agent that crawls an entire web app from a single URL and turns what it finds into automated tests.
Local Code is an open-source AI assistant for Mac that lets users download models and run them locally without separately installing dependencies. The Draw Things team built it as a free, private tool.
VoidMob is promoting an open-source MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that lets AI agents connect to and use its platform. No new version or release details were provided beyond the integration capabilities.
Viirtue is now available in OpenAI's plugin marketplace, letting its tools be used inside ChatGPT and Codex.
Mistral shipped Vibe CLI 3.0.4, a minimal command-line coding agent installable via pip. The Deep View separately examines how Mistral tests China's open-model advantage.
Microsoft Research posts guides and agent samples covering moving Copilot Studio agents into production, governance controls, evaluation behavior, incident management, and metadata and lineage tracking.
GitHub added new AI agent features to Copilot in VS Code and launched Copilot Fusion, with agents now starting about 40% of pull requests, according to reports.
Tagbin showed BRIXX at TechSparks 2026, a platform where natural-language prompts handle architectural design, construction planning and cost estimation together.
Google's Gemini now makes it easier to create and edit documents and PDFs, with new tools for working on files directly inside the assistant.
Google rolled out a large Google Home update with 42 fixes for the Home app, cameras and speakers, addressing problems with Gemini and Matter devices and deepening Gemini's room awareness.
ETtech looks at how AI lets Indian developers build prototypes in minutes, and how platforms like GoDaddy's Developer Platform handle the code-to-deployment half.
Salesforce plans marketing and e-commerce Einstein Copilots, while publishing conversion numbers for agent-native shopping search that cover one specific thing.
Triskell Software's 2026 SP2 release adds new AI capabilities to its platform.
A 77-class banking text-classification model continued with sharpness-aware minimization, seed 13, from a full-train checkpoint; author reports 94.12% frozen test accuracy. Apache-2.0 weights on Hugging Face.
BotGauge is a tool for evaluating AI agents, measuring how well they perform tasks before deployment.
XWiki MCP Server is an open-source, self-hostable extension connecting XWiki to AI agents like Claude Code, Codex and Copilot to query knowledge, create and edit pages and work with structured data.
fastbrowse is an open-source browser agent that reads page buttons, links and fields, picks the next step with a fast model and falls back to a standard model when unsure, citing answers.
Why it matters: A design-native VLM that edits layouts directly could make AI design tools much cheaper and faster.
Canva Brush is a vision-language model from Canva Research that sees a design and makes requested edits, from one line of copy to every slide, staying fully editable; Canva says 69% faster and 46% cheaper per task.
Chopstick is a Mac app that notices repeated actions and builds notch widgets for them using an existing coding agent, keeping the activity log local.
Teable Mobile lets users describe a process by voice and have Teable build the database, app and automations, then publish to a team and get notified when done.
A 77-class banking text-classification model continued with sharpness-aware minimization, seed 13, from a full-train checkpoint; author reports 94.12% frozen test accuracy. Apache-2.0 weights on Hugging Face.
A Gradio demo app for generating images with an uncensored Qwen-Image 2.1 model, plus on-demand all-in-one LoRA adapters, running on Hugging Face ZeroGPU.
Idol turns a single photo, render or generated image into a 3D Gaussian splat, removing the background and writing up to 1,048,576 Gaussians as a standard .ply. It runs on consumer GPUs with 7.2 GB VRAM.
MiniMax H3, a video generation model, is drawing community work: a Pika Labs H3 finetune (Pika-H3-Flex) on Hugging Face, an Nvidia open-source H3-based enhancement tool upscaling to 4K, and a MiniMax M3.1-Flash coding/agent model mention.
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.
A research paper presents an improved distribution matching distillation method for one-step and few-step text-to-image generation, estimating score differences with internal velocity branches to better render prompt details.
A paper presents L3G-World, an interactive world model that uses latent 3D Gaussian memory to keep spatial consistency over long exploration in real time without memory growing with stream length.
A research paper introduces Read, Allocate, Route, a role-coupled tokenization scheme for pixel-space generative Transformers that models low-frequency structure globally and high-frequency detail locally to cut attention cost.
An omni-modal parser that turns documents, images, audio and video into structured records grounded in space and time, giving agents a perception layer to read and cite evidence. Uses one encoder and one schema.
Agent Office 3D is a low-poly 3D office that visualises your AI coding agents' live status, with idle agents sneaking off to play Minecraft without using tokens. It drew 102 stars its first week.
Mika is an on-device AI assistant for Android that operates apps and the web to complete tasks for you. The new Kotlin project drew 107 stars in its first week.
DeepSeek Harness v0.2.2-alpha.2 adds an experimental subagent tool that sends self-contained tasks to a locally installed Codex CLI or Claude Code, plus PR views and a stats plugin.
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.
Zest's AI concierge combines a group's tastes, puts restaurant options to a vote and makes the reservation, all over text message.
Digital Information World publishes a how-to on excluding apps from Siri AI and restricting Gemini's access on Android.
The Guardian reports ghost hunters are using AI chatbots and custom apps to interpret signals, raising concerns among paranormal enthusiasts about the technology's role.
HT Tech reviews Android 17, highlighting floating bubbles, a smarter Gemini assistant and one significant catch in the release.
Google's Gemini now makes it easier to create and edit documents and PDFs, with new tools for working on files directly inside the assistant.
Google rolled out a large Google Home update with 42 fixes for the Home app, cameras and speakers, addressing problems with Gemini and Matter devices and deepening Gemini's room awareness.
Salesforce plans marketing and e-commerce Einstein Copilots, while publishing conversion numbers for agent-native shopping search that cover one specific thing.
Triskell Software's 2026 SP2 release adds new AI capabilities to its platform.
