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October 16Friday
  1. Replit Blog40

    Replit Brings Your Own Cloud (BYOC) to Its Platform

    Replit is introducing Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) options that let enterprises run the Replit platform and published apps inside their own Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or Amazon Web Services tenant. Full BYOC, in private preview, deploys Replit's cells and agent harness in the customer's cloud, while BYOC for Published Apps, in early access, hosts published projects there with Replit managing the platform. Image Exports instead give teams a Docker image, Terraform file, and SBOM to self-host Replit-built apps.

October 15Thursday
  1. Apple Newsroom60

    Apple launches iPhone Duo, its first foldable iPhone with a 7.58-inch inner display

    Apple announced iPhone Duo, its first foldable iPhone, featuring the largest iPhone display yet: a 7.58-inch inner screen that is 50 percent larger than iPhone 18 Pro Max's display, plus a 5.4-inch outer display covering 90 percent of iPhone 18 Pro's screen area. It runs on the A20 Pro chip with a dual-battery architecture, and iOS 27 is reworked for the foldable form factor, including Split View for showing Siri and Mail side by side. Siri AI, powered by Apple Intelligence, is rolling out in beta with iOS 27 in English first and will not initially be available in the EU; Apple notes Siri AI and other new Apple Intelligence features will not be available in China.

    Why it matters: Apple's first foldable iPhone pairs a 7.58-inch inner display with a 5.4-inch outer screen and an A20 Pro chip, showing how iOS 27 and Siri AI are being adapted to a foldable form factor.

  2. Modal Blog78

    Meta's Muse Spark Open weights released and available on Modal Auto Endpoints

    Meta released the weights for Muse Spark Open, and Modal now serves the model through its Auto Endpoints with per-token billing. The model targets agentic coding and long-horizon tasks, with native multimodal understanding, a 1M-token context window, multi-step planning, sequential tool use and failure recovery. Meta reports 76.4 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 with the Terminus 2 agent and 60 on DeepSWE 1.1 using its preferred harness at xhigh reasoning effort.

    Why it matters: Meta's open-weight Muse Spark Open is now served on Modal, giving teams a per-token way to try an agentic coding model with a 1M-token context window.

October 13Tuesday
  1. Apple Newsroom58

    Apple introduces HomeView, a $299 smart home display with Siri AI

    Apple introduced Apple HomeView, a 7-inch Liquid Retina smart home display that combines entertainment, FaceTime calls, home monitoring and hands-free automation, priced at $299 in the U.S. The device recognizes users by face to surface their personal content and runs Siri AI, a new more conversational version of Siri that can draw on personal context when paired with an Apple Intelligence-enabled iPhone or iPad. Pre-orders opened October 13 in Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, the UK and the U.S., with availability starting Friday, November 13; Apple says HomeView is not for sale in the European Union because Siri AI is currently unavailable in iOS there.

  2. Apple Newsroom58

    Apple unveils new Apple TV 4K with Siri AI and hands-free far-field microphones

    Apple announced the fourth-generation Apple TV 4K, featuring Siri AI, a new version of Siri powered by the next generation of Apple Intelligence that offers a full-screen conversational search experience. Built-in far-field microphones enable hands-free Siri use, and with an Apple Intelligence-enabled iPhone the assistant can answer personal-context requests such as playing a show a friend recommended. The device is priced at $299 in the U.S., with pre-orders open in the U.S. and 29 other countries and regions and in-store availability starting Friday, November 13; Siri AI is available as a beta on Apple TV 4K (2nd generation or later) in eight English-language markets at launch.

October 12Monday
  1. Descript Changelog22

    Descript October 2026 Roundup: Drive-Wide Search, Async Recording Requests, and ElevenLabs v4 Voice Clones

    Descript's October 12, 2026 release adds a search bar across your entire drive, with a full results page and Underlord file-finding. Enterprise drives can now send async recording requests so guests record on their own schedule, and AI Speech moves to ElevenLabs v4 for more accurate voice clones. Paid plans also default to MiniMax H3 Max Turbo for AI video generation.

  2. Modal Blog40

    Modal launches Endpoint Candidates to evaluate and promote inference endpoints

    Modal has released Endpoint Candidates, generally available for all workspaces, letting users stage alternative deployments for Dedicated Endpoints that mirror a sample of production traffic while Modal runs the infrastructure. Users can inspect latency and throughput metrics, run benchmarks, and test output quality via each Candidate's own URL, then promote it to production from the dashboard. Mirrored requests are best-effort and billed at standard Modal compute pricing.

