OpenAI has cut prices for GPT-5.6 by 20%-80%, with the cost of GPT-5.4-level intelligence dropping 13x in four months due to GPT-5.6's recursive self-optimization. The company published findings showi…
A developer released an AI skill for Codex that filters and reads Hacker Newsletter and other Gmail newsletters, passing raw decoded text MIME parts to the model. The skill, invoked with a date or dat…
OpenAI cut the price of GPT-5.6 Luna by 80% to 20 cents per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens after using GPT-5.6 Soul, running inside its Codex coding agent, to optimize its ow…
A software engineer recounts how mandatory AI training at their company led to the widespread use of large language models to generate business intelligence reports without verification, resulting in …
OpenAI has outlined a national science initiative to integrate frontier AI models with government research infrastructure, National Laboratories, and universities. The program includes funded access, …
OpenAI published a post-mortem on an unusual pattern in its model testing where recurring references to 'goblins' and 'gremlins' emerged in outputs. The company frames the behavior as an emergent effe…
Zep released a plugin for Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor that bundles a new building-with-zep skill and a documentation MCP server, enabling coding agents to design agent memory implementations for sp…
Nolabs shipped Nono on July 27, an open-source runtime that sandboxes AI coding agents at the OS kernel level without container overhead or VM, addressing the security crisis from OpenClaw's 245,000 p…
Treena launched on July 30th an iPhone coding environment that runs AI agents on a GitHub repository, provisions a cloud workspace, and pushes finished changes without a laptop. The iOS app, backed by…
SKI, a free on-device voice coding application, enables users to control AI agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Hermes via voice transcription and optional review, with a paid cloud-based meeting part…
OpenAI is cutting prices on two of its GPT-5.6 models, reducing the cost of the Terra model by 20% and the Luna model by 80% for API customers, with new rates of $2 per million input tokens and $12 pe…
A developer built a custom WebGPU solver for poker's Nash equilibrium without a tensor library, using an LLM (Codex) to generate and optimize kernels that achieved greater than 10x speedup over a naiv…
Agent-manager, a Go binary that wrangles AI coding agent sessions inside tmux, hit the front page of Hacker News this week, but the proliferation of such tools signals a missing machine-readable statu…
Fabio Akita released version 2 of his LLM Coding Benchmark, reporting that scores are not directly comparable to version 1 due to changes in prompts, requirements, harnesses, validation, and rubric. T…
Alibaba released skill-up, an open-source CLI tool for regression testing and iterative improvement of AI Agent Skills, along with a companion agent called skill-upper that automates the eval-to-evolu…
A developer built SkillSpec Converter, a free browser-based tool that converts a single YAML skill definition into multiple output formats for OpenClaw, Claude, Codex, and MCP. The developer found tha…
The AI era is spawning new design idioms, such as sparkle emojis signifying AI, streaming text, shimmering text for asynchronous tasks, and tiny icons in desktop apps, which may become lasting softwar…
Brent Ozar shares lessons learned from building AI-powered applications in July 2026, emphasizing adversarial development where different LLMs handle specification, coding, and review to catch bugs ea…
Hallmark, an open-source design skill by Hassan El Mghari (Nutlope) at Together AI, has crossed 12,300 GitHub stars by preventing AI coding agents from generating homogeneous landing pages. The skill …
Noticky, a local MCP server for macOS sticky notes, lets AI apps like Claude Desktop and Codex search, read, create, update, open, trash, and restore notes directly on a user's Mac. The server runs lo…