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OpenAI acquires Pierre Computer Company to make Git keep up with AI coding agents Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 4, 2026 OpenAI is buying Pierre Computer Company, Inc., the startup behind Code Storage and several open-source tools. Pierre's libraries already power OpenAI's coding agent Codex. "Trees" handles fast project file navigation, "Diffs" displays code changes and lets users fix bugs right in the diff view, and "H

Meta buys AI coding startup Conductor as big tech races to lock in developers Manuel Uth Nov 5, 2026 Meta is acquiring AI coding startup Conductor, which lets developers control multiple AI coding agents at the same time. According to Axios, the acquisition is meant to strengthen Meta's AI developer products. Conductor CEO Charlie Holtz confirmed the deal in a blog post but didn't disclose a price. The acquisition fits a broader trend. Because AI models ar

Introduced in Gemini and Google Search earlier this year, connected apps let users securely link and interact with popular third-party services, then use them to take specific actions. For instance, you could connect to Canva to design a flyer, or to YouTube Music to build a playlist. We’ve seen varying takes on the idea by other consumer-facing AI services like ChatGPT and Meta’s Muse. The premise is that such integrations could ultimately shift consumer

Founded by Eugenia Kuyda, who previously founded the AI companion startup Replika, Wabi originally focused on allowing anyone to build apps using prompts. Last month, however, the startup announced a pivot of sorts to become an AI messenger. The idea now is that the new Wabi — or Wabi 2.0, as it was called — could build the interfaces you need to get things done as part of its role as your personal AI agent. The company suggests Wabi could be used to build

Xu mentioned that users are still predominantly placing orders through DoorDash’s app. However, the company wants to learn more about agentic use cases and develop a healthy relationship with third-party agent makers. He added that, in the future, there could be an opportunity for it to advertise within these agents. DoorDash has its own agents, including a text-to-order agent it launched in September, a CLI agent introduced in July, and a chatbot called A

No AI agent scores above 12 percent on SemiAnalysis' new real-world work benchmark Manuel Uth Nov 5, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Analytics firm SemiAnalysis has released GDPx, a benchmark that tests AI agents on 206 tasks in realistic work environments and professional software over several hours. The scores are low. Claude Opus 5.5 leads the field with just 12 percent, followed by Google's significantly cheaper Gemini 4 Carbon

SpaceXSI apparently cuts Grok Bot quotas weeks after Musk called it his fastest-growing product Manuel Uth Nov 2, 2026 SpaceX is apparently cutting Grok Bot usage limits. According to the Telegraph, several users saw their quotas slashed in half over the weekend. Elon Musk responded to complaints on X on Sunday, saying that "the cost of running Grok Bot was unsustainably high relative to revenue." He didn't confirm a cut outright, but the statement speaks

Anthropic takes on Grok Bot, Meta's Muse, and OpenAI's Dots with its always-on agent "Claude Duet" Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Oct 22, 2026 Anthropic / GPT-Image-2 prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Anthropic has released a preview of "Claude Duet," an app where an AI agent handles tasks for the user in the background. The app runs on cloud computers and connects to outside services like Gmail, Slack, and Stripe.

OpenAI launches always-on Dots agents to rival Meta's Muse Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Sep 29, 2026 OpenAI Key Points At its DevDay 2026 developer conference, OpenAI introduced "Dots," always-on AI agents that run around the clock on their own cloud computers and handle tasks like research, data analysis, and coding by themselves. Users can reach the agents through ChatGPT, Slack, and Microsoft Teams. When no one

Perplexity Computer bundles rival AI models into one agentic workflow system for $200 a month Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Feb 25, 2026 AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "

Perplexity now has its own always-on AI agent Manuel Uth Nov 6, 2026 Perplexity now has its own AI agent that runs around the clock and handles work tasks on its own. While Perplexity Computer executes one-off assignments, the new Teammates stay active and work through ongoing projects independently. Each Teammate runs on its own virtual machine with a desktop and browser. Users track progress through dedicated threads in the Perplexity app and can interac

The launch reflects a broader shift in how startups are thinking about AI, as conversational AI agents take on tasks that had previously required users to launch stand-alone mobile apps. For Zest, that means bringing its restaurant recommendations into texts, then allowing users to immediately take the next step of booking a table. “The agent is the product now,” explains Zest founder and CEO Mario Gomez-Hall. “You text it, and it answers from your own his

“I spend about maybe $100[,000] to $200,000 a year on tokens,” he told Isaacson. He uses agents for countless work projects and coding tasks and has freely shared his set of 23 Claude Code skills, called gstack, on GitHub — an effort to help teach others what agents can do, he said. On the one hand, he uses his agent the way many people use AI: to help him research Isaacson’s podcast and prep for the kinds of questions he might be asked. On the other, his

Published on October 22, 2026 at 10:26 AM Tech Artificial intelligence Anthropic unveils Claude Duet, an AI agent that works for you like Muse (Meta) and Dots (OpenAI) AI at your service 3 min Nicolas Lellouche {"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.numerama.com\/#\/schema\/person\/e1c5c505bb96ef4588035c09ccaf93e2","name":"Nicolas Lellouche","url":"https:\/\/www.numerama.com\/author\/nicolaslellouche\/","description":"Fasc

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@alibabacloud-saAftershock: A Disaster Simulator for Evaluating the Coordination of a Qwen Agent SocietyTutorialAIDevelopersQwenAI Hackathon0Posted at 2026-11-09TAG40@@Award-winning project in the Global AI Hackathon Series (organized by Qwen Cloud) Project Overview A disaster occurs in a virtual city. Various missions unfold on the map: a flooded residential area, a collapsed school building with disaster victims trapped inside, a hospital whose generator

SoulAgent is the Academy’s “personal AI agent that understands you better the more you use it.” In educational settings, SoulAgent focuses on areas such as “Help Me Listen to Classes,” teacher AI avatars, essay grading, and teaching Q&A, exploring how AI can help teachers improve teaching efficiency and preserve teaching content while supporting students in understanding problems, broadening their perspectives, and continuing to think through feedback and

Xinzhiyuan reports Anthropic has another ace up its sleeve! History repeats itself: Claude's internal model cracks an 18-year-old bounty conjecture in quantum computing. In just three days, an unreleased Claude model solved theAaronson-Ambainis conjecture, which had remained unresolved since 2008! Netizens speculate that this internal model appears to be the unreleased model Claude Model 4. The theorem and corollary have been formalized in Lean, and the ex

Synced Report On August 17, programmers worldwide were forced to endure a collective outage. After writing the code and clicking Push, the progress bar spun in place; automated tests froze, pull requests couldn't be merged, and even the AI coding assistant Copilot went offline. The system remained stuck for more than seven hours, and that day, developers around the world waited for it to catch its breath. Three days later, GitHub Chief Technology Officer V

Xinzhiyuan reports Users pay tens—or even $200—a month to subscribe to Claude Code and hand their local terminal over to do the work, only for it to secretly insert your real login email address, name, and even the address of your company's internal code repository into the User-Agent request header in the background and send it to external websites! To cut corners, an Anthropic engineer secretly hard-coded the login email address into the system prompt fo