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Launches, updates, hands-on coverage.
- RuntimeWire keeps its INSiDE members chat free, for now
The August 28th reminder points readers to a 31-member lounge where stories automatically become discussions with staff and subscribers.
- Dave Plummer ships TMOG, a native Task Manager for three operating systems
Plummer says a 107-page specification and Claude Code helped him build separate native apps around a shared C++ metrics core.
- Stephen Coates launches Twitter.now to turn moderation into a user setting
Operation Bluebird says its web app has a few hundred users, a planned trust system and an unresolved trademark fight with X.
- Perplexity takes all three top spots in Artificial Analysis' search API test
Its medium setting scored 80 at about $0.091 per task, beating rivals while landing in the middle of the latency table.
- Grok Bot can shop online, one human-approved charge at a time
The two-week-old agent uses Stripe Link to request a single-use card after each approved spend, starting with US users.
- Grok Bot is testing a marketplace for third-party AI teammates
A preview shows users inspecting a bot's instructions, memories, skills, routines and integrations before adding it to a team.
- Deno's Dactyl rebuilds SwiftUI to preview apps in browsers and target Android
Deno engineer Divy Srivastava detailed a Wasm renderer that avoids streamed Macs, while push alerts and Google Play publishing remain unfinished.
- Carson Gross ships htmx 4 and leaves npm's default alone
The eight-month rewrite moves htmx from XMLHttpRequest to fetch, adds streaming and morphing, and keeps version 2 as npm's default until 2027.
- SubSmith turns local videos into language lessons for $15 a year
Birmingham solo founder Ibrahim Farah built the desktop app around local Whisper transcription, editable subtitles and one-click Anki exports.
- xTool unveils X1 for five laser types, keeps price to itself
Makeblock founder and CEO Jasen Wang is betting that one expandable chassis can cover cutting, engraving and metal marking, though xTool has yet to disclose final specifications, pricing or a shipping date.
- Amap ships ABot-Recon to rebuild 10,000-frame scenes through a 12-frame window
Alibaba's mapping lab open-sourced inference code and weights, though its 24.45 FPS result came from an H100, not the GTX 1080 Ti invoked in the release.
- IndexFlow opens its Rust SEO core ahead of a commercial platform
Wu Jian, an associate professor in Nanjing, has published two Rust crates while the broader indexing workflow remains under construction.
- Meta adds eight hip-hop tracks to Beat Saber after cutting entry price
The $10.99 pack extends the music catalog built around the slicing mechanic Jan Ilavsky and Vladimir Hrincar prototyped in 2016.
- 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.