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OpenAI ships GPT-5.5: what actually changes for builders
The model is faster, cheaper per token, and finally usable for long-running agent loops. Here's what the launch post buries — and what it means for anyone shipping production AI. · Apr 25, 2026
Llama 4 405B is out: open weights at frontier-adjacent quality
Meta released Llama 4 with weights you can actually run. The 405B variant is GPT-5-class on most evals, the 70B is shockingly good, and the licensing terms have one important catch. · Apr 24, 2026
Cursor agent mode goes GA — what it does, what it doesn't
Cursor's agent mode left preview this week. After two days of using it on real codebases: it's faster than the demo suggested, dumber than the marketing implies, and worth turning on. · Apr 23, 2026
Anthropic raises Series F at $250B — the structure tells the real story
The headline is the valuation. The interesting part is who funded what, and how the round is split between equity and pre-paid compute. · Apr 22, 2026
Google ships Gemini 3 with native tool use — quietly
Gemini 3 lands without the usual launch theatrics. The interesting story isn't the eval scores — it's that tool calling is now a first-class part of the model, not a wrapper bolted on top. · Apr 21, 2026