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Anthropic's biggest 2026 update lands: Claude Opus 4.7 hits 87.6% SWE-Bench, plus Dreaming (self-improving agent memory), Outcomes (rubric-based auto-retry grader), and multiagent orchestration in the console. Google I/O's Antigravity 2.0 and WebMCP origin trial redefine browser-based agent workflows. Plus: Claude Code /usage breakdown, Cursor Composer 2.5's frontier-beating price, Windsurf's price hike and Devin bundle, and a tool that syncs MCP configs across all your coding agents. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.

Cursor shipped Composer 2.5 — its first in-house coding model — matching Claude Opus 4.7 benchmarks at a fraction of the price, and it signals a bigger independence play from the Anthropic ecosystem. We also cover the Google I/O developer drops that went beyond the headlines, Claude Code's new `/code-review` command, and a handy CLI for taming MCP config sprawl across multiple AI coding tools. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.

OpenAI open-sourced Symphony, a SPEC for orchestrating fleets of coding agents through your issue tracker — a simple but powerful architecture shift for teams hitting the multi-session ceiling. Cursor shipped Composer 2.5, built on Moonshot's open-weight Kimi K2.5 model and matching Opus 4.7 on SWE-Bench, plus a new Jira integration that brings Cursor into where enterprise teams already work. We also wrap up Google I/O developer details: Gemini 3.5 Flash is fast and available now, and the new Managed Agents API puts Google in the race for cloud-hosted agentic workflows. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.

Google I/O 2026 delivered: Firebase AI Logic hits general availability, Gemma 4 drops as an open-weight local model, and Firebase Studio enters the agentic coding race with MCP integration. Meanwhile, Anthropic's acquisition of Stainless officially closed — the SDK generation startup that OpenAI and Google both depend on. Plus: OpenAI's new Codex Spark text-only model just entered research preview. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.

Anthropic launches four new managed agent capabilities from their Code w/ Claude SF event — including Dreaming (agents that improve between runs), Outcomes (rubric-based self-revision), and multiagent orchestration — alongside Claude Code rate limits that just doubled. Windsurf makes GPT-5.1 its free default this week, and Hugging Face's open-source ml-intern agent (9.3k stars) autonomously trains ML models. Plus: Google I/O agentic coding preview for tomorrow. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.

Anthropic is splitting Claude subscriptions: starting June 15, programmatic usage via claude -p, GitHub Actions, and third-party agents moves to a separate credit pool billed at API list prices — and the math is steep. Also: Claude Code v2.1.143 ships strict plugin dependency enforcement and context cost estimates, and Google I/O's agentic coding keynote (Firebase Studio) lands Tuesday. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.

Claude Code 2.1.0 dropped with 1,096 commits — hooks now live inside agents and skills, forked context isolates skill execution, and /teleport sends your terminal session to the browser. Also: Hugging Face's ml-intern open-sources the ML post-training loop, and GPT-5.5 lands as the new default in Codex CLI. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.

Anthropic ships 10 open finance agent templates as Claude Code plugins — and the reference architecture is worth studying for any builder. Google's Chrome DevTools team drops an official MCP server letting coding agents inspect and control a live browser. Plus: why letting your agent click around a website costs 45x more than using the API directly, OpenAI's new default ChatGPT model (GPT-5.5 Instant), and xAI's new flagship Grok 4.3 with an explicit agentic tool-calling focus. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.

Cursor just shipped version 3 with a brand-new agentic interface and cloud VMs — but the old IDE isn't going anywhere. Plus: Anthropic's Code with Claude event revealed "Dreaming," a research-preview feature that lets Claude inspect its own sessions overnight and write its own playbooks. We also cover Claude Code Routines for CI auto-fix, the new `claude project purge` command, and Hugging Face's ml-intern — an open-source agent that does full ML pipeline work autonomously. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.

Anthropic's Code w/ Claude event delivered real developer features: Claude Code Routines enable async PR-filing agents, "Dreaming" lets managed agents learn from their own sessions overnight, and rate limits just doubled thanks to the new Colossus data center deal. Also: eight xAI Grok models are being retired on May 15 with barely two weeks notice — action required now. Plus Qwen3.6-27B hits 77.2% on SWE-bench as a 27B model you can run on a single GPU. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.