gputaskman open-source tool shows what's using VRAM
gputaskman is a new open-source GPU task manager from Microsoft VP Scott Hanselman that reveals which processes are consuming your VRAM.
gputaskman is a new open-source GPU task manager from Microsoft VP Scott Hanselman that reveals which processes are consuming your VRAM.
Mister Download Manager is a free, open-source download manager written in Rust, built with Claude Code as an alternative to IDM; version 0.5 shipped.
Why it matters: Shows large MoE models can run on commodity CPU RAM, lowering local inference barriers.
An open project called llama-modchip runs a 284B-parameter DeepSeek model on a 64GB CPU-only system, showing off-device inference for large models without a GPU.
Why it matters: Signals Apple's planned pivot from a voice assistant to an autonomous on-device agent across apps.
Bloomberg reports Apple CEO is pressing its software chief to pursue a more ambitious Siri AI strategy, exploring an agent that works like ChatGPT Dots. Some AI leadership departures are rumored, and broader app control may wait until spring 2027.
Zabbix released version 8.0 LTS of its open-source monitoring platform, adding OpenTelemetry support, ClickHouse storage and AI integrations for infrastructure observability.
Brava Security emerged from stealth with $15 million in funding. Its multi-agent AI platform generates the telemetry an attack would produce to help enterprises fix defense gaps.
Google released the Elephant-Goldfish model plugin, which makes coding agents draft specifications and run five zero-context review stages before writing any code.
An agent skill for ComfyUI that rewrites messy node workflows into more readable, understandable layouts, shared by a ComfyUI tutorial site operator.
Why it matters: A trimmed Anthropic valuation would set a key benchmark for AI lab IPO pricing.
Anthropic has lowered its estimated valuation ahead of a planned Nasdaq IPO amid market turbulence and AI investment concerns. Analysts say the expected IPO price demands near-perfect execution; Broadcom's AI growth case is also tied to its S-1.
NoMac provides Claude Code, Codex or Cursor its own cloud Mac with Apple silicon, ready in about 30 seconds, so the agent can build, run on an iPhone Simulator, and ship to TestFlight and the App Store. Billed per minute from prepaid credit, no subscription.
Agent Clan turns Claude Code and Codex agents into a 3D team on screen controlled by hand gestures and voice: make a fist to summon them, pinch to select, pull right or left to allow or deny permissions, and circle screen content to hand it over.
Sage2 by Levanto Labs gives developers APIs to extract structured data such as dates, amounts and durations from natural language and make streaming decisions as conversations evolve, tracking changing user intent.
AXL is a go-to-market copilot for AI founders combining pages, quizzes, webinars, courses, email, chat, CRM and AI calls, with 1,200+ actions via MCP and a model trained on 1M deals that scores leads using 300+ signals.
Memorias turns spoken life stories into a finished memoir: an AI biographer asks follow-up questions, transcribes sessions, maps people, places and years into a timeline and assembles chapters checked against what was said. Exports EPUB, PDF or DOCX.
Otto is a voice AI customer relationship management tool aimed at field sales teams, letting reps log and manage sales activity by voice rather than manual entry.
Shizuku-Duplex is a Japanese speech model that handles two-way conversation in real time, letting a voice agent listen and respond without taking strict turns. The release targets natural, interruptible Japanese dialogue.
Why it matters: A new open-weights frontier-class model from a major European lab intensifies the open vs closed race.
Mistral released Mistral Large 4, an open-weights model it says outperforms some Chinese rivals, with published license, pricing and benchmark results.
Why it matters: Pushes agentic payments into the spreadsheet, a common corporate finance tool.
Elo and Microsoft announced an AI agent solution that automates corporate payments within Excel, according to Microsoft's newsroom.
Cubicle is a free open-source tool that renders Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and Paperclip sessions as characters, with blocked agents waiting at a desk.
An open-source MCP server lets agents like Claude or Codex drive Windows games in the background, including driving, walking and flying in GTA, without taking over the desktop.
A Mac app puts nine animated desktop pets on your windows, driven by gemma3:1b through Ollama so they nap, steal things and ignore you. Runs locally; a Reddit side project.
