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Copilot goes cheap as Microsoft phases out OpenAI and Anthropic models to cut costs
Microsoft is replacing AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic with its own in-house versions across several Copilot products, including Excel and Outlook.…
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Zhipu AI launches ZCode to challenge Claude Code and OpenAI Codex at a fraction of the cost
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Claude Code and Fable 5 ported the 2003 PC game Command & Conquer to native iOS in “a few hours”
2d ago
sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25)
3d ago
Open-source tool pxpipe hides text in PNGs to cut Claude Code and Fable 5 token costs up to 70%
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Porting the Moebius 0.2B image inpainting model to run in the browser with Claude Code
This morning I ported the Moebius 0.2B image inpainting model to run in a…
23 Jun 2026
xAI Launches /goal in Grok Build, Adding Long-Running Autonomous Execution With Built-In Verification for Multi-Step Coding Tasks
xAI shipped a new mode called /goal inside Grok Build, its terminal coding agent.…
22 Jun 2026
The AI world is getting ‘loopy’
On Friday, Claude Code creator Boris Cherny made an appearance at Meta’s @Scale conference…
22 Jun 2026
Google makes Interactions API the default interface for Gemini models and agents
Google DeepMind has officially designated the Interactions API as the default interface for Gemini…
22 Jun 2026
Cisco AI Introduces FAPO: Pipeline-Aware Prompt Optimization With Step-Level Failure Attribution and Claude Code Orchestration
Getting prompts right is still the hardest part of shipping reliable LLM applications. Small…
20 Jun 2026
Anthropic brings Artifacts to Claude Code, letting teams share live pages from coding sessions
Anthropic has extended its Artifacts feature to Claude Code, enabling development teams to share…
18 Jun 2026
Google’s Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer joins OpenAI after two-year return stint
Noam Shazeer, the co-lead behind Google’s Gemini models and a co-author of the seminal…
18 Jun 2026
Getting more from each token: How Copilot improves context handling and model routing
For makers and artists relying on AI to build their craft, efficiency is no…
17 Jun 2026
Google bets on Gemini to reinvent the smart home speaker
For makers and artists, the arrival of the new Google Home Speaker signals a…
17 Jun 2026