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"1% of my engineers are responsible for 40% of token spend": Why Coder and SpaceXAI want to give developers nice things
1+ week, 2+ day ago (145+ words) Coder now lets regulated enterprises run Cursor's cloud agents on their own infrastructure, without losing security control....
"Hugging Face will remain an open platform": Nvidia strikes $12.9B deal for the 'GitHub of AI"
1+ week, 3+ day ago (287+ words) Jensen Huang vows neutrality even as Nvidia is set to own the platform where AMD and Intel accelerators compete for developer attention....
AI agent evaluations are part of the product
1+ week, 2+ day ago (886+ words) Move beyond simple AI demos. Build repeatable evaluation systems, test execution paths, and enforce strict release gates for AI agents....
One pull to wipe them all
3+ week, 6+ hour ago (82+ words) A malicious PR almost turned an AI coding assistant into a wiper. Learn why AI agents need strict external security controls....
OpenAI spends $1 billion to expand Daybreak to defend power, water, and banking
1+ week, 2+ day ago (238+ words) Daybreak for Frontline Defenders broadens subsidized access to frontier cyber models, training, technical support, and partner services....
An industrial-scale distillation of models, or subtle benchmaxxing: What developers really think of GLM-5.3
3+ week, 4+ day ago (536+ words) Z.ai's GLM-5.3 claims big coding gains, but AI professionals say the real story may be distillation from Anthropic's Claude models, or a case of subtle bencmaxxing, not novel training....
“You can rent a feature, but you can’t rent a foundation”: why MotherDuck bought the startup already powering its data pipelines
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1357+ words) What do you do when a technology you’ve become dependent on belongs to someone else? You buy the startup behind it, of course. And that’s exactly what data warehouse company MotherDuck has done with Tower, a data infrastructure startup whose…...
Anthropic's Playground vs. OpenAI's: The week-old tool beat the six-year incumbent
2+ week, 6+ day ago (767+ words) On August 18, Anthropic replaced its Workbench, the prompt-testing tool in its developer Console, with Playground. Anthropic did more than just change the tool’s name, though. Anthropic also removed features like saved prompts, version history, evals, and team sharing. The new…...
Aider, Claude Code, and OpenClaw ran an identical model. Token use varied 70-fold.
2+ week, 3+ day ago (566+ words) Agent harnesses can change coding-agent costs by multiples, even when the model stays fixed. Three benchmarks show where the extra tokens come from....
Stop the token bleed: building token-efficient multi-agent systems
3+ week, 3+ day ago (100+ words) Discover practical architectural strategies to eliminate AI token waste, reduce latency, and optimize multi-agent system costs....