Google completed a $1.5B+ talent-and-license deal with Mechanize, bringing co-founder Tamay Besiroglu and a dozen-plus engineers into DeepMind midtraining to strengthen coding agents. Mechanize continues under new CEO Guive Assadi with a non-exclusive tech license.
Announced at Universe on Oct 28, Copilot Projects let you give the app a goal plus context like repos, Figma mocks or Slack threads, and it runs as many background agents as needed, returning PRs for review. Computer use, in public preview on macOS and Windows, lets Copilot click and type in desktop apps with no API after you approve it (Settings Computer Use)…
In beta since Oct 27, your agent runs on Akamai Functions via the Spin SDK, and the JavaScript or Python it writes runs in a second, tighter Wasm sandbox with limits on compute, memory and network; the tech preview suits short steps of about a minute. Akamai also opened a beta of Akamai Inference, OpenAI compatible serverless or dedicated hosting for 12 open weight models including gpt oss 120b and Gemma 4…
Released Oct 26, experimental createSteering() plugs into generateText , streamText and ToolLoopAgent , and steer(message) slips a user message in once the current step and its tools finish, resolving to delivered or a reason like finished or aborted . It never interrupts a running tool and doesn't work across processes yet; the same patch adds an onStepError callback for steps that fail before producing a result…
Announced Oct 27 at IBM TechXchange, Vault ties each agent to an IBM Agent Identity record (owner, lifecycle, granted authority) and hands it short lived, least privilege credentials, revoking the session in real time if the agent tries something outside its permissions. Vault's agent model caps access by the human's policy, an agent ceiling policy, and per task authorization requests (HashiCorp)…
Together AI's skill for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and OpenCode, trending on GitHub this week, deals three of fifty themes, then runs sloplint at eight widths to flag tells like eyebrows over every heading or a colored word in the headline, with a fresh context subagent reviewing last. Install with npx skills add nutlope/hallmark g , or use /hallmark audit ./index.html to just get a report on an existing page…
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