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https://documents.craft.me/announcing-chaps

Chaps is a new tool created by Craft:

"In a world drowning in apps, notifications, and complexity – simplicity is the ultimate luxury. Meet Chaps, your personalized AI-powered agents that simplify life, streamline tasks, and put you back in control."
https://blog.atuin.sh/atuin-desktop-runbooks-that-run/

A local-first, executable runbook editor for real terminal workflows.
Atuin Desktop looks like a doc, but runs like your terminal. Script blocks, embedded terminals, database clients and prometheus charts - all in one place.
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https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2

parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 is a 600-million-parameter automatic speech recognition (ASR) model by nvidia designed for high-quality English transcription, featuring support for punctuation, capitalization, and accurate timestamp prediction.

It seems better than whisper-3 large (https://huggingface.co/spaces/hf-audio/open_asr_leaderboard) with 1B less parameters.
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https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-agrees-buy-windsurf-about-3-billion-bloomberg-news-reports-2025-05-06/

OpenAI has agreed to buy Windsurf, an AI coding tool, for about $3 billion, marking the ChatGPT maker’s largest acquisition to date.
https://github.com/astral-sh/ty

An extremely fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust.

In early testing, it's 10x, 50x, even 100x faster than existing type checkers. ( >600x speed-ups over Mypy in some real-world projects.)
https://appwrite.io/products/sites

Appwrite, an Open Source Vercel alternative, publishes Appwrite Sites:

"With Sites, Appwrite offers a streamlined solution for easily deploying static and server-rendered applications. Everything is designed to simplify your workflow, from creating a site and connecting a domain to leveraging our templates“
Microsoft and Google released their coding agents - probably as an answer to Codex from OpenAI:

Coding agent from Google:
https://jules.google/

Coding agent from Microsoft:
https://github.blog/changelog/2025-05-19-github-copilot-coding-agent-in-public-preview/

Jules has a couple of free queries per day, Copilot Agent is included in Pro+.
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-4

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4: "… the world’s best coding model, with sustained performance on complex, long-running tasks and agent workflows".

And Sonnet 4:
"…is a significant upgrade to Claude Sonnet 3.7, delivering superior coding and reasoning while responding more precisely to your instructions."
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https://www.perplexity.ai/de/hub/blog/introducing-perplexity-labs

Perplexity Labs can craft everything from reports and spreadsheets to dashboards and simple web apps — all backed by extensive research and analysis. Often performing 10 minutes or more of self-supervised work, Perplexity Labs use a suite of tools like deep web browsing, code execution, and chart and image creation to turn your ideas and to-do’s into work that’s been done.