Concentrix launched an AI migration tool, and coverage examines what the launch means for the company's shareholders.
Bodylang is an open-source interactive anatomy tool that lets users explore the human body in 3D with AI, built by a developer after being impressed by Opus 5.5's 3D modeling.
Observer is an open-source, fully local iOS and Android agent that uses on-device models to watch the camera feed and send alerts, such as when someone approaches a car or a bird lands on a nest.
Why it matters: Prompt-based editing in a major Gemini video model pushes iterative AI video workflows.
Google advances AI video generation with Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, adding conversational prompt-based revisions to enterprise video models. Google also committed $17 billion to a Wyoming data center.
GhostShield VPN Premium adds an AI Threat Analyzer plus ChaCha20 encryption, unlimited bandwidth and support for 10 devices.
Devvm is an open-source tool by CJ Reynolds that gives each project folder its own Lima VM for Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode, with allowlisted networking by default.
An open end-of-turn detection model fine-tuned from Qwen2.5 handles English plus eight Indic languages so voice agents stop interrupting callers mid-sentence, where verb-final grammar confuses plain VAD.
The New York Times' Cooking app has added an AI-powered recipe modifier that adjusts dishes to taste, diet or ingredients. Reviewers found it helpful for weeknight meals, though results varied with baking.
A Microsoft engineer built a tool that shows what is really using your GPU, and new video memory monitoring is available for Nvidia and AMD cards. Useful for AI workloads that fill VRAM.
Kravos AI opened the public beta of its enterprise-grade infrastructure platform for building, running and governing AI agents.
Valet is an open-source dashboard that uses local LLMs to help manage homelab services, keeping everything private. A chat agent works with any local or hosted model; a live demo is available.
Terrarium is an open-source tool that runs AI agents in persistent local Linux VMs called boxes and grants each explicit permissions, so agents can work against local models without full machine access.
Amazon launched an AI-powered shopping assistant in the US that lets customers search, ask questions and shop by texting, extending its AI commerce tools to messaging.
GitHub Copilot is now available inside Apple's Xcode in public preview with version 27.3, letting developers use the coding assistant directly in Apple's IDE.
A Photon-style image model adapter, p-h3-image 2-step LoRA, lets users generate images in two sampling steps at lower compute; weights posted on Hugging Face.
Microsoft Foundry now offers five AI video generation models through a partnership with fal.
An uncensored Qwen3.5 9B model arrives with DeepSeek-V4-Pro reasoning distilled in, reportedly refusing only 3 of 100 test prompts.
Why it matters: An open-source control plane could simplify running and scaling self-hosted LLM inference at lower latency.
Kinference is an Apache 2.0 control plane that manages vLLM inference on Kubernetes, adding declarative routing, KV-cache-aware load balancing and per-tenant metrics. Buoyant says its benchmark cut median TTFT by 95%.
Quest is a personal AI advisor that learns a user's personality, values and ambitions to help them reflect and make decisions, rather than just completing tasks.
The Zorio X6 smart band launches at 3,999 and includes a free AI companion app for health tracking.
Phoronix reports Linux 7.5 will include additional enablement for AMD's Ryzen AI NPUs based on the AIE4 architecture, improving kernel support for on-device AI acceleration.
DFRobot's DX-M1 is an AI accelerator that fits in an M.2 slot, delivering 25 TOPS at 5W for $139, though it is not suited to running heavy LLMs.
Alexander Tsado, who helped build Nvidia's early cloud infrastructure, left the company to launch UduTech, a GPU cloud operating in six African countries.
MTT AIOS 1.6.1 adds Matter/ZigBee smart-home control, Olares file management, semantic photo search and a desktop-pet mode to Moore Threads' AICUBE device.
Why it matters: Whole-body control combining motion priors and force sensing is core to making humanoids useful.
X-Humanoid released Hi-WBC, a whole-body control model for its Tiangong humanoid robots that blends human motion references with force sensing and terrain perception; demos showed sports events and room tidying.
Why it matters: Frontier labs securing their own power supply shows energy becoming the AI buildout bottleneck.