October 9Friday
  1. LiveKit Blog58

    LiveKit launches Agent Simulations for testing voice agents

    LiveKit has made Agent Simulations generally available for all LiveKit Cloud projects, a repeatable way to test voice agents at the task level rather than turn by turn. An LLM-driven simulated user plays out each scenario, including backchannels and interruptions in audio mode, and an LLM judge returns a pass/fail verdict with a reason; a CLI can generate scenarios from the agent's own prompts and tools. Text runs are the default and cheap enough for every pull request, while audio runs cover the full pipeline and are better suited to nightly or pre-release schedules. Simulations are free through October, though they call the real agent's LLM, STT and TTS at normal rates.

October 8Thursday
October 7Wednesday
  1. Google AI · DEV22

    Google Cloud Run Lets You Claim Free Custom Subdomains for Demos

    Google Cloud Run now lets developers claim easy-to-remember, globally available subdomains at zero cost, with no load balancers and no DNS configuration required. Any available subdomain such as my-cool-app.cloud.run can be claimed in seconds, and Cloud Run automates SSL/TLS certificates and global routing. Apps can be deployed with a custom URL in one command.

October 6Tuesday
  1. Figma Blog50

    Figma agent exits beta with guidelines, cross-platform context, and multiplayer agent following

    The Figma agent is out of beta with better instruction-following and long-task handling, winning over 60% of human-graded evals with professional designers. New capabilities let library owners upload markdown guidelines, pull context from FigJam, Figma Slides, and Figma Design, and follow collaborators' agents on the canvas. Uber's design systems team now publishes documentation that once took multiple people months in a single afternoon.

October 2Friday
  1. OpenClaw Blog40

    Tencent AIG Joins ClawScan to Strengthen ClawHub Skill and Plugin Security Review

    Tencent's AI-Infra-Guard (AIG) has been integrated into ClawScan, the open-source command-line tool powering security review on ClawHub, so every uploaded skill and plugin now passes through AIG. ClawScan runs AIG and NVIDIA's SkillSpector independently, with an AI judge making the final assessment. On a fixed 556-case subset of SkillTrustBench, ClawScan matched 86.9% of benchmark labels and correctly classified 98.6% of malicious cases.

  2. Vapi Blog58

    Vapi opens GPT-Live beta to all customers, splitting voice agents into speaker and reasoner

    Vapi has opened its GPT-Live beta to every Vapi customer, after a limited beta last month with OpenAI's full-duplex speech-to-speech model. On Vapi the model runs as a speaker that handles the whole call and delegates lookups or actions to a separate reasoner model, with the handoff controlled through two prompts instead of one. Existing phone numbers, tools, tests and observability carry over, the transcriber config is dropped, and the voice switches to one of OpenAI's 22.

October 1Thursday
  1. Modal Blog58

    Modal Clusters 正式可用，通过 @modal.clustered 一行代码获取多节点 RDMA 集群

    Modal announced that Modal Clusters are generally available to all workspaces, letting users request multi-node clusters through the single decorator @modal.clustered. The clusters provide InfiniBand RDMA communication at up to 6.4 Tbps, automatically configured for PyTorch and NCCL, with clusters starting within seconds and billed by the second. Modal also describes a new gang scheduler that places N nodes at once and RDMA support built into the gVisor runtime, with Decagon, 1x and Runway cited as users for trillion-parameter fine-tuning, world model pre-training and multi-node video inference.

  2. Modal Blog58

    Modal launches Sidecars, a low-latency trust boundary for Sandboxes

    Modal introduced Sidecars in Beta, isolated containers that run alongside a Sandbox on the same host to separate trusted code such as credentials, proxies and harness logic from untrusted agent-generated code. Modal says communication between a Sandbox and its Sidecars is at least 3x faster than between separate Sandboxes in the same region, with p50 travel per call of 0.58ms versus 2.6ms. Each Sidecar has its own outbound network policy, a single Sandbox can run up to 250 Sidecars, and Ramp already uses the feature to run a custom egress proxy next to its Inspect coding agent.

  3. Modal Blog60

    Modal launches VM Sandboxes, giving agents full Linux VMs with Docker support

    Modal has made VM Sandboxes generally available, giving agents a full Linux VM through the same APIs, modal.Images, sub-second cold starts and CPU/memory bursting as its existing gVisor-based Sandboxes. Users enable it with runtime="vm" when they need Docker, FUSE filesystems or niche Linux kernel features, while gVisor remains the default runtime. Modal says early customers have already launched over 20 million VMs, with Linear running every Coding Session on a VM Sandbox and Legora and Snorkel using them for legal agent evals and agent simulations.

