This is great news really! There is another report http://www.blendernation.com/2014/05/12/developer-meeting-notes-may-11-2014/ about Cycles being integrated in Rhino but nothing since then.

Yep, there have been some developments recently to make cycles into an external application, or standalone render.
I have not been keeping up with those news very closely but it opens up an opportunity to give other apps an external render engine to integrate.