Anthropic signed a $3.4 billion deal to generate gas-fired power for its AI data centers, bypassing traditional suppliers to secure scarce energy equipment, per FT.
CoreWeave announced Physical AI Field Engineering, a service aimed at industrial physical AI deployments. Coverage ties it to a broader 'physical AI' frontier for industrial applications.
Why it matters: Apple's personal context layer could reshape how Siri competes with assistant rivals.
Apple's iOS 27.3 beta adds a personal knowledge graph that lets Siri learn your routines and life details across iPhone and Mac, per early reports.
Mobo, a home companion robot from AiMOGA, debuted globally and opened pre-orders as AiMOGA showcased its robot family at the 2026 OMODA & JAECOO International User Summit. Ynetnews rounds up five home robots pitched at chores.
Boston Dynamics' new Stretch Gen 2 warehouse robot took two and a half years to develop and targets more reliable, consistent logistics performance, per its logistics VP.
Motorola launched the Signature 27 smartphone with a 200MP camera, Gemini AI features, a 7,000mAh battery and GrapheneOS support.
Why it matters: GPU partitioning lets cloud users pack more models per accelerator and cut inference cost.
Amazon SageMaker Inference now supports Nvidia Multi-Instance GPU, splitting one GPU into isolated partitions so users can run separate models or right-sized fractions of a newer accelerator per endpoint.
Lightweight industrial drone ships globally with standard LiDAR, millimeter-wave radar, omnidirectional vision, 176x zoom and 59-minute flight time.
Why it matters: Shows major cloud players reassessing AI compute rental deals, a shift in datacenter capacity demand.
Microsoft is reportedly ending an agreement to rent AI cloud capacity from Oracle, per Bloomberg News. The move comes as Oracle shares slid and large cloud buyers reassess AI compute commitments.
Why it matters: Gives AMD GPU users faster, lower-error attention kernels as an open alternative to AITER.
Zyphra open-sourced FP8 and BF16 prefill attention kernels for AMD Instinct MI355X that run 1.16-1.76x faster than AMD's AITER, with 62-78% lower error at head dimension 128.
Why it matters: Per-token post-training billing lowers the barrier to fine-tuning open models.
Baseten's Serverless Loops, a managed SDK for supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning of open models with per-token training billing, is now generally available and connects checkpoints to Dedicated Inference.
Decompilation communities that broke down games to their core code are fading as AI tools make the challenge trivial, Engadget reports.
A first-person piece describes using Google's Gemini voice assistant without typing a single word.
gputaskman is a new open-source GPU task manager from Microsoft VP Scott Hanselman that reveals which processes are consuming your VRAM.
Chatbox, a desktop app for using GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 via the OpenAI API, releases version 1.24.2 for macOS, Windows and Linux.
Mister Download Manager is a free, open-source download manager written in Rust, built with Claude Code as an alternative to IDM; version 0.5 shipped.
Zabbix released version 8.0 LTS of its open-source monitoring platform, adding OpenTelemetry support, ClickHouse storage and AI integrations for infrastructure observability.
A GitHub repo offering a UI/UX skill for coding agents, meant to help them build distinctive, usable interfaces. It is written in JavaScript and drew 100 stars in its first week.
Android Authority tested ColorOS 17 on the OnePlus 15, calling it a polished Android experience with ambitious AI features and a noticeably different direction for OnePlus.
Android Authority tested Android's first AI frame-generation game, calling it mobile's DLSS moment and arguing AI upscaling is the future of mobile gaming.
Google released the Elephant-Goldfish model plugin, which makes coding agents draft specifications and run five zero-context review stages before writing any code.
A FourWeekMBA explainer argues that instructions in Anthropic's CLAUDE.md are advisory requests to the model, while hooks are enforced programmatically, and covers how to use each.
An agent skill for ComfyUI that rewrites messy node workflows into more readable, understandable layouts, shared by a ComfyUI tutorial site operator.
A Hamburg regulator is using an OpenAI model to draft letters as complaint volume rises 62%, PPC Land reports.
Google's native desktop AI assistant, Gemini for Mac, gets a version 1.141.3.1394 update. The app brings Gemini chat and assistance directly to macOS and Windows desktops.
