Agents

Claude Code 2.1.284 starts interactive terminal and VS Code sessions in auto mode on every plan and provider, extending a default that began on Pro, Max and Team plans.

At DevDay, OpenAI added a $500-a-month Pro 500 plan with an Ultrafast Codex speed tier and will cut the $200 Pro plan's Codex usage from 20x to 10x the Plus allowance from October 30.

The Devin AI-coding startup hit $1B in annualized revenue run rate, weeks after a $2B Series E valued it at $48B.

OpenAI's new Agents API, in public beta, turns the managed harness behind Codex into infrastructure any developer can build custom AI agents on, drawing mixed analyst reaction.

Anthropic added CarPlay integration to its Claude iOS app, letting drivers hold hands-free voice conversations, following ChatGPT, Perplexity, Grok, and Meta AI.

Anthropic opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard, letting AI agents read and write to lab and factory hardware through standardized drivers, cutting integration from weeks to hours in early tests.

A new benchmark testing seven LLMs on real multi-round GitHub code reviews finds accuracy drops sharply as review rounds increase, exposing weak memory across rounds.

AWS open-sourced Kiro Crew, an agent-orchestration tool already used internally at Amazon by more than 39,000 developers, under an Apache 2.0 license.

EvoHarness-RL trains Qwen3-8B to hit 96.9% on ALFWorld, edging out Claude Opus 4.5's 96.4% baseline by rethinking agent memory and state.

A new study finds that curating just 10% of AI coding-agent training trajectories outperforms training on the full dataset, with gains up to 24.2%.

A new preprint tests a multi-agent LLM refactoring pipeline on 450 Java files, cutting code smells up to 73% while flagging that assertions and public methods are sometimes silently removed.

Diagrid's Catalyst 2.0 adds Dapr-based cryptographic attestation and automatic failure recovery for AI agents across ten frameworks, including LangGraph and Microsoft Agent Framework.