Released Oct 22, ollama run phonon "..." speaks text aloud as it's generated (or pipe a chat model's reply into it), and apps can stream WAV or PCM audio from /v1/audio/speech using OpenAI's client. It runs on Apple Silicon only for now, English-only, with a 4,096-character limit per request (docs).
Released Oct 23, ollama run nemotron 3.5 bolt:e4b pulls NVIDIA's Gemma 4 based vision language model for fast local chat, image understanding, and tool use, with a 128K token context window. It ships with a DFlash draft model for speculative decoding to speed up generation…
In the update posted Oct 22, the Git agent in Visual Studio 2026 can summarize an attached pull request with links to its comments and files (via GitHub or Azure DevOps MCP servers), and NuGet Audit warnings get a fixer that has Copilot patch vulnerable packages. Bring Your Own Model now only works in the Copilot SDK based Agent (Preview), so previously configured Ollama models must be re added…
Announced Oct 23, the consolidated GitHub app for Microsoft Teams (formerly GitHub notifications) lets you @GitHub on a bug notification so Copilot investigates, fixes it, and opens a PR for your team to review. The legacy GitHub app becomes "GitHub (deprecated)" and retires on November 16, so Copilot in Teams users need to install the new one…
GA as of Oct 23, version 1.2 bundles dependency based builds, ZCodeScan static analysis on the CLI, unit and functional testing, and Wazi Deploy into governed pipelines for z/OS apps. It's sold as a peer to IBM Bob Premium Package for Z, which supplies the AI assisted coding at each stage (product page)…
Shandong University researchers held models fixed and ran Claude Code, OpenCode, and the 100 line mini SWE agent on 492 SWE bench Verified tasks, finding statistically equivalent success rates but up to 3x differences in cost per task. On the 45 hardest tasks, switching harnesses flipped results about as often as simply rerunning the same setup (13%), so small single run benchmark gaps say little…
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