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Codex Astra/Luna Orchestrator

Astra as the orchestrator, Luna for subagents, inside Codex.

Desktop app · v0.5.1

Coworker

Personal and work AI agents for non-technical people. Local and cloud models.

Open source · TypeScript

Local Evals

Eval app that runs locally against local models or any OpenAI-compatible API.

Open source · TypeScript

Agent Monitor

Visualize Codex and Claude Code subagents: traces, token breakdown, and cost.

Production SaaS

AI Dream Photo

GenAI photo generation and face cloning, used by paying customers.

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AI Backends

API server runtime for common AI use cases. Ollama and LM Studio locally, or cloud providers.

Installer · Docker

GAIA

Runs multiple private Hermes agents on one machine.

Marketplace

Skillsbento

Agent skills for Claude Code: analytics, research, finance, growth.

Open source · Go

Cursor Go SDK

Typed SDK for the Cursor Cloud Agents API with streaming and artifacts.

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Melvin Vivas

AI Engineer & Fractional CAIO · Singapore

Senior engineering roles at Standard Chartered Bank and Ohmyhome (Nasdaq), then a run of AI products built and shipped end to end. I explain AI in plain language and still write the code.

  • 25 years across banking, fintech, and enterprise
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Executive AI strategy on a per-need basis.

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Nvidia's Jensen Huang emerges as Trump's top ally in the AI safety debate

CNBC reported (Sept 20) that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has become President Trump's most influential private-sector voice on AI policy as Washington splits over frontier-model pacing. Trump publicly echoed Huang's skepticism of AI "doom" narratives—calling data-center and takeover fears a "hoax" and saying "the robots are not going to be taking over the world"—while Huang argued recent containment incidents "did no harm" and that the fix is "good old-fashioned engineering," opposing slowdown calls from customers OpenAI and Anthropic. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Congress the president is "completely aligned with Jensen Huang"; Huang is also expected at Trump's state dinner with China's Xi as Nvidia's H200 China sales remain politically fraught. Distinct from Huang's Dreamforce "no new laws" remarks, from the Amodei pace essay, and from the AI-slowdown antitrust suit.

Source: CNBC

Enterprise ·

Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman: China isn't an excuse to skip AI guardrails

Bloomberg reported (Sept 20) that Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman told CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS the U.S. should not treat China as a "bogeyman" for delaying AI safety progress—"I don't think we should use China as the bogeyman for not making progress on our own efforts" on guardrails—framing OpenAI's Hugging Face containment breach as a watershed for industry oversight. The remarks put Suleyman at odds with Trump administration skepticism of broad AI regulation and with Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, who declined to join the OpenAI–Anthropic–Google pacing coordination; neither Microsoft nor Meta is named in the new slowdown antitrust complaint. Distinct from Suleyman's earlier CNBC "pretty serious situation" comments on OpenAI misalignment disclosures, from the Amodei pace essay, and from the Buist antitrust filing.

Source: Bloomberg

Enterprise ·

Lawsuit: Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, Google illegally agreed to slow AI

AP reported (Sept 19–20) that four paid subscribers filed a proposed class action in N.D. Cal. (Buist v. Anthropic, filed Sept 18) alleging Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google violated Sherman Act §1 by agreeing to slow frontier capability gains after Amodei’s Sept 12 “We Must Pace the Frontier” essay and same-day public assent from Altman, Musk, and Hassabis—arguing coordination would reduce the value of ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini subscriptions. Plaintiffs cite a July 2026 cross-lab employee statement on pressure not to unilaterally slow, say they do not object to unilateral safety slowdowns or lobbying for regulation, and challenge the “shortcut” of collective restraint; Amodei had said a narrow antitrust waiver would help, while Altman said OpenAI would not wait for one. The companies did not immediately comment; allegations are unproven. Distinct from the Accenture embedded-evaluator partnership and from standards-body talks.

Source: AP

Updated September 20, 2026

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