software development

Alibaba opens Qwen developer platform as it monetizes AI ecosystem

Alibaba Group Holding unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter multimodal AI model, marking a return to open-sourcing its top-tier models after keeping several recent flagship releases proprietary earlier this year. The company simultaneously introduced a revenue-sharing model for commercial users and opened…

OpenAI and rivals launch shared standard for AI agent plugins

OpenAI, Amazon Amazon.com, Inc., Microsoft, Cursor, and Vercel on Wednesday jointly published Agent Plugins, an open standard designed to let a single AI agent extension work across competing platforms — a move that signals the industry's competitive focus shifting from…

OpenAI open-sources Codex Security CLI for code scanning

OpenAI has released its Codex Security CLI as an open-source project, making the AI-powered security scanning tool freely available to developers under the Apache-2.0 license. The release, which OpenAI acknowledged on July 29 after users on Hacker News discovered the…

OpenAI says its AI agents surpass 10 million users

OpenAI's AI agent products have crossed 10 million active users, fueled by the launch of ChatGPT Work on July 9 and the integration of its Codex coding agent into a unified desktop application, according to reporting from The New Stack…

DeepSeek V4 nears full launch as Alibaba unveils Qwen 3.8

Two of China's most prominent AI labs are releasing flagship models within days of each other, sharpening a rivalry over pricing and performance that has reshaped the global AI landscape in 2026. DeepSeek is moving its V4 model family from…

Google’s Gemini 3.5 Pro delayed as model falls short

Alphabet's Google is months behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro, its most powerful flagship AI model, as the technology has fallen short of the company's internal expectations, according to a Bloomberg report published Thursday.

xAI open-sources Grok Build coding agent on GitHub

Elon Musk's AI company xAI released the source code of its Grok Build coding agent on Tuesday, making its terminal-based developer tool freely available on GitHub. The move comes amid a broader transparency push that includes Musk's pledge to open-source…

OpenAI launches Codex Micro, its first hardware product

OpenAI's first branded hardware product, the Codex Micro, arrives today — and it is not the consumer AI device the industry has been anticipating. The compact programmable macro pad, built in partnership with keyboard maker Work Louder, is designed for…

xAI’s Grok Build CLI caught uploading full repos and secrets to cloud

When xAI launched Grok Build in May 2026, the company pitched it as a "local-first" coding agent — one where "no source code is transmitted to xAI's servers," according to DevOps.com's coverage of the launch. A wire-level analysis published on…

OpenAI kills ChatGPT Atlas browser, folds it into new desktop super app

OpenAI is officially shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its standalone Chromium-based desktop browser, less than a year after its debut, as the company consolidates its desktop products into a single unified application.

Lovable reportedly seeks $300M at $13.2B valuation

Swedish vibe-coding startup Lovable is in talks to raise $300 million at a $13.2 billion post-money valuation, roughly doubling the $6.6 billion it achieved in its Series B round last December, according to a report by Sifted cited by multiple…

Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 tops Google’s revamped Android Bench

Google Alphabet Inc. on Tuesday rolled out a major update to Android Bench, its leaderboard for evaluating how well AI models handle real-world Android development tasks. The refresh adds eight new models to the rankings — headlined by Anthropic's Claude…

Ex-GitHub CEO launches distributed Git network for AI coding agents

Thomas Dohmke, the former chief executive of GitHub Microsoft Corporation, launched a preview on Wednesday of a distributed Git network built by his startup Entire, aiming to relieve the pressure that AI coding agents place on centralized code-hosting platforms.

Musk says xAI will release Grok 4.5 to public Thursday

Elon Musk announced on Tuesday that SpaceXAI will make Grok 4.5 available to the public on Thursday, July 9, marking the first major AI model to emerge from SpaceX's pending $60 billion acquisition of Cursor-maker Anysphere. Musk described the 1.5-trillion-parameter…

SpaceXAI, Cursor to launch jointly built AI model Wednesday

SpaceXAI and Cursor are poised to release their first jointly developed artificial intelligence model as soon as Wednesday, according to a memo sent to staff, as reported by The Information and confirmed by Reuters. The launch would mark a concrete…

Z.ai launches ZCode coding agent to rival Cursor

Z.ai, the Chinese AI lab formerly known as Zhipu AI, has released ZCode, a desktop coding agent powered by its GLM-5.2 model that aims to compete directly with Cursor, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot in the fast-growing AI-assisted development market.

Gartner warns AI coding costs will top developer salaries by 2028

Enterprise spending on AI coding tools is on track to exceed the average software developer's salary by 2028, according to a report published Tuesday by Gartner, as a shift toward consumption-based pricing and surging token usage upend corporate technology budgets.

Google adds screen-control tool to Gemini 3.5 Flash

Google Alphabet Inc. on Tuesday launched computer use as a built-in tool in Gemini 3.5 Flash, enabling developers to build AI agents that can see, reason about, and interact with screens across browser, mobile, and desktop environments. The capability, previously…

SpaceX to buy Cursor maker Anysphere for $60B

SpaceX announced on Tuesday that it will exercise its option to acquire Anysphere, the company behind the AI coding assistant Cursor, in a deal valued at $60 billion, according to Reuters. The acquisition, which SpaceX expects to close during the…

Apple opens Xcode 27 to Google’s Gemini AI models

Google Alphabet Inc. and Apple are deepening their AI collaboration with a suite of developer tools unveiled at WWDC 2026. Starting with preview releases available Monday, Apple developers can access cloud-hosted Gemini models through Apple's Foundation Models framework and use…

Apple unveils group subscriptions and bundles at WWDC 2026

Apple used the opening day of its Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday to announce a suite of new App Store capabilities aimed at helping developers grow subscription businesses, including group purchases, cross-developer bundles, and enterprise volume buying — changes that…