Products — Page 11
Launches, updates, hands-on coverage.
- Atlassian introduces AMP to make AI agents visible in team workflows
CEO and co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes is betting Atlassian's Teamwork Graph can make agents visible participants across Jira, Confluence and developer workflows.
- Grok Bot's Windows app ALSO contains a gated email-address workflow
The client includes mail.grokbot.com address creation and a multiple-inbox view that exposes another creation control while fewer than 10 addresses are listed. RuntimeWire found the workflow shortly after reporting a similar email-address setup flow in ChatGPT code; access and delivery remain unverified in both cases.
- Apple and LG co-develop smart-home devices ahead of Apple's hub launch
The LG-branded lineup spans door locks, cameras and climate control; Apple is expected to introduce its new home hub on October 13th.
- Conway launches Underdog, an on-device AI assistant with a purchase-fee plan
Sigil Wen's Conway Research has opened an invite-only beta for Macs and Windows PCs. Conway says Underdog will initially be free and ad-free, with a proposed cut of purchases made through the assistant.
- femtoAI opens its sparse AI chip and software stack to developers
Sam Fok's Stanford spinout is expanding beyond customer projects with an evaluation kit, model tools and a forum; its 10x efficiency figures remain company claims.
- Zetaris launches a data harness for AI agents to query enterprise systems in place
Co-founder Vinay Samuel argues that governed access to scattered company data will determine whether enterprise AI is dependable.
- XtalPi launches Kodexia, its platform for six siRNA programs
Co-founders Jian Ma, Shuhao Wen and Lipeng Lai are extending XtalPi's physics-and-automation approach into RNA medicines, with internal performance claims still to prove their value.
- Incognia launches agent checks that tie payments to customer context
Co-founder André Ferraz is extending Incognia's device, location and behavioral fraud signals to agent-driven actions, web sessions and analyst investigations.
- QuerySurge 15 connects data mappings to tests and change-impact analysis
Founder Bill Hayduk is extending RTTS's testing business with tools that link spreadsheet requirements to generated tests and show what a data change may affect.
- past.dev turns its agents' memory system into an API
Mehdi Djabri and Alex Ronse say past.dev's API grew out of agents they built for companies. Its BEAM scores lead published results, though competitors' runs used different models, judges and configurations.
- Polars 2.0 makes streaming the default and adds spill-to-disk queries
The Amsterdam-based Polars says initial disk spilling covers sorting, window functions and many expressions; joins and group-bys remain in-memory.
- ELISA adds 390-plus stress tests and token-level code history to Linux safety work
ELISA is bringing Cregit and stress-ng into its community as it works on shared tools and evidence for safety-critical Linux systems.
- Casa brings its $199 home-care service to Austin with free donation pickups
Casa's Austin launch pairs its $199 monthly membership, which includes 1.5 handyman hours, with a free October 9th pickup drive for Austin Pets Alive! Thrift.
- DaVinci Commerce adds a product-memory layer for AI shopping agents
The expansion, which the company says became available on October 1st, builds on founder Diaz Nesamoney's decades in enterprise data and personalized advertising.
- Hark says its first 100,000 sign-ups get the paid plan free
Founder Brett Adcock says Hark will launch this week, following an August preview of its browser-using AI agent, Handoff.
- Figure shows F.04 hands as Adcock argues dexterity needs complexity
The October 3rd preview follows a May design lock for Figure's fourth-generation humanoid, but Figure has not published hand specifications or independent dexterity results.
- Storyteller releases EPUB library v1 with browser support and EPUB 2 upgrades
The Storyteller EPUB library modifies EPUBs for sentence-level audio alignment; v1 adds browser-based, read-only access and EPUB 2 upgrades.
- Cua launches desktop Spaces for agents, with user-approved app access
The free Mac app can connect agents to local or user-owned computers; Cua says Pro and Teams plans with shared machines and admin controls are planned.
- Google launches a Cloud SDK for server-side Swift
Published October 1st, the open-source libraries target Linux and macOS backends and provide Swift clients for more than 100 Google Cloud services, Google says.
- Lightpanda ships 1.0 after passing 1.7 million web-platform tests
The machine-focused browser ends its beta period with CORS enabled by default. Its test tally includes a large batch of encoding checks and excludes visual rendering.
- Conductor launches an iPhone app to control cloud coding agents
The free app lets developers keep agents running, review code and pull-request status, and merge changes; Apple's listing dates version 1.0 to September 14th.
- AppZen says its finance models beat frontier AI on five of six audit tests
Anant Kale and Kunal Verma are extending AppZen's expense-audit business with models designed for receipts, policies and finance workflows; general availability is planned for December.
- Infrastructure AI pitches building data for asset valuations and loan decisions
Infrastructure AI is seeking early-access users for GAOS. Its public materials identify no customers or pilots, disclose no funding, and report no measured results.
- Modal launches serverless GPU clusters with gang scheduling and RDMA
Modal is extending Erik Bernhardsson's pooled compute platform to distributed training and inference, with per-second billing and a single Python decorator.