They discovered that while most of the usage is for one-shot code snippets, more users are letting Claude Code work autonomously, up to 45 minutes at a time after three months.
Continue reading “Anthropic finds most agent use in software, with users interrupting often”
Our teams have been building with a 2.5x-faster version of Claude Opus 4.6.
We’re now making it available as an early experiment via Claude Code and our API.
— Claude (@claudeai) February 7, 2026
For «work like rapid iteration or live debugging» Anthropic is letting users go fast, by toggling «/fast» on their console.
The feature is available in a «limited research preview» in the API for paid users with «extra usage» enabled, and there is a waiting list to get on it.
It’s the same model with the same capabilities and there is no change other than the speed — and cost.
The price for using fast mode is $30 for input and $150 in output for a million tokens, but there is a 50% discount until February 16.
Read more: Details on Claude, launch post.
Agents can also verify their work, and «collaborate throughout the entire development cycle,» Apple says.
They can search documentation, update project settings and «explore file structures.» Additionally, users can track what the agents are doing in the sidebar and adjust progress.
It only takes a single click to switch between models and pick the one best suited for the task, MacRumors writes.
Although Apple has worked exclusively with Anthropic and OpenAI to implement the features, any agent can be used — so long as they are using the Model Context Protocol.
Read more: Apple’s release, writeups on MacRumors, Engadget.
—The goal for us, and Google, is to make enterprise vibe-coding a thing, Replit founder and CEO Amjad Masad said; — We want to show the world that these tools are actually going to transform businesses and how people work.
Under the new agreement, Replit will expand its Google Cloud use and «further integrate Google’s models into its platform,» Google writes on the deal.
Replit will gain access to all of the Gemini models, and the deal will «help enterprise customers embrace vibe coding.»
— Our mission is to enable the next billion software creators — from hobbyists to entrepreneurs to enterprises, Masad said.
Read more: Google’s announcement, writeup on CNBC.
Sora 2 expands, is now available without invite codes
Following the massive success of the Sora 2 video generator, OpenAI is opening up the service for those without invite codes in the USA, Canada, Japan and Korea «for a limited time.» Simultaneously, they are announcing reusable characters that can feature in more than one video and an easier way to stitch videos together. If that wasn’t enough, OpenAI is adding more video generations for power users hitting the 30-per-day generation limits and letting them pay for more gens. They are also musing about letting rightsholders get compensation for the reuse of their characters, as a means of getting paid for your work on the platform. They do warn that 30 gens needs too many GPUs and will be throttled at some stage.
More at: MacRumors and a Twitter announcement, list of available countries.
OpenAI reveals security research agent in beta
The new agent, Aardvark, will look through code repositories at scale almost like a human would, and find errors and exploits before the bad guys do. It will continually analyze your source code and find vulnerabilities. The agent has already been used to find «numerous» vulnerabilities in open source software, and OpenAI will provide pro bono scanning to «select, non-commercial» OSS systems. Aardvark is not being widely released, existing instead as a private beta inside OpenAI’s offices, kind of like Google’s CodeMender.
More at OpenAI’s announcement and ZDNet.
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Continue reading “Weekend roundup; expanded Sora, security research and the battle for India”
Nothing has been announced but a cryptic tweet promising «new ships,» which could mean anything from new models to new modalities:
Continue reading “OpenAI’s 2025 Dev Day with Altman livestream incoming”
That result would have given it first place if it were human, as the best college teams only solved eleven.
Google also participated with a custom Gemini 2.5 Deep Think and earned Gold status, solving 10 of the problems and finishing second, Google claims.
Continue reading “OpenAI tops ICPC coding contest for students, Google finished second”
Now, OpenAI is launching a custom, optimized version of GPT-5 for the Codex coding agent that they say is faster, more reliable and more steerable than before.
The deal will see Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen and a small team join Google’s DeepMind division.
Also licensing key tech
Further, Google will invest $2.4 billion in a non-exclusive deal to license Windsurf’s technology, reports Reuters, among others.
OpenAI had been in long-winding talks to buy the company, in its biggest deal yet, and many said it was just around the corner, as late as in May, 2025.
Continue reading “Google hires top execs, team from Windsurf — upending OpenAIs deal”
Codex is the latest coding agent from OpenAI that runs on a modified o3-model.
Super-coding agent
It can generate several instances of code from your prompts, and even run them in a sandbox to select the best/most efficient version.
OpenAI says it can complete tasks autonomously that would otherwise take hours or days to finish, and they are using it themselves to offload repetitive tasks.
The Plus membership for ChatGPT is $20 a month, and Codex launched as a «research preview» in May for Pro users, who fork out $200 a month.
Update: It appears Codex now also has Internet acccess, which is off by default and comes with a stern warning.
See also: teknotum on the Codex launch, and the announcement thread on X.
Both models produce near-instant responses to queries, but can turn to reasoning and thinking for more demanding requests.
World’s best on coding?
Anthropic claims Opus is «the world’s best coding model,» and it edges out Gemini 2.5 Pro, o3 and GTP 4.1 on SWE-bench Verified, but cannot surpass OpenAI’s o3 on certain PhD-level benchmarks, according to TechCrunch.
Continue reading “Anthropic claims world’s best coding AI with Claude 4 Opus and Sonnet”
OpenAI’s Agents Research Lead, Josh Tobin tells TechCrunch that the company wants software agents to complete tasks autonomously that would otherwise take hours or days to finish, in anything from one to thirty minutes, and OpenAI is already using the model to offload repetitive tasks.
Continue reading “OpenAI debuts Codex, an AI coding agent, further disrupting the software industry”
— I’d say maybe 20%, 30% of the code that is inside of our repos today and some of our projects are probably all written by software, said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during a conversation at LlamaCon, Meta’s AI developer conference, according to CNBC
Microsoft says they have made progress with Python, and less with C++ projects, but he is still pointing that some projects could be entirely written by AI.
Continue reading “Big Tech embraces AI coding, hitting 30% of software”
In a recent interview with Axios focusing mostly on security issues, Anthropic said «virtual employees» will be a step up from using mere «agents» on corporate networks.
This will be the next AI innovation, said Jason Clinton, the company’s chief of information security.
Whereas agents can focus on specific, programmable tasks, acts with some autonomy and of course require oversight, a «virtual employee» takes it a step further, with having their own memories and their own corporate accounts and passwords.
This is a major headache for cybersecurity, Clinton further explained, about oversight and hackability of the new employees.
Go read the full story here – at Axios, and check out Anthropics research on agents.
