Google Releases Android 17 Beta 1
Paul Thurrott / thurrott - Google announced Android 17 Beta 1 two days ago, but the release is finally ready for developers who wish to get started with it.The post Google Releases Android 17 Beta 1 appeared first on Thurrott.com.
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MiniMax Unveils M2.5: $1/HR “Full‑Stack AI Employee” Rivals Claude Opus 4.6
pandaily - MiniMax open‑sourced M2.5, a 10B‑activated‑parameter coding model scoring 80.2% on SWE‑Bench Verified, with 100 TPS inference at $1/hr — driving 10K+ Agents built in 24 hours .
Back to Top / Friday, February 13, 2026, 3:20 am / permalink 19115 / 4 stories in 21 days
Spotify says its best developers haven’t written a line of code since December, thanks to AI
Sarah Perez / techcrunch - Spotify credits Claude Code and its internal AI system Honk with speeding up development.
Back to Top / Thursday, February 12, 2026, 8:20 pm / permalink 19111 / 6 stories in 22 days
Apple Releases New Beta Firmware for AirPods Pro 3, AirPods Pro 2, and AirPods 4 [Download]
iclarified - Apple has seeded a new developer beta firmware for its current AirPods lineup. The update carries build number 8B5034f and is now available for AirPods Pro 3, AirPods Pro 2, and AirPods 4.Continue ReadingShare Article:Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit, …
Back to Top / Thursday, February 12, 2026, 4:20 pm / permalink 19102 / 4 stories in 22 days
An AI agent just tried to shame a software engineer after he rejected its code
Mark Sullivan / fastcompany - Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an open-source software maintainer after he rejected its code contribution. It might be the first documented case of an AI publicly shaming a person as r…
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Back to Top / Thursday, February 12, 2026, 4:20 pm / permalink 19099 / 17 stories in 22 days
OpenAI has yet another new coding model and this time it's really fast
Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - OpenAI's new GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark is a smaller coding model that runs on Cerebras chips and pushes over 1,000 tokens per second. It's the company's first model built specifically for real-time programming.The article OpenAI has yet another new coding model…
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Back to Top / Thursday, February 12, 2026, 2:21 pm / permalink 19094 / 13 stories in 22 days
Manufact raises $6.3M to help developers connect AI agents with Model Context Protocol
Kyt Dotson / siliconangle - Manufact Inc., formerly mcp-use, an infrastructure platform developing the next generation of artificial intelligence agents built on Model Context Protocol, today announced it raised $6.3 million in seed funding led by Peak XV. Liquid 2 Ventures, Ritual …
Back to Top / Thursday, February 12, 2026, 11:20 am / permalink 19072 / 5 stories in 22 days
China’s Zhipu AI launches new major model GLM-5 in challenge to its rivals
scmp - Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company Zhipu AI has launched its latest flagship model, the GLM-5, with a leap in coding capabilities amid a heated race among Chinese tech firms to roll out major new models ahead of the Spring Festival holiday.Zhipu…
Back to Top / Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 4:21 pm / permalink 19040 / 9 stories in 23 days
Google Announces Android 17 Beta 1
Paul Thurrott / thurrott - Google today released the first beta of Android 17, marking a fundamental shift in how it releases new Android versions.The post Google Announces Android 17 Beta 1 appeared first on Thurrott.com.
Back to Top / Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 2:20 pm / permalink 19035 / 7 stories in 23 days
Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke Raises Record $60M for New Startup Entire
Marcus Schuler / implicator - Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke launches Entire with a record $60M seed round to build developer tools for managing AI coding agents. Includes exclusive interview.
Back to Top / Tuesday, February 10, 2026, 4:23 pm / permalink 18992 / 7 stories in 24 days
Salesforce Shelves Heroku
msmash / slashdot - Salesforce is essentially shutting down Heroku as an evolving product, moving the cloud platform that helped define modern app deployment to a "sustaining engineering model" focused entirely on stability, security and support. Existing customers on credit…
Back to Top / Friday, February 6, 2026, 4:21 pm / permalink 18850 / 4 stories in 28 days
Apple Opens Submissions for 2026 Swift Student Challenge
iclarified - Apple has opened submissions for the 2026 Swift Student Challenge, inviting student developers from around the globe to showcase their coding skills and creativity. The competition tasks participants with creating an interactive scene in an app playground…
Back to Top / Friday, February 6, 2026, 3:21 pm / permalink 18845 / 3 stories in 28 days
OpenAI's new coding model GPT-5.3-Codex helped build itself during training and deployment
Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - OpenAI's new GPT-5.3-Codex sets new highs on agentic coding benchmarks, and according to the company, it helped build itself.The article OpenAI's new coding model GPT-5.3-Codex helped build itself during training and deployment appeared first on The Decod…
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Back to Top / Thursday, February 5, 2026, 3:21 pm / permalink 18805 / 16 stories in 29 days
Anthropic Announces Claude Opus 4.6 as Next Step in Enterprise AI Development
PYMNTS / pymnts - Anthropic announced Thursday (Feb. 5) Claude Opus 4.6, a new version of its flagship artificial intelligence model that it described as a direct upgrade to Claude Opus 4.5, designed for enterprise and knowledge work. The model is built around three outcom…
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Back to Top / Thursday, February 5, 2026, 12:21 pm / permalink 18799 / 43 stories in 29 days
OpenAI Launches Frontier to Manage AI Agents From Rival Vendors in One System
Harkaram Grewal / implicator - OpenAI launched Frontier, a platform that manages AI agents from Google, Anthropic, and Microsoft alongside its own. No pricing disclosed. Uber, State Farm, and Intuit among first customers.
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Back to Top / Thursday, February 5, 2026, 9:20 am / permalink 18789 / 16 stories in 29 days
Public release of iOS 26.3, macOS Tahoe 26.3 nears with release candidates available
appleinsider - After three rounds of developer betas, the introduction of RC builds of iOS 26.3, iPadOS 26.3, watchOS 26.3, tvOS 26.3, visionOS 26.3, and macOS Tahoe 26.3 means a public release is happening soon.Apple's hardware that works with the 26-generation operati…
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Back to Top / Wednesday, February 4, 2026, 3:23 pm / permalink 18765 / 17 stories in 4 wks
Roblox’s 4D creation feature is now available in open beta
Lauren Forristal / techcrunch - Roblox's highly anticipated 4D creation feature has officially arrived in open beta.
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Apple Introduces 'Agentic Coding' in Xcode 26.3 With Support for OpenAI and Anthropic
iclarified - Apple announced a major update to its development tools today with the introduction of Xcode 26.3, enabling developers to integrate autonomous AI agents directly into their programming workflow. The update unlocks support for "agentic coding," allowing th…
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Back to Top / Tuesday, February 3, 2026, 1:21 pm / permalink 18714 / 19 stories in 4 wks
OpenAI Launches Codex Desktop App for macOS With Multi-Agent Workflows and Doubled Rate Limits
Maria Garcia / implicator - OpenAI shipped a macOS desktop app for its Codex coding agent, doubled rate limits on all paid plans, and opened temporary access to free users. Over a million developers used Codex last month.
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Back to Top / Monday, February 2, 2026, 1:21 pm / permalink 18670 / 20 stories in 4 wks
Notepad++ update feature hijacked by Chinese state hackers for months
Bill Toulas / bleepingcomputer - Chinese state-sponsored threat actors were likely behind the hijacking of Notepad++ update traffic last year that lasted for almost half a year, the developer states in an official announcement today. [...]
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