Sep 28 to Oct 4, 2026

Meta chief AI officer Alexandr Wang lists the connectors shipping in the small-business drop, a handy primary-source index of what exists.

Anil Matcha shipped an MIT-style open-source dots workspace within hours of the launch, with browser, terminal and file computer use, personal-app connectors and support for any LLM. It lets people run the same pattern on their own infrastructure.

Better Stack demos the range of what a mod can do, from custom UI panes to blocking tool calls, with a look at the risks.

YouTube video (14:10) on Cloudflare's Clef decision models, covering what they do and how they compare with Jev. Date is approximate.

Creator runs a batch of everyday tasks through a dot and reports which succeeded, which failed and what to avoid.

Andon Labs reports Argon ranks first on Blueprint-Bench 2, where agents reconstruct apartment floorplans from interior photos, suggesting stronger 3D spatial understanding than rival models.

Video by Tonbi's AI Garage covering Laya: Laya: Fine-tuning the Open Jev-style Decision Model on Skill Routing. Part of the early wave of tutorials and head-to-head tests after the open release.

News post with screenshot describing the v0.2 desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux with plugins and workspaces built in.

Experimental bridge that pairs an ESP32 voice shell with Muse and runs real text round trips from Linux, with honest compatibility notes from actual walkthroughs.

Riley Brown called his ChatGPT dot for 45 minutes with his phone in his pocket and cleared the day's email and Slack tasks by voice. He used it as a hands-free chief of staff and is documenting the lessons for a video.

Early impressions of Sol at DevDay with the near-Astra claim tested at a fraction of the price.

Antonio Leiva explains in Spanish how he used his always-on dot since the Friday before launch, connecting email and calendar and letting it propose work unprompted. A practical walkthrough of a real setup.

OpenAI researcher Noam Brown tested dots over a weekend and had his dot hunt down subscriptions to cancel. It then connected to a customer service channel and handled an entire texting conversation on his behalf.

Install and demo of OpenDots as a free alternative to the OpenAI product, run on your own machine.

YouTube video (8:45) on Cloudflare's Clef decision models, covering what they do and how they compare with Jev. Date is approximate.

Reports prefill and decode speeds for a single 24-32GB GPU plus NVMe, including an Intel Arc B70 result.

AppImage, deb and tar.gz builds for x64 and arm64 so Linux users get the desktop app that was only shipped for macOS and Windows. Made by a high-school student for his own distro.

Sol gets one hour, a Remotion project and a $5 OpenRouter budget to produce a video.

Walks through Argon's reported scores across coding, business workflows, spreadsheets and long context to judge whether Google is back at the frontier.

Safety checklist to run through before enabling a dot, covering permissions, connected accounts and spending limits.

Sam Witteveen picks out what builders should care about from DevDay, including dots and the agent APIs.

Show HN for stillwet.art, an experiment that hands Opus 5.5 a simulated wet-paint canvas so it paints with brushes and pigment rather than emitting pixels or SVG directly.

The builder says a single prompt produced design, models, map, UI, scripts and thumbnails for a complete Roblox game, and claims a pipeline of several games per day.

A skill and template set to cut voiceovers and footage into video in Claude Code or Codex, backed by an API of curated Lottie animations.