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Google has released Android Bench 2.0, a major update to its benchmark framework for evaluating AI models and agents on Android development tasks. The update introduces long-horizon tasks (LHTs), agent-based evaluatio... Context & related coverage →
I shipped a new feature for my blog today: the Newsletters page, which offers an index of all of the newsletters I've sent out, both my free weekly Substack and my monthly sponsors-only updates. I built the feature al... Context & related coverage →
Deno is joining Cloudflare The Deno team released the first version of celld back in August - their open source implementation of the Durable Objects pattern from Cloudflare Workers. Today, Cloudflare are acquiring De... Context & related coverage →
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Context & related coverage →
Managed Deep Agents includes a new API for managing reactions for your distributed agents, and a system to dynamically assign emoji responses with your instrument of choice. Learn more. Context & related coverage →
How we built a model router into Open SWE's harness that cut median cost per coding task by 64% with no measurable drop in quality, and how to build your own. Context & related coverage →
I’ve often been surprised when I hear from top researchers in industry that they think AI will be better than them at their job in a few years, and I didn’t really know why I doubted it. Context & related coverage →
GitHub migrated more than 800,000 lines of Copilot runtime code from TypeScript and Node.js to Rust in about 14.5 weeks using AI-assisted development. The incremental migration used N-API interoperability, automated t... Context & related coverage →
A monthly recap of the latest Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Strands updates from September 2026: broader model choice, faster serverless agents with built-in evaluation, and automated knowledge base sy... Context & related coverage →
Using GPT-6 Astra in Codex, Asana made its browser agent 76x cheaper and 5x faster in tests to offer customers more capable models. Context & related coverage →
Discover how Sophos uses OpenAI’s Daybreak to cut cyber-threat investigation time by 96% and automate 52% of MDR cases while preserving human oversight. Context & related coverage →