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Meet Factory Droid 1.0: A Model-Independent Coding Agent Harness Built on Script Mode

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Factory has released Droid 1.0, the largest update yet to the Factory Droid agent harness. The main change is programmatic tool calling, now on by default. The model writes a program that runs its tools. One model request can now drive hundreds of tool calls. TL;DR Size: Base prompt is 13,055 input tokens, down 37%

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Vercel Labs Open-Sources agent-desktop for Agent Computer Use

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Vercel Labs has released agent-desktop, an open-source CLI for AI agent computer use on macOS, Windows and Linux. agent-desktop reads each app through the operating system’s accessibility tree, not through screenshots. An agent gets a JSON snapshot with a ref for every element it can act on. Version 1.0.2 shipped on October 30, 2026, under

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Meet TokenEconomizer: Microsoft’s Plugin That Cuts Coding Agent Costs by Up to 30.9%

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A team of researchers from Microsoft Research and UC Berkeley have released TokenEconomizer, an open-source cost controller for coding agents. TokenEconomizer is a plugin that learns from past sessions in a repository to cut waste in later ones. It works with Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot CLI and Pi. It does not touch model weights

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AI Security Agents Compared: Claude, Codex, Mantis, Cloudflare

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Anthropic, OpenAI, Cloudflare and Google now each ship an AI agent that hunts security bugs in source code. We checked the repos, docs and technical details behind each one. The key finding: all 4 tools converge on one design. One agent finds a bug, a separate agent tries to disprove it, and only survivors get

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Samaya AI Releases Sterling: A 3B-Active Finance Research Agent Model that Beats Claude Fable 5.1 on FrontierFinance at 11x Lower Cost

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Samaya AI has released Samaya Sterling, a post-trained model for agentic financial research. Sterling is built on NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B mixture-of-experts model with 3B active parameters. On Samaya’s FrontierFinance benchmark, it scores 58.9%. Claude Fable 5.1 scores 55.9%. Each Sterling question costs $0.61, against $6.89 for Fable 5.1. For developers, the takeaway

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Edge0 Releases Audio8-TTS-Realistic, a 0.6B Voice Cloning TTS Model

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Edge0 has released Audio8-TTS-Realistic, an open-weight text-to-speech model for zero-shot voice cloning. Audio8-TTS-Realistic is a 0.6B-parameter model that clones a voice from 1 reference clip and transcript. It supports 23 languages, 12 more than its predecessor. The weights and code ship under Apache 2.0. For developers, the catch is competitive multilingual accuracy at a size

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Baseten Releases joey-1, a 2B Decision Model at $0.01 per 1M Tokens

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Baseten has released joey-1, a 2B model from its in-house research lab, Base Labs. The joey-1 decision model returns a label and a calibrated probability instead of generated text. It targets high-volume routing, classification and guardrail checks. Baseten prices it at $0.01 per million input tokens, with open weights on Hugging Face under MIT. TL;DR

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Prime Intellect Releases Prime Mega MoE: Trainable Fused MoE Kernel, 3.11x Faster Forward Pass

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Prime Intellect has released Prime Mega MoE, a training extension of DeepSeek’s fused Mega MoE kernel. DeepSeek’s kernel only ran the forward pass. Prime Intellect added a fast, overlapping backward pass. That makes the fused kernel usable for training, not just inference. In its prime-rl trainer, full training steps on Qwen3 MoE models run up

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NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe: An Open 30B MoE Model for 40-Language Transcription with ~4B Active Parameters

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NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weights speech LLM built for transcription. One model handles 40 languages and recordings up to 1 hour. A text instruction picks the output style for each request. Options include verbatim, written form, speaker-attributed, contextual and translated output. For developers, it can replace separate ASR, diarization and alignment tools.

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Google DeepMind Introduces Gemini 4 Carbon, Its Top Model for Cyber Defense and Coding

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Google DeepMind has introduced Gemini 4 Carbon, its strongest model to date. Gemini 4 Carbon is a frontier model from Google built for long-horizon agentic coding and cybersecurity defense. It ranks #1 on the updated v5.0 Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a score of 59. For developers, the catch is access. Carbon starts with a

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