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AI Agent News: Releases, Launches and Usage Jumps, Live · page 6

  1. Release GitHub Releases

    Mastra 1.71.0 released

    @mastra/playground-ui TaskList API: title, TaskListHeader, and hideWhenEmpty are removed.; Added per-endpoint discovery features that observability storage can declare from getFeatures(): entity-type-discovery, entity-name-discovery, service-name-discovery…

  2. Release GitHub Releases

    n8n 2.40.7 released

    core: Propagate project span attributes to node spans (#39457) (59fccb6) (+2 more releases that day)

  3. Official Vercel

    State of agent skills

    In seven months, the skills.sh registry grew to one million agent skills and recorded nearly 280 million installs. A skill gives an AI agent reusable instructions for a particular job. Agents are…

  4. Release GitHub Releases

    DSPy 3.4.0 released

    Public OpenAI-style lm(messages=[...]) calls, including SDK message objects. Use explicit requests as above.; Custom BaseLM.forward() and aforward() integrations. Implement the engine interface.; LegacyEngine, AsyncLegacyEngine, and custom completelegacy()…

  5. Release GitHub Releases

    OpenAI Codex 0.157.0 released

    Added GPT-6 Sol and Luna, including Amazon Bedrock support and migration prompts for older models. (#47332,; Enabled fullscreen transcripts by default and added Shift-click to extend text selections. (#47178,; Enabled automatic background-server startup for…

  6. Release GitHub Releases

    Strands Agents 0.1.3 released

    feat(cli): replace setup Q&A with Quickstart, Customize, and Export, and add /tools (#4581) (9b7657f13); feat(py): add a2aclient vended tool (#4304) (9746df634); fix(a2a): extract content from task.status.message when artifacts are absent (#4511) (7f2b0c5ea)…

  7. Release GitHub Releases

    Deep Agents 0.1.77 released

    Preview remote plugin contents before installation.; Report mis-encoded config.toml files created by older config writers.; Show how to cancel MCP browser login and handle Escape. (+2 more releases that day)

  8. IncidentHot Status page

    Devin: Devin webapp down

    Critical impact; resolved after 2 h 3 min.

  9. Release GitHub Releases

    Claude Code 2.1.282 released

    Added a maxProseWidth setting that caps the width of Claude's prose in wide terminals while tables and code blocks keep the full width; Added a startup notice, and /status and claude doctor entries, listing telemetry variables in a project's settings files…

  10. Official GitHub Blog

    AI-powered fuzzing with the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent

    In this blog post, I explain how to use the new fuzzing taskflow based on the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent AI framework. The post AI-powered fuzzing with the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent…

  11. Official Microsoft Foundry

    Control where your hosted agent connects with network egress in Foundry Agent Service

    Define and attach an outbound policy to a hosted agent in Microsoft Foundry, observe calls in Audit, and verify allowed and denied destinations under Enforced mode. The post Control where your…

  12. Official Google DeepMind

    Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar

  13. Official Microsoft Foundry

    From Chatbots to Automated Agents: Routines in Microsoft Foundry Are Now Generally Available

    Agents are rapidly evolving beyond chat. The first generation of agents waited for a person to send a message. Today, organizations want agents that can monitor work, respond to business events, and…

  14. Incident Status page

    Amp: Orbs are failing to start

    Major impact; resolved after 45 min.

  15. Release GitHub Releases

    n8n 2.40.6 released

    core: Keep OpenTelemetry export working after a restart when Sentry is enabled (#39368) (7720a02); core: Retry instance reports that cross the UTC midnight boundary (#39434) (5e09a78); core: Authenticate instance reports with the license certificate (#39381)…

  16. Release GitHub Releases

    Mastra 1.69.0 released

    @mastra/playground-ui: removed @mastra/playground-ui/lib/springs; FluidHoverHighlight API changed to accept only hover and className.; @mastra/playground-ui: PageLayout/shell APIs reworked (removed PageLayoutRoot, MainContentLayout, MainContentContent, and…

  17. Release GitHub Releases

    Oh My Pi 18.3.0 released

    Added support for documenting agent tools on demand through the new AgentTool.docTopics method.; Added TOOLINTERRUPTABORTREASON so interruptible tools can distinguish queued steering, peer messages, or background completions from a full run abort.; Improved…

