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LIVE_DATA_STREAM // MAY_20_2026

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THE-NEW-STACK
MAY_20 // 06:28

Agent orchestration is leaving the lab: Gas Town hits the cloud, Pulumi bets infra on agents, ops rules change

AI agent orchestration is moving from demos to cloud-grade operations. Steve Yegge’s agent project [Gas Town comes to the cloud](https://thenewstack....

HUGGING-FACE
MAY_20 // 06:26

OlmoEarth v1.1 cuts geospatial inference compute by up to 3x without hurting accuracy

Allen Institute for AI’s OlmoEarth v1.1 trims geospatial model compute up to 3x with near-flat accuracy, changing cost math for satellite-scale infere...

GOOGLE
MAY_20 // 06:25

Google ships Gemini 3.5 Flash: GA, agent-ready, and fast enough to matter

Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, a general-availability model tuned for agentic workflows with big speed gains and lower API pricing than Pro. Googl...

GITHUB-COPILOT
MAY_20 // 06:23

GitHub Copilot app brings Agent Merge to automate CI fixes and PR merges

GitHub launched a desktop Copilot app that runs outside the IDE and now automates CI and merges with Agent Merge. The new [GitHub Copilot app](https:...

CLAUDE-CODE
MAY_20 // 06:22

New benchmark shows AI coding agents lag on real refactors — orchestration and guardrails are now the work

BlueOptima’s BARE benchmark found top AI coding models succeed under 23% on real refactoring tasks, exposing a gap with headline coding scores. New d...

CURSOR
MAY_20 // 06:21

Cursor turns its IDE agent into headless infra with a public Agents SDK; Composer 2.5 steadies the hands

Cursor turned its IDE agent into headless infrastructure with a public Agents SDK, while Composer 2.5 made the agent steadier on long tasks. Cursor’s...

NVIDIA
MAY_19 // 06:41

LoRA/DoRA make NVIDIA’s Cosmos Predict 2.5 practical for domain‑specific robot video on a single GPU

NVIDIA’s Cosmos Predict 2.5 can now be fine-tuned with LoRA/DoRA to make domain-specific robot videos on a single GPU. A new guide shows parameter-ef...

LINUX
MAY_19 // 06:36

AI slop is breaking bug bounties; add gates and consumer-side audits

AI-generated bug reports are overwhelming security channels, pushing maintainers to add submission gates and move audits to the consumer side. Linus ...

MICROSOFT
MAY_19 // 06:33

Microsoft ships GA "computer use" agents in Copilot Studio for UI-driven automation

Microsoft Copilot Studio’s computer-use agents are now GA, letting AI operate UIs to automate systems that don’t have APIs. Microsoft’s “computer use...

OPENAI
MAY_19 // 06:28

Codex 0.131: remote-control workflows and diagnostics land, safety and metering quirks surface

OpenAI Codex 0.131 ships deeper remote workflow control, a new diagnostics tool, and a safer Windows sandbox—while users flag data loss and metering b...

CURSOR
MAY_19 // 06:27

Cursor ships Composer 2.5 in-IDE model, nudges teams toward headless agents via its SDK

Cursor released Composer 2.5, a stronger in-IDE coding model that aims to match frontier agents on real repo work. The drop lands only inside the Cur...

CLAUDE-CODE
MAY_19 // 06:26

CLI coding agents harden: Claude Code stabilizes and resumes long runs; Copilot CLI ships workflow boosts; enterprises eye consolidation

CLI coding agents are maturing fast: Claude Code fixed reliability gaps and added /resume for long runs, while GitHub Copilot CLI shipped notable work...

CURSOR
MAY_18 // 06:18

Kilo Code vs Cursor: BYOK across autocomplete without leaving VS Code

AI coding tools are diverging: Kilo Code runs inside your IDE with full BYOK; it says Cursor’s forked editor keeps BYOK to chat. [Kilo Code’s compari...

CLAUDE
MAY_18 // 06:16

Claude Opus 4.7 drops long‑context surcharge — budget rules for 1M‑token prompts just changed

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 includes a 1M‑token context window at standard per‑token rates with no extra long‑context fee. This isn’t cheaper by defa...

GOOGLE
MAY_17 // 06:30

Gemma 4 in the wild: E4B vs 31B shows when to route small vs big

A real-world test shows when to use Gemma 4 E4B versus 31B, with clear tradeoffs across quality, latency, and cost. A developer ran 50 messy, real st...

GROK
MAY_17 // 06:28

Bigger context, smarter retrieval: Grok 4.20’s 2M tokens meet Agentic RAG

xAI’s Grok 4.20 brings a 2M-token working set, but real gains come when you pair it with agentic retrieval that can reflect and retry. A deep dive ar...

GITHUB
MAY_17 // 06:27

Pi Agent now has a fast, single-binary Rust CLI you can extend

Pi Agent now has a fast Rust CLI port that starts instantly and keeps streaming stable. The new [pi_agent_rust](https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/...

OPENAI
MAY_17 // 06:25

OpenAI folds ChatGPT, Codex, and the API into one agentic platform under Brockman

OpenAI is merging ChatGPT, Codex, and its developer API into one product org to build a single agentic platform. Reporting says Greg Brockman now lea...

GITHUB-COPILOT
MAY_17 // 06:22

GitHub rolls out Copilot desktop app preview; CLI adds MCP discovery and reproducible setups

GitHub launched a Copilot desktop app preview with agent-driven workflows and tighter MCP integration, backed by fresh Copilot CLI updates. The new [...

CURSOR
MAY_15 // 17:05

Select Interactive offers a plug-and-play agentic stack with Cursor, Claude Code, and Linear

Select Interactive is packaging a production-style agentic setup that wires Linear tickets to draft PRs using Cursor and Claude Code. Their program p...

CHATGPT
MAY_15 // 17:00

Synthetic web poisoning goes mainstream: Halupedia’s AI-only “encyclopedia”

Halupedia is deliberately publishing AI-made encyclopedia pages, raising real risks for data pipelines and model training. [Halupedia](https://www.we...

OPENCODE
MAY_15 // 16:59

OpenCode gets local, persistent memory with a MemPalace plugin

OpenCode gets persistent, local memory via a MemPalace plugin that saves chats and a lightweight knowledge graph. This TypeScript plugin auto-saves e...

KIRO
MAY_15 // 16:58

Spec-first AI coding is here: tools to tame agent output

AI coding is shifting from vibe-driven scripts to spec-first workflows teams can govern. InfoWorld spotlights tools like Kiro, Spec Kit, Tessl, and Z...

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