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Cursor 3 ships an Agents Window that turns your IDE into an agent command center with parallel worktrees and Design Mode. OpenAI Codex adds computer use, an in-app browser, and image generation to its Mac app. Windsurf 2.0 embeds Devin cloud agents directly in the editor, Claude Code hits 30+ releases with 1M-token context for Opus 4.6, and MCP crosses 97 million installs under the Linux Foundation. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.

Claude Code shipped six updates in three days — we break down what actually changed: full-screen TUI mode, 1-hour prompt caching, session recap, and PreCompact hooks. Plus: Alibaba's Qwen3.6-Plus just dropped with native tool-calling baked in and a 1M context window, and it's free on OpenRouter. We also cover the Chrome DevTools MCP that gives your AI agent live browser control, and why MCP moving under the Linux Foundation matters for builders. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily

Claude Code 2.1.108 ships a session recap feature and 1-hour prompt caching. Cursor 3 rebuilds the IDE around parallel agents with a /best-of-n command that runs tasks across multiple models simultaneously. Windsurf Wave 13 gives away its SWE-1.5 model for free. Plus: the AI coding tool stack is converging faster than anyone planned, and Claude Haiku 3 retires in four days — act now if you're on the API. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.

Claude Code v2.1.105 dropped yesterday with worktree management fixes and new plugin hooks — Alex and Jules break down why the small changes matter for agentic workflows. Plus: the Agent Skills (SKILL.md) standard is now compatible with 12+ AI coding tools, MCP crossed 97 million installs, Cursor 3 is redesigning around agent-first workflows, and the open source model race heats up with Llama 4 Scout and Qwen3-72B beating GPT-4o on benchmarks. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.

Cursor 3 rebuilds the IDE around parallel agents with a new Agents Window, Design Mode, and cloud-local handoffs. Google drops Gemma 4 — a 31B open model with multimodal support that outperforms models ten times its size under an Apache 2.0 license. Plus: Microsoft unifies Semantic Kernel and AutoGen into Agent Framework 1.0, Claude Code quietly changes its default effort level to HIGH, and Anthropic launches Project Glasswing — an AI-powered vulnerability hunting initiative backed by $100M and every major tech company. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.

Claude Code drops version 2.1.101 with team onboarding commands, cloud-auto-provisioned ultraplan, and voice mode. MCP hits 97 million installs and moves to the Linux Foundation as an industry standard. Cursor 3 ships parallel agent execution and an 80% Bugbot resolution rate. Plus: Haiku 3 retires April 19th (act now), a new MCP orchestration tool for routing across Claude/Cursor/Gemini/Codex, and Llama 4's jaw-dropping 10 million token context window. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.

Cursor rebuilt its entire IDE around AI agents with parallel execution and a new Design Mode. Google shipped Gemma 4, a fully open-source multimodal model under Apache 2.0 with native function calling for agentic workflows. Anthropic added cloud-based collaborative planning to Claude Code with Ultraplan, and MCP crossed 97 million monthly installs after being donated to the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.

Cursor 3 launches a full agent-fleet workspace — run parallel agents across local and cloud with seamless handoff. Google drops Gemma 4 open source under Apache 2.0, with a 31B model that hits 80% on LiveCodeBench. MCP crosses 97M installs and moves to Linux Foundation governance, effectively ending the protocol wars. Plus: Claude Code bumps default effort to high, a memory leak fix for long-running setups, and an API deprecation deadline in three weeks. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.

Claude Code 2.1.0 ships a full Skills system, hook architecture, and permission wildcards across 1,096 commits — but Hacker News is sounding alarms about regressions on complex tasks. Plus: Godot MCP Pro drops 163 editor tools for game-dev agents, Google's Gemma 4 hits Hugging Face trending, and the MCP ecosystem crosses 97 million SDK downloads. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.

Anthropic launches Project Glasswing, deploying Claude Mythos Preview to 40+ partners including Apple, Microsoft, and Google for autonomous vulnerability hunting. Plus OpenAI ships GPT-5.4 with native computer-use, Claude Code gets Mantle-powered Bedrock and higher default effort, Cursor reveals real-time RL training every 5 hours, and Windsurf's pricing overhaul sparks backlash. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.

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