Coding agent tools, AR glasses for devs, and a Mac security auditor stood out today.
Spotlight by Backplanes — Session reports for Claude Code & Codex
Air traffic control for AI agents. Automatically generates reports from your coding sessions — tracks files accessed, commands executed, external services reached, and scope drift. Free for individuals and teams.
Screen Charm — Polished screen recordings in minutes
Smart zoom, motion blur, webcam overlay, background music, and a built-in editor. Export up to 4K. One-time purchase, no subscription.
Gemini 3.5 Live Translate — Real-time speech translation in 70+ languages
Google's new audio model translates live speech while preserving intonation and pacing. Works in noisy environments with overlapping voices. Live on Android/iOS, coming to Google Meet.
iArt.ai — AI agent for video and motion graphics
Creates promos, explainers, kinetic type, and motion graphics with audio. Chat to refine and ship. Aims to replace After Effects and CapCut workflows.
Monako Glass — AR glasses for hands-free coding agents
48g wearable running Buildroot Linux with waveguide display, bone conduction mic, and gesture input. Run Claude Code or Codex hands-free. Reservation-only, ships July-August 2026.
Hero Studio Photos — AI product photography from a single snap
Snap one photo and get clean studio shots from every angle, including on-model images for clothing. Comes with an API and MCP server for developer integration.
fort — One command to audit and fix your Mac's security
Checks 15+ settings (FileVault, SIP, firewall, SSH, AirDrop, Gatekeeper), reports a score, and fixes most issues. Single binary, no telemetry, MIT licensed. brew install djadmin/tap/fort
LayerProof Vellum — Visual canvas for AI image pipelines
Drag-and-drop subject, background, and effects together on a canvas, and Vellum fuses them into a pixel-perfect final asset. Controlled AI image production instead of random generations.
Anthropic dropped Fable 5 — their most powerful public model yet. Google open-sourced a text diffusion model that generates blocks of text in parallel instead of one token at a time.
State-of-the-art on nearly all tested benchmarks. Stripe compressed months of Ruby migration into days with Fable 5. Top scores on FrontierCode and Hebbia's Finance Benchmark.
$10/$50 per million input/output tokens — less than half the price of Mythos Preview. Free on Pro, Max, and Enterprise through June 22. Mythos 5 (same model, safeguards lifted) deployed to Project Glasswing cyber defenders.
DiffusionGemma — Google's 26B open model generates text via diffusion, not tokens
Instead of one token at a time, DiffusionGemma refines 256-token blocks in parallel — like image diffusion but for text. 26B MoE (3.8B active), Apache 2.0, fits in 18GB VRAM. 1000+ tok/s on H100. NVIDIA shipped day-1 RTX support.
OpenAI rebuilds ChatGPT memory with "Dreaming" — factual recall jumps to 83%
New memory architecture: factual recall up from 67.9% to 82.8%, preference adherence from 55.3% to 71.3%. Memories auto-update over time. 2x capacity for Plus/Pro, 5x compute reduction enables free-tier rollout.
China preparing $295B for nationwide AI data center network
Beijing plans ~2 trillion yuan over 5 years for interconnected AI compute hubs. Mandates 80% domestic tech (Huawei chips), squeezing out NVIDIA and AMD.