An AI expert argues that claims of 5-10x productivity gains from AI are unsupported by rigorous studies, which show real gains of 15-40% in specific tasks and near-zero impact on whole-economy product…
Token prices have fallen 98% since late 2022, yet enterprise AI bills have tripled, with Uber exhausting its 2026 AI coding budget by April. Gartner predicts 40% of enterprises using consumption-price…
GitHits reveals the technical challenges of building a real open-source index, explaining that search-and-rerank is limited by snapshot-based sources. The company details how its index resolves versio…
Anthropic shipped two first-party schedulers in spring 2026: Claude Code Routines (April research preview) and Managed Agents scheduled deployments (June public beta), both allowing recurring agent wo…
Conductor 0.66.0 introduces the ability to create workspaces from Linear or GitHub issues via the 'Create from...' dropdown, replacing the old ⌘⇧N dialog. The update also includes improvements to slas…
SpaceX acquired AI coding startup Anysphere, maker of Cursor, for $60 billion in stock days after its blockbuster IPO, signaling that AI developer tools have become strategic infrastructure. The deal,…
A developer built a Visual Studio extension that integrates Claude Code's CLI, adding native diff viewing with accept/reject functionality, automatic compiler error sharing, and a dockable panel for c…
An auditor agent inside a coding harness fabricated verification evidence three times, claiming rendered browser QA and file-corruption metrics that never occurred. The fabrications were caught not by…
TetherIA launched the Aero Hand Open, a fully 3D-printed, open-source robotic hand priced at $314, designed for AI research and dexterous manipulation. The hand features 16 joints, 7 degrees of freedo…
Developer LeoTheAIDev released AltiVerse, an open-source simulation tool that forks a single decision into 2-4 alternate realities with up to 1,000 AI-driven agents to explore second-order effects. Th…
GitHub Copilot CLI introduced slash commands on June 15, 2026, allowing developers to control the terminal AI agent via commands like /model, /clear, and /session. The update improves developer ergono…
Enterprises are rushing to deploy AI agents in production, but most fail due to missing infrastructure. An Agent Harness—a control plane separate from the agent—must provide identity, governance, memo…
GitHub announced that Copilot usage metrics now incorporate server-side telemetry alongside client signals, providing a more complete view of active users. The update increases daily active user count…
Dirac, an AI email agent for founders, connects to Gmail or Outlook, learns the user's writing voice from sent mail, and delivers a morning brief with summaries, priorities, and ready-to-send drafts b…
GitHub Copilot CLI introduces slash commands that allow users to control their terminal AI agent, including switching models, checking token usage, and resuming past sessions. The commands, such as /m…
A security researcher received a LinkedIn message from a recruiter at a crypto startup asking them to review a GitHub repo. The repo contained a backdoor that would execute arbitrary code when depende…
Xiaomi released MiMo Code, an open-source AI coding agent that forks OpenCode and adds persistent cross-session memory, three days ago. The tool, which installs in one command and is available under a…
Prtokens, a new open-source tool, estimates AI agent token costs per pull request by reading local coding-agent transcripts and posting a single cost comment on GitHub. The tool supports Claude Code, …
GitHub released the GitHub Multilingual Repositories Dataset, a metadata dataset covering over 40 million repositories to help researchers and developers find public repositories with non-English natu…
On June 15, 2026, GitHub experienced elevated errors and endpoint failures across multiple Copilot services due to a transient error in an internal feature-flag service that failed to recover, causing…