Anthropic doubled Claude Code five-hour limits after a SpaceX Colossus 1 compute deal. The AI coding agent race is shifting from model quality to infrastructure, quotas, and long-running reliability.
Claude Code 2.1.139 adds /goal, a session-level completion loop where a separate evaluator decides when an agent has actually finished.
China-based Z.ai released GLM-5.1 under MIT terms and topped SWE-Bench Pro with a 744B MoE coding model, sharpening the open-source versus closed-model split.
Anthropic added Monitor to Claude Code v2.1.98, letting Claude watch background command output and react to logs, CI status, and file changes while a coding session continues.
Anysphere launched Cursor 3 with an agent-first workspace, parallel agents, local-cloud handoff, Design Mode, and Composer 2 as Cursor shifts from editor to orchestration surface.
Alibaba released Qwen3.6-Plus for agentic coding with a 1M-token context window, free preview access, and a closed-source strategy that changes how builders should read Qwen.