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  1. October 2026

    35 releases so far35
  2. 10.21SoftwareSource · JetBrains10.21 · SoftwareJetBrains Plugin Developer Conf 2026: AI, New APIs, and MoreWhat does the rise of AI agents mean for plugin development? And what new tools and APIs can help you build better plugins for JetBrains IDEs?
  3. 10.20SoftwareSource · xAI10.20 · SoftwareIntroducing Grok 4.7SpaceXSI's most powerful model for coding and knowledge work. Twice as fast, at half the price of comparable models.
  4. 10.20SoftwareSource · PyTorch10.20 · SoftwarePyTorch Foundation Welcomes Nine New Members As Momentum Builds Around Open Source AI Center of GravityNew Platinum members include Nebius, Nscale and Shopify, deepening the PyTorch Foundation’s role as the intelligence layer for open source AI development Summary The PyTorch Foundation announced nine…
  5. 10.20SoftwareSource · Google10.20 · SoftwareNew Gemini tools for small business ownersWe’re announcing new tools for Gemini — including a dedicated business landing page — to help small business owners around the world.
  6. 10.20SoftwareSource · PyTorch10.20 · SoftwareIntroducing TorchTPUTL;DR TorchTPU is an open source collaboration between Google and Meta that introduces a native and principled PyTorch backend for Google TPUs.
  7. 10.19SoftwareSource · PyTorch10.19 · SoftwareIntroducing TorchNeuron: Native PyTorch backend for AWS TrainiumFrontier models span language, video and audio, on architectures from dense and mixture-of-experts transformers to diffusion, state-space, world and structure-prediction models.
  8. 10.16HardwareSource · NVIDIA10.16 · HardwareNVIDIA RTX Spark PCs Available Today — A New Beginning for Windows PCsNews Summary: NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops are available today from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI — with additional systems to follow — bringing RTX acceleration and…
  9. 10.15ModelSource · PyTorch10.15 · ModelMuse Spark Is Now an Open-Weights ModelToday, Meta is releasing the weights for Muse Spark Open , the most capable US open-weights model to date. It’s available today on Hugging Face under the Muse Model License.
  10. 10.15SoftwareSource · Google10.15 · SoftwareAn intelligent new shopping cartUniversal Cart helps make holiday shopping easier. It’s now available in the U.S. across Search and the Gemini app.
  11. 10.15SoftwareSource · NVIDIA10.15 · SoftwareNVIDIA Expands Advanced Technology Access for Europe’s Scientific Community Through Open Learning Resources, Collaborations and ComputeMuch of today’s scientific progress begins with computation. But turning accelerated computing’s potential into scientific progress — modeling climate systems, designing molecules, simulating…
  12. 10.14SoftwareSource · xAI10.14 · SoftwareIntroducing Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0Announcing SpaceXSI's newest speech-to-text model, with unparalleled accuracy and cost effectiveness.
  13. 10.13ModelSource · Google10.13 · ModelGemini 4 Argon is now available for developers.Build complex software and cybersecurity workflows with Google Gemini 4 Argon. Check out the Gemini API Developer Guide and read the Google Antigravity and Android Studi…
  14. 10.13ModelSource · Google10.13 · ModelGemini 4 Argon comes to the Gemini app.Gemini 4 Argon brings frontier reasoning and agentic coding to the Google Gemini app. Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers can now access Gemini 4 Argon.
  15. 10.13ModelSource · Google10.13 · ModelDeveloping Gemini 4 Argon responsibly and safelyLearn more about our approach to safety and security for Gemini 4 Argon.
  16. 10.12SoftwareSource · Google10.12 · SoftwareThe Gemini app is now available for WindowsGemini is now on windows
  17. 10.12ModelSource · Google10.12 · ModelSee what 4 builders are making with Gemini 3.8 FlashA collage of four digital 3D visualization projects showing two views of globe satellite maps, a dinosaur skeleton model, and an exploded view of a mechanical transmission diagram with labeled…
  18. 10.12HardwareSource · PyTorch10.12 · HardwarePyTorch Hardware Enablement: Updates from the Accelerator Integration Working GroupTL;DR The Accelerator Integration Working Group plays a vital role in standardizing how new hardware architectures connect to the open source AI ecosystem.
