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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 →
From the Bitter Lesson of AI scaling to the unsolved mysteries of protein folding, Google DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli and Biohub’s Sal Candido are rethinking what it takes to build AI that truly understands biology. 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 →