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Text • Jessica Wachtel

Claude Opus 5.5 vs. Opus 5 on reasoning tasks: Cheaper, faster, but not better

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When Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 this week, the company claimed the new model costs 40% less than Opus 5

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Text • Amanda Caswell

Microsoft’s new Copilot agents get their own email, calendar — and a place in the org chart

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Microsoft announced what it calls its biggest Copilot update to date on Friday, with CEO Satya Nadella describing Copilot as

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Text • Bill Doerrfeld

OpenTelemetry and Prometheus are getting along. What’s still missing?

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Welcome to another edition of Road to KubeCon, where we’re tracking the major movements in the Kubernetes and cloud native

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Text • Robert Kimani

OpenAI and Cursor agree on agent coordinators. They disagree on who runs them.

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OpenAI opened its Agents API in public beta this month, exposing the harness that powers Codex with managed sessions, tool

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Text • Amanda Caswell

OpenAI’s agent had a routine task. It breached a government portal.

Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO

An OpenAI agent researching public medicine spending bypassed security blocks and gained unauthorized access to public and non-public files on

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Text • Adrian Bridgwater

How a forgotten node can put Oracle Java back in production

Enterprise Java company Azul announced its Azul Intelligence Cloud AI Assistant on Wednesday. The technology arrives in response to industry-wide

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Text • Chris J. Preimesberger

Developers and platform teams both want Kubernetes self-service. They disagree on who owns it.

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What do developers want? Kubernetes environments when they need them. What do they not want? Those environments after a week

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Text • Amanda Caswell

Google’s Gemini CLI now asks before editing your build files

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The appeal of an autonomous coding agent is that you hand it a task, give it access to your repository

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Text • Amanda Caswell

OpenAI makes you call sales for a custom voice. Google just made it self-serve.

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Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS today through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio.

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Text • Carly Page

What managing 150,000 AI agents could look like for database teams

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The database administrator of the future will spend considerably less time administering databases. That sounds contradictory, but AI agents are

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Text • Kayode Ojo

Query decomposition doesn’t fix context starvation — it just moves it

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I have a small example that would best communicate the message I am trying to convey: say you built a

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Text • Paul Sawers

Cursor acquired Firetiger. A month later, Cursor launched a bot that tracks code changes through to production.

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We all know that producing code is easier than ever thanks to the abundance of AI coding tools and agents.

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Text • Mayank Ahluwalia

Can enterprises protect data without making AI less reliable?

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As organizations invest in AI, many are discovering a new bottleneck: obtaining data that is both protected and useful. Engineering

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Text • Matthew Burns

Q.ANT gives away the software for its light-powered AI chips in a CUDA-style bet on developers

Q.ANT, a startup out of Stuttgart, Germany, builds processors that use light instead of electricity to do some of the

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Text • Paul Sawers

“Impressive level of openness”: Xiaomi goes way beyond the usual open-weight playbook with MiMo-V2.6

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New models are coming out thick and fast, almost on a weekly cadence, ranging from the powerful proprietary systems coming

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Text • Alex Wilhelm

A third option is emerging in the fight over AI and your data

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Not your keys, not your coins. Not your model, not your data? Over the summer, the tech industry was consumed

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Text • Amanda Caswell

Jensen Huang says the junior developer problem ends in two years. Here’s his math.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has heard the forecast that agents would write 90% of all software by now, and he

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Text • Janakiram MSV

Amazon blocked Meta’s Muse. Then Shopify wired it into every store.

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Amazon started blocking Meta’s Muse from browsing and buying on Amazon.com on Sunday, roughly two weeks after the personal agent

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Text • Megan Carnegie

How confidential AI splits control between data and model owners — and opens new opportunities for both

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Most people already understand what generative AI can do. But enterprises run into problems when they need to give a

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Text • Carly Page

The software supply chain is the new battlefield. AI just changed the rules.

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AI coding tools have seriously accelerated developer speed, but AI has also done the same for attackers — and the

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Text • Jennifer Riggins

Vulnerability alert fatigue nearly swamped WHOOP. But its fix still keeps a human in charge.

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With often hundreds of thousands of alerts a day, many tech organizations are buried in vulnerabilities and worn down by

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Text • Alex Wilhelm

AI spending can run negative. Qodo’s CEO built an ROI equation to fix it.

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Flush with the proceeds of a $70 million Series B raised earlier this year, you might expect Qodo to spend

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Text • Amanda Caswell

Anthropic made Opus 5.5 cheaper. Then it broke four things your agent depends on.

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Anthropic made Claude Opus 5.5, released on Tuesday, cheaper than its predecessor, cutting the price from $5 to $4 per

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Text • Meredith Shubel

OpenAI cut GPT-6 token prices in half. The bigger lever may be the cache.

Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO

OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and Luna on Tuesday, essentially more affordable versions of GPT-6 Astra that come closer to Astra

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Text • Adrian Bridgwater

Claude Opus 5.5 wants to finish your coding tasks, not just start them

Anthropic wants developers to use Claude and its family of tools to handle complete coding tasks. The company introduced Claude

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Text • Meredith Shubel

GPT-6 Sol closes most of the alignment gap with Astra. It’s one-fifth the price.

On Tuesday, OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and Luna, an expansion of the GPT-6 line-up that aims to make GPT-6 Astra’s

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Text • Paul Sawers

“One of the most significant steps in our 26-year history”: JetBrains goes big on agentic development — and bets the IDE still matters

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There’s little question that AI coding agents have changed where software development work happens. Developers can increasingly delegate work from

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Text • Frederic Lardinois

OpenAI 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

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Text • Jessica Wachtel

Claude’s merged chat and Cowork vs. ChatGPT’s Work mode: ChatGPT is faster, Claude is more thorough

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When Anthropic merged Claude chat and Cowork into a single interface last week, it removed an increasingly irrelevant decision users

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Text • Amanda Caswell

Anthropic releases Opus 5.5 and cuts pricing by 20%. Your agent calls might secretly get routed to an older model.

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Claude Opus 5.5 is here, and Anthropic has lowered the price. The new model, released on Tuesday, costs $4 per

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