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15 August 2026 · 5 stories
Imagine a digital Lego set where every piece (the brain, the tools, the memory, the test zone, the interface) snaps on and off. Chinese lab DeepSeek just released such a kit, called Harness, for free under the MIT licence, which means anyone can use and modify it. In two days...
After the disappointment of the giant, paid version on 12 August, Alibaba ships one that fits on a Mac: Qwen3.8-27B, 27 billion dense parameters, Apache 2.0 licence (commercially usable, free of charge). It reads images and text, holds context over 262,000 words (up to one...
Writer overhauled the engine of its agents: a new model version (Palmyra X6) and a new orchestrator (the harness). The result: 52% cheaper and 48% faster on the same tasks. The model itself is a specialised fine-tune of a Chinese model (Z.ai’s GLM 5.2), but entirely retrained on...
Picture a company filing cabinet where any agent can come read and drop notes, but nothing ever leaves the company. That’s what Starling Memory Works proposes with its Universal Cognitive Architecture (UCA), published for free under Creative Commons, no fees. The AI model itself...
GitKraken releases GitLens 19, which turns the traditional Git commit history into a workspace where humans and agents collaborate. Three modes: Review (inspect before proposing a change), Compose (reorganise into clean commits), Repository-wide context (see at a glance what...