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Axios · 2h · 4 sources #

Lutnick stalled Nvidia China chip curbs after Oval Office showdown

Why it matters: Export-control infighting directly shapes how much Nvidia AI compute reaches China.

Axios reports Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick again stalled Trump-authorized curbs on companies suspected of diverting Nvidia AI chips to China, with Bessent confronting him over not labeling a customer a security threat.

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More: CNN, Yahoo, CNBC
Bloomberg · 3h Widely covered · 11 sources #

United Airlines blocks third-party AI agents from booking flights

Why it matters: A major travel merchant drawing a line against agentic booking tests the limits of agent commerce.

United Airlines moved to block third-party AI agents from booking flights and accessing customer accounts ahead of the holidays, citing privacy and security concerns.

United AirlinesAgentic commerce
About Amazon · 4h · 4 sources #

AWS releases local emulator written entirely by autonomous AI agents

Why it matters: A major cloud vendor shipping codebase written entirely by autonomous agents tests how far agentic coding has come.

AWS Emulator is a downloadable local emulator for AWS services. AWS says thousands of autonomous AI agents wrote every line of its code, offering a test case for agent-written software.

AWSFreeOfficial
Google AI · 4h · 11 sources #

Google launches Gemini Decisions API for calibrated multimodal decisions

Why it matters: A calibrated decision-focused API signals Google pushing Gemini beyond chat into structured agent workflows.

Google released the Gemini Decisions API, powered by its Gemini Decision model, for fast, calibrated multimodal decisions and structured outputs.

GoogleClosedAPIOfficial
Launch HN · 4h · 2 sources #

Pomerado turns any website into an MCP server for agents

Why it matters: Giving agents callable APIs instead of browser clicking could make agent tool use faster and more reliable.

Pomerado, a YC F26 startup, converts any website into an MCP endpoint so AI agents can call an API instead of clicking through pages.

PomeradoClosedWaitlist
Unite.AI · 5h #

Salesforce's SFR-AutoR&D automates AI model research and validation

Why it matters: Shows agents can automate model R&D cycles, compressing weeks of experimentation into hours.

Salesforce introduced SFR-AutoR&D on November 11, 2026. Its agents produced the SFR-Embedding v4 model in about 80 hours instead of the several weeks human experimentation often requires, by autonomously changing codebases and running the research cycle.

Salesforce
The National · 6h Widely covered · 33 sources #

Nvidia downgraded as Huang affair and AI uncertainty weigh

Nvidia received a downgrade amid uncertainty around Jensen Huang, who pulled out of Anthropic and ElevenLabs events after an affair admission, as the company investigates.

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Google Developers · 7h · 4 sources #

Google releases A2UI 1.0 open protocol for agent-generated interfaces

Why it matters: Standardizes how agents render UI across platforms, potentially a key agentic interface layer.

A2UI 1.0 is an open protocol for generative UI that lets AI agents render interactive native screens across web, mobile and desktop, with open-source renderer SDKs for React, Angular, Lit, Flutter, SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose and agent SDKs.

GoogleOpenCodeOpen weightsOfficial
Unite.AI · 7h #

VIU by HUB launches ChatGPT insurance quote plugin

VIU by HUB, a digital insurance brokerage backed by HUB International, launched a ChatGPT plugin letting consumers in 48 states compare home and auto insurance quotes, with a licensed advisor following up to bind coverage.

VIU by HUBClosedAppFreeAgentic commerce
Bloomberg · 9h Widely covered · 16 sources #

Google adds Gemini voice assistant to Apple CarPlay

Why it matters: Gemini reaching CarPlay puts Google's assistant in front of iPhone drivers, a notable cross-platform move.

Google is bringing its Gemini AI app to Apple CarPlay for iPhone users, expanding the assistant beyond Android, with related Gemini updates on Pixel and Motorola phones.

GoogleClosedAppFree

ANYbotics starts delivering ANYmal X explosion-proof robot

Why it matters: Explosion-proof quadrupeds expand inspection robots into hazardous energy and chemical plants.

Swiss robotics firm ANYbotics has begun delivering ANYmal X, a four-legged inspection robot built for potentially explosive environments, to industrial customers including Equinor and DSM-Firmenich for oil, gas and chemical sites.

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Wamda · 8h #

OmniOps launches Bunyan Inference Hub in Saudi Arabia

OmniOps, a Saudi sovereign AI infrastructure company, launched Bunyan Inference Hub, giving governments, enterprises, startups and developers access to open-source AI models and compute hosted in Saudi Arabia.

