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DeepSeek disclosed on X that its open-source agent app Harness reached 1.54 million daily active users by 4 Nov, counting users on its official API, Bloomberg reported via Free Malaysia Today. That is up from about 271,000 at the end of September after a desktop version shipped,…

Anthropic's Claude Code v2.1.319, published on GitHub, adds support for MCP tasks in the terminal: when an MCP server runs a tool call as a task, Claude Code moves it to the background and reports the result when it finishes. Set CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_MCP_TASK_BACKGROUND to wait in…

Adobe's CX Enterprise Coworker now runs inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot and Databricks Genie, The Next Web reports, citing Adobe's 4 Nov announcement. In ChatGPT it is a plugin. Adobe says the agent tracks campaign results and trends, forecasts audiences, improv…

Google Cloud says standalone skills in Agent Registry are generally available. Teams can register, version, search and govern Skill resources, immutable SkillRevision packages and verified Publisher details. The same release notes say skill security scanning and governance are av…

GitHub says Copilot is now available in JetBrains Air through the Agent Client Protocol. You can run local tasks in a JetBrains IDE or cloud tasks through Air Teams, billed to your existing Copilot subscription rather than JetBrains AI credits. Cloud tasks run in a Docker contain…

GitHub says Copilot now works inside Xcode's built-in coding assistant, in public preview from Xcode 27.3 beta. You set it up under Xcode Settings, Intelligence. All Copilot plans are supported, and you need macOS Tahoe 26.6 or later. The older GitHub Copilot for Xcode extension…

sandbox-mcp is an open-source command-line tool (sbx) with an optional MCP server that drives Windows Sandbox, the disposable Windows desktop that comes with Windows Pro and Enterprise. An agent can boot a fresh machine, deploy an app, click through it with UI Automation, and kee…

Google is adding actionable insights to Google Forms: from the Responses tab, Gemini analyses answers, finds trends and links between questions, and suggests next steps. Google says Gemini writes and runs Python code on the responses, so counts, percentages and comparisons come f…

GitHub says @GitHub in Slack and Microsoft Teams is now generally available. Teams can investigate bugs, create issues, make changes and open pull requests from a chat conversation. In Teams, a Canvas view lets people review implementation plans, code changes and previews next to…

A developer posting on OpenAI's community forum reports that ChatGPT, with two connectors to the same MCP server enabled, ran a confirmation step through one connector and then made the follow-up call through the other without telling the user. The follow-up carried a one-time co…

Poki is an open-source (AGPL-3.0) tool that lets Claude Code, Codex or other MCP clients operate an iPhone paired to a Mac, with no jailbreak and no extra hardware. It needs macOS 15 or later and full Xcode; community ports for Linux and Windows exist but are not tested by the au…

Gradium has released Phonon, text-to-speech models of about 65 MB and 75 MB that run on phones, laptops, single-board computers and in a browser tab with no server or network. The English-only Phonon 31m is Apache 2.0, so it is free for commercial use; Phonon 40m adds French, Ger…

When you approve a Claude Code command with "Yes, and don't ask again", it saves that exact command, including any password or token typed into it, to .claude/settings.local.json in the project folder. Security firm Apiiro checked 104,185 public copies of that file on GitHub and…

Perplexity has launched Teammates, always-on agents for ongoing work, The Verge reports. They build on Perplexity Computer, can each take a different role and run jobs at the same time, and pull in projects, skills and memory from the Perplexity tools you already use. You can fol…

Cursor has added Build Live Apps, TechRepublic reports. You describe an app to a cloud agent and it builds the web app, creates a Postgres database if needed, sets up sign-in through Cursor SSO and hosts it on a domain you choose. Before anything goes live, Cursor runs rule-based…

Anthropic has added new admin and security features to Claude Enterprise. Inference hooks are now generally available: prompt hooks send prompts to your existing data security tools for a check, and pre-tool-call hooks check tool calls before they run, so your current DLP policie…

Meta has added Spaces to its Muse agent, TechCrunch reports. You describe an idea in chat and Muse builds a tracker, planner or project board that sits in the sidebar, such as a holiday gift tracker or wedding planner. Meta says Spaces can connect to the apps you use and update i…

MCP Explained is a one-page interactive guide to the Model Context Protocol, the open standard that lets AI apps such as Claude, Cursor and ChatGPT call outside tools and data. It covers the host, the server and the model, and notes that the model never talks to a server directly…

GitHub's guide says writing code got faster while the work around it did not. It cites more than 1.2 billion commits in one October week, over 400% more than a year earlier, and a Faros AI study where pull requests spent 441% longer in review as teams moved from low to high AI ad…

Stroq is an open-source local tool for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and similar agents. It reads the last 30 days of sessions on your machine, flags commands that came from text the agent read, and checks whether known keys left the machine (names only, never values). There is no a…

Mistral expanded Mistral Studio with managed agents, workflows and apps, plus enterprise context, agent observability and evaluations. Agents can use skills, sandboxes, subagents and hooks; workflows add event triggers and a visual graph; apps get hosting, authentication and acce…

Anthropic is rolling out Personal Finance in Claude in beta this week for Pro, Max, and Ultra plans in the US. You connect bank and card accounts through Plaid; access is read-only, so Claude cannot move, manage, or invest money, and it does not see your bank password. For linked…

Google DeepMind launched Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash and made it generally available on the Gemini API and Google Cloud. Clips go up to 15 seconds (from 10 with Omni 1.1), with multi-turn conversational edits so you can swap a product or background without regenerating from scratch. Go…

Conductor, the Mac app for running teams of coding agents, says it is joining Meta. New sign-ups and downloads stopped on 4 Nov. Conductor Cloud goes read-only on 13 Nov and shuts on 20 Nov, when deletion of cloud user data begins; active subscribers get a refund. Users can trans…

OpenAI launched Images 2.6 in ChatGPT, Codex, and the API, saying generation is 50% faster and adding GIF animation. The API offers GPT-Image-2.6 Flare and Sunburst; Flare can generate in as little as six seconds at low quality. OpenAI says people now create 4 billion images per…

Rivet (YC W23) launched an open-source actor orchestrator for agent workloads, aimed as a self-hostable alternative to heavy sandboxes and Cloudflare Durable Objects. Its README cites 4.99 ms p99 cold starts, about 72 KB RAM per actor versus 512 MiB for a typical sandbox, and S3-…

A GitHub issue reports Claude Code putting the user's email into outbound User-Agent headers during web fetches, which the reporter links to a surge of scam emails. An Anthropic Claude Code engineer said models sometimes add a contact email because sites like Wikipedia ask script…

Google DeepMind has released Cheminformatics Skills for Google Antigravity, installed through a Science plugin. The model handles planning, database search and reasoning, while standard chemistry tools such as RDKit, with connectors to ChEMBL and PubChem, do the actual molecular…

Google has published the Gemini Notebook API, a REST interface for creating notebooks in Gemini Notebook and adding sources such as web pages, YouTube videos, plain text and Markdown, along with an MCP server. Both are in an early access public preview, and Google's quickstart su…

OpenAI says it will acquire Pierre Computer Company, whose Trees and Diffs libraries already power file browsing and code review in the Codex app. Pierre also runs Code Storage, a service that lets apps store code and its history using Git, and OpenAI plans to bring its features…