AI that writes code

Anthropic built Scion, an internal version-control system, and migrated its monorepo from Git in five months as daily merges rose from about 2,500 in May to over 30,000 in September. It also built Antique for code review, while shifting history, merges and repository queries to a scalable server service. The company says AI-generated code has moved its bottleneck from writing software to source control, builds and continuous integration.

Anthropic ↗ · October 14 briefing

Linux creator Linus Torvalds has published an experimental kernel branch whose patches, test programs and first draft description were written with Claude Code under his direction. The eight-patch series lets the kernel read from the page cache without reference counting, and on his laptop one benchmark jumped from about 10 million reads per second to 30 to 33 million. He also used AI tools to untangle a hard-to-read kernel library, uncovering three additional bugs dating back to 2013. Torvalds said he now genuinely likes using AI as a tool, while warning that AI-generated contributions add real burden for maintainers.

ZDNet ↗ · October 13 briefing

Epic Games has delayed its upcoming Disney shooter, which had been slated for March, and told developers to adopt an AI-first production model, Bloomberg reported. A director reportedly wrote in an internal message that the team should stop writing code by hand and generate all art with full AI workflows, with staff directed to use Anthropic's Claude and oversee its output. CEO Tim Sweeney said the company has a huge pivot underway, moving developers around to retool for maximum AI acceleration. Some developers reportedly reacted poorly, and Disney invested $1.5 billion in Epic in 2024 as part of the collaboration.

Ars Technica ↗ · October 12 briefing

OpenAI will add an invisible, machine-readable watermark to eligible ChatGPT and Codex text output for users in the European Union over the coming weeks, to comply with the EU AI Act's requirement that generated text be identifiable. API customers worldwide can opt in, and detection access is starting with researchers. OpenAI says its watermarking matched or exceeded rival approaches such as Google DeepMind's text watermark, while cautioning that text watermarking and detection remain early technologies with significant limitations.

The Verge ↗ · October 5 briefing

Microsoft is overhauling its Copilot app for corporate users, combining chat, coding tools, and a new persistent agent called Autopilot that keeps working on assigned objectives even when no one is actively using it. Autopilot gets its own identity, memory, and workspace inside a company's Microsoft 365 environment, and Microsoft says it can monitor conversations, handle recurring tasks, and pick a project back up after several days away. The unified app lets users choose between OpenAI's GPT models, Anthropic's Claude Opus, or an automatic mode that selects a model for them. The launch is a direct response to Anthropic's growing traction in the enterprise market, with Autopilot moving into private preview by the end of the month.

CNBC Technology ↗ · September 27 briefing

SpaceXAI, formed when xAI merged with SpaceX, released Grok 4.7 with unchanged pricing of $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens. The model improved to 71.0 percent on a leading software engineering benchmark, up from 65.2 percent for Grok 4.6, and scored 46.3 percent on a separate coding test, ahead of GPT-5.6 Sol Max but behind Claude. On the tougher Terminal-Bench 4.0 agentic coding test, Grok 4.7 scored just 26 percent, well behind GPT-6 Astra and Claude.

Next Big Future AI ↗ · September 21 briefing · The frontier model race

Anthropic launched Claude Code Projects in beta, a coordination layer that splits a coding task into parallel cloud sessions that keep running after a developer closes their laptop. The system delegates work across threads, reviews outputs, and assembles a finished result, while keeping a shared memory so it can recall details like a delayed release date without re explaining context. The feature is available to select Claude Pro and Max subscribers in Claude Code.

Anthropic ↗ · September 17 briefing · The frontier model race

Cognition, the company behind the Devin coding agent, released SWE-2, its most capable coding model to date, post-trained with reinforcement learning on top of Moonshot AI's 2.8 trillion parameter open model, Kimi K3. On a leading coding benchmark, SWE-2 scored within one point of Fable 5.1 while costing 64 percent less to run. The release signals a broader trend of startups fine-tuning open weight Chinese models to compete with closed frontier labs on price.

AI Research News ↗ · September 13 briefing · The frontier model race · Open models

OpenAI disclosed that its researchers are spending heavily on AI coding agents, with top users burning through over $7,000 daily in API tokens as they leverage autonomous agents for research and development. The high token consumption reflects the extraordinary computational demands of frontier AI research and the value researchers place on AI-augmented coding and analysis workflows. The spending patterns underscore how AI coding agents are becoming critical infrastructure for AI research organizations.

Business Insider Tech ↗ · September 8 briefing

OpenAI announced it will cut off developer access to its models through Cursor, citing concerns that SpaceX, which acquired the AI coding startup in a $60 billion deal earlier this month, will not use the technology within OpenAI's terms of service. The proposed shutoff date is November 12, 2026, affecting roughly 5% of Cursor user traffic and escalating the long-running feud between OpenAI and Elon Musk. The decision highlights growing friction between major AI labs and rivals building vertically integrated ecosystems, and it raises immediate questions for startups that depend on third-party model APIs.

CNBC Technology ↗ · August 30 briefing · Follow the money

Visa released an open-source agentic security harness that finds vulnerabilities, writes patches, and runs an adversarial validation panel on its own fixes before human review, aiming to shrink the time from discovery to remediation from weeks to hours.

