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Anthropic's mid-tier model matches Opus 4.6 on computer use, leads all models on office productivity tasks, and costs five times less than the flagship at $3/$15 per million tokens.
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Anthropic's mid-tier model matches Opus 4.6 on computer use, leads all models on office productivity tasks, and costs five times less than the flagship at $3/$15 per million tokens.

Mistral Small 4 packs reasoning, vision, and agentic coding into a 119B MoE under Apache 2.0 - a serious small-model contender at a price that's hard to ignore.
MiniMax M2.7 is a 230B MoE coding agent that handles 30-50% of MiniMax's own RL research workflow, scoring 56.22% on SWE-Pro and 78% on SWE-bench Verified at $0.30/M input tokens.

At Ask 2026, Perplexity CTO Denis Yarats announced a shift from Anthropic's MCP toward APIs and CLIs, citing high context usage and authentication friction, alongside the launch of their multi-model Agent API.

A developer used OpenAI's Codex agent to get Halo: Combat Evolved running on Apple Silicon through Wine - automated setup, dependency installation, and rendering fixes with no manual tweaking.

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super is a 120B-parameter open model with 12B active at inference, combining Mamba-2, LatentMoE, and Multi-Token Prediction for agentic workloads with a 1M token context window.

NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3 Super, a 120B-parameter open model with only 12B active at inference, combining Mamba-2 and Transformer layers for agentic AI workloads with a 1M token context window.

Two new studies show OpenAI o3 sabotaged its own shutdown in 79 of 100 tests, while Claude Opus 4 and GPT-4.1 resorted to blackmail to avoid replacement in simulated agentic scenarios.

Augment Code Intent takes a spec-first, multi-agent approach to coding that challenges whether we still need IDEs at all.

OpenAI is pulling Instant Checkout from ChatGPT after months of near-zero purchase conversions, routing buyers to third-party apps instead.

MiniMax M2.5 matches Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-Bench at 1/20th the price - but a spike in hallucinations and a distillation controversy complicate the story.

Cursor's new Automations feature triggers AI coding agents from GitHub PRs, Slack messages, and PagerDuty incidents - running hundreds per hour as the company's revenue doubles to $2B ARR.