Spotify says AI-assisted development more than doubled the number of code changes merged each month. The surge led it to rework testing, observability, rollback capacity, prioritisation and automated maintenance to protect quality and reliability.
After TF1, Values.media is testing agent-based buying of TV sponsorship with M6 and France Télévisions. Group CEO Emmanuel Crego explains how it works.
Home Assistant 2026.10 makes it simpler to connect AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Claude to a smart home. Some settings deserve a careful look before giving them access to your devices.
Version 1.27 of the open-source agent platform OpenHands adds OpenCode and Pi as built-in agents on local backends through the ACP protocol. It also introduces a reworked flow for setting up automations, with agent-assisted forms and saved drafts, plus browser recording in its verification tooling.
Loops Smart AI, which builds agentic tools for online retailers, has raised $3.5 million in seed funding led by a16z's speedrun accelerator. NTT Docomo, Connecticut Innovations, Alumni Ventures and Monday Capital also took part.
Simon Willison released web-edit, a small Python web app for viewing and editing files in a folder, meant to run over Tailscale. He had OpenAI's Codex build it so he could edit a credentials file from his phone without passing those secrets through the model.