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OpenAI built itself a new Git backend, too
Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

OpenAI on Monday detailed how it built a new Git backend for its monorepo to power the ever-increasing number of

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Developers are downgrading their AI on purpose — and it’s working
Mon, 02 Nov 2026 21:03:31 +0000
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Anthropic has confirmed that it added new restrictions to Claude Code to prevent users from recreating existing video games. But

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Your AI coding agent now runs on a budget — and it can cut you off mid-task
Mon, 02 Nov 2026 19:03:38 +0000
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The days of pointing an AI agent at a backlog and letting it burn through compute without much oversight may

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Canva’s new design model doesn’t generate images. It writes code to edit them.
Mon, 02 Nov 2026 18:06:26 +0000
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Australian graphic design software company Canva took the wraps off Canva Brush last week, its new vision-language model for designers.

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OpenAI’s new shared usage limit pits ChatGPT against Codex
Mon, 02 Nov 2026 16:45:19 +0000
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OpenAI has revealed plans to combine usage allowances across ChatGPT and Codex, as part of a broader effort to integrate

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Open-source security in the AI exploit era: Patch without changing a thing
Sun, 01 Nov 2026 16:00:00 +0000
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Here’s how a vulnerability in a popular open-source library plays out in 2026: A maintainer merges a fix and publishes

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A step-by-step guide for how to kill the line-by-line code review
Sun, 01 Nov 2026 15:00:00 +0000
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Agents verify; people decide. Most teams running AI code review today have it the other way around. They point a

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The context problem: How Docusign built agents that understand the business behind contracts
Sat, 31 Oct 2026 16:13:35 +0000
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Ask a general-purpose language model to summarize a contract, and it will probably do a reasonable job. Ask it to

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Five years after the fork, OpenSearch is slowly stepping out of AWS’s shadow
Sat, 31 Oct 2026 16:02:34 +0000
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OpenSearch has come a long way since Amazon Web Services first announced the project back in January 2021, in response

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Developers ask AI which tool to use. Here’s how we track the answer.
Sat, 31 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0000
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We asked Claude “Which CMS platforms support MCP integration?” It searched the web and put Webflow in its first group,

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Amazon CEO predicts 6 to 8 AI models will be ‘good enough’ for almost everything
Sat, 31 Oct 2026 14:30:00 +0000
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy expects the frontier AI model race to produce several competitive models rather than a single winner,

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Shielding the patch gap: The exploit doesn’t wait for Patch Tuesday
Sat, 31 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0000
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Four years after Log4Shell became one of the most consequential vulnerabilities in software history, vulnerable instances of the library are

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GPT-6.1 Terra vs. Claude Opus 5.5: Cheaper and faster in three tests at max effort
Sat, 31 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0000
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OpenAI launched GPT-6.1 Terra on October 26, and included two direct comparisons with Opus 5.5 in its marketing materials. It

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Anthropic just removed one of Claude’s biggest usage limits — but not for everyone
Fri, 30 Oct 2026 20:14:04 +0000
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Claude Code users on Anthropic’s $200 plan will no longer face a rolling five-hour usage cap, provided their accounts are

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Busy GPUs can hide slow AI inference on Kubernetes
Fri, 30 Oct 2026 19:56:41 +0000
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A Kubernetes cluster can be healthy while the AI service running on it disappoints users. A model might return its

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What worries Entire co-founder Thomas Dohmke about the future of tech?
Fri, 30 Oct 2026 19:37:46 +0000

Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke is taking on his old company. His startup, Entire, launched a GitHub alternative this week,

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Kubernetes just formed a workload conformance group. Here’s why it matters for AI teams.
Fri, 30 Oct 2026 17:29:11 +0000
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Welcome to the final edition of Road to KubeCon, where we track the Kubernetes and cloud-native ecosystem each week on

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GPT-6.1 Terra vs. GPT-6 Astra: One sacrifices accuracy for lower cost and higher speed at high effort
Fri, 30 Oct 2026 14:59:35 +0000
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OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra on October 26, marketing it as a cheap, fast model for high-volume everyday work, priced at

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What five P99 CONF talks reveal about database trade-offs
Fri, 30 Oct 2026 13:00:00 +0000
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P99 CONF is a virtual conference on high-performance, low-latency applications. Its 2026 event ran October 21–22. Here, we cover five

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Sam Altman almost scrapped token pricing. Here’s why he backed off.
Thu, 29 Oct 2026 22:19:18 +0000
Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO

OpenAI considered dropping token-based pricing for its next model, letting developers submit a prompt and receive a price for the

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AWS’s Hydro team wants the compiler to catch coding agents’ mistakes
Thu, 29 Oct 2026 21:53:05 +0000
Shadaj Laddad, research lead for the Hydro team at AWS, believes the solution lies in automated correctness checks that operate outside an AI agent’s control.

Earlier this month, the team behind Hydro developed a new way to check that a distributed system still works correctly

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Microsoft’s new Copilot harness makes agents easy — until you want to switch
Thu, 29 Oct 2026 20:54:15 +0000
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Microsoft is opening up the GitHub Copilot agent harness to outside developers through Microsoft Foundry, bringing the same orchestration infrastructure

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Why MCP servers should tell agents what to do next
Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:55:39 +0000
James Ward, AWS Fellow and technical committee member of the Agentic AI Foundation, joins The New Stack's Matt Burns at AgntCon+MCPCon 2026 to discuss the rapid evolution of developer and agent experiences.

Many MCP servers do just one thing. An agent asks for data and the server hands it back. AWS’s James

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Mistral’s Large 4 open weights arrive with a 1-point coding lead over GLM-5.3: “There’s nothing you can’t do with this model that you can do with competitors.”
Thu, 29 Oct 2026 14:49:44 +0000

On Thursday, Mistral released the weights for its frontier open model, Mistral Large 4 (ML4), on Hugging Face.  Made available

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk for regulated workloads: Built for the next decade, not just the first deploy
Thu, 29 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0000
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For more than a decade, the managed application platform industry has optimized around a compelling promise: get code running as

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“I don’t think the world needs a new GitHub”: What GitHub’s leaders really think about their new rivals
Thu, 29 Oct 2026 13:30:00 +0000

At its annual Universe ’26 conference in San Francisco this week, GitHub took to the question of the platform’s stability

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