updated @ 09/18/2026 05:45:02
Open-weight models now handle a majority of tokens on Vercel’s AI Gateway. But Anthropic still takes 64% of the spend.
The trend is clear: open-weight models are taking an increasingly large bite out of production AI usage. On Monday, The
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Every team I talk to has the same problem. Their best engineers, the ones who care most about code quality,
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The 1.58 in a 1.58-bit language model sounds like a hard limit, but Intel researchers pushed a ternary model below
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OpenAI revealed Wednesday evening that some GPT-5.6 Sol model instances, during reinforcement learning (RL) training, wrote instructions to conceal mistakes
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Rust is seemingly the language of the moment, with open-source projects and companies forming an orderly queue to move core
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Anthropic is giving Claude Code a new job: Manage other Claude Code sessions. Starting Thursday, Anthropic says select Claude Pro
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A security researcher testing a 300-person B2B company with a global footprint discovered an internet-exposed database with weak authentication during
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AI is addictive, and managers are rewarding those who use it the most (even though they are shipping stuff they
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This walks through the pipeline our agents operate inside—from a recorded scoping meeting through unit specs, spec review, generated code,
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Perplexity decided it was paying too much for DynamoDB and wasn’t getting the control it wanted over read performance. So
The post Perplexity’s AI agents helped build a database. They weren’t allowed to run it. appeared first on The New Stack.
There were unusual goings-on this month at Automattic, a company known for its free and open-source app for building WordPress
The post Automattic says CEO Mullenweg was gone and back inside 33 hours. What happened between? appeared first on The New Stack.
Something of a consensus has emerged from the developer fraternity in 2026 — GitHub, a platform built substantively for human
The post “Everyone’s in a race to replace GitHub”: Zed launches Delta because agents made pull requests obsolete appeared first on The New Stack.
Using Claude for anything beyond a quick question has always started with a routing decision to use Chat or Cowork?
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The pace of frontier AI model development spurred Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to publish an essay last weekend, calling for
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This week on the a16z show, Greg Brockman, president and co-founder of OpenAI, made the point that developers have been
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Any business worth its salt in 2026 needs to be embracing the right tools to reach its customers, and few
The post Meta lets Claude and Codex configure WhatsApp Business via MCP. But the agents don’t get their own identity. appeared first on The New Stack.
Voice agents have a latency problem that shows up as soon as they have to do real work. Within five
The post OpenAI’s voice model doesn’t think. That’s the point. appeared first on The New Stack.
AWS published a new Step Functions pattern this week that gives AI agents a role in airline rebooking while keeping
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Bolt.new, StackBlitz’s browser-based AI development platform, is testing a new trade with developers: more coding-model usage in exchange for training
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What if engineers could spend their time building and optimizing systems rather than maintaining them? It’s 3 a.m., and the
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The engineer who knew why that cloud instance existed has left the company. The instance is still running, the bill
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It’s 2 a.m., and you’re restoring a PostgreSQL cluster from last night’s backup. Its data directory lives on one PersistentVolumeClaim
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Claude Fable 5.1 just won a new coding benchmark despite failing more than six out of 10 times. Its 38.8%
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Running an LLM on your PC is easy enough, but putting an agent to work there is a different story.
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Since they arrived on the scene, a great swathe of the software industry has pinned its hopes on AI tools,
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Everyone knows the open-weight model pitch by now: companies can download the weights, customize them, run them on infrastructure of
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