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Anthropic briefly pulled Claude Code from its $20 Pro plan — then reversed it after developer backlash. We break down what it signals about the future of flat-rate AI pricing. Plus: Hugging Face's new open-source ml-intern agent out-benchmarked Claude Code on scientific reasoning, Codestral 2 went Apache 2.0 (and why that matters more than the benchmarks), Google's A2A protocol hit v1.0 at 150 production orgs, and the Claude Code April changelog's 67% faster session resume. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.

Claude Opus 4.7's new tokenizer is quietly inflating agent costs by up to 35% — and task budgets are the fix. Plus: Google's Agent Development Kit hits stable v1.0 for Python with prompt-injection defenses, Cursor's BugBot now learns from your team's PR feedback, Roundtable MCP lets you run Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini in parallel with zero config, and the Chrome DevTools team ships an official MCP server for AI coding agents. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.

Cursor 3.2 ships async subagents and multi-root workspaces for true cross-repo parallel coding. Claude Opus 4.6's 1M context window is now fully GA with no price premium and 128K output tokens — and the benchmark gap over previous models is staggering. Hugging Face launches ml-intern, an open-source agent that autonomously trains other AI models end-to-end. Plus: OpenCode hits 147K GitHub stars and 6.5M monthly devs, and Docker joins the ACP coalition. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.

Google rebranded Vertex AI as the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform at Cloud Next 2026, introducing Agent Runtime, Memory Bank, and managed MCP servers for BigQuery, Maps, and more. The A2A protocol hits v1.2 with 150 orgs in production. Plus: the MCP spec now mandates OAuth 2.1 — what builders need to retrofit — and a Claude Code fix for large tool result truncation. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.

Claude Code v2.1.118 ships today with a game-changing MCP hooks update — tools can now fire directly from event hooks with no glue code required. Hugging Face releases ml-intern, an open-source AI agent that reads papers, trains models, and evaluates results end-to-end autonomously. Plus, Qwen-code hits 23.7k GitHub stars and v0.15.1, signaling that the open-source terminal agent race is very much on. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.

OpenAI's Codex update brings background computer use, 90+ plugins, memory, and a built-in browser to Mac — turning it from a coding assistant into a full desktop agent. Meanwhile, GitHub ships `gh skill`, a single CLI command to install and publish agent skills across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, and Copilot. Plus Cursor 3's Agents Window and Design Mode explained, Claude Code performance updates, and Google ADK hits 1.0 stable. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.

Cursor 3 ships a full agent-first interface with parallel cloud agents and a /best-of-n command for running the same task across multiple models simultaneously. Claude Code drops /ultrareview — a parallel multi-agent cloud code review — plus a native binary, Opus 4.7 xhigh effort, and PowerShell support for Windows. Meanwhile, Alibaba's Qwen3-Coder-Next gives local-first teams a serious open-source coding agent with native tool-calling. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.

Claude Code shipped three versions this week — /ultrareview brings parallel cloud agent code review, Opus 4.7 xhigh lands, and the CLI switches to a native binary. Meanwhile Cursor 3's new Agents Window reshapes multi-agent orchestration in the IDE, OpenAI expands Codex into computer use and automation, and a viral Hacker News thread argues LLM function calls don't scale. Plus Gemma 4 from Google hits Hugging Face. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.

Claude Code v2.1.113 ships a native binary that breaks Android/Alpine setups — plus new /ultrareview multi-agent code review and Opus 4.7 xhigh effort. Cursor 3.1 adds tiled parallel agents. Google's Gemma 4 launches as Apache 2.0 open source with 256K context and tops the open model leaderboard. And Alibaba's Qwen3-Coder-Next hits 70%+ on SWE-Bench with 10x throughput for local use. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.

Claude Code dropped three versions in 48 hours — highlights include the new /ultrareview cloud-based multi-agent code review, the /less-permission-prompts skill, and Opus 4.7's new xhigh effort level. GitHub also shipped `gh skill` in CLI v2.90.0, a new command for installing and managing portable agent skills across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Gemini. Plus: the ongoing reaction to Cursor 3's Agents Window, and Alibaba's Qwen Code as a credible open-source terminal agent alternative. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.