Factory said it raised $200 million at a $5 billion valuation—more than triple its ~$1.5B mark earlier this year—with backers including Blackstone, Sequoia, and Khosla Ventures. Total funding now exceeds $400M as it scales Factory 2.0 for enterprise software factories.
Released Oct 31, pip install breakwise bundles a copy of the registry so breakwise explain BW 2026 0001 shows a notice offline: the package, the release that breaks your code, and a before and after fix that's run against real PyPI releases before it's accepted. A command that finds the code an upgrade breaks is next, and the notices are CC BY 4.0 if you want to feed them to your agent (GitHub)…
Released Oct 31, the agent's schedule tool now takes a tool call instead of a message, firing it directly at a set time, on idle or on a repeat ( every: "10m" ), with permissions and guardrails re checked at fire time and busy repeats skipping a tick instead of piling up. The release also tracks per session agent run history with main model costs and moves octohub and ChatGPT calls onto one persistent WebSocket, which is a breaking config change for per model transport (changelog)…
Launched Oct 30 on Show HN and Product Hunt, it lists each page's buttons, links and fields and has a small choice model (Jev) pick the next step, falling back to a cheap LLM when unsure, cites a page quote for every claim, and holds submit, pay, delete and send until your code allows them; try it with uvx fastbrowse "..." local or via its MCP server and agent skill. The makers report $0.030 per run versus $0.318 for Browser Use's hosted agent on their own 46 task suite, so treat that as self reported (Show HN recap)…
Listed as a new launch on Oct 31, the Chrome extension records the screen, console, network requests and click steps on one timeline, redacting tokens, cookies and card numbers before upload, and its MCP server ( claude mcp add transport http faylee https://app.faylee.app/mcp ) lets Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or OpenCode pull any moment, fix the code and comment back on the recording. Free covers 3 members and 30 recordings a month (MCP docs)…
The Apache 2.0 public beta app drives your installed, signed in apps on a separate virtual display without root (Android 12+, 14+ recommended), using your own model key, and since Oct 31 a token protected USB connection at http://127.0.0.1:8765/mcp lets Claude Code, Cursor or other MCP clients hand it phone tasks with tools like mika run task and mika wait task . LAN access is off by default and payment confirmations still have to be tapped on the phone (Nvdium)…
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