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.
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…
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…
JetBrains opened Early Access for Air in its IDEs (Marketplace plugin or 2026.3 EAP): an agentic first shell that detects Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Agent, Junie, and other ACP agents, with parallel sessions, temporary worktrees, and free Junie Lite runs. It ships with no agents installed and sends data to your existing provider, not JetBrains…
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