    Why it matters: Modal's VM Sandboxes give agents a full Linux machine with Docker and kernel access while keeping the existing Sandbox APIs and sub-second cold starts.

  4. Modal Blog42

    Modal Runtime Roundup: VM Sandboxes, Modal Clusters, and More

    Modal announced VM Sandboxes, giving agents a full Linux computer for Docker stacks, local databases, and mobile simulators, already used by Linear, Legora, and Snorkel. Modal Clusters are now generally available via the @modal.clustered decorator, supporting trillion-parameter training and serving across coordinated containers. Sticky Sessions and Endpoint Candidates were also introduced, with the latter in private beta.

September 30Wednesday
  1. Factory62

    Factory makes Automations generally available for Droid agents

    Factory has made Automations generally available, letting teams describe a recurring workflow and have Droid run it on a schedule or event trigger. Each automation combines a trigger (schedule, Slack, GitHub, or webhook), instructions, a user-chosen model and reasoning level, and a machine that can be local, connected, or a Factory-managed Droid Computer. Factory says 52% of enterprise users ran automated code review in the past 30 days, 48% used security review, 35% used AutoWiki, and automation session volume grew 51% over the prior 30 days.

    Why it matters: Factory makes its Automations generally available, showing which recurring engineering workflows enterprises actually hand to Droid and how model and machine choice work per task.

  2. Vapi Blog58

    Vapi launches Personal Agent Calling beta to let assistants place phone calls

    Vapi launched Personal Agent Calling in beta, which lets personal assistants dial a business, work through phone menus, hold the conversation and report back a result. The feature works with assistants including Muse, Instinct, GrokBot, ChatGPT Work, Claude Code, OpenClaw and Hermes, and users paste a prompt pointing the assistant to phone.vapi.ai. In a test, Head of Revenue Bryan Parman's assistant waited 14 minutes on hold with an airline and declined a $51.69 upgrade fee, after which the representative waived it and confirmed an Economy Plus aisle seat at no charge.

September 29Tuesday
  1. Vapi Blog55

    Vapi launches CX toolkit for building and improving customer-service voice agents

    Vapi launched Vapi for CX, a toolkit for building, deploying, observing and optimizing customer-experience voice agents. It combines a natural-language Composer for CX teams with the same config object reachable through API, CLI and an MCP server, plus evals, versioning, fallback plans, call scorecards and weekly latency, cost and quality data across transcribers, models and voices. Vapi says Amazon Ring runs 100% of its inbound volume on the platform after evaluating more than 40 vendors, and that Kavak builds new agent versions in about five minutes with NPS up 20 points.

  2. OpenClaw Blog71

    OpenClaw Enterprise launches as an open source platform for managing persistent agents

    OpenClaw announced OpenClaw Enterprise (OCE), an open source, vendor neutral platform for managing persistent agents in sensitive environments, currently in development ahead of its 1.0 release later this year. OCE adds an enterprise control plane with multi-tenancy, hard security boundaries, sandboxing, LLM-based reviews and fine-grained permissions, and lets the harness, model and sandbox be swapped for third party or internal implementations. Organizations can self host it today via docker-compose for local development or kubernetes for internal deployment, and it is being piloted at companies including Red Hat and OpenAI.

    Why it matters: OpenClaw Enterprise is an open source control plane for persistent agents in sensitive environments, with multi-tenancy, hard security boundaries and auditability, now available for internal pilot workloads.

September 24Thursday
  1. Vapi Blog25

    Vapi Engineers Answer Top Questions on Model Intelligence, Simulations and Campaigns

    Vapi product engineers Mhar Andal, Scott Lowe and Adham El Fawal demoed Model Intelligence, Simulations and Campaigns in a September 22 webinar and answered top builder questions. Model Intelligence recommends transcriber, LLM and voice presets and shows cost, latency and quality metrics, while Simulations run AI testers with pass/fail results and Campaigns dial lists of up to 10,000 contacts.

