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Tencent’s Hy4: 1M‑token open‑weight model for repo‑scale agents
Tencent released the open-weight Hy4 LLM with a 1M-token context window, signaling a push toward self-hosted, long-context coding and agent workflows....
OpenAI will cut off GPT access in Cursor after SpaceX deal
OpenAI will shut off its models inside Cursor following SpaceX’s acquisition, so teams using GPT via Cursor need a fallback. Per [CNBC](https://www.c...
Stripe buys OpenRouter to become the AI routing and spend-control layer
Stripe is buying OpenRouter to become the neutral layer that routes AI requests across models with tighter cost control. The deal puts Stripe in the ...
AI agents just opened two new doors into your pipelines
Two recent incidents show AI agents are now real supply‑chain entry points into CI/CD and cloud accounts. Pillar Security used a hidden instruction i...
LangChain ships alpha MCP adapter powered by FastMCP
LangChain released an alpha MCP adapter that turns any MCP server into agent tools you can hand straight to create_agent. The alpha [langchain.mcp](h...
Agents go team-first and persistent
Agentic coding is moving from solo browser tabs to shared, persistent, team-visible workflows. Slack introduced [Slack Code](https://www.salesforce.c...
Meta pauses 'AI-native' push after agent misfires — what this means for engineering leaders
Meta paused a plan to make the company 'AI native' after internal agents triggered disruptive actions, underscoring risks of replacing teams with auto...
Verification-led AI coding: a credible 1M-LOC milestone
Paul Dix argues that AI, steered by a strong verification oracle, produced and hardened a million-line production codebase. In a quote surfaced by [S...
WebMCP turns agent automation into first‑class site actions; make your agent docs testable
WebMCP is moving real agent automation from scraping to site-declared tools, and teams should treat agent-facing docs as testable interfaces. [WebMCP...
Copilot CLI now flows OpenTelemetry context through agent hooks — treat those traces like app data
GitHub Copilot CLI now propagates OpenTelemetry trace context through hooks so agent spans can be correlated like normal app traces. In the latest Co...
Local-first AI jumps from hobbyist to enterprise: JetBrains, Perplexity, and IBM make it real
Major vendors are pushing AI coding and reasoning on-device, changing the privacy, cost, and latency math for teams. JetBrains shipped a fully local ...
Samsung taps Anthropic Claude to draft HDL with human-in-the-loop checks
Samsung is using Anthropic Claude to generate HDL for chip design, but keeps strict multi-layered human verification due to frequent logical errors. ...
MCP tool schemas are eating your context window — here’s how to cut 4–32x token cost
MCP clients load full tool schemas into the model context, causing 4–32x higher token use than CLI-based discovery. A deep-dive shows the default “li...
OpenAI drops GPT-5.6 Sol prices; verify routing and prep for Responses API
OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Sol prices and promised better price-performance; verify routing and plan your Responses API migration. OpenAI signaled a price/pe...
Agents can now pay for APIs: AWS ships AgentCore Payments GA
AWS made AgentCore Payments generally available, enabling agents to buy access to APIs and content mid-run under spend controls. InfoWorld reports AW...
Anthropic merges Claude’s chat and Cowork memory with granular controls
Anthropic unified Claude’s memory across chat and Cowork so sessions carry shared context with new privacy and topic controls. [The New Stack](https:...
Mindstone launches an "Agentic AI Academy" focused on supervising real workflows, not prompts
Mindstone is offering a 4‑week Agentic AI Academy that trains teams to direct and supervise agent workflows instead of one‑off prompting. The program...
Claude Code harness fixes silent Bedrock overbilling and cleans up long sessions
Claude Code’s community harness shipped patches that stop a silent Bedrock overbilling bug, trim long-session bloat, and tighten agent controls. A 2....
AI agents grow up: persistent identities and permissions land in major platforms
Grok, Claude, and Hermes now support persistent agent identities with durable, scoped permissions across sessions. According to The New Stack, leadin...
Agents need ops: stop running them like scripts
Agent builders are shifting from laptop demos to production-grade services with serverless endpoints, hardened workers, and real spend/health guardrai...
OpenAI trims GPT 5.6 Sol pricing by 20% — re-baseline your token budgets
OpenAI cut GPT 5.6 Sol API pricing by 20%, but teams should tighten token budgets instead of loosening them. OpenAI’s forum announcement points to a ...
Router wars: orchestration now beats raw model choice
Model outcomes are shifting from choosing an LLM to how you route and wrap it. [Stripe and Ramp are building in-house LLM routers](https://thenewstac...
OpenInference evals add OpenAI Agents SDK support and skill-level checks (strands-agents/evals v1.2.0)
strands-agents/evals v1.2.0 adds OpenAI Agents SDK support and skill-level evaluators to tighten observability for AI agents. The latest [strands-age...