Meshy completed the setup and reskinning of a claw machine game within a single Hermes Agent conversation: Meshy generated all 12 game assets, Claude Code built the game around those assets, and each replay round swaps the entire art style, in order: plush, gummy, and pixel art. One game with three art styles, no manual modeling required.
In Coding Agent Index v2.0, Artificial Analysis benchmarked GitHub Copilot's Copilot Fusion, which costs $5.59 per task, compared with $11.42 for Claude Code with Opus 5.5 (max), while performing only 2 points lower. Copilot Fusion is a runtime orchestration system that selects and coordinates among Anthropic and OpenAI models such as Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5, GPT-6 Astra, and GPT-6 Sol. It leads on Terminal-Bench 4.0 with a score of 71, ranks third on FrontierCode with 51 points, and uses 7.2M tokens per task, about half that of Opus 5.5 in Claude Code.
In Coding Agent Index v2.0, Artificial Analysis benchmarked GitHub Copilot's Copilot Fusion, which costs $5.59 per task, compared with $11.42 for Claude Code with Opus 5.5 (max), while performing only 2 points lower. Copilot Fusion is a runtime orchestration system that selects and coordinates among Anthropic and OpenAI models such as Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5, GPT-6 Astra, and GPT-6 Sol. It leads on Terminal-Bench 4.0 with a score of 71, ranks third on FrontierCode with 51 points, and
Artificial Analysis evaluations show that Google's Gemini 4 Carbon tops Intelligence Index v5 with 59 points, ranking first in four of the 9 evaluations: HLE-Diamond, Terminal-Bench-Science, AA-Omniscience, and AutomationBench-AA. On the Coding Agent Index, Gemini 4 Carbon (high) paired with Antigravity CLI scores 59 points, 3 points behind Claude Code paired with Claude Opus 5.5 (max, 62 points). The model is currently available only to some users and has not yet been publicly released; it is priced at $4/$20 per 1M input/output tokens with a 50% discount, has a 1M-token context window, and supports text, image, video, and voice input.
n tops Intelligence Index v5 with 59 points, ranking first in four of the 9 evaluations: HLE-Diamond, Terminal-Bench-Science, AA-Omniscience, and AutomationBench-AA. On the Coding Agent Index, Gemini 4 Carbon (high) paired with Antigravity CLI scores 59 points, 3 points behind Claude Code paired with Claude Opus 5.5 (max, 62 points). The model is currently available only to some users and has not yet been publicly released; it is priced at $4/$20 per 1M input/output tokens with a 50% discount, h
Arena.ai says Gemini 4 Carbon pushes the Pareto frontier. The post it cites points out that Google DeepMind's Gemini 4 Carbon (High) has entered the Pareto frontier in Agent Arena, Code Arena: WebDev, and Text Arena; in Agent Arena it ranks #2, with a net improvement of +16.2% and a median cost per task of $1.80, 72% lower than #1 Claude Opus 5.5 (Max).
Arena.ai says Gemini 4 Carbon pushes the Pareto frontier. The post it cites points out that Google DeepMind's Gemini 4 Carbon (High) has entered the Pareto frontier in Agent Arena, Code Arena: WebDev, and Text Arena; in Agent Arena it ranks 2, with a net improvement of +16.2% and a median cost per task of $1.80, 72% lower than 1 Claude Opus 5.5 (Max).
Dowson Tong, Senior Executive Vice President of Tencent Group, announced at the 2026 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit that the official version of the Hunyuan large model Hy4 will be released soon. Compared with the Hy4 Preview open-sourced on August 28, it is comprehensively upgraded, strengthens long-horizon tasks and real productivity task capabilities, significantly improves chain-of-thought efficiency, and adds visual understanding for the first time; Hy4 Flash, which focuses on cost-effectiveness, will also be launched soon. Tencent also released the cross-application AI collaboration system Buddy One and Tencent Drive for the Agent era, and upgraded Agent Runtime, making systematic enhancements around context management, tool calling, secure sandboxes, observability, and evaluation. Dowson Tong also disclosed that over the past year, the number of active overseas customers of Tencent Cloud grew about threefold, and overseas AI demand achieved triple-digit growth.
