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Microsoft Foundry ships Tool Search to shrink tool schema costs
Microsoft Foundry introduced Tool Search so agents don’t ship huge tool catalogs every turn, cutting token spend and reducing tool misfires in large s...
Agentic CI with Claude Code: review, tests, and auto-fix that actually ship
Teams are standardizing on Claude Code to run agentic PR reviews, test generation, and auto-fixes safely inside CI using repo-level rules. A hands-on...
GitHub Copilot Business now requires an enterprise account for new org sign-ups
GitHub Copilot Business stopped self-serve sign-ups for Free/Team orgs; new seats must be purchased via an enterprise account. Per GitHub’s docs, sta...
Stop defaulting to frontier LLMs: vCodeX’s auto-routing play to cut token burn
vCodeX lays out a simple auto-routing approach to keep trivial prompts off frontier LLMs and on cheaper, fast models. In this piece, the team describ...
Nscale buys Anyscale: what it means for Ray teams and multi-cloud neutrality
Nscale is buying Anyscale, which could reshape how Ray workloads stay cloud-neutral. [The New Stack](https://thenewstack.io/nscale-anyscale-acquisiti...
Agentic coding grows up: prove it, cap it, then scale it
Agentic coding is shifting from flashy demos to auditable, budgeted workflows teams can trust in production. A cheerleading take on agents like Curso...
GitHub Copilot agents get faster long-session handling and tighter approvals
GitHub Copilot’s agent stack shipped a faster CLI and a bug‑fixing SDK focused on long sessions and governance. The Copilot CLI added a /permissions ...
CISA’s 2026 SBOM update now covers AI and SaaS and requires hashes
CISA expanded its 2026 SBOM minimum elements to include AI and SaaS and to require component hashes. CISA’s refreshed 2026 SBOM guidance broadens sco...
MCP 2.0 goes stateless, making agent tools easier and safer to ship
Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol 2.0 switches to stateless requests, making agent tools simpler to build, run, and audit. Simon Willison breaks dow...
Google’s Gemini Robotics 2 pushes full-body, on-device robot control
Google introduced Gemini Robotics 2, extending robot control from tabletop tasks to whole-body movement with an on‑device variant. According to a han...
Google’s Managed Agents aim to cut agent token burn and add hard budget guardrails
Google’s Gemini 3.6 Flash and updated Managed Agents API change how long-running agents spend tokens and handle orchestration. According to this rund...
Databricks debuts agentic SQL converter; context-first AI moves from slides to systems
Databricks introduced an agent-based SQL conversion tool that targets the hardest 10–15% of legacy migrations while the industry doubles down on conte...
OpenAI slashes GPT‑5.6 Luna pricing and adds a fast API tier; validate reliability before switching
OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna prices and added a fast tier in openai-python, but developers are seeing reliability hiccups. Per Simon Willison, GPT‑5.6 Lun...
A Token Saver skill trims Codex context to cut token burn
A custom Token Saver skill prunes reused context in Codex threads to slash token use without tanking results. In a walkthrough, a builder tracked 3.7...
Perplexity’s take on agent sandboxes: isolating state to make AI work predictable
Perplexity laid out how it isolates AI agents in sandboxed "Spaces" to make stateful workflows safer and more reliable. In this [The New Stack interv...
Shift from chatbots to AI workers
A Hackernoon piece argues teams should stop shipping chatbots and build AI workers that complete workflows across systems. In [Stop Building AI Chatb...
Perplexity outlines which advanced models come with each subscription
Perplexity published a help page describing which advanced AI models are included with its subscription plans. If your team routes workloads through ...
Cursor launches India-only plan as AI coding tools localize pricing
Cursor introduced an India-only plan while OpenAI and Anthropic also localized pricing for India, shifting cost math for teams there. The New Stack r...
Agent security shifts from alerts to runtime enforcement
Agent security is moving from alerts to autonomous enforcement, with OpenAI’s Codex Security CLI and new runtime blockers reacting to real prompt-worm...
Opus 5 undercuts Fable 5: how to pick your Claude default
Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 is live at about half the price of Fable 5, changing the default model calculus for coding agents. Early coverage pits [Opu...
Copilot adds agent stop hooks and stricter CLI sandboxing; VS Code surfaces subagent activity
GitHub Copilot just shipped a real stop hook for agents, tightened CLI sandbox controls, and VS Code now shows what subagents are doing. The Copilot ...
Snowflake ships a Claude Code plugin that routes Snowflake prompts to Cortex Code CLI
Snowflake released a Claude Code plugin that auto-detects Snowflake prompts and runs them via Cortex Code CLI inside the same chat. The plugin sits i...
Your AI delivery bill is mostly validation and context churn
Frontier model pricing and agent retry patterns are quietly turning validation into the biggest line item in software delivery. A breakdown on DevOps...