Agents

Pierce released Rotunda, a Firefox 150-based browser for agents that simulates mouse and keyboard timing with an RNN trained on one week of his own patterns, and exposes local control through a CLI or Playwright API for Claude, Codex, or other harnesses.

Cursor released tools for cloud agent development environments, adding multi-repository support, Dockerfile-based configuration, audit logs, and environment-level network and secret controls; the post says cache hits improve build speed by 70%.

OpenAI built a secure sandbox for Codex on Windows. The RSS snippet discloses controlled file access and network restrictions, but the post does not disclose implementation details, performance data, or rollout conditions.

Baidu launched the Miaoda app and Miaoda Enterprise Edition, saying 90% of the Miaoda app’s code was generated by Miaoda itself; Miaoda-generated apps have served over 10 million users and reached a total value of RMB 5 billion.

Baidu launched Miaoda 3.0 at its 2026 Create conference, adding iOS and Android app generation, Android packaging, online hot updates, and an enterprise edition with three-level permissions, environment isolation, and SLA commitments.

The Information says Lin Junyang is raising several hundred million dollars for a new AI Lab at a potential $2 billion post-financing valuation, while the lab’s research direction and final valuation remain undisclosed.

Xiaomi open-sourced MiMo-V2.5-Pro with 1.02T parameters, 42B active parameters, a 1M context window, and an MIT license; the author ran 125 Claude Code sessions through the API, spending $70.12 for 387,380,436 tokens with a 96.3% cache hit rate.

Google launched Googlebook, its first laptop designed around Gemini Intelligence, with three disclosed mechanisms: Magic Pointer as an AI interaction entry point, natural-language widget creation, and Android-based cross-device app and file access.

Medicare’s ACCESS creates a payment mechanism for an AI agent that monitors patients between visits, calls to check in, coordinates housing referrals, and confirms medication pickup. The RSS snippet does not disclose payment rates, rollout timing, participating states, or operational requirements.

Claude Code introduced a /goal feature that keeps Claude working until a task is completed; the post does not disclose the trigger mechanism, supported versions, pricing, or failure conditions.

Andrej Karpathy says 90% of AI coding bills is wasted on unnecessary context, including repeated full-repository sends, expensive models for simple tasks, and missing prompt caching.

OpenAI Devs says computer use lets Codex click, type, and keep working across Mac apps in the background; the post does not disclose release timing, permission design, or availability scope.

Anthropic’s detection platform engineering team used Claude Code to build the CLUE threat detection and response platform, completing a proof of concept in one day and delivery in one week while reducing analyst log investigation from hours to minutes.

Cactus open-sourced Needle, a 26M-parameter tool-calling model that reaches 6,000 tok/s prefill and 1,200 tok/s decode on consumer devices, with MIT-licensed weights released on Hugging Face.

Cactus Compute open-sourced Needle, a 26M-parameter tool-calling model that reaches 6,000 tok/s prefill and 1,200 tok/s decode on consumer devices, using an attention-and-gating architecture with no MLPs.

Anthropic released more than 20 MCP connectors and 12 legal plugins, letting Claude work inside Word and Outlook for contract drafting, revision, clause comparison, and routine legal workflows.

Google introduced Android Intelligence at Android Show 2026, with multi-step automation across Android apps, browser-use features for Gemini in Chrome, automatic form filling, Rambler voice-note transcription, and custom Gen UI widgets; the post does not disclose rollout timing, supported devices, or pricing.

Hypercubic launched Hopper, an agentic development environment that combines a real TN3270 terminal, z/OS-aware panels for datasets, jobs, and spool output, and an AI agent; sensitive operations require approval, and the terminal remains visible during agent actions.

Google Developers describes using ADK to build long-running agents for enterprise workflows lasting days or weeks, such as HR onboarding, with a persistent state machine, persistent session storage, event-driven webhooks, and multi-agent delegation to pause during idle time and resume after restarts without losing context.

Google announced AI-first Googlebooks laptops, more agentic Gemini features, vibe-coded Android widgets, Gemini in Chrome, and refreshed Android Auto ahead of I/O; the RSS snippet does not disclose specs, pricing, availability, or rollout timelines.