VentureBeat ↗ · August 27 briefing

Modern software systems accumulate technical debt over decades of development, which makes migration expensive and largely manual. As coding agents become increasingly capable at bug fixing, can they autonomously perform such migrations? Existing benchmarks cannot answer this question because they evaluate only behavioural correctness, not whether the migration actually occurred. This leads an easy hack: agents copy the original implementation to make tests pass. We call this Blindness. To address this problem, we introduce SWE Refactor Bench, a benchmark comprising 20 whole-repository migrations, covering 4 kinds of technical debt. A three-stage evaluation protocol measures both migration completeness and behavioural correctness. (1) Migration Audit verifies that the migration occurred. (2) Behavioural Tests measure correctness with a fixed test suite. (3) Agentic Verification uses 6 independent coding agents to generate targeted tests for hidden behavioural differences. Across 520 runs from 8 frontier models and 26 model-effort configurations, only 28 of 520 runs ($5.4\%$) pass all three stages, 13 of the 20 tasks receive no accepted solution, and the best model (claude-opus-5) scores $47.0/100$. Migration completeness and behavioural correctness are distinct abilities: a few runs preserve behaviour by skipping the migration and are stopped at Migration Audit; most attempt it and break behaviour, and are stopped at Behavioural Tests. Agents cannot deliver a perfect migratio...

arXiv ↗ · August 24 briefing

A stealth AI model called Ox Alpha has appeared on OpenRouter offering free, multimodal access and a one-million-token context window, drawing intense developer interest even though its creator and underlying weights remain unidentified.

Bloomberg Technology ↗ · August 23 briefing

Wired reporters and an independent security researcher reconstructed OS Investigate, an experimental Flock Safety tool now in testing with a small group of police agencies, using code left exposed on the company's login portal. The system lets officers search for people and vehicles by movement patterns alone, with no license plate, name or underlying crime required, and can cross-reference results against case files, 911 dispatch logs and commercial identity records to surface a person's name, home address, relatives and friends. Flock says the product is separate from its license plate readers, but it lands as the Washington Post reports at least 50 officials have been accused or charged over misuse of plate-reader data, with Flock cameras involved in 46 of those cases.

Wired ↗ · August 19 briefing

Cursor began rolling out Origin, its own code hosting platform, to paid users on Monday morning, putting it in direct competition with GitHub for the first time. About three and a half hours later GitHub went into a six hour and forty two minute global degradation, with error rates near 20 percent across pull requests, issues and the API and near 50 percent on archive and raw file downloads. Enterprise single sign on failed with it, taking down SAML, OIDC, SCIM provisioning and Team Sync as well as Copilot, and the timing handed Cursor an unusually visible opening in the AI coding tools race.

VentureBeat ↗ · August 18 briefing

Wiz says its autonomous Red Agent found and exploited a script injection flaw in Snowflake's . NET connector repository that let unauthenticated users run arbitrary commands inside GitHub Actions runners simply by opening an issue with a crafted title. The exploit reached sensitive data in Snowflake's internal Jira environment, and the bug was mitigated on June 23 through Snowflake's bug bounty program. GitHub Copilot Autofix had approved the code change that introduced the flaw without flagging it, a gap between two AI systems that Wiz researcher Gal Nagli says shows frontier models can already exploit supply chain risks on their own.

Forbes Tech ↗ · August 17 briefing

Microsoft is folding its consumer Copilot app and the enterprise Microsoft 365 Copilot into a single application, saying personal and professional uses of AI increasingly overlap and that the split product line had become too fragmented. Starting August 18, 2026 the company is retiring Group Chats, AI generated podcasts, Copilot Labs experiments, the Mico animated character, and Deep Research, which is replaced by a Researcher tool for paying professional users. Files from the standalone app will migrate to Microsoft's cloud storage. An internal memo from executive vice president Jacob Andreou said each feature had to earn the right to exist, echoing similar consolidations by Anthropic and OpenAI.

TechCrunch AI ↗ · August 13 briefing

Cognition is reportedly in talks for a new funding round at a $40 billion valuation, just months after raising $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation in May. The company had reached a $492 million annualized revenue run rate as of May, with enterprise customers including Mercedes-Benz, NASA, and Goldman Sachs. Its Devin agent is positioned to handle programming work such as legacy software updates and platform migrations rather than replacing developers outright.

TechCrunch AI ↗ · August 12 briefing · Follow the money

Stockholm based Lovable raised $400 million in Series C funding at a $13.3 billion valuation, announced on August 12, roughly doubling its valuation since its Series B in December 2025. Menlo Ventures led the round, with the EQT managed Scaleup Europe Fund co-leading. The cap table is deliberately global, adding Balderton Capital and Carmignac from Europe alongside Kaszek Ventures and LTS Growth from Latin America. The raise makes Lovable one of the most valuable companies in the fast growing natural language app building category.