Canva Brush is a vision-language model from Canva Research that sees a design and makes requested edits, from one line of copy to every slide, staying fully editable; Canva says 69% faster and 46% cheaper per task.
Chopstick is a Mac app that notices repeated actions and builds notch widgets for them using an existing coding agent, keeping the activity log local.
Teable Mobile lets users describe a process by voice and have Teable build the database, app and automations, then publish to a team and get notified when done.
SparkBots AI runs trainable bots on web pages and PDFs, returning key details for leads, contracts or resumes in under a second; the maker says they cannot hallucinate details.
Plaud released version 1.3.12 of its AI note-taking software for macOS, Windows and Linux, which records and summarizes online meetings, phone calls and in-person conversations. A separate review compared Pocket AI and Plaud Note Pro recorders.
Claude now works via CarPlay, letting drivers ask the AI by voice, and Tesla's Robotaxi service extended hours to 2 a.m. and added Grok to the Model Y.
Booking's Agoda launched an AI travel assistant in 21 markets, helping users search and plan trips.
Package 26.1027.3384.0 for ChatGPT on Windows contains partial quality and return-visit report interfaces, but the inspected business-profile route passes enabled=false.
Tencent's AI agent platform WorkBuddy launched remote control, letting users connect to a logged-in computer from the mobile app, view the desktop live and take over tasks. Tencent also opened its Beacon AI data tool to the public.
Moonshot AI's Kimi assistant now connects to Gmail, Google Drive and Google Calendar, letting users query and work with their Google data from chat.
Ant Group launched LingGuang 2.0, an updated AI agent, for users in China.
APK teardowns and reports show Google testing Gemini Live offline mode on Android, a sparkling overlay redesign, playback-speed controls for read-aloud responses, and direct file editing in chat.
Pi, Inflection's personal AI assistant app, released version 26.1026.1 with bug fixes and performance improvements.
Zoho added AI agent workflows to its Campaigns marketing platform, letting teams automate campaign tasks. Announced for Australia.
Willow Voice is an AI-powered voice dictation and writing assistant. It released versions 2.6.10 and 2.6.11 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.
Inc.com reviews a new Gemini-powered feature that organizes and manages a cluttered inbox, testing it against 70,000 unread emails.
AWS describes a controlled local setup that routes the ChatGPT desktop app's model inference to Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West) using API-mode sign-in, device policy and network restrictions.
Cognition unveiled an enterprise governance product for its Devin AI coding agents, aimed at giving companies controls over agent access and activity.
DevFest 2026 runs October 1 to December 31 across more than 800 global events under the theme "Build, Secure, Scale," with hands-on sessions on Gemini and Google's AI developer stack.
A Hacker News-linked essay argues AI tools are not replacing site reliability engineers but eroding their deep operational skills over time.
Daniel Catt built a tool that converts markdown to handwriting, driving a Bantam Tools NextDraw 8511 pen plotter via his AI assistant Kitty to write todo lists, addresses and packing lists.
TechTarget reports enterprise metadata practices are moving from documentation toward supplying context and controls for AI systems and agents.
TestMu AI launched Kane CLI Exploration, an AI agent that crawls an entire web app from a single URL and turns what it finds into automated tests.
Local Code is an open-source AI assistant for Mac that lets users download models and run them locally without separately installing dependencies. The Draw Things team built it as a free, private tool.
VoidMob is promoting an open-source MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that lets AI agents connect to and use its platform. No new version or release details were provided beyond the integration capabilities.
Viirtue is now available in OpenAI's plugin marketplace, letting its tools be used inside ChatGPT and Codex.
Mistral shipped Vibe CLI 3.0.4, a minimal command-line coding agent installable via pip. The Deep View separately examines how Mistral tests China's open-model advantage.
Microsoft Research posts guides and agent samples covering moving Copilot Studio agents into production, governance controls, evaluation behavior, incident management, and metadata and lineage tracking.
GitHub added new AI agent features to Copilot in VS Code and launched Copilot Fusion, with agents now starting about 40% of pull requests, according to reports.
Tagbin showed BRIXX at TechSparks 2026, a platform where natural-language prompts handle architectural design, construction planning and cost estimation together.
ETtech looks at how AI lets Indian developers build prototypes in minutes, and how platforms like GoDaddy's Developer Platform handle the code-to-deployment half.
BotGauge is a tool for evaluating AI agents, measuring how well they perform tasks before deployment.
XWiki MCP Server is an open-source, self-hostable extension connecting XWiki to AI agents like Claude Code, Codex and Copilot to query knowledge, create and edit pages and work with structured data.
fastbrowse is an open-source browser agent that reads page buttons, links and fields, picks the next step with a fast model and falls back to a standard model when unsure, citing answers.
Faylee records screen, console, network requests and clicks behind a bug on one timeline and shares it as a single link. Pasting the link into Claude Code, Codex or Cursor lets its MCP server feed the report to the agent to fix.
Oracle introduced AI agent-ready setup and configuration for its Fusion Applications, aiming to speed implementations by letting agents handle configuration work.
Factory Droid is a native desktop app that runs an AI agent to build, manage and ship software. Version 1.0.0 is out for macOS, Windows and Linux.
Microsoft Research introduces a data engineering agent for Microsoft Fabric, codenamed Project Osmos, that automates data pipeline work.
A project uses Claude to put global law into Git, making it semantic, versioned, attributable and queryable by agents, released under CC0. It hit No. 1 on Hacker News.
TechTarget outlines ways teams can roll out AI model updates and version changes while keeping production systems stable, covering testing, monitoring and fallback strategies.
Gemini Code Assist 2.107.0 is the latest release of Google's AI coding assistant extension for VS Code, powered by Gemini models for AI-assisted development.