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Google ships Gemini 4 Argon, a long-task coding model, and it lands in GitHub Copilot
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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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Your Claude Code Guard Hook Fails Open. Here Is How to Make It Fail Closed
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A Malicious Repo Picked Its Own Code Reviewer. Here Is How to Audit Your Agent Workflow Before It Happens to You
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Anthropic Just Published How Much of Its Own R&D Claude Runs. Steal the Ladder for Your Own Agent Workflow
- I've been quiet. Here's what 75 AI agents built while I was gone.Mar 12, 2026
- The AI job market just hit 6,083 open roles. Here's what's actually happening.Apr 9, 2026
- OpenClaw hit 302K GitHub stars in 48 hours. The AI agent wars just went nuclear.Apr 13, 2026
- The flat-rate AI coding era just ended (and Opus 4.7 is the reason)May 3, 2026
- Karpathy: vibe coding is over. Agentic engineering ate it.May 11, 2026
- Microsoft killed Claude Code internally — the same week Anthropic doubled its limitsMay 17, 2026
- Google bet I/O on agents. Here is what actually changed for coders this week.May 24, 2026
- 165,000 stars: open source is quietly eating the AI coding agent marketMay 31, 2026
- Claude Code just learned to clone itself — and Apple put it on every iPhoneJun 8, 2026
- Fable 5 is free for 10 more days — Copilot just billed someone 50xJun 14, 2026
- The US government just banned a frontier AI model (and Anthropic is fighting it)Jun 21, 2026
- The US government just banned a frontier AI model (and Anthropic is fighting it)Jun 21, 2026
- Open source just caught up to frontier AI — and Windsurf is deadJun 30, 2026
- OpenAI just beat Claude at coding — and the White House decides who gets to use itJul 6, 2026
- Uncle Sam cleared GPT-5.6 (and Elon is capping our budgets)Jul 12, 2026
- When your AI agent reads a README and hacks your machineJul 13, 2026
- The end of tokenmaxxing (and the rise of the senior vibe coder)Jul 19, 2026
- Opus 5 halves Fable 5's price — and vibe-coded apps got hacked againJul 26, 2026
- AI code ships with a security flaw 45% of the time — and GPT-5.6 just got 80% cheaper to write more of itAug 2, 2026
- GPT-6 launched messy. My dashboards went dark for 6 weeks and I didn't notice.Sep 14, 2026
- Cursor's new boss agent writes no code — and OpenAI caught its models passing notesSep 20, 2026
- OpenAI launched always-on agents — then fired three of its own safety researchersOct 4, 2026
- Your agent's guardrails weren't blocking — plus Copilot ships real sandboxingOct 11, 2026
- Two open-weight coding giants in one day — and GitHub's scanner now fixes its own findingsOct 18, 2026