Unite. AI ↗ · August 12 briefing · Follow the money

Amazon Web Services announced at Black Hat USA 2026 that Continuum, its platform for finding and fixing code vulnerabilities, will plug directly into Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex alongside its own Kiro IDE. The move embeds AWS security tooling at the point where developers actually write code, regardless of which vendor's model they use, a bet that owning the security layer matters more than owning the model. AWS simultaneously expanded Security Hub Extended, its curated single bill security marketplace launched in February, with a tenth category focused on supply chain protection, adding Chainguard and Socket as partners. Together the announcements are the company's most sweeping attempt yet to become the default security control plane for enterprise software development in the AI era.

VentureBeat ↗ · August 10 briefing

Anthropic will make auto mode the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max and Team plans starting August 14, letting the agent proceed without asking permission at each step. It still pauses for actions it judges irreversible, destructive, or aimed outside the user's environment, and ships with prompt injection screening plus customizable hard deny rules. Anthropic said internal testing caught 89% of harmful actions under auto mode versus 13.6% under human review, arguing that users approve 97% of permission prompts out of habit.

TechCrunch AI ↗ · August 9 briefing · When agents go off script

Meta released Muse Code, its first coding agent, a terminal tool that installs with a single command and can plan changes, write code, and validate results across a full software engineering task. It runs on Muse Spark 1.2, a coding focused model co-trained with the agent and priced at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens, alongside a contributor tier at $0.10 and $0.20 that lets Meta train on the submitted data. The public beta covers Mac and Linux, and undercuts the rival coding agents from Anthropic and OpenAI on price.

CNBC Technology ↗ · August 5 briefing

Poolside, a San Francisco AI lab that has mostly sold coding models to governments and defense agencies over its three-year history, released Laguna S 2.1, a 118 billion parameter Mixture of Experts model that activates only 8 billion parameters per token and supports context windows up to 1 million tokens. The weights are freely available on Hugging Face under the permissive OpenMDW-1.1 license. Poolside reports the model scores 70.2% on Terminal-Bench 2.1, beating rivals many times its size including DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Max and Nvidia's Nemotron 3 Ultra, and 78.5% on SWE-Bench Multilingual. The model went from the start of training on May 22 to public launch in under nine weeks, using 4,096 Nvidia H200 GPUs.

VentureBeat ↗ · July 21 briefing · Open models

Emergent, an AI platform that lets non-technical users build and deploy applications, raised a $130 million Series C at a $1.5 billion post-money valuation, becoming a unicorn just over a year after its June 2025 founding by brothers Mukund and Madhav Jha. The round was led by Creaegis with participation from Khosla Ventures, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Lightspeed and Y Combinator, bringing total funding to $230 million. The startup pitches itself as an engineering team in a box, has passed a $120 million annualized revenue run rate, up 70% in four months, and serves more than 200,000 paying customers across North America, Europe and other markets.

TechCrunch AI ↗ · July 15 briefing · Follow the money

Security researchers at Cereblab found that Grok Build, SpaceXAI's AI coding tool, was packaging and uploading users' entire code repositories to Google Cloud storage, including files it was explicitly told not to open. SpaceXAI turned the behavior off after the findings were published on Monday. The episode adds to growing scrutiny of how much customer code AI developer tools quietly transmit from local machines.

The Verge ↗ · July 14 briefing

Canva launched Code 2.0, a major upgrade to its AI coding tool that lets users build interactive websites, apps, and experiences from plain-language prompts and then edit the output as easily as tweaking a Canva design. The feature is available to all of Canva's more than 265 million monthly users, including free accounts, marking its most aggressive push into the vibe coding market against rivals like Lovable, Replit, and Bolt.new. Canva argues its edge is design quality, saying most vibe coding tools stop at functional output that looks the same as everyone else's.

VentureBeat ↗ · July 14 briefing

Open source AI tool Ollama raised a $65 million Series B led by Theory Ventures, adding to a $15 million Series A led by Benchmark's Peter Fenton for $88 million raised total. The company, which lets developers run open-weight AI models on personal computers, now counts 8.9 million monthly active developers, 176,000 GitHub stars, and roughly 17,000 forks, and says it is used at 85 percent of Fortune 500 companies. Ollama runs with just 14 employees and also offers a paid cloud tier priced by GPU usage rather than token limits.

TechCrunch AI ↗ · July 9 briefing · Follow the money · Open models

Meta publicly launched Muse Spark 1.1, a multistep reasoning AI model built for agentic coding, marking the first time the company has charged businesses for access to one of its models. Trained by Alexandr Wang's Meta Superintelligence Labs, the model is priced at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens, positioning it against Anthropic's Claude Haiku 4.5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna. Wang called the pricing very aggressive and attractive, and the launch was significant enough that Zuckerberg posted about it on X for the first time in three years.

CNBC Technology ↗ · July 9 briefing

SpaceXAI has unveiled Grok 4.5, its first joint AI model built with newly acquired coding startup Cursor, in a bid by Elon Musk's firm to gain ground on rivals like Anthropic and OpenAI. Unlike earlier Grok versions built for general chatbot use, Grok 4.5 is designed mainly for legal work such as reviewing contracts and case files, financial tasks like statement analysis and due diligence, and software engineering across large codebases. SpaceXAI is pricing the model at 2 dollars per million input tokens and 6 dollars per million output tokens, and is rolling it out across Cursor's desktop, web, and command line platforms, though it is not yet available in the EU.