  18. Release GitHub Releases

    Gemini CLI 0.61.0 released

    Changelog for v0.60.0-preview.0; chore(release): bump version to 0.61.0-nightly.20260908.gc647533d6; Changelog for v0.59.0

  19. Release GitHub Releases

    OpenClaw 2026.9.6 released

    Release notes — formatted for people, with expandable sections.; Changelog — plain Markdown for AI agents and tools.; npm package

  20. Release GitHub Releases

    Strands Agents 0.1.2 released

    feat(mcp-ts)!: swap to @modelcontextprotocol/client 2.0 (#4093) (ab8ff46f1); feat(bidi): require explicit model IDs for providers (#4525) (8732c7c90); feat(agent): add Agent.shutdown() for scope-based cleanup (#4519) (fec042766)

  21. Release GitHub Releases

    Claude Agent SDK 0.2.159 released

    Updated bundled Claude CLI to version 2.1.281; Pinned default model for e2e tests to claude-opus-5 to work around CI failures with the CLI's new default model (+1 more release that day)

  22. Release GitHub Releases

    Claude Code 2.1.281 released

    Added Claude apps gateway support for newer Claude Desktop keys in desktop policy blocks, including blockReadsOutsideWorkingDirectories and disableBypassPermissionsMode; Added assumerole on Claude apps gateway Bedrock upstreams: the gateway calls Bedrock as…

  23. Release GitHub Releases

    OpenHands 1.23.0 released

    feat(desktop): universal macOS DMG with per-arch bundled runtimes; feat: Support Light+ and Solarized Light theme; feat: tag Agent Canvas telemetry by deployment kind (OSS-13530)

  24. Analysis Simon Willison

    Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground

    Tool: Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground Google released two new Gemini text-to-speech models today - gemini-3.8-flash-tts and gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts . They come with a library of over 2,000 voices, plus…

  25. Release GitHub Releases

    Deep Agents 0.1.75 released

    Lazy MCP caches now warm without blocking the event loop.; Token and cost breakdowns now refresh while the view is open.; c526854 release(deepagents-code): 0.1.75 (+2 more releases that day)

  26. Release GitHub Releases

    Zed 1.21.0 released

    Added SuperGrok sign-in so SuperGrok subscribers can use Grok models in the Agent Panel. (#63248; thanks thibaudgg); Added the agent.preventidlesleep setting, enabled by default, to prevent idle system sleep while agent threads are running. (#53130; thanks…

  27. Official Google DeepMind

    Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello

  28. Official OpenAI

    Ringg’s AI agents resolve up to 65% of customer calls with OpenAI

    Using GPT-5.6, Ringg powers multilingual agents across voice, chat, WhatsApp, and web for 90% less cost vs. GPT-4.1.

  29. Official OpenAI

    Harvey turns legal context into stronger drafts with GPT-6 Astra

    GPT-6 Astra produces more structured, context-aware legal documents, freeing lawyers to focus on strategy.

  30. Release GitHub Releases

    Mastra 1.68.0 released

    Agent Controller stream message events changed: one full messagestart, then ID-addressed messageupdate deltas; messageend now contains only the message ID (store by ID and apply updates).; @mastra/mcp@2.0.0 is a major rewrite: MCP 2026-07-28 only (legacy…

  31. Analysis Latent Space

    [AINews] Claude Opus 5.5, the new default model for AINews — and everybody cuts prices 40-50%

    overshadowing more efficient GPT6 models from OpenAI

  32. Analysis Simon Willison

    SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering

    SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering I'm hosting an evening event with Jesse Vincent in San Francisco on Wednesday 14th October for people who are building weird and…

  33. Official OpenAI

    Airbnb widens access to GPT-6 Astra and OpenAI frontier models

    Learn how Airbnb is expanding access to GPT-6 Astra and OpenAI frontier models to help engineering teams solve bugs, design systems, and ship faster.

  34. Official Vercel

    Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech models now available on AI Gateway

    Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS from Google are now available on AI Gateway . Both models generate speech from text in more than 100 languages and support long-form narration…

  35. Official Cursor Changelog

    Rollouts and Security Review

    Two bots for the last mile of shipping code: Rollouts watches every change as it deploys, and Security Review reports exploitable bugs on every pull request.

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