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Launches, updates, hands-on coverage.
- Grok Bot tests Chrome cookie imports and local egress routing
A new settings panel could copy signed-in sessions to Grok Bot's cloud VM and send its web traffic through a user's desktop.
- Dyna Robotics turns napkin folding into a Din Tai Fung rollout
Dyna says Dyna-2 can produce 1,590 table-ready napkins per shift, enough to move from a 2025 pilot into a restaurant-network rollout.
- ChatGPT lets users save Temporary Chats and opt into personalization
OpenAI's revised mode can use existing memories, instructions and plugins, while unsaved chats still avoid history and model training.
- Predoc launches Curated Data to turn faxed charts into AI-ready records
The New York startup is extending its retrieval service into a normalized patient-data layer delivered through an app or API.
- Colin Percival launches Route 53 Files, an unofficial AWS DNS filesystem
The Tarsnap founder built a free service that lets UNIX commands edit Route 53 records, then documented the sharp edges in AWS's own voice.
- Rentana launches Ask Rentana to turn portfolio data into operating answers
Julie Blanc's proptech is bundling natural-language analysis into every customer account as RealPage pushes a rival AI agent.
- Estuary rewrites its runtime in Rust for transaction-safe AI agents
David Yaffe and Johnny Graettinger are extending Estuary's exactly-once design across millisecond streams and bulk loads as the rollout begins.
- Chronograph plugs private-capital data into Perplexity after Claude and ChatGPT
The connector extends Charlie Tafoya and Michael Bridge's decade-long data bet into a third major AI interface, two months after a $140M-plus investment.
- FDA authorizes Abbott's Libre Duo to continuously track glucose and ketones
The prescription sensor reads both markers every minute and is due in the U.S. later in 2026, with insulin-pump integrations starting by year-end.
- Ashu Manohar brings live parental video to Uber Teen rides
Uber's rollout uses the driver's front-facing phone camera, alerts the teen and driver when viewing starts, and normally deletes encrypted footage after 14 days unless it is attached to a safety report.
- Meta gives Quest an AI assistant and a less annoying home screen
The software push makes Quest more computer-like as VR shipments shrink and Reality Labs keeps burning billions.
- Cerebras details CS-4 rack and targets 10,000 tokens per second with CS-5
Cerebras is using modular power, cooling and compute to chase an annual speed upgrade with its wafer-scale systems.
- PyImageSearch founder launches WheelMetrics to put stocks before options premiums
The $45-a-month service has a five-month CPA verification and a model portfolio dating to January 1st.
- TeXbrain puts pdfTeX and Git in a free local-first browser editor
The project compiles LaTeX in the browser, keeps files on the user's device by default, and adds Git functions without requiring an account.
- Perplexity launches Portable Computer on DGX Spark to cut cloud use
Portable Computer runs Perplexity's agent stack and 27B models locally, then asks before sending harder steps to the company's cloud.
- Alex Shapalov ships a roughly 6 MB read-only Postgres diagnostic tool
The Go binary turns PostgreSQL statistics into deterministic findings for developers and AI agents through a CLI, JSON output and Model Context Protocol tools.
- LatticeDB puts graph, vector and text search in one local file
Jeff Hajewski's Zig database targets local AI apps; an August 24th correctness release shows how early the project remains.
- Apple gives Mac Studio the M5 Ultra and a $5,499 local AI pitch
Johny Srouji's chip group pairs up to 512GB of unified memory with MLX and clustering, leaving buyers to weigh capacity against CUDA and a higher Mac price.
- Metricform launches AI narrative tracker with a 24-to-72-hour head-start claim
Metricform founder Lindsey Aliksanyan turned years of manual research work into a product for brand teams; the prediction claim still needs a measurable test.
- Fitbit's founders launch Luffu Link, an LTE band for family caregivers
Luffu's $249 preorder combines phone-free help requests with health sensing and is expected to ship in early 2027; Axios reports a $20 monthly family plan.
- TerraClear launches quarter-inch weed maps for existing corn and soybean sprayers
TerraClear is selling next-day spray prescriptions, betting growers want precision application without new camera hardware.
- Cameron Smith ships Ambient Context, a Mac memory app without screenshots
The open-source app reads focused-window text into local Markdown, giving AI agents a work history without storing a visual replay.
- SiFive launches a boring 2U RISC-V server, exactly as intended
The 32-core BigSky system gives SiFive's customers an RVA23 machine for porting Linux and CUDA before custom data-center chips arrive.
- Twitch turns Pokemon badges into a subscription scavenger hunt
The Amazon-owned platform is pairing Pokemon collectibles with watch streaks and paid subscriptions as it expands badge-based creator monetization.