Bloomberg Technology ↗ · July 8 briefing · The frontier model race

SpaceXAI and Cursor plan to launch their first jointly developed AI model as soon as Wednesday, according to an internal memo sent to staff and reported by The Information. The companies pushed back the original launch timeline this week to improve the model's efficiency before release. The new model follows SpaceX's all-stock acquisition of Cursor, part of a push by Elon Musk's company to build what it calls the world's most useful AI models. It is expected to roll out inside Cursor's coding tools and xAI's Grok Build platform.

TechMeme ↗ · July 7 briefing · The frontier model race

Anthropic has expanded Claude Cowork to mobile and web, turning what was a desktop-only agent into a cross-device platform where tasks can start on a laptop, continue running in the background, and be reviewed later from a phone. The rollout begins in beta with Max subscribers before expanding to other plans. Alongside the launch, Anthropic published usage data from 1.2 million anonymized Cowork sessions across more than 600,000 organizations, showing that only 8.7% of usage involved software development. The largest category, at 33.4%, was general business process work such as compiling reports and reconciling spreadsheets, followed by content creation and copywriting at 16.4%, suggesting Cowork's biggest audience is knowledge workers rather than coders.

VentureBeat ↗ · July 7 briefing

Z.ai, the Beijing-based artificial intelligence lab formerly known as Zhipu AI, on Wednesday officially launched ZCode, a free desktop application it describes as an "Agentic Development Environment" purpose-built for its flagship GLM-5.2 large language model. The move marks the company's most aggressive push yet into the fast-growing AI-powered coding tool market, where it now competes directly with Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Google's Antigravity."Introducing ZCode, the official development environment for GLM-5.2," the company wrote on X, noting the tool is available on macOS, Windows, and Linux, supports bring-your-own-key (BYOK) configurations for third-party models, and offers a 1.5x usage-quota bonus for subscribers to its GLM Coding Plan. Read one way, ZCode is simply another entrant in a crowded market. Read another, it is a single product that crystallizes three of the most consequential trends in enterprise software today: the race-to-the-bottom pricing of frontier AI models, the geopolitical balkanization of the AI stack, and the rapid maturation of agentic coding agents into what Gartner now estimates is a roughly $10 billion market. An AI coding tool designed to think in projects, not promptsUnlike traditional IDEs that bolt on AI through a chat sidebar or autocomplete extension, ZCode is best understood as an agent-first development environment. Its core design is built around long-horizon tasks: the user describes an ou...

VentureBeat ↗ · July 2 briefing · The frontier model race

Google’s new Gemini AI upgrade will let Android users remotely control their Mac workflows.

Forbes Tech ↗ · June 30 briefing

AI is moving from chat and web search to delegated work. Why it matters: The frontier AI labs have spent years promising that effective AI agents will act as our minions in the workplace and at home, and that might soon be a reality. The big picture: Use of Codex — OpenAI's agentic coding and work platform — is accelerating, according to a new report from OpenAI, Columbia, Duke and the University of Pennsylvania. The researchers separate Codex users into three categories: OpenAI employees, outside organizations and individual users. Then they measured usage of Codex versus ChatGPT, by tokens.99.8% of OpenAI employees' output tokens were produced with Codex, compared with 63% for organizations and 16.5% for individuals. OpenAI's own Codex use is meant to represent how users might turn to agents when cost, access, training and buy-in are mostly removed. Among active users of ChatGPT and Codex at organizations outside OpenAI, just above 0% used Codex in August 2025. That share is now around 17%. Between the lines: The number of individuals using Codex is still small, but those who use it use it a lot, per the report, shared first with Axios. By the numbers: In a sample of individual Codex users, 80.6% made at least one Codex request estimated to represent more than 30 minutes of work by an "experienced human." 70.2% of Codex users made at least one request estimated to save more than an hour of human work.25.6% had delegated work estimated to take more than eight hours for a human to ...

Axios ↗ · June 25 briefing

Varonis disclosed SearchLeak, a Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise Search exfiltration chain, while LiteLLM admin-key flaws surfaced in the same window, exposing missing trust boundaries in enterprise AI stacks.

VentureBeat ↗ · June 18 briefing

Nvidia's self-improvement program for robots uses teams of AI coding agents to autonomously direct robot training for datacenter tasks like GPU installation.

Ars Technica ↗ · June 17 briefing · The compute buildout · Robots and physical AI

SpaceX agreed to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for about $60 billion in stock, days after its blockbuster IPO, as Elon Musk tries to jump-start the company's struggling AI division.

TechCrunch AI ↗ · June 16 briefing · Follow the money

Chinese startup Z.ai (formerly Zhipu AI) released GLM-5.2, a 753B-parameter open-weights model targeting long-horizon coding with a 1M-token context window and API tiers starting at $12.60 per month.

VentureBeat ↗ · June 16 briefing · Open models

Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.7-Code, claiming a 30% cut in thinking tokens and stronger coding performance, while practitioners questioned whether the benchmarks reflect real production workloads.

