Daily Tech Update

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS, offering faster responses and lower cost per task for coding and knowledge work.

xAI's Grok 4.7 is now on Amazon Bedrock with a 500K token context window and four reasoning effort levels, reachable through the Responses, Chat Completions and Converse APIs.

Meta is opening its Muse model family, Muse API and Muse Code to businesses and developers through a new enterprise platform.

Google is retiring Gemini Gems in favor of skills, so any task-specific Gems your team relies on will need to be rebuilt.

Holo4 is a new open model family for generalist computer-use agents that drive a browser or desktop UI.

A TypeScript walkthrough on Gemini's Interactions API shows how to route coding tasks to different thinking budgets by complexity tier to control cost and latency.

Amazon Nova Act with Bedrock AgentCore can run agent-driven synthetic monitoring of user journeys, replacing brittle UI test scripts, with a full sample implementation.

A tutorial deploys Qwen3-TTS on SageMaker with the vLLM-Omni container and streams generated speech over a persistent bidirectional connection.

A second tutorial serves FLUX.2-klein image generation and Wan2.1-VACE video generation from one vLLM-Omni container on SageMaker, using real-time and asynchronous inference.

Cloudflare released cf, a command-line tool that mirrors the whole Cloudflare API and supports configuration written in TypeScript.

Cloudflare open-sourced Forge, a CI pipeline that generates SDKs, CLIs and docs from API definitions so they stay in sync with the API.

Shopify extended WebMCP support to checkout, letting browser-based AI agents update order details and complete purchases with buyer authorization, which affects storefront builds.

EmDash 1.0 is a stable open source CMS for Astro with sandboxed plugins and a decentralized plugin registry.

VoidZero shipped more than 80 releases since joining Cloudflare, including a React compiler 10x faster and Vite+ 1.0, speeding up JavaScript builds, linting and tests.

Git 2.56 is out with a set of new features and changes summarized in GitHub's release highlights.

Databricks made Lakebase Search generally available, adding vector search and BM25 full-text search extensions to its serverless Postgres as an alternative to pgvector.

Google AI Studio's Build mode is now a free full-stack generator producing React front ends with Node.js backends, making it a low-cost option for prototyping apps.