Hy4 Flash, which focuses on cost-effectiveness, will also be launched soon. Tencent also released the cross-application AI collaboration system Buddy One and Tencent Drive for the Agent era, and upgraded Agent Runtime, making systematic enhancements around context management, tool calling, secure sandboxes, observability, and evaluation. Dowson Tong also disclosed that over the past year, the number of active overseas customers of Tencent Cloud grew about threefold, and overseas AI demand achiev
GitHub said in its Octoverse report on October 28 that Pull Requests merged over the past twelve months reached 1.3 billion, averaging 3.5 million per day, three times the figure for the same period last year. More than 40% of Pull Requests begin with an agent-drafted opening, compared with 17% in March 2026; projects containing an AGENTS.md file receive eight times as many commits as projects without such a file. TypeScript and Python each have about 13 million monthly contributors, tying as the most popular languages, with JavaScript close behind at 7.4 million; platform users grew to 225 million, with Germany ranking eighth at 6.3 million.
over the past twelve months reached 1.3 billion, averaging 3.5 million per day, three times the figure for the same period last year. More than 40% of Pull Requests begin with an agent-drafted opening, compared with 17% in March 2026; projects containing an AGENTS.md file receive eight times as many commits as projects without such a file. TypeScript and Python each have about 13 million monthly contributors, tying as the most popular languages, with JavaScript close behind at 7.4 million; plat
heise online's iX workshop "Programming More Efficiently with AI Assistants" uses GitHub Copilot as an example to guide developers through practicing prompt techniques, Spec-Driven Development and Agentic Coding, and to distinguish Vibe Coding. The course also introduces the architecture, features and pricing of Cursor, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex and Kilocode, and explains how MCP and RAG connect to external tools and your own data. The workshop takes place online on December 15–16, 2026, and is led by Rainer Stropek.
workshop "Programming More Efficiently with AI Assistants" uses GitHub Copilot as an example to guide developers through practicing prompt techniques, Spec-Driven Development and Agentic Coding, and to distinguish Vibe Coding. The course also introduces the architecture, features and pricing of Cursor, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex and Kilocode, and explains how MCP and RAG connect to external tools and your own data. The workshop takes place online on December 15–16, 2026, and is led by Rainer Str
GitHub released Copilot Fusion at the Universe conference; the system automatically selects and orchestrates the models used for coding tasks, and it is now generally available. GitHub says Fusion Max scores 60 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, less than 2 points behind Claude Code using Opus 5.5 Max, while its average API cost is about half of the latter and its time per task is about 40% lower. Developers only need to choose among three investment levels—Fusion Standard, High, and Max—and enterprise administrators can restrict which models are available and set whether it is the default.
stem automatically selects and orchestrates the models used for coding tasks, and it is now generally available. GitHub says Fusion Max scores 60 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, less than 2 points behind Claude Code using Opus 5.5 Max, while its average API cost is about half of the latter and its time per task is about 40% lower. Developers only need to choose among three investment levels—Fusion Standard, High, and Max—and enterprise administrators can restrict which models are
At the Android Dev Summit, Google announced that Android Studio and the Android CLI are open to third-party coding agents. Bring Your Own Agent now supports more than 40 agents that follow the Agent Client Protocol, including Claude Agent, Codex, and Google's own Antigravity, and has become stable in Android Studio Rabbit 2. The new android preview command lets agents render Jetpack Compose previews in the terminal; Google says it completes UI tasks 77% faster and reduces token usage by up to three times, but did not explain how this was measured. Meanwhile, android device remote lets agents access physical devices in Google's lab. In the demo, Claude Code used LeakCanary to troubleshoot a memory leak and then fixed and retested it on its own; Google says such investigations are nearly twice as fast and use up to 25% fewer tokens. Google also launched Android Bench 2.0 to evaluate how models and agents perform on complex Android tasks.
At the Android Dev Summit, Google announced that Android Studio and the Android CLI are open to third-party coding agents. Bring Your Own Agent now supports more than 40 agents that follow the Agent Client Protocol, including Claude Agent, Codex, and Google's own Antigravity, and has become stable in Android Studio Rabbit 2. The new android preview command lets agents render Jetpack Compose previews in the terminal; Google says it completes UI tasks 77% faster and reduces token usage by up to th
Microsoft's revenue in the first quarter of fiscal year 2027 grew 19% year over year to $92.28 billion, with earnings per share of $4.89, both exceeding Wall Street expectations, and the stock rose about 4% after hours. For the first time, the company separately disclosed Azure revenue of $33.17 billion, up more than 48% year over year, and changed its financial reporting to two major segments, Agents and Infra and Devices and Consumer, with the former generating $76.8 billion in revenue, up 25%. Capital expenditures and finance leases totaled $45.2 billion this quarter, of which CFO Amy Hood said about 75% was invested in short-lived assets such as GPUs and CPUs, and she expects Azure to grow 49% to 50% in constant currency in the second fiscal quarter.