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Dev tool · Zed · 2m #

Zed 1.28.1 released for macOS, Windows and Linux

Zed is a multiplayer code editor built for speed with AI-assisted coding features. Version 1.28.1 is a patch release for macOS, Windows and Linux.

Version 1.28.1 · macOS / Windows / Linux
ZedClosedFree
Dev tool · Amp · 1h #

Amp CLI releases build 0.0.1794427236

Amp, a CLI-based frontier coding agent and development environment, released build 0.0.1794427236-ga7dfca, installable via npm as @ampcode/cli.

Version 0.0.1794427236-ga7dfca · CLI (npm)
AmpClosedFree
App · docs.x.ai · 3h #

xAI adds Grok Bot to Microsoft Teams

xAI's Grok Bot is now available in Microsoft Teams, letting users bring the Grok assistant into team chats. Details on setup and features are documented on docs.x.ai.

xAIClosedAppOfficial
App · GitHub · 3h #

FrigadeHQ releases Yogurt, open-source private AI meeting notes

Yogurt is a free, open-source TypeScript app that takes private AI meeting notes, keeping transcripts and summaries local rather than sending them to a hosted service. It drew 133 GitHub stars in its first week.

New repo · ★ 133 in its first week · TypeScript
FrigadeHQOpenCodeFree
Dev tool · GitHub · 4h #

LASIK CLI and MCP server undo BLA agent blinding

LASIK is a static CLI and MCP server that reverses Blind LLM Agents hardening so coding agents can read real code again, without executing the target. It reached 100 GitHub stars in its first week.

New repo · ★ 100 in its first week · TypeScript
pktqOpenCodeFreeCybersecurity
Dev tool · About Amazon · 4h · 4 sources #

AWS releases local emulator written entirely by autonomous AI agents

Why it matters: A major cloud vendor shipping codebase written entirely by autonomous agents tests how far agentic coding has come.

AWS Emulator is a downloadable local emulator for AWS services. AWS says thousands of autonomous AI agents wrote every line of its code, offering a test case for agent-written software.

AWSFreeOfficial
Dev tool · Google AI · 4h · 11 sources #

Google launches Gemini Decisions API for calibrated multimodal decisions

Why it matters: A calibrated decision-focused API signals Google pushing Gemini beyond chat into structured agent workflows.

Google released the Gemini Decisions API, powered by its Gemini Decision model, for fast, calibrated multimodal decisions and structured outputs.

GoogleClosedAPIOfficial
Dev tool · Launch HN · 4h · 2 sources #

Pomerado turns any website into an MCP server for agents

Why it matters: Giving agents callable APIs instead of browser clicking could make agent tool use faster and more reliable.

Pomerado, a YC F26 startup, converts any website into an MCP endpoint so AI agents can call an API instead of clicking through pages.

PomeradoClosedWaitlist
Hugging Face · Hugging Face · 5h #

Adventists AI releases Sophon-Realtime-v1 full-duplex voice model

Sophon-Realtime v1 is an open, Apache-2.0 full-duplex voice model that listens continuously, picks up when you stop talking and lets you interrupt, while sensing tone such as hesitation or sarcasm.

Model · any-to-any · apache-2.0 · ♥ 101 · 0 downloads
Adventists AIOpenOpen weightsCode
Dev tool · Unite.AI · 5h #

Salesforce's SFR-AutoR&D automates AI model research and validation

Why it matters: Shows agents can automate model R&D cycles, compressing weeks of experimentation into hours.

Salesforce introduced SFR-AutoR&D on November 11, 2026. Its agents produced the SFR-Embedding v4 model in about 80 hours instead of the several weeks human experimentation often requires, by autonomously changing codebases and running the research cycle.

Salesforce
Dev tool · Databricks Blog · 7h · 5 sources #

Databricks makes Genie Ontology generally available for enterprise agents

Why it matters: Business context and ontology are pitched as the key to reliable autonomous enterprise agents.

Databricks launched Genie Ontology and a revamped Genie, giving AI agents business context across more data sources. The company claims 1.6x accuracy using less than half the tokens.

DatabricksClosedPaidOfficial
Dev tool · Google Developers · 7h · 4 sources #

Google releases A2UI 1.0 open protocol for agent-generated interfaces

Why it matters: Standardizes how agents render UI across platforms, potentially a key agentic interface layer.