  2. Modal Blog58

    Modal and CMU's Full Stack Data Lab release Quail, an AI-SQL inference engine that jointly optimizes query planner and inference

    Modal and Carnegie Mellon University's Full Stack Data Lab built Quail, a query-aware inference engine for AI-SQL workloads that jointly optimizes the SQL query planner and the inference engine. On one multi-join query it processes over a billion tokens per minute per H100 GPU, more than 10x faster than Modal's vLLM baseline on the same hardware, at under 6¢ per billion tokens; on the team's new AI-SQL benchmark it runs 1.84x faster than vLLM geometrically averaged over tasks. Because AI-SQL filters and joins need only a single token per sequence, Quail skips decode, sampling and prefill-decode disaggregation, and it uses the known query plan to order requests and manage KV cache eviction.

September 22Tuesday
  1. LiveKit Blog38

    LiveKit Launches Private Links for Secure Agent Access to Internal Resources

    LiveKit has launched Private Links, a fully managed encrypted tunnel that lets LiveKit-hosted agents reach private internal resources via AWS PrivateLink or Azure Private Link without public IPs, inbound firewall rules, or VPN infrastructure. Traffic routes through a WireGuard tunnel to a LiveKit gateway in the same cloud region, and only TCP connections secured with TLS are supported. Setup is available through the LiveKit CLI or Dashboard, with one-time connection approval on the customer side.

  2. OpenClaw Blog60

    OpenClaw adds opt-in decision models and a shared Plugin SDK interface

    OpenClaw introduced support for a separately configured decision model that its core and plugins can call through api.runtime.decisions.evaluate in the Plugin SDK, returning a choice, score or probability instead of a chat reply. The feature is opt-in and does not replace the chat model, and the provider packages are still awaiting a supporting release. The TypeSafe adapter supports hosted Jev and a local System One server such as Jared Palmer's Kev, and the evaluation tool is moving into OpenClaw core as decision_evaluate.

    Why it matters: OpenClaw adds an opt-in decision model layer that returns typed answers from application code, with a shared Plugin SDK interface so plugins can use it without per-provider integrations.

September 17Thursday
  1. Descript Changelog20

    Descript September 17, 2026 Release Roundup: Caption Presets, AI Music and Sound Effects, Multi-Currency Checkout

    Descript's September 17, 2026 release adds 18 caption presets and 10 new text animations, plus AI-generated background music and sound effects placed directly on the timeline in version 145.0.15 or newer. Checkout now displays prices in local currency with Apple Pay, Google Pay, Cash App and other options, and the voice picker draws on the ElevenLabs voice library.

September 14Monday
  1. Modal Blog40

    Modal Product Updates: Sandbox Sidecars, Kimi K3 and GLM 5.3 Support, Refreshed Dashboard

    Modal added day-zero support for four open-weight models — Kimi K3, Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, GLM-5.3, and GLM-5.3-Flash — on its Auto Endpoints, with Kimi K3 running at 460 tokens per second on agentic workloads via a custom DFlash speculator. Sandbox Sidecars entered public alpha, VM Sandboxes reached public beta, and the broad-region pricing multiplier dropped from 1.5x to 1.15x. The dashboard was refreshed with a light mode beta, and Python SDK 1.5.5 plus JavaScript and Go SDK 0.10.0 shipped.

September 3Thursday
  1. Vapi Blog40

    Vapi opens private beta and public waitlist for GPT-Live speech-to-speech model

    Vapi has opened a limited private beta for GPT-Live, OpenAI's next-generation full-duplex speech-to-speech model, alongside a public waitlist for early access. GPT-Live replaces the modular speech-to-text, LLM and voice pipeline by handling all three in one model, cutting turn latency and preserving tone and emphasis. Beta teams run it on the same Vapi stack as existing modular agents, and modular pipelines remain supported.

September 2Wednesday
  1. LiveKit Blog38

    LiveKit non-production deployments let you test voice agents before production

    LiveKit added non-production deployments that run a voice agent under a different name on the same container image, project and secrets as production, created with a single command. Each deployment sleeps when idle at no cost and wakes on the next request, and you target it with the --deployment flag. It requires livekit-agents 1.6+ for Python or @livekit/agents 1.7.1+ for Node, and plans grant 2 deployments on Ship and 5 on Scale.

September 1Tuesday
  1. LiveKit Blog58

    LiveKit launches Connectors to bring voice agents to Twilio and WhatsApp calls

    LiveKit launched Connectors, a direct bridge between LiveKit rooms and Twilio Programmable Voice and WhatsApp Business Calling, with more platforms planned. Each call joins the room as a CONNECTOR participant carrying platform context such as the Twilio call SID or the WhatsApp caller's phone number, and agent dispatch happens in the same API request. Connectors are generally available on LiveKit Cloud at SIP pricing of $0.004 per minute on Ship and $0.003 on Scale, with 5, 20, and 100 concurrent connector calls on Build, Ship, and Scale respectively.

