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- Devin Gets Hierarchical Budgets: AI Coding Agent Spend Now Follows the Org ChartCognition now lets enterprises split Devin's ACU spend into department and project budgets up to three levels deep. When a budget runs out, the session stops. Here is how it works and what it means for engineers and finance teams.
- OpenAI Rebuilt Git's Backend for Codex Agents, Cutting Push Latency Nearly 5xOpenAI's new Pando backend now runs all work in its monorepo, cutting median push latency by nearly 80% and serving close to a petabyte of Git data a day, without changing how engineers use Git.
- OpenAI Will Merge ChatGPT's Chat and Work Tabs and Pool Usage With CodexOpenAI is folding ChatGPT's Chat and Work tabs into one experience, and from December Plus, Pro and Business usage will come from one token pool shared with Codex. Here is how to plan for it.
- DeepSeek Open-Sources a 'Super-Agent' That Takes Coding Requests From a Whole TeamDeepSeek has released dsh-superagent, an MIT-licensed research prototype that watches a GitHub repository and team chat, takes requests only from approved people and replies with pull requests. Here is how it works, what it requires and the security caveats its own docs spell out.
- Google Is Shutting Down Jules on Dec 31: Key Dates and How to Export Your Coding Agent DataGoogle's asynchronous coding agent Jules stops taking new sessions on November 11 and shuts down on December 31, 2026. Code in GitHub is safe, but settings, memories, scheduled tasks and session history need exporting first.
- GitHub Copilot Fusion Picks Your AI Models, Nearing Top Coding Agents at Half the CostGitHub's Copilot Fusion, now generally available, routes each coding task across AI models; Fusion Max scored within two points of Claude Code with Opus 5.5 Max at about half the cost per task.
- OpenAI's LifeVal Tests AI on Everyday Errands, and GPT-6 Astra Scores 80%OpenAI's new LifeVal evaluation scores AI on chores like school searches, meal plans and grocery orders, and the company says GPT-6 Astra reached 80% overall, up from 49.3% for GPT-5.2.
- New GDPx Benchmark Puts Claude Opus 5.5 First, but the Top Score Is Just 12SemiAnalysis's GDPx tests 13 frontier models on 206 expert tasks across 11 domains. Claude Opus 5.5 leads with 12.0, safety filters reshuffle the order, and most real work still fails. Here is what the results mean.
- Meituan's LongCat-2.5 Takes On Claude Opus 5 With 1.6 Trillion ParametersMeituan's new LongCat-2.5 is a 1.6-trillion-parameter multimodal model built for long coding-agent tasks and trained on Chinese chips. Here is how its benchmarks compare with Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6-Sol.
- Nvidia's Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe: Open Model Covers 40 Languages and 8 SpeakersNvidia's open-weight Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, released October 28, transcribes 40 languages, translates 31 to or from English and labels up to eight speakers in recordings up to an hour long.
- Google's Gemini 4 Carbon Tops AI Rankings, but Cyber Defenders Get It FirstGoogle DeepMind's Gemini 4 Carbon takes first place on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a score of 59 and leads three security benchmarks, but only vetted cyber defenders can use it for now. Here's what it does, what it costs and when you might get access.
- Google's Genie 4 Adds Sound, Speech and 2-Minute AI Worlds After Game Stock RoutGoogle DeepMind's Genie 4 world model, unveiled October 27, adds native audio, interactive dialogue and up to two minutes of consistent real-time worlds, double Genie 3, with Google AI Ultra access coming in the next few weeks.
- Mistral Large 4 Goes Open-Weight: 1 Trillion Parameters and What It Takes to Run LocallyMistral released the open weights of its 1-trillion-parameter Large 4 on October 29, 2026; the 2-bit build fits a 512 GB Apple Silicon Ultra machine, while full-speed serving uses eight H200 GPUs.
- How to Run an LLM Locally: Ollama vs llama.cpp, Hardware Needs and Quantisation ExplainedOllama and llama.cpp let you run open-weight language models on your own computer, keeping prompts private. Here is how to check your GPU, estimate memory from quantisation, install either tool and set the context window and network settings safely.