Fireworks Research’s Ember-1, trained on Kimi K3, cuts reasoning tokens ~35–50% while holding coding and agent quality on SWE-bench, Terminal Bench, and live customer A/B tests. It’s a research-preview serverless option beside K3, aimed at multi-turn agent workloads where long traces dominate cost.
BetterWebSearch is an MIT licensed local MCP server that defaults to keyless DuckDuckGo search, escalates extraction from HTTP to structured data to Playwright only when needed, and returns cited research passages. On the author’s 12 question bench, web research cut returned text 86% versus open then extract while retaining 33/34 factual markers…
Altair is an Apache 2.0, Windows first coding agent that snapshots each file change, tracks command side effects in a hidden git repo, and runs your tests/linter as a health gate before it can report done—rolling the run back if checks still fail. Keys stay local (OpenAI compatible, Anthropic, or Ollama/LM Studio); Linux and macOS are planned…
Xiaomi’s Sept 27 post traces MiMo V2.6 tool call repetition to RL flooding rewards, then uses Multi teacher On Policy Distillation ( $90k vs $2.3M for a full MixRL restart) to cut loops across Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and other harnesses. New MOPD checkpoints are on Hugging Face; API models mimo v2.6 pro and mimo v2.6 flash have been updated since Sept 25, and MiMo Desktop quotas were reset…
AWS’s Sept 25 what’s new post adds agent skills for Amazon SES and End User Messaging (SMS, RCS, WhatsApp) on the AWS MCP Server, so Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or Kiro can verify sending identities, build branded RCS agents, and send production messages in plain language. Install via the aws core plugin (Claude Code/Codex/Cursor) or add the server plus channel skill in MCP config…
Anthropic’s Claude Marketplace is live as one discovery surface for 2,000+ MCP plugins and connectors (Atlassian, Google, Microsoft, Notion, Salesforce, and more), Claude powered products you can buy with committed Anthropic spend (Cursor, CrowdStrike, Snowflake, and others), and consulting partners. Builders list connectors/plugins via MCP and Agent Skills, or apply to sell agents and services…
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