VentureBeat ↗ · June 12 briefing

NanoClaw and JFrog launched a joint security integration designed to stop autonomous AI agents from pulling malicious packages or injected code into enterprise workflows.

VentureBeat ↗ · June 12 briefing

Xiaomi open-sourced MiMo Code, a terminal-native coding assistant that the company says outperforms Claude Code on long-horizon, 200-plus-step agentic coding tasks.

VentureBeat ↗ · June 12 briefing

Cohere open-sourced North Mini Code, a 30-billion-parameter MoE coding agent that runs on a single H100. Independent tests show it can triple output tokens versus comparable models, a verbosity tradeoff teams must budget for in high-volume agent pipelines.

VentureBeat ↗ · June 9 briefing

Database startup Supabase announced a $500 million funding round that values the company at $10.5 billion, including the fresh capital.

CNBC Technology ↗ · June 4 briefing · Follow the money

Anthropic says more than 80% of code merged into its production codebase in May was authored by Claude, not human engineers. The company reports an eightfold jump in code shipped per engineer versus its 2021-2025 baseline.

VentureBeat ↗ · June 4 briefing

Knowledge workers now make up roughly one-fifth of OpenAI's Codex users and are growing more than three times as fast as developers, according to a new OpenAI report shared first with Axios. Why it matters: AI has made it easier to crank out documents, emails, decks and dashboards, and OpenAI is now betting agents can help workers make sense of them. The big picture: Previous waves of workplace software encouraged workers to produce huge volumes of files and messages, but those "workplace artifact...

Axios ↗ · June 2 briefing · AI and work

Fake Claude Code install sites are pushing malware that steals API keys, developer credentials, crypto wallets, and other sensitive data. The post Fake Claude Code Installers Deliver Credential-Stealing Malware appeared first on TechRepublic.

TechRepublic ↗ · June 2 briefing

As Cognition reaches $492 million in annualized revenue run rate, it more than doubled its valuation in eight months, it says.

Planet AI (Aggregator) ↗ · May 27 briefing · Follow the money

GitHub confirmed on May 20 that a poisoned VS Code extension installed on an employee’s device gave attackers access to roughly 3,800 internal repositories at the Microsoft-owned code storage and authorship platform. The threat group TeamPCP, formally tracked by Google Threat Intelligence Group as UNC6780, claimed responsibility and is advertising the stolen repositories for sale starting at $50,000. GitHub’s assessment: the attacker’s claim is “directionally consistent” with the investigation s...

VentureBeat ↗ · May 20 briefing

Hey HN! We (Stephan and Thomas) recently open-sourced Semble. We kept running into the same problem while using Claude Code on large codebases: when the agent can't find something directly, it falls back to grep, reading full files or launching subagents. This uses a lot of tokens, and often still misses the relevant code. There are existing tools for this, but they were either too slow to index on demand, needed API keys, or had poor retrieval quality. Semble is our solution for this. It combine...

Hacker News ↗ · May 17 briefing

See how business operations teams can use Codex to create initiative briefs, strategy updates, leadership decision packets, progress updates, and more from real work inputs.

OpenAI Blog ↗ · May 17 briefing

Some Amazon staff had complained about a lack of access to top AI coding tools, arguing the company risked falling behind in developer productivity.

Business Insider Tech ↗ · May 4 briefing · AI and work

Despite the lingering perception that no one really uses Copilot, Microsoft said on Wednesday that the number of users and engagement is growing.

TechCrunch AI ↗ · April 30 briefing

Anthropic now says that the average cost per developer per active day is $13, up from $6 earlier this month.

Business Insider Tech ↗ · April 28 briefing

Mario Rodriguez /The GitHub Blog:GitHub says all GitHub Copilot plans will move to usage-based billing on June 1, replacing premium requests with monthly GitHub AI Credits— Starting June 1, your Copilot usage will consume GitHub AI Credits. — TL;DR: Today, we are announcing that all GitHub Copilot plans will transition to usage-based billing on June 1, 2026.

TechMeme ↗ · April 27 briefing

Anthropic said it found three issues with Claude Code after users complained the AI tool deteriorated.

Business Insider Tech ↗ · April 23 briefing

Cognition AI Inc. is in early talks to raise a new round of funding that would more than double its valuation to $25 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, tapping into increased demand for companies that understand how to use artificial intelligence in software development.

Bloomberg Technology ↗ · April 23 briefing · Follow the money

Prior to SpaceX's announcement that it's agreed to a potential purchase of Cursor, Microsoft looked at buying the AI coding startup.

CNBC Technology ↗ · April 23 briefing

Musk has eyed a collaboration with French startup Mistral to help xAI catch Anthropic and OpenAI.

Business Insider Tech ↗ · April 22 briefing

These entrants are competing with far bigger players, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft, that make their own AI-powered coding tools.

Business Insider Tech ↗ · April 22 briefing · Follow the money

Moonshot open-sources Kimi K2.6 with claims of stronger long-horizon coding under a modified MIT-style license.

