Less than two weeks after shipping a free, open-source rebuild of Adobe’s creative suite, software engineer Brandon Thomas has set his sights on office software. His latest releases — WordCraft, GridCraft and DeckCraft — replicate Word, Excel and PowerPoint as free, local applications written in Rust with substantial help from Anthropic’s Claude model. They open … Read more
Every October 1, Google’s Gboard team ships a keyboard experiment nobody asked for and almost nobody will ever own. This year’s edition, the 15th consecutive instalment for Keyboard Day, takes the idea of “keys coming to you” literally: a physical keyboard built around four independent conveyor belts that carry keys toward the typist mid-sentence. Each … Read more
Nous Research, the lab behind the open-source Hermes agent, has closed a $90 million Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation — a final figure that landed above the roughly $75 million discussed while negotiations were still in progress. Announced on October 7, 2026, the round was led by Robot Ventures, with Nvidia, Union Square … Read more
The Document Foundation has shipped LibreOffice 26.8 with a message that would have sounded like an apology three years ago and now lands as a deliberate market play: the suite contains no generative AI, and that omission is the pitch. Released on 26 August 2026, with the formal “no AI” policy statement following on 3 … Read more