OpenAI shipped two Codex CLI releases this week. Version 0.148 adds session forking and Markdown export. Version 0.149 adds an interactive agents dashboard and working directory commands.
Claude Code 2.1.239, released August 22, adds accurate cost estimates for data-residency workspaces, a one-command Python SDK migration tool, and native clipboard and image paste on Alpine Linux.
Anthropic is preparing to publicly file its S-1 with the SEC as soon as the end of August, sources say. The company's last private valuation was $965 billion. An October Nasdaq listing is the target.
Claude Academy makes Anthropic's employee onboarding curriculum public: structured courses, real-world tutorials, and a 4D AI Fluency Framework available to anyone at academy.claude.com.
The four features move out of beta and into general availability on the Claude Platform on August 20, with batch multi-action turns, HIPAA eligibility, 5x higher Files API rate limits, and 1 TB storage per organization.
Slack Code brings dedicated project channels where Claude Code, Devin, GitHub Copilot, and Vercel's agent do the work while your whole team watches, steers, and approves it.
Two updates this month bring persistent memory across agent chats, local model support via Ollama, and centralized admin controls for plugins, MCP servers, and permission modes in JetBrains IDEs.
Today's release patches unbounded memory growth that hit users with long interactive sessions, adds graceful shutdown and proxy auth options for self-hosted runners, and brings keybinding customization.
Microsoft's August release pulls autonomous agent work out of the extension host and into its own process, while also adding grouped side-by-side chats, a prompt timeline gutter, and in-conversation search.
Zed ships 1.16.1 as stable with Gemini 3.6 Flash and Mermaid improvements, while the 1.17.0 preview adds sortable tabular data previews for CSV and TSV files, selective git stashing, and lower memory use for large files.
Two weeks after closing the SpaceX acquisition, Cursor rolls out Origin — a git forge with repos, PRs, and GitHub sync — alongside cloud agents that subscribe to events and hold long-running goals.
Versions 2.1.234 through 2.1.237 land between August 17-20, adding a Concise output style, ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_MODEL, a GitLab MR statusline badge, spellcheck, and cross-session idle notifications.
Codex CLI's latest update ships portable agent plugins with searchable catalogs, Amazon Bedrock endpoints, stable multi-agent orchestration, and an --approve-for-me flag for hands-off workflows.
Z.ai's new open-weight model hit 84.5% on CyberGym and 54.4% on ExploitBench, and has already identified a serious security flaw in the Cursor code editor.
Microsoft's latest release decouples AI agents from the editor, publishes the Agent Host Protocol under MIT, and lets Claude users skip GitHub authentication entirely.
Two new models landed in GitHub Copilot this week: Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI at $3 per million tokens, and MAI-Code-1.1-Flash, Microsoft's own code model with native image understanding. Agent Plugins 1.0 also went generally available.
The AI code review startup closed a $143M Series C at a $1.5B valuation, less than a year after its Series B. Revenue grew more than 5x. The new funding comes with a new product aimed at governing code from both humans and AI agents.
The new entry-level model outpaces Claude Sonnet 5 and GPT-5.6 Terra on several tests, ships at $0.75 per million input tokens through year-end, and powers Google's Gemini Spark agent.
Cursor's new Builds feature pre-bakes development environments so cloud agents start instantly instead of spending minutes on setup. Ships as default on August 17.
The Zed 1.16.0 preview adds Google's Gemini 3.6 Flash model, zooming and horizontal scrolling for Mermaid diagrams, and a new setting to control whether the terminal panel opens automatically.
Anthropic is negotiating to buy Israeli startup Decart, which makes software that cuts the cost of running AI on chips. The deal would be Anthropic's largest acquisition to date.
The maker of Devin and Windsurf is reportedly negotiating a new funding round at a valuation exceeding $40 billion, with annualized revenue approaching $1 billion.
Kitesurf is a stateless, Workers-native browser that skips everything a human browser needs — tabs, themes, extensions — and focuses on what agents actually need: fast HTML extraction, screenshots, and low memory overhead.
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