- 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.
- Anthropic lets Claude Code mods rewrite prompts and approve tool permissions
Available in Claude Code's CLI and desktop app, the TypeScript extensions can also replace built-in features and run with the agent's full access to your machine.
- Another Axiom's Orion Drift gets five months of Horizon+ rewards
The five-month offer gives Another Axiom's social VR game one cosmetic item and 1,000 driftium each month, as Meta broadens Horizon+ beyond its rotating library.
- Sidero launches an immutable OS and console for private AI
President Steve Francis, who founded LogicMonitor before joining Sidero, is extending Sidero's immutable-OS approach into AI management; Yardi says its own AI platform runs on Cupar.
- Freckle opens preorders for a $199 kids' phone built for outdoor exploration
Founder Sam Terris is bringing his second venture to market after SIMULATE, the company behind NUGGS, was acquired in 2024.
- Runway launches an AI ad platform built on its own campaign workflow
Runway says its internal system lifted weekly output to roughly 900 ads; it is piloting the product with select enterprise partners.
- OpenAI adds a shared ChatGPT workspace and an AI meeting note-taker
ChatGPT Space lets teams build interactive pages with AI; a Meetings feature saves personalized summaries and next steps in the workspace.
- Baseten puts Carbon agent sandboxes into preview with NVIDIA OpenShell
The fourth-generation Blaxel runtime adds microVM isolation, dedicated IPv6 addresses, snapshots and forks; access is rolling out in a private preview.
- America.gov launches, but with a trial font, raising licensing questions for GSA
The production stylesheet loads Rhymes VF Trial, whose embedded metadata says "Trial Unlicensed." Maxitype's EULA bars trial fonts from final project files, but whether GSA has separate permission is unknown.
- Heidi Health launches agents to handle clinical follow-up work
Founder and former surgeon Tom Kelly is extending Heidi beyond visit notes; the rollout starts September 29th in English and French, excluding the UK and EU.