TechMeme ↗ · April 20 briefing · The frontier model race · Open models

GitHub adjusts Copilot plans: signup pauses, tighter limits, and tier changes for Opus models including 4.7.

TechMeme ↗ · April 20 briefing

Artificial intelligence startup Cursor in talks to raise a $2 billion fundraising round at an over $50 billion valuation, which does not include the investment.

CNBC Technology ↗ · April 19 briefing · Follow the money

Antioch raised an $8.5 million seed round to create simulation tools for a new generation of robot builders.

TechCrunch AI ↗ · April 16 briefing · Robots and physical AI

Elon Musk's xAI is collaborating with Cursor, which is using xAI's GPUs for model training, people with knowledge of the matter said.

Business Insider Tech ↗ · April 15 briefing

Carl Franzen /VentureBeat:Users accuse Anthropic of degrading the performance of Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Code; employees publicly deny the company degrades models to manage capacity— A growing number of developers and AI power users are taking to social media to accuse Anthropic of degrading the performance …

TechMeme ↗ · April 14 briefing · AI and work

Maxwell Zeff /Wired:Anthropic announces Claude Managed Agents, offering developers an agent harness and other tools to build and deploy AI agents at scale, available in public beta— Amid rapid enterprise growth, Anthropic is trying to lower the barrier to entry for businesses to build AI agents with Claude.

TechMeme ↗ · April 8 briefing

Microsoft said it will update the terms of use for Copilot after they went viral.

Business Insider Tech ↗ · April 6 briefing

AI skeptics aren't the only ones warning users not to unthinkingly trust models' outputs—that's what the AI companies say themselves in their terms of service.

TechCrunch ↗ · April 5 briefing

LLM-based coding agents extend their capabilities via third-party agent skills distributed through open marketplaces without mandatory security review. Unlike traditional packages, these skills are executed as operational directives with system-level privileges, so a single malicious skill can compromise the host. Prior work has not examined whether supply-chain attacks can directly hijack an agent's action space, such as file writes, shell commands, and network requests, despite existing safegu...

arXiv ↗ · April 5 briefing

Claude Code has seen massive adoption over the last year, and its run-rate revenue had swelled to more than $2.5 billion as of February.

CNBC Technology ↗ · March 31 briefing

OpenAI is adding a plugins-style layer to Codex so the agent can reach beyond plain repo editing into more external tools and workflows, tightening the feature race with other agentic developer stacks.

Ars Technica ↗ · March 29 briefing

The company shows some business discipline in ditching Sora video app and plans for erotic chatbot

Financial Times Tech ↗ · March 26 briefing

New auto mode for Claude Code runs with fewer manual approvals while Anthropic emphasizes safeguards for more autonomous coding agents.

TechCrunch AI ↗ · March 24 briefing

The new unified app aims to help OpenAI streamline the user experience.

CNBC Technology ↗ · March 22 briefing

The company is reducing Copilot entry points on Windows, starting with Photos, Widgets, Notepad, and other apps.

TechCrunch AI ↗ · March 22 briefing

Cursor, a leading artificial intelligence startup for coding, is set to release a more efficient AI model for software development in a bid to keep pace with larger firms like Anthropic PBC and OpenAI.

Bloomberg Technology ↗ · March 19 briefing

AWS has suffered at least two incidents linked to AI coding assistants. Amazon will require senior engineers to sign off on AI-assisted changes following a trend of Gen-AI linked incidents.

Ars Technica ↗ · March 10 briefing

Anthropic launched Code Review in Claude Code, a multi-agent system that automatically analyzes AI-generated code, flags logic errors, and helps enterprise developers manage the growing volume of code produced with AI.

TechCrunch ↗ · March 9 briefing · The frontier model race

Microsoft is integrating Anthropic's Claude into its Copilot workplace tools, diversifying away from OpenAI as the software giant hedges its AI model strategy and gives enterprises alternative foundation models.

Financial Times ↗ · March 9 briefing

Codex Security is an AI application security agent that analyzes project context to detect, validate, and patch complex vulnerabilities with higher confidence and less noise. Rolling out to ChatGPT Enterprise, Business, and Edu customers.

OpenAI Blog ↗ · March 8 briefing

The open-source OpenClaw project has reached a major milestone, using 5 billion tokens to achieve unprecedented accuracy in complex coding and logical reasoning, further democratizing high-end 'vibe coding' capabilities.

Matthew Berman ↗ · March 3 briefing

Figma is integrating OpenAI's coding assistant Codex just a week after announcing a similar deal with Anthropic. The partnership aims to bridge the gap between design and development by allowing designers to generate production-ready code directly within the Figma interface.

TechCrunch AI ↗ · February 27 briefing

AI coding startup Cursor announced a major update to its agentic capabilities, enabling more complex multi-file refactoring and autonomous bug fixing. The move comes as competition intensifies with GitHub Copilot and other agentic IDE tools.

CNBC Technology ↗ · February 25 briefing

GitHub has released a new SDK that allows developers to integrate Copilot's agentic capabilities directly into their own applications, moving beyond simple code suggestions.