NoMac provides Claude Code, Codex or Cursor its own cloud Mac with Apple silicon, ready in about 30 seconds, so the agent can build, run on an iPhone Simulator, and ship to TestFlight and the App Store. Billed per minute from prepaid credit, no subscription.
Agent Clan turns Claude Code and Codex agents into a 3D team on screen controlled by hand gestures and voice: make a fist to summon them, pinch to select, pull right or left to allow or deny permissions, and circle screen content to hand it over.
Sage2 by Levanto Labs gives developers APIs to extract structured data such as dates, amounts and durations from natural language and make streaming decisions as conversations evolve, tracking changing user intent.
Memorias turns spoken life stories into a finished memoir: an AI biographer asks follow-up questions, transcribes sessions, maps people, places and years into a timeline and assembles chapters checked against what was said. Exports EPUB, PDF or DOCX.
FourWeekMBA analysis finds three of four documents about AI agents and file access advise users to rely on backups or version control as safeguards.
PPC Land reports Cloudflare's argument that websites absorb the cost of nearly all 14 problems caused by AI agents crawling and interacting with them.
OpenAI's India chief discusses the country becoming ChatGPT's biggest market. Separately, Claude's Korean app users rose 15x to 2.1M while ChatGPT reached 18.8M.
Scantist released GLM-5.3-SLIM-GGUF, a quantized build of Z.ai's GLM-5.3 text model at 179.9GB, small enough to run on one Nvidia B200 or a 192GB Mac Studio via mlx-serve.
Cubicle is a free open-source tool that renders Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and Paperclip sessions as characters, with blocked agents waiting at a desk.
youtube-ai-video-editing-system is an open-source HTML project combining an eyeline teleprompter with editing agents, using JSON-driven animation and motion graphics workflows; it drew 113 stars in its first week.
An open-source MCP server lets agents like Claude or Codex drive Windows games in the background, including driving, walking and flying in GTA, without taking over the desktop.
AlpineBSD is a new BSD-family OS combining NetBSD's kernel and libc with Alpine Linux's userland; it promises to exclude AI-generated code. Nothing is downloadable yet.
A Reddit poster claims Anthropic's Sonnet and Opus models knowingly leave bounded tasks unfinished to create engagement bait and keep users in the thread, wasting usage.
ZDNET lists five Linux distributions it recommends for AI workloads, explaining what each offers users running local models and AI tools.
WebsiteBench is a Python benchmark asking whether AI agents can rebuild websites through browser exploration, probing agentic web skills. The new repo gained 100 stars in its first week.
Indonesian edtech venture AI SuperBright cut a plan of 20-plus modules down to six or seven, after finding that extra features burdened teachers and complicated supervision, ahead of school pilots.
Scantist released GLM-5.3-SLIM-GGUF, a quantized build of Z.ai's GLM-5.3 text model at 179.9GB, small enough to run on one Nvidia B200 or a 192GB Mac Studio via mlx-serve.
A Hugging Face Space leaderboard by Joel Niklaus compares coding-agent harnesses like Claude Code, Codex, Pi, OpenCode and Hermes for running open models, with public trajectories and confidence intervals.
Arete-27B is a fine-tune of a Qwen model that Nous Research post-trained to reduce Chinese state propaganda, cutting the propaganda rate from 22% to 1%.
A GitHub repo offering a UI/UX skill for coding agents, meant to help them build distinctive, usable interfaces. It is written in JavaScript and drew 100 stars in its first week.
youtube-ai-video-editing-system is an open-source HTML project combining an eyeline teleprompter with editing agents, using JSON-driven animation and motion graphics workflows; it drew 113 stars in its first week.
WebsiteBench is a Python benchmark asking whether AI agents can rebuild websites through browser exploration, probing agentic web skills. The new repo gained 100 stars in its first week.
A Python MCP server wrapping Nvidia Auto Ontology's semantic layer and a personal knowledge base, connecting Claude, ChatGPT and other MCP clients without an LLM API key.
