October review: rating holds at 4.5, SDK caches big tool output, and an unpinned default model quietly swapped under you.
GitHub Copilot's unpinned default model in Cline changed twice in six days, per the Pondero review. If you have not pinned a model in Cline's settings, you may be paying a different price for a different model than last week without any warning in the UI.
AI meeting notes that sit on top of your own notes instead of replacing them. Useful for the standup where your team decides which model to pin. Try Granola
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DeepSeek Harness ships as a desktop app, minus Linux. The open-source agent harness now installs as a macOS and Windows app, an Electron wrapper under 90MB on Mac; Linux users stay on the source build, per the Harness GitHub project.
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OpenAI parted ways with three safety researchers. TechCrunch reports the exits, citing the Wall Street Journal, the latest in a string of safety-team departures at the company this year.
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Shopify Canvas builds a store from a chat prompt. Describe the business and it generates the storefront design, copy, and images in place of a starting template, per TechCrunch.
