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OpenAI says coding agents are changing how its researchers work
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Android Studio and Qt push AI coding deeper into the IDE
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Salesforce expands Headless 360 with MCP servers and reusable agent skills
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OpenClaw 2.0 Shows What AI Builders Must Design Before the Demo
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OpenAI's Jalapeño Results Put Inference Economics Inside the Coding-Agent Decision
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The August Coding-Agent Leaderboard Changed the Question: Model or Harness?
- OpenClaw 2.0 Shows What AI Builders Must Design Before the Demo
OpenClaw’s August 30 release is a useful case study in how an AI project grows from a personal experiment into a real software platform. The project says its 2.…
- OpenAI's Jalapeño Results Put Inference Economics Inside the Coding-Agent Decision
OpenAI's August 25 Jalapeño announcement makes the serving system underneath a coding agent part of the comparison. OpenAI says its first custom inference c…
- The August Coding-Agent Leaderboard Changed the Question: Model or Harness?
The latest coding-agent rankings are useful for one reason that is easy to miss: they separate the model from the harness around it. The Aug. 24 ixio snapshot a…
- GitHub Just Made Agent Plugins Portable — What Agent Builders Should Do Next
GitHub published Agent Plugins 1.0 on August 12, turning a familiar frustration in AI coding into a standardization problem with a practical answer: package the…
- A Hidden Line of Text on a Web Page Turned AWS Kiro Into a Remote Code Execution Tool — Here's the Exact Chain
Researchers at Intezer, working with Kodem Security, disclosed a vulnerability in AWS's agentic coding IDE Kiro that turned a routine "summarize this p…
- OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Launch: What the New "Sol" Coding Tier Actually Means for Your Agent Stack
OpenAI shipped GPT-5.6 on July 9 as three separate tiers — Sol, Terra, and Luna — rather than one model with a size dial. Sol is the one that matters for this n…
- Anaconda Just Bought a Model-Agnostic Coding Agent Used by 3M Developers — Here's Why That Matters
On July 15, Anaconda announced it had acquired Kilo Code, an open-source, model-agnostic agentic engineering platform used by more than 3 million developers acr…
- Langflow's Second Critical CVE in a Year: What CVE-2026-55255 Means If You're Still Running It
Five days ago we covered JADEPUFFER, the autonomous-agent ransomware attack that exploited CVE-2025-3248 in Langflow, the open-source AI workflow builder, and p…