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Anthropic on Monday launched Claude Sonnet 5.5, the latest version of its workhorse model and the second model in the The post Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5.5 with near-Opus performance at half the price appeared first on The New Stack.

While SpaceX and Nvidia plan to place a space-optimized Vera Rubin AI system in orbit by late 2027, Google’s far The post Elon Musk says space will soon hold nearly all compute. Google is still finding out if its chips can work there. appeared first on The New Stack.

Cloudflare has announced an open source tool that takes an API definition and automatically produces the SDKs, command-line tools, documentation, The post Anthropic bought Stainless and shuttered its SDK generator. Cloudflare open-sourced Forge instead. appeared first on The New Stack.

OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google have all recently disclosed that their models broke out of their test environments and reached The post Nvidia launches Open Agent Safety Platform to lock down rogue AI agents appeared first on The New Stack.

We all know that producing code is easier than ever thanks to the abundance of AI coding tools and agents. The post Cursor acquired Firetiger. A month later, Cursor launched a bot that tracks code changes through to production. appeared first on The New Stack.

New models are coming out thick and fast, almost on a weekly cadence, ranging from the powerful proprietary systems coming The post “Impressive level of openness”: Xiaomi goes way beyond the usual open-weight playbook with MiMo-V2.6 appeared first on The New Stack.

There’s little question that AI coding agents have changed where software development work happens. Developers can increasingly delegate work from The post “One of the most significant steps in our 26-year history”: JetBrains goes big on agentic development — and bets the IDE still matters appeared first on The New Stack.

OpenAI on Tuesday released GPT-6 Sol and Luna, which will complement the flagship GPT-6 Astra model in OpenAI’s lineup. As The post OpenAI releases GPT-6 Sol and Luna — and cuts token prices in half appeared first on The New Stack.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is lifting the lid on a new open source, general-purpose AI agent, designed to give developers The post AWS open-sources an AI agent it says is 45% cheaper than Claude Code and Codex appeared first on The New Stack.

As AI agents move into production, the path between a request and its result is becoming less predictable. An agent The post Your AI agent failed. The model might not be the problem. appeared first on The New Stack.

Vercel announced this week that teams on its free Hobby plan will now have older, unprotected deployments deleted immediately if The post “Dormant deployments were quietly consuming storage”: Why Vercel tightened its free-tier rules appeared first on The New Stack.

Three security researchers at Hacktron AI found a memory-corruption bug in a widely used image library. Finding it was the The post Claude couldn’t hack OpenAI. Then Anthropic shipped Opus 5. appeared first on The New Stack.

The trend is clear: open-weight models are taking an increasingly large bite out of production AI usage. On Monday, The The post Open-weight models now handle a majority of tokens on Vercel’s AI Gateway. But Anthropic still takes 64% of the spend. appeared first on The New Stack.

Rust is seemingly the language of the moment, with open-source projects and companies forming an orderly queue to move core The post GitHub and Anthropic used their own agents for major Rust rewrites — with very different playbooks appeared first on The New Stack.

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.

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.

The pace of frontier AI model development spurred Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to publish an essay last weekend, calling for The post The most important AI job in history? How developers might become “employee-like” evaluators to align AI with human values appeared first on The New Stack.

This week on the a16z show, Greg Brockman, president and co-founder of OpenAI, made the point that developers have been The post OpenAI president: “The computer should be there to empower you.” So stop retooling software for AI agents appeared first on The New Stack.

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 appeared first on The New Stack.

Enterprise AI company Cohere announced North Small Translate last week, a mixture-of-experts (MOE) open-weight machine translation model that works across The post “Machine translation is still broken for most of the world’s languages”: Cohere builds non-reasoning for a reason appeared first on The New Stack.

OpenAI has hired the founders of Git AI, an open-source tool that tracks how much code is written by AI The post “Same mission, bigger stage”: OpenAI hires Git AI founders to help Codex prove its ROI appeared first on The New Stack.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released a new open-source application dubbed Pizza Bot, which gives developers an email-style inbox for The post AWS open-sources Pizza Bot: email-style inbox for background AI agents appeared first on The New Stack.

Salesforce introduced its Salesforce Enterprise AI Harness on Thursday as a formalized amalgamation of the AI harness concepts and infrastructure The post “Six tools, one harness”: Salesforce loops together a six-pack of favorites appeared first on The New Stack.

When OpenAI launched GPT Images 2.5 this week, the company promised better results for a common editing task: changing one The post GPT Images 2.5 promises edits that leave the rest of your image alone appeared first on The New Stack.

This week, Mistral announced it raised €3 billion in a Series D funding round, pushing its post-money valuation past €21 The post Mistral wants open-weight AI to compete at the frontier. It just raised $3.5 billion to do it. appeared first on The New Stack.

Red Hat released Red Hat AI 3.5 this week, a move designed to let software engineering teams run AI with The post Red Hat AI 3.5 tackles the GPU queue that can stall AI pilots appeared first on The New Stack.

Every major transformation in tech has led to roles merging, then new ones emerging. Friction between developers and operations drove The post 47,000 job listings reveal the engineering roles that AI is creating appeared first on The New Stack.

A security researcher testing a 300-person B2B company with a global footprint discovered an internet-exposed database with weak authentication during The post AI floods security teams with flaws — business context sets priorities appeared first on The New Stack.

Nvidia and Palantir announced on Thursday that they’re working together to bring “sovereign AI to critical supply chains,” kicking off The post “AI factories are among the most complex systems ever built”: Nvidia and Palantir turn Nvidia’s supply chain into a proving ground for sovereign AI appeared first on The New Stack.

AI models now power all manner of agents, from coding assistants that write and debug software to customer service systems The post Claude did best on a new benchmark for agents that build agents. It still passed fewer than a quarter of the tests. appeared first on The New Stack.