  19. 10.12HardwareSource · NVIDIA10.12 · HardwareNVIDIA and Cisco Introduce New Pluggable Optics Form Factor to Scale AI FactoriesNVIDIA and Cisco today announced plans for Ultra-Dense Small Form Factor Pluggable (USFP), a new high-density 400Gb/s-per-lane optical module designed to equip the hardware ecosystem for the next…
  20. 10.12SoftwareSource · NVIDIA10.12 · SoftwareNVIDIA Launches Open Agent Safety Platform to Secure Agents From Testing to DeploymentNVIDIA today announced NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform, an open software platform and reference system design to strengthen AI security from agent testing to deployment, with full-stack governance…
  21. 10.12SoftwareSource · NVIDIA10.12 · SoftwareNVIDIA Announces a $150 Billion Share Repurchase Authorization IncreaseNVIDIA today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized an additional $150 billion under the company’s existing share repurchase program, increasing the total remaining amount authorized to…
  22. 10.12EventSource · Docker10.12 · EventMeet the Ecosystem: Partners and Customers at WeAreDevelopers with DockerMeet the partners and customers bringing practical AI, security, and development sessions to the Docker Pavilion at WeAreDevelopers.
  23. 10.12SoftwareSource · JetBrains10.12 · SoftwareJava and Kotlin by IntelliJ IDEA: The LSP-Based Extension Reaches Release CandidateTwo months ago, we announced the preview of Java and Kotlin by IntelliJ IDEA – an LSP-based extension that brings IntelliJ IDEA’s Java and Kotlin intelligence to third-party editors, starting with VS…
  24. 10.12SoftwareSource · Google10.12 · SoftwareIntroducing agentic video understanding with GeminiText "Agentic video understanding" next to the Gemini logo, all on a dark blue background
  25. 10.12SoftwareSource · JetBrains10.12 · SoftwareIntroducing Warm Agents, a TeamCity PluginWaiting on “waiting for a starting agent” is a special kind of annoying when you just want your PR tests to run.
  26. 10.12ModelSource · Google10.12 · ModelIntroducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avataran image with the phrase "Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar"
  27. 10.12ModelSource · Google10.12 · ModelIntroducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended ThinkingText "Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking" with the Gemini Spark, all on a light blue background
  28. 10.12ModelSource · Google10.12 · ModelIntroducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cybera hero image reading "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber"
  29. 10.12SoftwareSource · Docker10.12 · SoftwareIntroducing Cloud Sandboxes: Start on Your Laptop, Finish in the CloudRun agents on your laptop, in the cloud, and move between them with one command, all safely. Earlier this year we launched Docker Sandboxes: microVM environments where coding agents can work…
  30. 10.12HardwareSource · AMD10.12 · HardwareIntroducing AMD Helion, Agentic AI Compute at Rack ScaleNews Highlights: AMD Helion lets customers tailor CPU core density, performance and power to agentic workloads, with CPU-only configurations for…...
  31. 10.12ModelSource · Google10.12 · ModelGemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligenceStylized promotional blog key art graphic with modern editorial branding and the text "Gemini 4 Argon"
  32. 10.12ModelSource · Google10.12 · ModelGemini 3.8 text-to-speech says helloa text card image reading "Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS"
  33. 10.12SoftwareSource · Docker10.12 · SoftwareDocker and CNCF partner on an open spec for agent permissionsDocker is bringing the open source Sandbox Kit Spec to the CNCF, so AI agent permissions become a neutral, vendor independent standard built on OCI.
  34. 10.12SecuritySource · Docker10.12 · SecurityDocker Hub security advisory: personal access tokens transferred during account-to-organization conversionsCVE-2026-105445: Docker Hub account conversion could re-assign personal access tokens to a new owner. Read what happened, who was affected, and the fix.
  35. 10.12SoftwareSource · Google10.12 · SoftwareA new wave of Connected Apps is rolling out to Gemini.Gemini is adding new Connected Apps, including Adobe, Airtable, Linear, Peloton and more to help you easily tackle your to-do list.
  36. 10.08ModelFeatured · our noteSource · JetBrains10.08 · ModelMellum2.1, a fast open model for coding agentsJetBrains has released Mellum2.1, the next version of its open 12B mixture-of-experts model, now trained with reinforcement learning in real environments for coding agents.