Machine Learning Mastery ↗ · February 20 briefing

Vibe-coding startup Code Metal has raised $125 million to bring AI-driven software development to the defense industry, automating the modernization of legacy codebases.

Wired ↗ · February 20 briefing · Follow the money

Microsoft confirmed a major Office bug that allowed its Copilot AI to read and summarize paying customers' confidential emails, bypassing data-protection policies and raising serious enterprise security concerns.

TechCrunch AI ↗ · February 19 briefing

Indian startup Emergent has reached $100 million in Annual Recurring Revenue just 8 months after launch, demonstrating the massive commercial scale of natural language 'vibe-coding' for enterprise apps.

TechCrunch AI ↗ · February 18 briefing

OpenAI has released GPT-5.3-Codex, a new model that was instrumental in its own creation, with the team using early versions to debug and manage its own deployment.

The Verge ↗ · February 16 briefing

Spotify reported that its top developers haven’t written a line of code manually since December, relying entirely on AI tools like Claude Code to build and deploy software.

TechCrunch ↗ · February 13 briefing

Ashley Capoot /CNBC:Anthropic says its run-rate revenue hit $14B, growing over 10x annually in the past three years, and Claude Code's run-rate revenue hit $2.5B— OpenAI has the largest private tech fundraising round on record. Rival Anthropic now has the second. — Anthropic announced on Thursday …

TechMeme ↗ · February 12 briefing

OpenAI launched Frontier, a new platform for managing AI agents like human employees, and GPT-5.3-Codex, which runs 25% faster and extends beyond coding to general professional computer tasks.

OpenAI / TechCrunch ↗ · February 6 briefing · The frontier model race

The Qwen team released Qwen3-Coder-Next, an 80B parameter sparse MoE model designed specifically for coding agents and local development, matching top-tier proprietary performance.

AI Research News ↗ · February 5 briefing · The frontier model race · Open models

Google DeepMind's Nobel-winning team launched AlphaGenome, applying machine learning to crack gene regulation and function within non-coding DNA, a major leap for AI in biology.

IEEE Spectrum / Google DeepMind ↗ · February 5 briefing

Xcode 26.3 offers agentic coding capabilities with Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex.

TechCrunch AI ↗ · February 4 briefing

The macOS app does everything the CLI, IDE, and web interfaces do.

Ars Technica ↗ · February 3 briefing

Nvidia Corp. supports “every developer” that uses its software, Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said, after a US lawmaker accused the chip giant of offering technical support that helped China’s DeepSeek improve its artificial intelligence model. (Source: Bloomberg)

Bloomberg Technology ↗ · February 2 briefing

With Microsoft spending many billions on data centers, and rumors that no one is using its AI, CEO Satya Nadella shared some usage numbers.

TechCrunch AI ↗ · January 29 briefing

Kyt Dotson /SiliconANGLE:Ai2 launches Open Coding Agents, starting with SERA, an open-source family that includes 32B and 8B parameter models designed to adapt to private codebases— Artificial intelligence is moving swiftly, changing how developers craft, as code flows ever faster into repositories such as GitHub …

TechMeme ↗ · January 27 briefing

The company said that the model was trained on 15 trillion mixed visual and text tokens.

TechCrunch AI ↗ · January 27 briefing · The frontier model race · Open models

Bradley Olson /Wall Street Journal:Similarweb: Claude's web audience more than doubled in December 2025 compared with December 2024, as many coders spent their holiday breaks on a "Claude bender"— Developers and hobbyists are comparing the viral moment for Anthropic's Claude Code to the launch of generative AI

TechMeme ↗ · January 18 briefing

Exploit exfiltrating data from chat histories worked even after users closed chat windows.

Ars Technica ↗ · January 14 briefing

Societe Generale SA is scrapping a self-developed artificial intelligence tool in favor of Microsoft Corp.’s Copilot solution, highlighting the challenges even large lenders face in building out their own offering in the cost-intensive technology.

Bloomberg Technology ↗ · January 12 briefing

AnthropicreleasedCoworkon Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successfulClaude Codetool to non-technical users — and according to company insiders, the team built the entire feature in approximately a week and a half, largely using Claude Code itself. The launch marks a major inflection point in the race to deliver practical AI agents to mainstream users, positioning Anthropic to compete not just withOpenAIandGooglein conversational AI, but withMicrosoft's Copil...

VentureBeat ↗ · January 12 briefing · The frontier model race

Article URL:https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/CHANGELOG.mdComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355165Points: 239# Comments: 136

Hacker News ↗ · December 22 briefing

Z.ai:Chinese AI startup Z.ai releases GLM-4.7, an open-weight model that Z.ai says delivers significant improvements in coding performance compared to GLM-4.6— - Core Coding: GLM-4.7 brings clear gains, compared to its predecessor GLM-4.6, in multilingual agentic coding and terminal-based tasks …

TechMeme ↗ · December 22 briefing · The frontier model race · Open models

Graphite is an AI code review assistant that was last valued at $290 million.

TechCrunch AI ↗ · December 21 briefing · Follow the money

OpenAI releases GPT-5.2-Codex, the most advanced agentic coding model for professional software engineering and defensive cybersecurity, with improvements on long-horizon work through context compaction and stronger performance on large code changes.

