Google announced at I/O 2026 that Gemini CLI will stop serving requests for free and Pro/Ultra users on June 18. Consumer users must migrate to Antigravity CLI. Enterprise and API-key users are not affected.
Cursor released Composer 2.5 on May 18, built on Moonshot's Kimi K2.5 checkpoint with 85% of compute spent on Cursor's own post-training pipeline. It scores 63.2% on CursorBench v3.1, edging out both Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 at a fraction of the inference cost.
Gemini Spark launched at I/O 2026 as a proactive cloud agent that handles tasks across Gmail, Docs, and Slides while you're offline. The detail buried in the announcement: custom sub-agents and a local browser are coming. Here's what shipped.
Google AI Studio added native Android support at I/O 2026. Type a description, get Kotlin and Jetpack Compose code, preview in a browser emulator, and publish to Play Console's Internal Test Track with one click. Here's the launch.
Google added Managed Agents to the Gemini API today. A single API call provisions an agent with reasoning, tool use, and code execution inside an isolated Linux environment, powered by the Antigravity harness and Gemini 3.5 Flash.
Antigravity gets a full re-launch at Google I/O 2026. Standalone desktop app, new CLI, public SDK, dynamic subagents, scheduled background tasks, and a new $100 AI Ultra tier. Here's what shipped and what it changes.
Version 1.0.49 of the GitHub Copilot CLI adds a /rubber-duck command that prompts the agent to independently critique its own current work, plus /chronicle for searching session history, persistent memory controls, and Alpine Linux support.
The largest maintenance release in recent weeks adds /resume support so background sessions appear alongside interactive ones, per-session model switching, and a fix for the startup hang that could freeze Claude Code for 75 seconds behind a VPN or captive portal.
Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash today at I/O 2026. It posts 78% on SWE-Bench Verified, runs four times faster than other frontier models, and costs $0.50 input / $3 output per million tokens. Here's the launch in detail.
Anthropic acquired Stainless, the startup behind nearly every official Claude SDK and MCP server generator, in a deal valued at over $300 million. Hosted products are being shut down, leaving competitors like OpenAI and Google to find alternatives.
Two May 13 updates: JetBrains IDE users can now delegate tasks to a locally running Copilot CLI agent with worktree or workspace isolation, while a new REST API lets teams trigger cloud agent tasks programmatically.
The new Codex Chrome extension gives the agent access to browser tabs, DevTools, and signed-in web services — without requiring it to control your browser directly. Released May 7 for Codex Pro users on macOS and Windows.
OpenAI added Codex access to the ChatGPT iOS and Android apps on May 14. Your phone connects to a Codex session running on your Mac via QR code, letting you review outputs, approve commands, and start new tasks from anywhere.
xAI launched an early beta of Grok Build on May 15, a terminal-based agentic coding CLI powered by Grok 4.3. It's available now to SuperGrok Heavy subscribers at an introductory price, with plans for broader access.
Zed 1.2.4 adds a ChatGPT subscription provider so developers can sign in with a ChatGPT Plus or Pro account and use OpenAI models in the editor without per-token billing. Three patch releases shipped on May 15.
Claude Code 2.1.143 shipped May 15 with smarter plugin management — disable commands now block if dependencies exist and print the full disable chain — plus per-turn token cost projections in the plugin marketplace.
Roo Code — the open-source VS Code agent with 24K GitHub stars and 3 million installs — was archived on May 15. The team says IDEs aren't the future of coding, and has pivoted to Roomote, a Slack-native cloud agent.
Windsurf added Claude Opus 4.7 in fast mode to the editor on May 12, offering Opus-level intelligence at roughly 2.5x the output speed. A week earlier, version 2.2.17 extended Devin Review to all Pro, Max, and Teams subscribers with a two-week free trial.
GitHub's new native desktop app lets developers start agentic coding sessions directly from issues and pull requests, with each session running in an isolated branch and workspace. The app shipped v0.2.4 on May 15 with queued messages and collapsible tool-call panels.
Claude Code 2.1.142 landed May 14 with two headline changes: fast mode now defaults to Opus 4.7 instead of Opus 4.6, and the claude agents command gains eight new flags for configuring dispatched background sessions.
Cursor's newest releases let anyone in a Teams channel delegate coding tasks to a cloud agent by mentioning @Cursor, while a separate update brings Dockerfile-based multi-repo development environments with 70% faster cache builds and version history.
Gemini CLI v0.43.0-preview.0 ships an edit tool that modifies only the changed lines instead of rewriting full files, plus session export and import, an adaptive token calculator, and shell safety evaluations.
Claude Code 2.1.141 shipped May 13 with a new terminalSequence field in hook output for native OS notifications, ANTHROPIC_WORKSPACE_ID for workload identity federation, and one of the biggest bug fix batches in recent memory.
ESC
Start typing to search across tools, news articles, and reviews
No results found
Optional analytics and social embeds help us improve the site. It works fully without them.
Privacy
Privacy Settings
Choose which optional features you want to enable.
Your browser sent a global privacy opt-out signal. We respect that by default.