August 31Monday
  1. Vapi Blog58

    Vapi rebuilds Campaigns for batch outbound calling at 10,000 contacts

    Vapi launched a rebuilt version of Campaigns, its batch outbound calling product, which now runs on a standalone durable workflow engine separate from the call queue. Each campaign can take up to 10,000 contacts plus an assistant or squad and a phone number, with dialing confined to a set window, per-contact variables in the assistant prompt, and a pre-dial webhook that skips contacts who already converted. Vapi says campaign state persists outside any single process, concurrency runs as a sliding window rather than a batch, and every state change appends an immutable event so progress and audit trails cannot drift.

August 24Monday
  1. LiveKit Blog22

    LiveKit introduces per-second metering for agent sessions, recordings, WebRTC and SIP connections

    LiveKit has switched agent session minutes, recording, WebRTC connections and SIP connections to per-second billing with a ten second minimum increment, across all plans and accounts including enterprise contracts. The change is already live and will appear on the September bill for August usage, with no customer-facing technical changes. LiveKit says per-minute billing mismatched short outbound calls lasting only seconds, limiting that use case.

August 20Thursday
  1. LiveKit Blog38

    LiveKit adds PII redaction to Agent Observability

    LiveKit has added PII Redaction to Agent Observability, automatically removing names, addresses, birthdays and other sensitive details before recordings and transcripts are stored, at no extra cost to all Agent Observability customers. An LLM reads each conversation in context to detect PII, replacing words with markers and dropping entire turns from audio. It covers 41 PII types across 10 groups and requires LiveKit Agents SDK 1.7.0 for Python or Node.js.

August 18Tuesday
  1. Vapi Blog55

    Vapi launches Simulations to test voice agents against AI callers

    Vapi launched Simulations, a native AI-powered testing feature that places AI testers with distinct personalities and customer-derived scenarios on the other end of a call with a voice agent. Each run returns pass/fail results, a full transcript and a recording, and teams can mock API responses, run cheap text-based chat mode or full voice mode, and trigger runs via API with quality gates that block deploys when pass rates drop.

August 13Thursday
  1. Factory38

    Factory launches Agent Effectiveness analytics for Enterprise

    Factory has made Agent Effectiveness generally available in Factory Analytics for Enterprise organizations, linking Factory sessions to cycle time, work intent, and shipped artifacts. The feature adds Throughput, Output, and Attribution views that connect Droid usage to delivery outcomes, backed by a Local Signals classification layer that reads from Jira, Linear, GitHub, and GitLab. It is opt-in, off by default, and requires the Advanced Analytics enterprise control.

August 12Wednesday
  1. Modal Blog62

    Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B 开源权重发布，Modal 同步上线共享端点

    Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B 已作为开源权重模型发布，并同步在 Modal 上线。Modal 表示其与 Qwen 在发布前合作，通过 SGLang 和针对 Qwen3.8 形状调优的定制 DFlash 推测器，为 Modal Auto Endpoints 提供 day zero 支持。

    Why it matters: Modal 在 Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B 开源权重发布当天即上线共享端点，并说明其定制 DFlash 推测器如何针对该模型的形状提升推理速度。

August 4Tuesday
  1. Modal Blog34

    Modal moves serverless Functions to a regional I/O plane, cutting p50 latency by ~80ms

    Modal has migrated all Functions to a new geographically distributed I/O plane, dropping end-to-end Function Call latency by roughly 80ms at p50. Previously every Function's inputs and outputs routed through us-east I/O servers, adding up to a few 100ms per call; the new plane is available in ≥4 regions and selectable via the routing_region flag. The server layer was rewritten in Go, with non-critical work moved off the hot path.

August 3Monday
  1. Vapi Blog33

    Why model flexibility matters in voice: Speechify Simba 3.2 and Fish Audio S2.1-Pro top Vapi's Humanness Index

    Speechify's Simba 3.2 debuted atop Vapi's Humanness Index at 99, one point under the human baseline of 100, and Fish Audio's S2.1-Pro entered at 94 with 141 ms time to first audio. The prior leader, xAI's Grok TTS, held the top spot for only three weeks at 95, and the leading score has since moved from 95 to 99. Vapi argues that model-agnostic voice platforms let teams swap TTS models as rankings shift.