2026-06-18 Artifacts Come to Claude Code

Anthropic just shipped Claude Code Artifacts, and I think it's a bigger deal than the short changelog makes it sound.

Docker Model Runner

Docker Model Runner is a feature of Docker Desktop that lets you download and run AI/ML models locally using Docker CLI commands. It provides a simple interface to pull models from registries (including Docker Hub and Hugging Face), run inference, and expose an OpenAI-compatible API endpoint for int

Docker MCP Catalog

Docker MCP Catalog is a curated collection of Model Context Protocol (MCP)) servers packaged as Docker containers and distributed through Docker Hub. It allows developers to browse, pull, and run MCP servers with a single command, removing the friction of installing runtimes, managing dependencies,

Docker AI

Docker AI is Docker's push to make the existing container workflow (`docker`, `docker compose`, Docker Hub, OCI artifacts) the substrate for building, running, and shipping agentic AI apps. The mental model is three layers: models (reasoning), agents (orchestration), and tools (integration), all wir

DiffusionGemma

DiffusionGemma is an experimental open model from Google DeepMind in the Gemma family that generates text by diffusion instead of autoregression. Rather than predicting one token at a time, it denoises whole spans in parallel, built on Gemma 4 and Gemini Diffusion research. The payoff is speed: up t

The US Government Banned Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5

Three days. That's how long Anthropic's most powerful model lasted in the wild before the US government pulled the plug.

Audiblez

Audiblez is an open-source tool that converts EPUB e-books into M4B audiobooks using AI text-to-speech. You give it an EPUB, pick a voice and language, and it generates chapter-by-chapter audio combined into a single audiobook file.

NVIDIA SkillSpector

SkillSpector is NVIDIA's open-source security scanner for AI Agent Skills — the executable skill components used by Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI. It vets a skill before you install it, detecting vulnerabilities and malicious patterns.

Vercel AI CLI

The Vercel AI CLI (`ai-cli`, by Vercel Labs) is a lightweight, agent-native command-line tool for generating images, video, and text from the terminal. It uses the Vercel AI SDK and AI Gateway for unified access to hundreds of models across providers.

Always bet on text

Essay by Graydon Hoare (creator of the Rust programming language). His thesis: "text is the most powerful, useful, effective communication technology ever, period." When in doubt, default to text.

LM Studio Mobile App

The official mobile companion to LM Studio, called Locally (acquired by LM Studio in 2026). It lets you use the Large Language Models (LLMs)) running on your desktop computer from your phone, so a frontier-sized model executes at home while you chat from anywhere.

Open Knowledge Format (OKF)

The Open Knowledge Format (OKF) is an open specification from Google Cloud for representing the metadata, context, and curated knowledge that AI systems need, in a portable, vendor-neutral, human- and agent-readable form. Version 0.1 shipped on 2026-06-12, authored by Sam McVeety and Amir Hormati of