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Microsoft Ships a 5B Coding Model Into Copilot Defaults
MAI-Code-1-Flash is rolling into GitHub Copilot for VS Code, putting Microsoft’s own 5B coding model inside Copilot’s model picker and Auto routing path.
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Gemma 4 12B Brings Local Multimodal Agents to 16GB Laptops
Google Gemma 4 12B targets local multimodal agents that can process images, audio, and text on 16GB-class laptops.
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AWS cuts agent search costs with OpenSearch Serverless scale-to-zero
AWS released the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless for agentic AI apps, with scale-to-zero, 20x faster autoscaling, and up to 60% lower costs.
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Vera CPU enters production with 88 cores for agent bottlenecks
NVIDIA Vera CPU has entered full production. The launch puts tool calls, sandbox execution, and retrieval on the AI agent infrastructure bill.
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QVAC TurboQuant brings KV cache compression to local AI
Tether QVAC published a TurboQuant implementation for local inference, with 3-bit KV cache compression, Vulkan kernels, long-context benchmarks, and caveats.
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MAI-Thinking-1 35B Shows Microsoft Reducing Its OpenAI Dependence
Microsoft introduced MAI-Thinking-1 and seven in-house MAI models, bringing 35B active reasoning, 256K context, and Foundry private preview into focus.
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MiniMax M3 puts 1M-token open-weight agents to a cost test
MiniMax M3 arrives with a 1M-token context window, agentic coding support, and an open-weight promise. The launch separates API access from verification work.
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Codex reaches 5 million weekly users as knowledge work moves into agents
OpenAI says Codex now has more than 5 million weekly users, with knowledge workers using it for reports, contracts, spreadsheets, data analysis, and internal tools.
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Perplexity Search as Code Runs Agent Search in Python
Perplexity introduced Search as Code, a Python sandbox architecture for turning repeated agent retrieval into executable search pipelines.
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Claude Code study tracks 5,838 developers, +41 monthly commits, and +0.83 languages
An arXiv paper analyzes GitHub activity before and after Claude Code adoption across 5,838 developers, with commit, repository, language, and causality caveats.
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Anthropic Files Draft S-1, Putting Claude Code Costs Under Review
Anthropic has confidentially filed a draft S-1 with the SEC. Claude Code growth, compute costs, and enterprise concentration are moving toward public-market scrutiny.
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Alphabet raises $80B for AI compute as Gemini demand becomes a balance sheet problem
Alphabet announced $80B in equity offerings for AI compute expansion. The financing shows what Gemini APIs, agents, and Google Cloud capacity now cost.