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Oct 29, 2026, 7:46 PM EDT
GitHub Octoverse 2026: 40%+ of Pull Requests Now Start With a Coding Agent, and Review Is the Bottleneck
GitHub's Octoverse 2026: 40%+ of pull requests now start with a coding agent, merge faster and carry bigger diffs. Review is now the new bottleneck.
Oct 29, 2026, 8:57 AM EDT
Partnership on AI: Agent Frameworks Lack the Observability Records Regulators Are Starting to Demand
Agent frameworks still lack persistent IDs, approval trails and decision logs — the observability records regulators are starting to require.
Oct 29, 2026, 6:11 AM EDT
Anthropic Study: Analysts Using Claude Code Followed the Agent's Secretly Coin-Flipped Lean 86% of the Time
Anthropic's new trial: 50 analysts using Claude Code matched their agent's secretly coin-flipped lean 86% of the time, then rarely said so. Here's the fix.

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October 29, 2026

LFM3 Lands in Ollama: A 1.7B Tool-Calling Model at About 1 GB, Now on Linux and Windows

Ollama v0.40.13 adds Linux and Windows support for Liquid AI's LFM3 family. The 1.7B text model calls tools at a 1.1GB-1.7GB download with a 256K window, and Ollama can launch it straight into Claude Code, OpenCode and OpenClaw.

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