. For the first time, the company separately disclosed Azure revenue of $33.17 billion, up more than 48% year over year, and changed its financial reporting to two major segments, Agents and Infra and Devices and Consumer, with the former generating $76.8 billion in revenue, up 25%. Capital expenditures and finance leases totaled $45.2 billion this quarter, of which CFO Amy Hood said about 75% was invested in short-lived assets such as GPUs and CPUs, and she expects Azure to grow 49% to 50% in c
Dowson Tong, Senior Executive Vice President of Tencent Group, described WorkBuddy as a personal Agent for the office track and said Tencent is connecting multiple products for AI agents. WorkBuddy was launched in March this year and competes in the same track as ByteDance's Doubao Work and Alibaba's Qwen Office, and its token consumption has already surpassed Tencent's chatbot Yuanbao. WorkBuddy originated from Tencent Cloud's developer tools team and nearly got cut around 2022 when Tencent was cutting costs and improving efficiency.
Dowson Tong, Senior Executive Vice President of Tencent Group, described WorkBuddy as a personal Agent for the office track and said Tencent is connecting multiple products for AI agents. WorkBuddy was launched in March this year and competes in the same track as ByteDance's Doubao Work and Alibaba's Qwen Office, and its token consumption has already surpassed Tencent's chatbot Yuanbao. WorkBuddy originated from Tencent Cloud's developer tools team and nearly got cut around 2022 when Tencent was
At the OpenAI DevDay Exchange 2026 in Berlin, OpenAI said that after talks with regulators, its AI assistant Dots is expected to open more broadly in Europe "within a few weeks"; individual Pro accounts in the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the UK still cannot use it. Weekly active Codex users in Germany have grown twentyfold since January 2026, and nearly one in five desktop users use skills to handle documents, presentations and spreadsheets. OpenAI runs its own agent infrastructure through the Agents API and, with 1.2 billion weekly active ChatGPT users as its entry point, is pushing developers to build their businesses on its platform.
"within a few weeks"; individual Pro accounts in the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the UK still cannot use it. Weekly active Codex users in Germany have grown twentyfold since January 2026, and nearly one in five desktop users use skills to handle documents, presentations and spreadsheets. OpenAI runs its own agent infrastructure through the Agents API and, with 1.2 billion weekly active ChatGPT users as its entry point, is pushing developers to build their businesses on its platform.
Based on 20,869 traces from Agent Arena: Code, Arena compared the user complaint signals for five top-tier models from Anthropic and OpenAI against other agents, and found that frontier models differ most noticeably along three dimensions. Complaints about failure-repair loops were 6.9 percentage points lower, and complaints about ignoring project context were 1.9 percentage points lower; complaints about design issues were 6.4 percentage points lower, and complaints about producing usable results were 5.8 percentage points lower. Complaints about instruction following, task completion, and breaking existing code were 5.6, 4.9, and 4.5 percentage points lower, respectively.
Based on 20,869 traces from Agent Arena: Code, Arena compared the user complaint signals for five top-tier models from Anthropic and OpenAI against other agents, and found that frontier models differ most noticeably along three dimensions. Complaints about failure-repair loops were 6.9 percentage points lower, and complaints about ignoring project context were 1.9 percentage points lower; complaints about design issues were 6.4 percentage points lower, and complaints about producing usable resul
NVIDIA has released the open-weight speech transcription model Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, with 30B total parameters and 4B activated parameters. On Artificial Analysis's non-streaming speech transcription leaderboard, it achieves a 2.8% AA-WER, tying for first among open-source models with Mistral's Voxtral Small. On the speech agent dialogue dataset AA-AgentTalk, it leads Voxtral Small's 2.3% with 1.8%. Its activated parameters are 4B, while Voxtral Small's are 24B; other open-source models of comparable scale have a WER of about 4%.
eech transcription model Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, with 30B total parameters and 4B activated parameters. On Artificial Analysis's non-streaming speech transcription leaderboard, it achieves a 2.8% AA-WER, tying for first among open-source models with Mistral's Voxtral Small. On the speech agent dialogue dataset AA-AgentTalk, it leads Voxtral Small's 2.3% with 1.8%. Its activated parameters are 4B, while Voxtral Small's are 24B; other open-source models of comparable scale have a WER of about 4%.
Tipster pdfu found 5 Dynamic Island visual assets in the newly added MenuBarAgent in macOS 27; some system compact views are already provided with the system, which may confirm that the next-generation MacBook Pro will replace the notch with Dynamic Island. Siri AI is expected to expand from Dynamic Island in a droplet-shaped design, and Bloomberg says the new models are priced $400 higher than existing products.
YC Labs, in collaboration with Olam Labs, conducted multi-agent experiments in Minecraft and Mindustry, and open-sourced a self-built Minecraft agent harness (github.com/yc-software/minecraft-agent-harness). In the Civ50 experiment, 50 GPT-6.1 Sol agents ran for 3 hours in a survival world with the goal of building a prosperous civilization, sending a total of about 5,900 messages and spontaneously forming a hierarchy based on directory order, a rationing ledger, and written rules; 22 of the 34 deaths on the first night occurred, after which the agents clearly tended toward risk avoidance. The experiment also recorded collaboration details such as fishing division of labor and a food rationing ledger.
