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Claude Haiku 5.5 launches at $0.10 per million tokens and is now Claude Code's Haiku
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Claude Code adds mods: TypeScript plugins that can redraw and rewire the agent
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Cursor's Projects beta puts a coordinator agent in charge of your other agents
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Anthropic Just Published How Much of Its Own R&D Claude Runs. Steal the Ladder for Your Own Agent Workflow
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OpenAI's Navier–Stokes Result Makes Verification the New Vibe-Coding Skill
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OpenAI's Automated Research Intern Changes the Vibe-Coding Lesson: Verify the Work, Not the Demo
- Anthropic Just Published How Much of Its Own R&D Claude Runs. Steal the Ladder for Your Own Agent Workflow
On September 17, the Anthropic Institute published a prototype R&D Automation Index : a measurement of how much of Anthropic's own AI research and engin…
- OpenAI's Navier–Stokes Result Makes Verification the New Vibe-Coding Skill
OpenAI says an internal AI system produced a proposed solution to the Navier–Stokes existence-and-smoothness problem and formalized it in Lean. The lesson for p…
- OpenAI's Automated Research Intern Changes the Vibe-Coding Lesson: Verify the Work, Not the Demo
OpenAI's September 6 research update says coding agents are now part of its researchers' daily workflow, with agents handling more complex tasks and the…
- OpenClaw 2.0 Shows What AI Builders Must Design Before the Demo
OpenClaw’s August 30 release is a useful case study in how an AI project grows from a personal experiment into a real software platform. The project says its 2.…
- OpenAI's Jalapeño Results Put Inference Economics Inside the Coding-Agent Decision
OpenAI's August 25 Jalapeño announcement makes the serving system underneath a coding agent part of the comparison. OpenAI says its first custom inference c…
- The August Coding-Agent Leaderboard Changed the Question: Model or Harness?
The latest coding-agent rankings are useful for one reason that is easy to miss: they separate the model from the harness around it. The Aug. 24 ixio snapshot a…
- GitHub Just Made Agent Plugins Portable — What Agent Builders Should Do Next
GitHub published Agent Plugins 1.0 on August 12, turning a familiar frustration in AI coding into a standardization problem with a practical answer: package the…
- A Hidden Line of Text on a Web Page Turned AWS Kiro Into a Remote Code Execution Tool — Here's the Exact Chain
Researchers at Intezer, working with Kodem Security, disclosed a vulnerability in AWS's agentic coding IDE Kiro that turned a routine "summarize this p…