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Nextcloud

Nextcloud introduces Nextcloud Academy, a set of free hands-on online courses (PHP and ExApp/Python tracks) that teach contributors how to build Nextcloud apps from scratch. The initiative was launched as part of the Nextcloud Hub 26 Summer release.

Companies:Nextcloud

Roboflow Blog

Roboflow announced the launch of Roboflow Labs, a new applied research division focused on advancing real-world computer vision capabilities, open models such as RF-DETR, and enterprise evaluation partnerships.

Companies:Roboflow

Posit Open Source

Posit introduces shinyreact, a new R and Python package that lets developers build Shiny app UIs in React while keeping reactive computation on the Shiny server. The package is now available on CRAN and PyPI.

Companies:Posit

Markets Insider

An Odoo Gold Partner, Cudio, outlines seven preparation steps North American businesses should take before upgrading to Odoo 20, which Odoo is set to release at Odoo Experience 2026 in Brussels. The piece gives substantial detail on Odoo 20 migration planning for existing Odoo environments.

Companies:Odoo

Kong Inc.

Kong announced the general availability of the evolved Kong Catalog, now covering APIs, AI models, MCP servers, and agents as first-class entities.

Companies:Kong Inc.

Kong Inc.

Kong announces Kong Context Management (GA as part of Kong AI Management), which helps organizations manage and optimize agent access to enterprise context across APIs, MCP servers and data sources.

Companies:Kong Inc.

Kong Inc.

Kong introduces Kong AI Registry, an AI-native discovery layer that lets agents self-service discover and consume sanctioned models, MCP servers, tools and skills.

Companies:Kong Inc.

Kong Inc.

At its API & AI Summit, Kong announced the evolution of Kong Konnect into an AI Connectivity Platform along with a slate of new launches such as the Webhook Engine private beta.

Companies:Kong Inc.

marimo

marimo introduces marimo-lens, a widget that lets users point at any notebook output and give an AI agent the context it needs, with the agent able to point back. The widget is distributed as a separate package (uv add marimo-lens).

Companies:marimo

CopilotKit

CopilotKit announces AG-UI 1.0, a stable specification of its open agent-user interaction protocol, with a JSON Schema, regenerated TypeScript/Python/.NET SDKs, subagent support, multimodal tool results, and human-in-the-loop interrupts.

Companies:CopilotKit

authentik

authentik announced it is now OpenID Certified by the OpenID Foundation as of version 2026.8, covering OpenID Provider and logout profiles. The post details the certification process and conformance testing.

Companies:authentik

Bolt.new Blog

Bolt.new, the StackBlitz platform, announced its first acquisition: Dokai, a San Francisco AI startup building autonomous agents for enterprise go-to-market workflows, whose team joins Bolt.new's AI/ML organization. Terms were not disclosed.

Companies:StackBlitz

AIwire (HPCwire)

Domino Data Lab announced a strategic partnership with EPAM to help life sciences and biopharma customers deploy GxP-validated AI models and governed enterprise analytics at scale. The collaboration pairs Domino's enterprise AI platform with EPAM's engineering and domain expertise.

Companies:EPAM Systems

BigDATAwire (HPCwire)

BigDATAwire covers the new strategic partnership between Domino Data Lab and EPAM aimed at accelerating compliant enterprise AI adoption in life sciences. It details how EPAM's systems engineering complements Domino's platform for joint biopharma customers.

Companies:EPAM Systems

Gizmodo

A 28-page Senate report from Senator Richard Blumenthal alleges Tether's USDT stablecoin is a central financing pipeline for Iran and groups such as Hezbollah, finding that 84% of reviewed sanctioned wallets transacted in USDT.

Companies:Tether

OpenZeppelin

OpenZeppelin and T-REX Network have released ONCHAINID V3, upgrading the onchain identity registry into a modular smart account with flexible signature verification, social recovery, and crosschain identity for regulated, tokenized assets.

Companies:OpenZeppelin

The Verge

Mozilla launched a major redesign of Firefox (version 157) with round tabs, new themes, and a Compact Mode, aiming to modernize the browser.

Companies:Mozilla Corporation

Ars Technica

An interview with Mozilla's head of Firefox, Ajit Varma, discussing the Firefox 157 redesign, product strategy, and competition with Chrome.

Companies:Mozilla Corporation

Mozilla Blog

Mozilla announces the rollout of its new Firefox design (Nova) shipping with Firefox 157 across desktop and mobile. The refresh modernizes colors, icons, and themes throughout the browser.

Companies:Mozilla Corporation

Infleqtion Blog

Infleqtion announced a memorandum of understanding with UK quantum error correction specialist Riverlane to integrate Riverlane's real-time QEC technology with Infleqtion's neutral-atom hardware and software stack. The collaboration targets reliable logical qubits for fault-tolerant quantum computing.

Companies:Infleqtion

Rest of World

Rest of World examines how Chinese platforms ModelScope and MoArk are positioning themselves as domestic alternatives to Hugging Face, which Beijing blocked in 2023, and how fears of a US ban on Chinese models are accelerating a sovereign AI stack.

Companies:Hugging Face

Hatchet

Hatchet announced a major overhaul of its pricing, moving to a pure pay-as-you-go model with 10× more free usage (1M free task runs and 1M free events per month), and retiring its Team, Starter, and Growth plans in favor of just Pay-as-you-go and Custom tiers.

Companies:Hatchet

Firecrawl Blog

Firecrawl announced that its Alexandria data-provider product and Developer Index are now available inside the ChatGPT plugin and Codex, letting those agents reach 100+ data providers plus Firecrawl's own indexes. The post explains how this removes the secondhand-web-search limitation for primary-source data.

Companies:Firecrawl

Baseten Blog

Baseten announced a partnership with OpenAI to serve open models natively via Codex and the Responses API, making Baseten one of the first open-model inference providers in the OpenAI B2B Marketplace.

Companies:Baseten

DZone

The article explains how to reconcile mid-run AI plan changes with already-completed Temporal Activities, using Temporal's append-only Workflow Event History, versioned plans, and idempotent execution.

Companies:Temporal