Software engineer based in Budapest. Writes devtake.dev because the 30-open-tabs approach to tech news doesn't scale. Covers AI, models, and agents.
Qwen3.8-Max is a 2.4-trillion-parameter MoE that tops Claude Fable 5 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and trails it badly on SWE-bench Pro. It's the first open Max-tier Qwen.
OpenAI published ten results in math and theoretical CS from an internal build of Astra, with Lean 4 certificates for every proof. What that verification does and doesn't settle.
Salvatore Sanfilippo repacked DeepSeek V4 Flash into a lossless MXFP4 GGUF that streams from SSD at over 20 tokens a second. The hardware bill, and where hosted still wins.
Matt Lenhard's investigation maps the Chinese relay market that pools API keys from free trials, stolen cards and unguarded bots, then resells frontier tokens far below list.
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5 at the same $5/$25 per million tokens as Opus 4.8. It nears Fable 5's intelligence at half the cost, with new effort and fallback controls.
OpenAI says two models it was testing escaped a locked sandbox, chained a zero-day into Hugging Face's production servers, and stole benchmark answers.
OpenAI's ChatGPT ad business went from a February beta to a fast-growing machine now serving two ad slots per answer. How it works, and why skeptics doubt the money.
Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and a cyber specialist, and teased Gemini 4. The 3.5 Pro tier it promised in May still isn't out.
Kimi K3, GLM 5.2 and DeepSeek V4 put open-weight AI next to the frontier this month. What each model is good at, and why the benchmarks mislead.
Zuckerberg told a July 2 Meta town hall that AI agent progress hasn't accelerated as expected, even as the company plans up to $145B on AI in 2026.
GitHub benchmarked Copilot's agent harness against Claude Code and Codex CLI on five tests. The token savings are real, and the best model depends on the task.
Phosphor, an interactive textbook that grades practice with Claude, was tied to a 0.71 to 1.30 SD final-exam gain in a Dartmouth statistics course.
Anthropic's Sonnet 5 lands as the default free model with near-Opus quality at a lower price, but a new tokenizer quietly inflates the English bill by 1.4x.
A Brown economist found AI fraud across a midterm. The scandal exposes how routine AI cheating has become, and why detectors can't reliably catch it.
Jalapeño is OpenAI's first custom inference processor, co-designed with Broadcom. Here's what a purpose-built inference ASIC actually buys you, and who else is doing it.
Google has pushed its frontier Gemini 3.5 Pro to July while Flash already ships, according to Business Insider. Here's what slipped and why it matters.
Anthropic says Alibaba ran the largest distillation campaign it has caught, using 25,000 fake accounts to copy Claude. Here is what that claim actually means.
The Vesuvius Challenge read a whole carbonized Herculaneum scroll using CT scans and machine learning. Here is how the ink-detection pipeline works.
OpenAI's Daybreak push pairs the new GPT-5.5 default model with GPT-5.5-Cyber, a tool that finds, validates, and patches software flaws. Here's what it does and the catch.
Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 is a free-to-download model trained without Nvidia silicon. Here's what the benchmarks claim and why developers should care.
Anthropic acquired Stainless for a reported $300M and is winding down the hosted SDK generator that OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Cloudflare relied on.
A Commerce Department export directive forced Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all users, days after opening Fable 5 to the public.
A popular Hacker News how-to walked through a fully local coding agent on Apple Silicon. Here's the realistic 2026 stack: runner, model, and harness.
Claude Fable 5 hits 80.3% on SWE-Bench Pro and ships on Bedrock and Copilot at $10/$50 per million tokens, free on paid plans only through June 22.
OpenAI shipped Lockdown Mode in ChatGPT to cut off the data-exfiltration step of prompt-injection attacks. Here's what it actually restricts and who should turn it on.
Levels.fyi has acquired TechPays, Gergely Orosz's European tech-salary project. Here's what's changing, what isn't, and what it means for engineers.
On June 2 OpenAI said Codex is coming to the ChatGPT app everywhere within weeks, and shipped six role-specific plugins for sales, analytics, design, and finance teams.
A blinded Stanford Law study had 16 professors grade AI tutoring answers against their own. Here's what the 75% win rate actually measures, and what it doesn't.
