AWS Strands Labs released Strands Decider 2B—an open-source 2B-parameter decision model (Qwen3.5-2B torso) that picks among fixed options with calibrated confidence in ~115ms on a local GPU, for agent routing, tool selection, and guardrails instead of a full LLM call. Weights, training data, and scripts ship on GitHub/Hugging Face with a strands-decider CLI and Strands Harness intervention examples.
Tuskira released an open source, self hosted AI Agent Gateway that sits between coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) and LLMs/MCP tools, with profile based access control, call logging, and per call token cost tracking—no Tuskira account required. Source and Docker deploy live at github.com/Tuskira/tusk ai secured gateway…
Zyte launched a hosted MCP server (mcp.zyte.com) that plugs Zyte API fetch/extract/search and Scrapy Cloud job control into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and other MCP clients. OAuth sign in replaces dropping a permanent API key; there is no separate MCP fee—usage bills to existing Zyte API and Scrapy Cloud…
OpenAI says it disrupted a July adversarial distillation campaign that tried to extract protected reasoning—16k requests from 4k+ users, related activity across 15k accounts—attributing a core cluster to people associated with Moonshot AI (Kimi). Operators replayed encrypted reasoning across conversations rather than breaking crypto; OpenAI banned accounts, closed the replay path, and says partner hosted deployments still need the same protections…
YC S25’s Magnitude (Apache 2.0) is a local inference engine that compiles and tunes kernels on device for agent workloads, claiming up to 2× llama.cpp decode (92% faster on Metal in their benchmarks). A desktop app wires it to Pi, OpenCode, Hermes, Codex, Claude Code, and others with on demand model load/unload…
DeepKeep launched AI Lens for Developers: a light plugin that hooks Cursor and Claude Code to flag credential leaks in prompts/files, catch insecure generated code, and send destructive shell/MCP calls for human approval before they run. Copilot, Codex, Lovable, and Windsurf support is listed as coming soon…
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