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The Pulse: a trend of trying to cut back on AI spend within eng departments?

Top-down and bottom-up efforts to rationalize AI token spend, interesting AI coding stats from Cursor, GCP suspends $2M/...

Pragmatic Engineer·1 min read

Claude Opus 4.8 is here. Is it as good as they say?

Watch now | 🎙️My first impressions of Opus 4.8—where it excels and where it falls short

Lenny's Newsletter·3 min read

‘Superbabies,’ Thiel Fellows and Holy Wars, With Orchid’s Noor Siddiqui

The Upstarts Podcast dives into a new, controversial category in reproductive health to kick off Season 2.

Upstarts Media·8 min read

How the community trained Gemma to "Think" with Tunix and TPUs

The Google Tunix Hackathon on Kaggle challenged developers to transform small, non-reasoning base models into general re...

Google Engineering·1 min read

Supercharge your integration workflow with the Google Pay & Wallet Developer MCP server

Google has announced the new Google Pay & Wallet Developer MCP server, an open-standard tool designed to securely connec...

Google Engineering·1 min read

OpenAI Codex Deserves Flowers, Preferably Delivered by a Passing Build Agent

A very positive SiliconSnark love letter to OpenAI Codex, the coding agent that turns software work into supervised para...

Siliconsnark.com·6 min read

Why Your AI Agent is a Black Box and How to fix it With OpenTelemetry 

You built the agent. It works in testing. Then it hits production and starts giving wrong answers, timing out or burning...

Devops.com·7 min read

Nano Banana 2 and Nano Banana Pro are now in General Availability

What's new? Google Cloud launched Nano Banana 2 and Nano Banana Pro images for scalable creation; they support 1k, 2k ou...

Testing Catalog·1 min read

Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.8 and new effort selector

What's new? Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 with coding, reasoning, agentic skill upgrades, and self-checks; Fast mod...

Testing Catalog·1 min read

The Future of Engineering 🔮 — with James Stanier

Watch now | Refactoring Podcast • Episode 64

Refactoring·2 min read

datasette 1.0a31

<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/datasette/releases/tag/1.0a31">datasette 1...

Simon Willison·1 min read

Strengthening societal resilience with Rosalind Biodefense

OpenAI launches Rosalind Biodefense, expanding trusted access to GPT-Rosalind for vetted developers and U.S. government ...

OpenAI Blog·1 min read

Anthropic's run-rate revenue hits $47 billion

<p>The most interesting thing about <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/series-h">Anthropic's $65B Series H ann...

Simon Willison·1 min read

From decentralized Docs-as-Code to a centralized repository: Evolving Grab's documentation strategy

Introduction: The journey of documentation at Grab In early 2021, Grab adopted a Docs-as-Code approach to address gaps i...

Grab Engineering·7 min read

I Stopped Writing Prompts and My AI Output Got 10x Better with Claude AI Skills

Most developers treat AI like a chatbot. I found something that works way better. Continue reading on Level Up Coding »

Level Up Coding·1 min read

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