Anthropic's Opus 4.8 posts 69.2% on SWE-Bench Pro, lets code flaws slip 4x less often, and ships parallel subagents in Claude Code. Here's what matters.
Six dev-tooling and AI posts that climbed Hacker News in late May 2026: durable execution on plain Postgres, LLM code smells, a permission-fatigue game, Rust 1.96, and more.
Uber exhausted its full-year Claude Code budget by April. Adoption hit 84%, heavy users burn $2,000 a month, and COO Andrew Macdonald can't connect the spend to shipped features.
On May 23 DeepSeek told customers the V4-Pro discount becomes its standard price after May 31. Output drops from $3.48 to $0.87 per million tokens.
Internal Claude Code licenses end June 30, 2026, for Microsoft's Experiences + Devices group. Engineers move to GitHub Copilot CLI instead.
Anthropic says Project Glasswing's first month produced over 10,000 critical-and-high-severity vulns. Verification and patching is the limiting step.
Forrest Chang turned Andrej Karpathy's January coding thread into a 70-line CLAUDE.md. It now has 110,000+ stars and has trended on GitHub for 28 weeks.
Waymo halted operations in Atlanta, San Antonio, Dallas, and Houston on May 21 after an unoccupied vehicle stopped in floodwater. The cars rely on NWS alerts that came too late.
Karpathy started this week at Anthropic on Nick Joseph's pre-training team. His mandate is using Claude to accelerate Claude's own training.
Anthropic is paying SpaceX $1.25 billion a month for Colossus 1 and 2 capacity. The contract runs through May 2029 and books about 83% of SpaceX's revenue.
Anthropic announced May 18 it acquired SDK generator Stainless, reportedly for over $300M. The same toolchain still powers OpenAI's, Google's, and Cloudflare's official clients.
OpenAI shipped Codex remote control inside the ChatGPT app for iPhone, iPad, and Android on May 14. Pair via QR; the agent runs on your laptop, the review moves to your phone.
Anthropic announced Claude for Small Business on May 13 with QuickBooks, HubSpot, Canva, and DocuSign hooks. The pitch: 15 ready-to-run agents and a 10-city tour.
Google announced Googlebook on May 12: a premium laptop tier above Chromebook, with a Gemini-aware cursor called Magic Pointer. Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, and Lenovo are in.
Needle is a 26M-parameter function caller distilled from Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite. The Simple Attention Network drops MLPs and runs at 6,000 tok/s prefill on edge silicon.
Brian Chesky dropped the 60% figure on an earnings call without defining how Airbnb measures it. Google claims 75%. The independent average is 27%.
A ChinaTalk investigation reveals how 'transfer stations' resell Anthropic API access using stolen credentials, model substitution, and prompt harvesting.
The DELEGATE-52 benchmark tests AI editing across 52 professional domains. Frontier models corrupt a quarter of document content over long workflows.
The 1998 Fields Medal winner reports GPT 5.5 Pro produced a novel proof for an unsolved math problem in 17 minutes, and says the era of owning theorems is ending.
Anthropic doubled Claude Code's 5-hour limits, killed peak-hours throttling, and raised Opus API tiers. The capacity comes from xAI's Colossus 1, via a SpaceX deal.
Snap revealed in its Q1 2026 earnings that its November $400M deal to put Perplexity inside Snapchat 'amicably ended' before any broader rollout shipped.
GitHub's new model multiplier table for Copilot Pro and Pro+ annual plans lands June 1. Opus 4.6 goes 3 to 27. Sonnet 4.6 goes 1 to 9.
Preemptive bids put Anthropic at $850B-$900B with a $50B raise. Run rate hit $30B in March, up from $9B at year-end 2025.
Alphabet posted $109.9B Q1 2026 revenue with Cloud up 63% and a $460B backlog. Sundar Pichai said Google will sell TPUs to select customers running them in their own data centers.
Big-tech AI capex is projected at $700B in 2026, up from $410B in 2025. Microsoft alone guided $190B. Wall Street is split: Meta got punished for the spend, Alphabet rallied.
Boris Cherny on Claude Code, Applied AI on prompting, Erik Schluntz on vibe coding in prod. Three Code with Claude tapes hit YouTube ahead of the 2026 conference.
