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Text • Janakiram MSV

Anthropic defined the standards inside Agent Plugins. So why isn’t it helping govern the format?

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Earlier this month, Vercel released Agent Plugins 1.0.0 with core maintainers from AWS, Cursor, Microsoft, and OpenAI. Google announced the

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Text • Amanda Caswell

“Open weights are nowhere near a sufficient solution”: Dario Amodei fires back on AI power

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The independence developers gain from open weights comes with a hard infrastructure ceiling, according to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. “AI

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Text • Chris J. Preimesberger

TNS journalist Darryl K. Taft leaves a legacy of respected work and quiet integrity 

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Technology journalist Darryl K. Taft led a long and successful career at several first-rank tech publications and was a highly

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Text • Arjun Iyer

Per-developer environments were the goal. Agents moved the goalposts.

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Multi-tenancy has moved in one direction for 60 years: the tenant keeps getting smaller. Mainframe time-sharing carved a single machine

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Text • Matthew Burns

Grok 4.6 matched Fable 5 Max at an 85% discount. Downloadable models set that price.

I’m Matt Burns, Chief Content Officer at Insight Media Group. Each week, I round up the most important AI developments,

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Text • Amanda Caswell

Apple’s new AI split means your iOS app could behave differently in China

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Apple is splitting up its AI stack. Instead of rolling out the same system worldwide, the company reportedly built a

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Text • Frederic Lardinois

Alibaba’s new model promises Opus 4.6-level performance on your laptop

Alibaba recently made the open weights of its 2.4 trillion parameter Qwen3.8 model available. That’s a massive model, and its

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Text • Amanda Caswell

GLM-5.3 didn’t change the base model — where did its coding gains come from?

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Z.ai released GLM-5.3 on Friday, a coding and agent model built from the same base model as GLM-5.2. Developers can

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Text • Uma Sridharan

Your container images are unsigned. In the AI era, that’s a ticking time bomb.

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Most organizations that know they should sign their images still don’t. Not because they disagree, but because the path to

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Text • Amanda Caswell

The AI model that just scored 65% on DeepSWE isn’t the one Google promised.

Google has a new Gemini model, and no, it is not Gemini 3.5 Pro. Gemini 3.7 Flash launched Thursday as

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Text • Frederic Lardinois

ChatGPT can now remember what you did on your Mac — without screenshots

OpenAI is launching a new feature for ChatGPT Work and Codex on macOS that sounds quite useful but may also

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Text • Meredith Shubel

Rubrik’s lessons from one month with Mythos Preview

After it joined Project Glasswing and gained access to experiment with Mythos Preview, security and AI company Rubrik learned it

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Text • Frederic Lardinois

DeepSeek open sources an agent harness where everything is a plugin

DeepSeek on Thursday open sourced the DeepSeek Harness, a new agent runtime for developers. The Node.js-based harness is now available

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Text • Hafiz Hassan

Why your AI pipeline costs 10x more after the demo

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Every token has a price. The problem is that most AI systems don’t reveal the bill until they reach production.

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Text • Ankit Jain

Code review is a taste problem

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Code review is becoming the most important decision-making surface in software engineering, and it’s outgrowing the diff. The assumption was

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Text • Amanda Caswell

Five European companies just agreed to buy AI compute that doesn’t exist yet

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Mistral AI, the French AI company that built its reputation releasing open-weight models, wants companies to use its infrastructure even

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Text • Adrian Bridgwater

“Issue tracking is dead”; How the pull request became the last chokepoint in the SDLC bottleneck

AI code review specialist CodeRabbit announced its Agentic Change Management control layer on Wednesday. The service is intended to help

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Text • Frederic Lardinois

Anthropic’s Chrome extension is now a Cowork session

Anthropic announced a major update to its Chrome extension on Wednesday that turns Claude in Chrome from a useful but

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Text • Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Why space is actually a terrible place to cool a data center

AI data centers in space sound great, but practically speaking, they may be next to impossible. For tech bros, it

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Text • Amanda Caswell

SpaceXAI trained Grok 4.6 on something most AI labs throw away

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SpaceXAI released Grok 4.6 on Wednesday, less than a month after Grok 4.5. The company says Grok 4.6 can research

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Text • Amanda Caswell

Code that passes every test can still break the next AI agent that touches it

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Originally designed to make software predictable for humans, Google Go is now positioning itself as a language tailored for machine

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Text • Adrian Bridgwater

Anthropic gave agents the ability to dream. Then developers woke up.

During AI DevCon in London this summer, Lamis Mukta, member of technical staff at Anthropic, hosted a stage presentation session

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Text • Janakiram MSV

Meta stopped worrying about distillation and just shipped the pipeline

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Meta released Muse Glimmer on Monday, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model distilled from Muse Spark and licensed under Apache 2.0. The

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Text • Meredith Shubel

Coding agents ignore open source contribution guidelines, researchers find.

Autonomous coding agents ignore contribution rules in open source communities, finds a new study from researchers at Peking University.  That’s

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Text • Amanda Caswell

Your AI agent remembers everything. Here’s what happens when its owner changes.

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Manus is becoming an independent company again after Chinese regulators ordered Meta to unwind its roughly $2 billion acquisition of

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Text • Frederic Lardinois

Why CPUs still matter in the age of AI agents

When the conversation turns to AI infrastructure, it almost always lands on GPUs and TPUs. The New Stack sat down

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Text • Alex Wilhelm

How I learned to stop worrying and love hyperscaler capex

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The AI boom is an oddly miserable bubble. Despite interesting tech, huge new companies, and products with global reach, AI

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Text • Amanda Caswell

Anthropic’s watermark survives copy-paste, but not the real dev workflow

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Anthropic announced it will embed invisible watermarks into text generated by new Claude models, including output produced through its API,

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Text • Frederic Lardinois

OpenAI’s ChatGPT/Codex desktop app is now on Linux

On Tuesday, OpenAI launched its ChatGPT desktop for Linux. Now in preview, the app, which combines ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and

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Text • Frederic Lardinois

Databricks acquires Electric to give every AI agent its own Postgres database

Databricks on Tuesday announced that it’s acquiring Electric, the startup behind the WASM-based Postgres project PGlite and the Electric sync engine, as

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