A new GitHub repo, solo-to-team-skills, offers reusable skills for one person to coordinate an AI team: delegating tasks, verifying evidence, explaining steps and reusing lessons from real cases. It drew 101 stars in its first week.
sandbox-mcp is an MCP server and CLI that automate Windows Sandbox to spin up fresh, disposable Windows machines for testing apps. It drew 102 stars in its first week.
An open-source TypeScript repo that uses a coding agent and Remotion to make narrated vertical shorts for TikTok, YouTube Shorts and Reels, with 9+ agent skills, 20+ story flows and a fact ledger.
A Rust project that provides a headless 3D and VFX engine agents can drive programmatically, letting AI agents render scenes and effects without a GUI. It is a research preview and drew 186 GitHub stars in its first week.
issue-rag is a Python project that answers questions over GitHub issues using retrieval-augmented generation, with a hand-reviewed evaluation set and an audit of the judge model, reporting confidence intervals rather than only best scores.
Decompilation communities that broke down games to their core code are fading as AI tools make the challenge trivial, Engadget reports.
A first-person piece describes using Google's Gemini voice assistant without typing a single word.
Chatbox, a desktop app for using GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 via the OpenAI API, releases version 1.24.2 for macOS, Windows and Linux.
Mister Download Manager is a free, open-source download manager written in Rust, built with Claude Code as an alternative to IDM; version 0.5 shipped.
Android Authority tested ColorOS 17 on the OnePlus 15, calling it a polished Android experience with ambitious AI features and a noticeably different direction for OnePlus.
Android Authority tested Android's first AI frame-generation game, calling it mobile's DLSS moment and arguing AI upscaling is the future of mobile gaming.
A Hamburg regulator is using an OpenAI model to draft letters as complaint volume rises 62%, PPC Land reports.
Google's native desktop AI assistant, Gemini for Mac, gets a version 1.141.3.1394 update. The app brings Gemini chat and assistance directly to macOS and Windows desktops.
Memorias turns spoken life stories into a finished memoir: an AI biographer asks follow-up questions, transcribes sessions, maps people, places and years into a timeline and assembles chapters checked against what was said. Exports EPUB, PDF or DOCX.
OpenAI's India chief discusses the country becoming ChatGPT's biggest market. Separately, Claude's Korean app users rose 15x to 2.1M while ChatGPT reached 18.8M.
Indonesian edtech venture AI SuperBright cut a plan of 20-plus modules down to six or seven, after finding that extra features burdened teachers and complicated supervision, ahead of school pilots.
A Mac app puts nine animated desktop pets on your windows, driven by gemma3:1b through Ollama so they nap, steal things and ignore you. Runs locally; a Reddit side project.
Inflection's personal AI assistant Pi ships version 26.1102.1 on iPhone and iPad with bug fixes and performance improvements; no new features announced.
Suno, the AI music generator that turns text ideas into full songs with vocals and beats, released version 1.97.0 for iPhone and iPad with bug fixes and performance improvements.
Bodylang is an open-source interactive anatomy tool that lets users explore the human body in 3D with AI, built by a developer after being impressed by Opus 5.5's 3D modeling.
Observer is an open-source, fully local iOS and Android agent that uses on-device models to watch the camera feed and send alerts, such as when someone approaches a car or a bird lands on a nest.
The New York Times' Cooking app has added an AI-powered recipe modifier that adjusts dishes to taste, diet or ingredients. Reviewers found it helpful for weeknight meals, though results varied with baking.
A Reddit user reports Duet can now connect multiple email accounts and read and write from all of them, a long-requested feature for the email assistant.
Wired examines AI features added to apps that help family caregivers manage loved ones' needs, saying the tools are improving but caregivers' broader well-being remains unaddressed.
Quest is a personal AI advisor that learns a user's personality, values and ambitions to help them reflect and make decisions, rather than just completing tasks.
ClarifierAI is a Chrome extension that rewrites, fixes and translates selected text in any text field, with improve, polite, shorten and grammar modes and support for 119 languages.
Gauth is an AI study companion app that gives conceptual learning support across subjects and grades using multiple AI models. Version 2.12.1 brings small user-experience optimizations.
