Gemma 4 on Your Laptop, Claude Fable 5 Everywhere, and Terminal Wars: Dev Signal #22

This week's AI tooling news splits cleanly into two themes: local inference getting serious enough to displace cloud dependencies, and autonomous agents graduating from demos to production APIs. Throw in a supply chain security wake-up call and a terminal emulator worth switching for, and issue #22 is unusually dense with decisions worth making now. Gemma 4 12B runs multimodal agents on laptops Google's Gemma 4 12B drops the separate encoder architecture entirely — audio and visio...