Tooling2d ago
Simular Launches box, a Cloud Linux Desktop Exposed as One Remote MCP Server That Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude Code, Codex and Cursor Can Share; the Desktop Is Free and Model Calls Use Credits
On November 12 (UTC), Simular, the computer-use agent startup backed by Felicis and NVIDIA, launched box: one cloud Ubuntu desktop per account with Chrome and a persistent shell, exposed as a single remote MCP server (https://mcp.box.simular.ai/mcp, Streamable HTTP, OAuth sign-in). Any MCP client can add it, including claude.ai, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode and VS Code, so different assistants can work on the same machine with shared logins and files. Users watch it live on the web or iPhone and take over to sign in or approve payments. The desktop itself is free; model calls use account credits. The box sleeps when idle, wakes in about a second, and is deleted after 14 straight days asleep. The launch video passed 810K views. Simular has not published a benchmark for its "fastest computer use" claim.
Tooling2d ago
Vercel Releases UI SDK Beta: 50+ Interaction Behaviors Such as Popups, Selection and Keyboard Navigation for AI Agents to Assemble Components, Across React, Vue, Svelte, Solid and Web Components, Open Source Under Apache 2.0
At 02:41 Singapore time on November 13, the official Vercel account introduced UI SDK. Rather than another component library, it breaks interface interactions into reusable behaviors: popup positioning and dismissal, single and multi selection, typeahead, focus management, drag-to-reorder, list virtualization and more, with Vercel saying it has built over 50. Developers are not expected to learn these APIs themselves. Instead they add the UI SDK skill to a coding agent, which picks the behaviors a request needs, composes a new component and renders it in React, Vue, Svelte, Solid or Web Components. The code is on GitHub at vercel-labs/ui under Apache 2.0, and the npm package @ui-sdk/core is at 0.1.0-beta.1, so APIs may still change.
Tooling2d ago
Expo Launches Expo Simulators: On-Demand Cloud iOS Simulators and Android Emulators for Coding Agents Like Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, with Automatic Session Recordings as Proof, at $0.10 per Minute
On November 12, mobile framework Expo launched Expo Simulators, available on all paid plans. A coding agent can start a cloud iOS Simulator or Android Emulator with one command, install a build and test it itself; afterward it keeps a full screen recording, screenshots, logs and network traffic that can be attached to a PR for human review. Each session runs on its own VM, no Mac is needed, and the iOS Simulator can be used from Linux or Windows via WSL. Billing is per minute: $0.10 per minute for both iOS and Android, with 60 minutes a month included on Starter and higher plans.
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