AI Coding Live News

Open WebUI, the self-hosted AI chat platform with about 158K GitHub stars, published v0.13.1 on GitHub at 11:07 UTC on 2026-11-08. The headline change: on an Open Terminal that offers agents, coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex and Pi now appear in the model picker, where you can chat with them, call them by voice, pick reasoning effort and service tier, and approve their tool requests in the chat. It also introduces Tether, a desktop companion app for macOS, Windows and Linux that ties your own computer to Open WebUI so models and agents can work in your real files and repositories, reachable from any browser including a phone. Tool chats no longer rewrite the system prompt each round, so provider prompt caches can hit; the project says they now cost much less. About 45 minutes later v0.13.2 fixed a UUID error when serving over plain HTTP.

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Tencent published tencent/Qwen3.8-27B-DSpine-b16 on Hugging Face at 14:20 UTC on 2026-11-07: a five-layer speculative-decoding draft model of about 2B parameters with block size 16 and an 8,192-token sliding window, under Apache 2.0, with code at GitHub Tencent/DSpine and the paper at arXiv 2609.36173. The model card (vendor figures) shows that with SGLang 0.5.22, BF16 and concurrency 8, output throughput on a SWE-bench Pro replay at xhigh reasoning rose from about 248 to about 791 tokens/s (about 3.19x), versus 2.87x for the official DFlash2; acceptance length beat DFlash2 in all 10 agent settings. Note that DSpine drafts 16 tokens per block while DFlash2 drafts 8, so the setups are not identical, and no third-party reproduction exists yet.

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On 2026-11-05 Microsoft Foundry blogged that Foundry Local CLI 0.13.0+ can run 4-bit Qwen3.8-27B (~18 GB weights) on-device via ONNX Runtime and connect it to GitHub Copilot through Bring Your Own Key. Needs an NVIDIA GPU with at least 24 GB VRAM (about 64K context on 24 GB; up to the model's 262K max on 32 GB+). Vendor-cited model-card scores include Terminal-Bench 2.1 73.0 and SWE-bench Pro 61.7; Microsoft also reports higher generation speed than same-quant llama.cpp on RTX 5090 and DGX Spark. Mac and AMD support are still on the roadmap.

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On 2026-11-06 Hugging Face Harness Hub released Harness Adapters: one rank-32 LoRA per base model and coding harness (pi, OpenCode, Hermes), trained with GRPO on verifiable tasks inside unmodified harnesses. Vendor smoke evals claim fewer tool calls with equal or better accuracy. A safeagents proxy rule-checks every tool call and blocks reward hacks. Bases include LiquidAI LFM2.5-24B-A2B, LFM3-1.7B, and experimental TwIL-8B.

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On 2026-11-06, Physical Superintelligence (PSI, @psipbc) said its internal research system, running non-public Anthropic model instances, produced a complete proof of the Aaronson–Ambainis conjecture (open since 2008) on day three, accepted by Lean, then improved the result twice. The research page and Lean 4 formalization repo are public. Vendor wording; no journal peer review yet; the README still asks humans to check that the formal statement matches the printed conjecture.

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On 2026-11-06, Voyager/vork author Ravi Parikh (@ravisparikh; GitHub swag) posted on X announcing vork: a headless 3D/VFX engine for AI agents (Rust + Slang, Vulkan/Metal). Official docs say getting-started help is about 2,500 tokens; a million uniquely steered birds rendered in about 97 seconds on one NVIDIA L4. Research-preview source is at github.com/voyager-so/vork and free during preview. First-hand author announcement, not a big-lab product line.

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On 2026-11-05 GitHub Engineering detailed the next-gen Git storage announced at Universe (codename Rubicon). Vendor internal tests: ~5,000 concurrent agents and ~7,200 pushes/sec on one repo with low-latency reads. Objects live in Azure Blob; reference updates go through Ref-CAS; disposable virtual replicas serve compute. Limited private preview; broader rollout early next year.

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On 2026-11-06, JetBrains (@jetbrains) amplified Head of AI in IDE Denis Shiryaev: starting with 2026.3, Air ships with all JetBrains IDEs. Connect Claude Agent, Codex, GitHub Copilot, and Junie in-IDE, and add Gemini CLI, OpenCode, and more via the ACP registry; local sessions need no JetBrains AI subscription, and Junie Lite is free with a JetBrains Account. Official 2026.3 blogs (IntelliJ / CLion / PyCharm, ~2026-11-05) and jetbrains.com/air/ides match.

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On November 5 Cursor shipped Build Live Apps: describe a tool to a cloud agent and Cursor builds the web app, adds Postgres if needed, sets up Cursor SSO auth and hosting, runs deterministic and agentic security checks, then publishes to a domain you choose with a shareable link for people, groups or the whole team. Works with Origin and GitHub repos on all paid plans with cloud agents enabled.

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On November 3 GitHub announced on its official changelog that GitHub Copilot is now available in JetBrains Air. The integration is built on the Agent Client Protocol (ACP): developers pick Copilot in Air's agent picker, delegate coding tasks, track several sessions in parallel and review changes next to their code. Tasks can run locally in a JetBrains IDE or in isolated cloud environments through Air Teams, and they draw on the Copilot subscription rather than JetBrains AI credits.

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