YC Labs, in collaboration with Olam Labs, conducted multi-agent experiments in Minecraft and Mindustry, and open-sourced a self-built Minecraft agent harness (github.com/yc-software/minecraft-agent-harness). In the Civ50 experiment, 50 GPT-6.1 Sol agents ran for 3 hours in a survival world with the goal of building a prosperous civilization, sending a total of about 5,900 messages and spontaneously forming a hierarchy based on directory order, a rationing ledger, and written rules; 22 of the 34
OpenAI product lead Tibo announced that usage limits for the Pro 100, Pro 200, Pro 500, and Business Premium plans have all been doubled, and that the quota reduction for Pro 200 has been withdrawn; Pro 500 can get usage equivalent to 50 times that of Plus. The article notes that this falls on day 25 of OpenAI's 28-day improvement plan, and some Pro 200 users believe it merely cancels a planned reduction rather than adding new benefits. The article also reviews the hidden token consumption caused by backend sub-agent status summaries in Codex and Claude Code; an Anthropic engineer said that agent_summary, at API list prices, accounts for about 2% of total cost, and that the issue of missed prompt caching has been fixed in Claude Code 2.1.311 and later versions.
otes that this falls on day 25 of OpenAI's 28-day improvement plan, and some Pro 200 users believe it merely cancels a planned reduction rather than adding new benefits. The article also reviews the hidden token consumption caused by backend sub-agent status summaries in Codex and Claude Code; an Anthropic engineer said that agent summary, at API list prices, accounts for about 2% of total cost, and that the issue of missed prompt caching has been fixed in Claude Code 2.1.311 and later versions.
Japanese semiconductor package substrate manufacturer Ibiden plans to invest 1.28 trillion won to expand production capacity for high-performance CPU package substrates used in AI servers, with new equipment to be phased into operation starting in fiscal year 2029. Ibiden expects demand for CPU substrates to continue rising as AI inference workloads grow and agentic AI becomes more widespread. In the first half of fiscal year 2026, its revenue was 262.546 billion yen and operating profit was 60.116 billion yen, up 34.3% and 84.6% year-on-year, respectively.
ans to invest 1.28 trillion won to expand production capacity for high-performance CPU package substrates used in AI servers, with new equipment to be phased into operation starting in fiscal year 2029. Ibiden expects demand for CPU substrates to continue rising as AI inference workloads grow and agentic AI becomes more widespread. In the first half of fiscal year 2026, its revenue was 262.546 billion yen and operating profit was 60.116 billion yen, up 34.3% and 84.6% year-on-year, respectively.
Hangzhou Lingyan Technology has completed tens of millions of yuan in Seed and Seed+ round financing. The Seed round was invested by Yingdong Capital and Zhejiang Torch Center, and the Seed+ round was invested by Yida Capital, Plum Ventures, and Linglu Capital. The funds will be used for product iteration, core component R&D, algorithm platform development, and team expansion. Its core product FaceSoul Agent adopts a cable-driven solution, has achieved 32 facial degrees of freedom, and controls interaction latency within 10 milliseconds. A 46-degree-of-freedom version is planned for launch by the end of the year. The product has not yet been officially released, but on the B-end it has already gained favor with Hangzhou Tourism, a leading communications company, and multiple chain coffee brands.
Plum Ventures, and Linglu Capital. The funds will be used for product iteration, core component R&D, algorithm platform development, and team expansion. Its core product FaceSoul Agent adopts a cable-driven solution, has achieved 32 facial degrees of freedom, and controls interaction latency within 10 milliseconds. A 46-degree-of-freedom version is planned for launch by the end of the year. The product has not yet been officially released, but on the B-end it has already gained favor with Hangz
DeepBlue Technology has launched Wowoker, the world's first large-model AI agent work phone, aimed at enterprise users such as government and enterprise organizations, state-owned and central enterprises, and financial institutions. Built on Huawei Kirin chips and HarmonyOS, the device integrates multimodal large models, a Decision Model, and the AgentOS agent orchestration system, and supports AI outbound calling, voice-cloned call avatars, AI marketing content generation, and intelligent CRM. Device assets belong to the enterprise, and it supports phone number masking, encrypted retention of communication data in the cloud, and remote locking and data wiping.
DeepBlue Technology has launched Wowoker, the world's first large-model AI agent work phone, aimed at enterprise users such as government and enterprise organizations, state-owned and central enterprises, and financial institutions. Built on Huawei Kirin chips and HarmonyOS, the device integrates multimodal large models, a Decision Model, and the AgentOS agent orchestration system, and supports AI outbound calling, voice-cloned call avatars, AI marketing content generation, and intelligent CRM.