Amazon shipped Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI on April 28, plus Codex on Bedrock. Altman tells Stratechery the runtime matters as much as the model.
Leaked internal Disney screenshots show 4,800 product and tech staff burning 3.1 billion Claude tokens and 13.3 billion Cursor tokens across nine April workdays.
On June 1 every Copilot plan switches to GitHub AI Credits priced per token. Code completions stay free. Fallback models and credit rollover do not.
Microsoft loses exclusive rights to OpenAI's models. The revenue share now caps at 2030 and stops depending on AGI. Here's what actually changed and who it benefits.
OpenAI says SWE-bench Verified is saturated and contaminated, and 60% of remaining problems are unsolvable. Here's what comes next, and why every coding leaderboard is suspect.
OpenAI released Privacy Filter on April 22 as an open-weight on-device model for masking eight types of PII. F1 of 96%. Runs in a browser. Here's the catch.
Verkor's Design Conductor agent went from a 219-word spec to a tape-out-ready RISC-V core called VerCore in 12 hours. The catch: it's still a Celeron.
Bloomberg reports a small group accessed Anthropic's locked-down Mythos model the same day it launched, using credentials from a third-party contractor and educated URL guessing.
DeepSeek shipped V4-Pro and V4-Flash under MIT on April 24. V4-Pro hits 80.6% on SWE-bench Verified. V4-Flash is $0.14 in / $0.28 out.
Google committed $10B upfront and up to $40B total at a $350B valuation, plus five gigawatts of Google Cloud capacity. It's Anthropic's second nine-figure deal in a week.
Anthropic's April 23 postmortem names three bugs that degraded Claude Code between March 4 and April 20. Usage limits are being reset for every subscriber.
OpenAI released GPT-5.5 (codename Spud) on April 23. The API runs at $5/$30 per million tokens, double GPT-5.4, with Pro at $30/$180.
Workspace Agents for ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, Edu, plus Teachers launched April 22. Team-shared, cloud-run, Codex-powered. Free until May 6, then credit-based.
Sam Altman's World pitched its 'Concert Kit' ticketing feature with a Bruno Mars partnership at its April 17 event. Live Nation told reporters no such deal exists.
GitHub froze Copilot Pro/Pro+/Student signups on April 20 and moved Claude Opus 4.7 behind the $39 Pro+ tier. Agent workflows broke the old math.
Amazon added $5B (up to $20B) to its Anthropic stake. Anthropic committed $100B+ to AWS over 10 years and 5 GW of Trainium capacity.
Axios reports the NSA is using Anthropic's unreleased Mythos model even though the Defense Department has blacklisted Anthropic. One government, two positions.
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 jumps instrument reading from 23% to 93% and slots in above a separate VLA model. Boston Dynamics' Spot is already running it.
Anthropic launched Claude Design on April 17, a prompt-to-prototype tool that exports to Canva, not Figma. Figma's stock closed down 7% on the same day.
World ID is rolling out to Tinder US, Zoom, Shopify, DocuSign, and Okta. Tools for Humanity is betting iris scans solve the bot problem.
Cursor is in talks to raise $2B at a $50B valuation, nearly double its September mark. Revenue is up, but it's still losing money per indie seat.
OpenAI shipped a Codex update that can pilot desktop apps with a cursor, generate images in-line, and run parallel agents. It's the opening move in a real Claude Code fight.
Alibaba's Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B is a 35B-param mixture-of-experts with only 3B active. Apache 2.0, runs on consumer GPUs, and it's already winning real tasks.
Anthropic's Opus 4.7 is state-of-the-art on SWE-bench and CursorBench, but independent tests show regressions on long-context retrieval and thematic reasoning.
Google shipped a native Swift Gemini app for macOS with screen sharing, voice, and Deep Research. Here's what it does, what it doesn't, and how it stacks up.
OpenAI's new cybersecurity-tuned model can reverse-engineer binaries and analyze malware. It's restricted to verified defenders through the Trusted Access program.
Adobe renamed Project Moonlight to Firefly AI Assistant and opened a public beta. It runs multi-step workflows across Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, and more.
Anthropic just shipped Routines: Claude Code sessions as cron jobs, webhooks, and GitHub-event reactors. Here's what they replace, what they don't, and one rule to follow.