Cursor acquired Firetiger. A month later, it launched a bot that tracks code...
We all know that producing code is easier than ever thanks to the abundance of AI coding tools and agents. The harder part undoubtedly comes after that code is written: making sure changes are safe to...
View Article“Impressive level of openness”: Xiaomi goes way beyond the usual open-weight...
New models are coming out thick and fast, almost on a weekly cadence, ranging from the powerful proprietary systems coming out of the major US AI labs to the more open alternatives being released by...
View Article“One of the most significant steps in our 26-year history”: JetBrains goes...
There’s little question that AI coding agents have changed where software development work happens. Developers can increasingly delegate work from terminals, desktop applications and remote...
View ArticleOpenAI releases GPT-6 Sol and Luna — and cuts token prices in half
OpenAI on Tuesday released GPT-6 Sol and Luna, which will complement the flagship GPT-6 Astra model in OpenAI’s lineup. As of now, there is no GPT-6 Terra. The new GPT-6 pricing The headline news here...
View ArticleAWS open-sources an AI agent it says is 45% cheaper than Claude Code and Codex
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is lifting the lid on a new open source, general-purpose AI agent, designed to give developers a ready-made foundation they can run locally or deploy to the cloud. Strands...
View ArticleYour AI agent failed. The model might not be the problem.
As AI agents move into production, the path between a request and its result is becoming less predictable. An agent can choose its own tools and change course as it works, which makes failures harder...
View Article“Dormant deployments were quietly consuming storage”: Why Vercel tightened...
Vercel announced this week that teams on its free Hobby plan will now have older, unprotected deployments deleted immediately if they exceed the 10GB Deployment Storage limit. When asked why Vercel...
View ArticleClaude couldn’t hack OpenAI. Then Anthropic shipped Opus 5.
Three security researchers at Hacktron AI found a memory-corruption bug in a widely used image library. Finding it was the easy part. The hard part was turning it into something that works on a real...
View ArticleOpen-weight models now handle a majority of tokens on Vercel’s AI Gateway....
The trend is clear: open-weight models are taking an increasingly large bite out of production AI usage. On Monday, The New Stack reported that open-weight models accounted for 60% of OpenRouter’s US...
View ArticleGitHub and Anthropic used their own agents for major Rust rewrites — with...
Rust is seemingly the language of the moment, with open-source projects and companies forming an orderly queue to move core software over to the general-purpose programming lingo. The draw? A pursuit...
View ArticlePerplexity’s AI agents helped build a database. They weren’t allowed to run it.
Perplexity decided it was paying too much for DynamoDB and wasn’t getting the control it wanted over read performance. So it built its own database: CobbleDB. Built by two engineers in two months with...
View Article“Everyone’s in a race to replace GitHub”: Zed launches Delta because agents...
Something of a consensus has emerged from the developer fraternity in 2026 — GitHub, a platform built substantively for human developers, is no longer fit for purpose. Part of the problem is sheer...
View ArticleAI evaluator: The most important AI job in history? How developers might fill...
The pace of frontier AI model development spurred Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to publish an essay last weekend, calling for changes in how the industry is regulated and develops. In a three-part plan...
View ArticleOpenAI president: “The computer should be there to empower you.” So stop...
This week on the a16z show, Greg Brockman, president and co-founder of OpenAI, made the point that developers have been “retooling the world” to make software more accessible to AI agents. But...
View ArticleMeta lets Claude and Codex configure WhatsApp Business via MCP. But the...
Any business worth its salt in 2026 needs to be embracing the right tools to reach its customers, and few tools carry as much weight as WhatsApp. Paid messaging on the app crossed a $2 billion annual...
View Article“Machine translation is still broken for most of the world’s languages”:...
Enterprise AI company Cohere announced North Small Translate last week, a mixture-of-experts (MOE) open-weight machine translation model that works across 50 languages. Developers can download the...
View Article“Same mission, bigger stage”: OpenAI hires Git AI founders to help Codex...
OpenAI has hired the founders of Git AI, an open-source tool that tracks how much code AI writes and measures the performance and cost of coding agents. Taking to LinkedIn late Friday night, Aidan...
View ArticleAWS open-sources Pizza Bot: email-style inbox for background AI agents
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released a new open-source application dubbed Pizza Bot, which gives developers an email-style inbox for managing AI agents that run in the background. The problem that...
View Article“Six tools, one harness”: Salesforce loops together a six-pack of favorites
Salesforce introduced its Salesforce Enterprise AI Harness on Thursday as a formalized amalgamation of the AI harness concepts and infrastructure the company has been working to align. The...
View ArticleGPT Images 2.5 promises edits that leave the rest of your image alone
When OpenAI launched GPT Images 2.5 this week, the company promised better results for a common editing task: changing one part of an image without messing up the rest. And so developers have two new...
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