A2UI 1.0 is an open protocol for generative UI that lets AI agents render interactive native screens across web, mobile and desktop, with open-source renderer SDKs for React, Angular, Lit, Flutter, SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose and agent SDKs.

GoogleOpenCodeOpen weightsOfficial
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GitHub · 3h #

FrigadeHQ releases Yogurt, open-source private AI meeting notes

Yogurt is a free, open-source TypeScript app that takes private AI meeting notes, keeping transcripts and summaries local rather than sending them to a hosted service. It drew 133 GitHub stars in its first week.

New repo · ★ 133 in its first week · TypeScript
FrigadeHQOpenCodeFree
GitHub · 4h #

LASIK CLI and MCP server undo BLA agent blinding

LASIK is a static CLI and MCP server that reverses Blind LLM Agents hardening so coding agents can read real code again, without executing the target. It reached 100 GitHub stars in its first week.

New repo · ★ 100 in its first week · TypeScript
pktqOpenCodeFreeCybersecurity
GitHub · 19h #

Developer releases lot-map, a live visualizer for Claude Code

lot-map is an open-source TypeScript tool that puts a live map beside the Claude Code chat, lighting up tool calls, model steps, hooks, skills and subagents as they happen. Runs locally in five languages.

New repo · ★ 100 in its first week · TypeScript
alexeywOpenCodeFree
GitHub · 22h #

pydantic-ai v2.67.0 released

pydantic-ai is a Python framework for building AI agents, realtime voice, image generation and embeddings with typed interfaces across models. Version 2.67.0 adds SubAgents support under durable execution and input sanitization fixes.

Release v2.67.0 · pydantic/pydantic-ai
PydanticOpenCodeFree
GitHub · 1d #

BookLeme compiles books into Agent Skills

An open-source Python project that turns a book into an Agent Skill, using a dual-engine pipeline, pluggable genre plugins and word-level fidelity verification.

New repo · ★ 102 in its first week · Python
BookLemeOpenCode
GitHub · 1d #

ComfyUI v0.45.0 released

ComfyUI, an open-source node-graph GUI, API and backend for running diffusion models locally, released v0.45.0 with updated inference features.

Release v0.45.0 · comfyanonymous/ComfyUI
ComfyUIOpenCodeFree
GitHub · 1d #

GitHub repo offers read-only MCP server for Yandex Metrika

A TypeScript MCP server that gives Claude, Cursor, VS Code and Codex read-only access to Yandex Metrika analytics: reports, period comparisons, time series and exports.

New repo · ★ 126 in its first week · TypeScript
DevCrabs-IncOpenCodeFree
GitHub · 1d #

GitHub repo offers terminal-based interview prep for 470+ companies

An open-source TypeScript collection of Claude-style skills that run in the terminal: company-specific mock interviews, online assessments with hidden tests and resume critiques covering more than 470 companies.

New repo · ★ 102 in its first week · TypeScript
nishant-Tiwari24OpenCodeFree
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docs.x.ai · 3h #

xAI adds Grok Bot to Microsoft Teams

xAI's Grok Bot is now available in Microsoft Teams, letting users bring the Grok assistant into team chats. Details on setup and features are documented on docs.x.ai.

xAIClosedAppOfficial
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Zed · 2m #

Zed 1.28.1 released for macOS, Windows and Linux

Zed is a multiplayer code editor built for speed with AI-assisted coding features. Version 1.28.1 is a patch release for macOS, Windows and Linux.

Version 1.28.1 · macOS / Windows / Linux
ZedClosedFree
Amp · 1h #

Amp CLI releases build 0.0.1794427236

Amp, a CLI-based frontier coding agent and development environment, released build 0.0.1794427236-ga7dfca, installable via npm as @ampcode/cli.

Version 0.0.1794427236-ga7dfca · CLI (npm)
AmpClosedFree
Amp · 13h #

Amp CLI releases new build 0.0.1794424433

Amp is a frontier coding agent and development environment; its CLI (npm i -g @ampcode/cli) gets a new 0.0.1794424433 build with routine updates.

Version 0.0.1794384042-gaad4d8 · CLI (npm)
AmpClosedFree
Product Hunt · 14h #

Skillbox launches synced AI skills library for coding agents

A library that stores AI skills in one place and syncs them to Claude Code, Cursor and Codex, following GitHub sources, reviewing diffs and scanning each version for prompt injection, plus trimming noisy command output.

Launch · ▲ 78 on Product Hunt
SkillboxClosedAppCybersecurity
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