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Subscribe via RSS ↗OpenAI confirmed it disbanded its stand-alone robotics team, betting GPT-6 Astra and other general models can run robots directly. We check what the evidence establishes.
Claude Code Projects' coordinator now posts unprompted status updates and answers questions in chat, replacing manual checks across parallel threads.
Coding Agent Index v2.1 grades harder merge-review tasks: Fable 5.2 and Opus 5.5 tie at 58, scores fall ~5 points, and cost per task spans about 30x.
Cursor's Nov 13 post-mortem says the backdoored Claude Code extension began with a Fireworks-exposed vendor key and unredacted agent traces. Lessons: trace data is a credential surface, auto-update is a distribution channel, and vendor blast radius is shared.
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Lite is free forever, installs in about a minute, and reads the session history you already have.
Also for macOS (Apple silicon) and Linux.
Signed installer. No account. Session content stays on your disk.