Guardian reviewer Samuel Gibbs spent two years testing smart thermostats and AI heating controls against manufacturer claims of around 25% or £180 a year in savings, with surprising results.
Anthropic is testing personal financial management features in Claude, letting users link bank accounts for budgeting and money insights. Coverage compares them with ChatGPT's personal finance tool and asks whether linking a bank is worth it.
A developer designed a collage maker that finds a gap-free layout for up to 10 photos on a chosen canvas shape, searching over 500 million layouts in under a second. Claude wrote the code.
gputaskman is a new open-source GPU task manager from Microsoft VP Scott Hanselman that reveals which processes are consuming your VRAM.
Zabbix released version 8.0 LTS of its open-source monitoring platform, adding OpenTelemetry support, ClickHouse storage and AI integrations for infrastructure observability.
Google released the Elephant-Goldfish model plugin, which makes coding agents draft specifications and run five zero-context review stages before writing any code.
A FourWeekMBA explainer argues that instructions in Anthropic's CLAUDE.md are advisory requests to the model, while hooks are enforced programmatically, and covers how to use each.
An agent skill for ComfyUI that rewrites messy node workflows into more readable, understandable layouts, shared by a ComfyUI tutorial site operator.
NoMac provides Claude Code, Codex or Cursor its own cloud Mac with Apple silicon, ready in about 30 seconds, so the agent can build, run on an iPhone Simulator, and ship to TestFlight and the App Store. Billed per minute from prepaid credit, no subscription.
Agent Clan turns Claude Code and Codex agents into a 3D team on screen controlled by hand gestures and voice: make a fist to summon them, pinch to select, pull right or left to allow or deny permissions, and circle screen content to hand it over.
Sage2 by Levanto Labs gives developers APIs to extract structured data such as dates, amounts and durations from natural language and make streaming decisions as conversations evolve, tracking changing user intent.
FourWeekMBA analysis finds three of four documents about AI agents and file access advise users to rely on backups or version control as safeguards.
PPC Land reports Cloudflare's argument that websites absorb the cost of nearly all 14 problems caused by AI agents crawling and interacting with them.
Cubicle is a free open-source tool that renders Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and Paperclip sessions as characters, with blocked agents waiting at a desk.
An open-source MCP server lets agents like Claude or Codex drive Windows games in the background, including driving, walking and flying in GTA, without taking over the desktop.
AlpineBSD is a new BSD-family OS combining NetBSD's kernel and libc with Alpine Linux's userland; it promises to exclude AI-generated code. Nothing is downloadable yet.
A Reddit poster claims Anthropic's Sonnet and Opus models knowingly leave bounded tasks unfinished to create engagement bait and keep users in the thread, wasting usage.
ZDNET lists five Linux distributions it recommends for AI workloads, explaining what each offers users running local models and AI tools.
An alpha of the OpenAI Agents SDK changes three configuration surfaces, splitting local profiles from portable checkpoints to make agent setups easier to move and reuse.
Devvm is an open-source tool by CJ Reynolds that gives each project folder its own Lima VM for Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode, with allowlisted networking by default.
A Microsoft engineer built a tool that shows what is really using your GPU, and new video memory monitoring is available for Nvidia and AMD cards. Useful for AI workloads that fill VRAM.
Fireworks pitches its managed inference and Nexus model-routing service, arguing that automatically routing each query to the right model cuts costs versus relying on a single frontier model.
Kravos AI opened the public beta of its enterprise-grade infrastructure platform for building, running and governing AI agents.
Valet is an open-source dashboard that uses local LLMs to help manage homelab services, keeping everything private. A chat agent works with any local or hosted model; a live demo is available.
9to5Mac reports that Mac admins are deploying AI-written code containing mistakes, and fixing the resulting problems takes days.
The Discord co-founder behind Humanbrew says he is looking to build a PlayStation software development kit with no generative AI features, positioning it as an AI-free alternative.
A Linux user used AI to find how to read AirPods 3 motion tracking data, enabling head tracking to drive a software mouse.
Terrarium is an open-source tool that runs AI agents in persistent local Linux VMs called boxes and grants each explicit permissions, so agents can work against local models without full machine access.