Anthropic

8/13/2026

Anthropic is in early talks to acquire Israeli inference-optimization and world-model startup Decart for about $6 billion — what would be its largest acquisition, aimed at easing Claude's compute bottleneck before a landmark IPO.

OpenAI

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The biggest AI model release of the past few days, at least among the developers and AI power users on social media, wasn't a frontier cloud model from OpenAI, Anthropic or Google. It was a 27-billion-parameter model from Alibaba: Qwen3.8-27B landed on Hugging Face on Friday under an enterprise-friendly, open source Apache 2.0 license, giving developers downloadable weights for a dense multimodal model. But Qwen3.8-27B isn't a garden variety small local model: it includes native image and video ...

Microsoft

7/22/2026

Copilot now bills usage at listed API rates. Compare direct model access with the coding workflow, policy, and harness work around it. The post Copilot vs. raw API access: What are you actually paying for? appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Google

8/13/2026

Google has released Gemini 3.7 Flash, a refinement of Gemini 3.6 Flash with algorithmic improvements to its reasoning core. It handles text, images, audio, and video across a 1M-token context window with 64K-token output, and supports customizable thinking configurations. Coding results move notably: 43.6% on FrontierCode 1.1 Main versus 34.4%, 65.3% on DeepSWE v1.1, and 1588 Elo on WebDev Arena. Document and workflow evals gain more — GDP.pdf goes from 22.0% to 34.0%, AutomationBench from 17.0%...

Anthropic

7/24/2026

Today, Anthropic released Claude Opus 5. It replaces Claude Opus 4.8 as the Opus-tier flagship. Pricing is unchanged at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens. The Anthropic team positions Opus 5 as approaching the intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price. It is now the default model on The post Meet the New Claude Opus 5: Frontier-Class Agentic Coding and Computer Use at Unchanged Opus Pricing appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Anthropic

7/27/2026

A practical GitHub Copilot workflow for prototyping, planning, implementing, and reviewing software without chasing every new AI tool. The post The harness is all you need (mostly) appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

OpenAI

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Adding an AI agent to Slack sounds appealing to many enterprises — but, as VentureBeat has experienced ourselves first hand — the reality is often far more complex and clunkier than it first seems. Now NanoCo., the company behind the hit open source, enterprise-friendly, autonomous AI agent harness NanoClaw (a more sandboxed, lower code version of OpenClaw), is hoping to make it just as easy as typing a Slack message. To go one step further: the company's new NanoClaw Slack integration lets huma...

OpenAI

8/7/2026

Tencent Cloud has open-sourced TencentDB Agent Memory v2.0, a team-level memory hub that turns conversations, documents and code into four governed, reusable assets — Chat Memory, Skill, LLM-Wiki and Code-Graph. It is MIT-licensed, self-hosted via Docker, and integrates with Claude Code, OpenClaw, Hermes and CodeBuddy. The differentiator is not retrieval but governance: ACL-based visibility decides which agent gets which asset, and which version is valid. The post Tencent Cloud Open-Sources Tenc...

OpenAI

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After a stunning debut last week with cyber capabilities so advanced they reportedly found a previously undetected vulnerability in Cursor, GLM-5.3, the new frontier open source language model from Chinese startup z.ai, has now hit the application programming interface (API) — allowing developers the ability to build atop it and plug it into their agents and applications. Developers who previously subscribed to a GLM Coding Plan are currently limited to the OpenAI Chat Completions-compatible pro...

Anthropic

8/4/2026

Y Combinator has open-sourced QM, the multiplayer agent harness it uses internally across accounting, legal, events, and engineering. Released July 31, 2026 under an MIT license, QM gives each employee an isolated workspace and each Slack room its own scoped memory, files, keychain view, permissions, crons, web apps, and durable sandbox. Pi, OpenCode, Codex, and Claude Code all drive the same headless core, so deployments avoid vendor lock-in. The post Y Combinator Open-Sources QM: An MIT-Licens...

OpenAI

7/28/2026

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But we’ve been here before. —Will Douglas Heaven, senior AI editor Reading OpenAI’s account last week of how some of its models broke their…