OpenAI ↗ · December 18 briefing · The frontier model race

Claude Code creator Boris Cherny said that he looked for engineers with "cool weekend projects." Anthropic is also looking for "generalists," he said.

Business Insider Tech ↗ · December 17 briefing

Codex helps build and monitor itself, clarifying Copilot branding, while raising eerie autonomy questions online.

Forbes Tech ↗ · December 16 briefing

Vibe coding startup Lovable's latest funding round values it at $6.6 billion, more than tripling the valuation it achieved with its previous round in July. Accel is participating in the round.

CNBC Technology ↗ · December 16 briefing · Follow the money

The ChatGPT-maker is releasing its "best model yet" as it faces new pressures from Google and other AI competitors.

Wired ↗ · December 11 briefing · The frontier model race

The 300-person startup hopes bringing designers aboard will give it an edge in an increasingly competitive AI software market.

Wired ↗ · December 11 briefing

After reaching $1 billion in annualized revenue, Anysphere CEO Michael Truell explained the features his company is focused on building out.

TechCrunch AI ↗ · December 10 briefing

French AI startup Mistral today launched Devstral 2, a new generation of its AI model designed for coding, as the company seeks to catch up to bigger AI labs like Anthropic and other coding-focused LLMs.

TechCrunch AI ↗ · December 9 briefing

Microsoft is building Copilot into every product it owns, while Google is integrating its Gemini LLM tool into all of its properties. To determine which tool is better, I came up with seven challenges.

ZDNet ↗ · December 8 briefing

xAI Grok 4.20 created a 47% return in the Nasdaq and outperformed all others in the Alpha Arena competition. 32 instances of various LLMs (including multiple variants of the same model under different prompting strategies like “Situational Awareness,” “Monk Mode,” “Max Leverage,” and “New Baseline”) were each allocated $10,000 in real money to trade autonomously ... Read more

Next Big Future AI ↗ · December 7 briefing

Replit will expand usage of Google Cloud services, add more of Google's models onto its platform, and support AI coding use cases for enterprise customers.

CNBC Technology ↗ · December 4 briefing

OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman is declaring a "code red" to speed up improvements to ChatGPT, the Information reported. Altman on Monday called for a "surge" to improve ChatGPT while delaying progress on other efforts such as autonomous AI agents and advertising. Tom Mackenzie reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)

Bloomberg Technology ↗ · December 2 briefing

Anthropic has acquired Bun, a maker of software used to run and manage code more efficiently, marking Anthropic's first acquisition. The deal comes as Claude Code hits $1 billion in annualized revenue, representing a major milestone for Anthropic's developer-focused AI products.

Anthropic ↗ · December 2 briefing · Follow the money

WhatsApp's new platform policies ban general-purpose AI chatbots like Copilot from using its service.

TechCrunch AI ↗ · November 25 briefing

Felix Wallis, 23, thinks personalizing his outreach to employers helped him get a full-time job in AI straight out of college.

Business Insider Tech ↗ · November 20 briefing

Cursor, a fast-growing artificial intelligence coding startup, is buying a firm that has helped support leading AI companies like OpenAI in their own recruiting efforts, the latest sign of an increasingly fierce talent war in the technology industry.

Bloomberg Technology ↗ · November 17 briefing

Cursor, an artificial intelligence coding startup, has raised $2.3 billion in funding at a $29.3 billion valuation, roughly tripling its value in a matter of months.

Bloomberg Technology ↗ · November 17 briefing · Follow the money

Code Metal has raised $36.5 million in a funding round led by Accel.

CNBC Technology ↗ · November 17 briefing

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss the latest moves in tech stocks as skepticism grows about whether the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates in December. Plus, Thinking Machines, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati, is in talks to raise funding at a $50 billion valuation. And Cursor CEO Michael Truell discusses the AI-coding startup’s latest fundraise at a $29.3 billion valuation. (Source: Bloomberg)

Bloomberg Technology ↗ · November 16 briefing · Follow the money

Founded in 2022, the start-up sees continued momentum, capitalizing on AI-powered code development and vibe coding.

AI Business ↗ · November 16 briefing · Follow the money

Code Metal has raised $36.5 million in a funding round led by Accel.

CNBC Technology ↗ · November 13 briefing

Code Metal has raised $36.5 million in a funding round led by Accel.

CNBC Technology ↗ · November 12 briefing

Microsoft is integrating OpenAI rival Anthropic's AI into Copilot, marking another step toward the disentangling of Microsoft and OpenAI.

TechCrunch AI ↗ · September 25 briefing

The tech giant goes multi-model with the addition of generative AI models from an OpenAI rival.

AI Business ↗ · September 25 briefing

Article URL:https://verialabs.com/blog/from-mcp-to-shell/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45348183Points: 101# Comments: 30

Hacker News ↗ · September 23 briefing

Powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro, Jules is an asynchronous, agent-based coding tool that integrates with GitHub, clones codebases into Google Cloud virtual machines, and uses AI to fix or update code while developers focus on other tasks.

TechCrunch AI ↗ · August 6 briefing