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Obada Kraishan of Texas Tech tracked 37,623 GitHub pull requests and found 90-day revert rates of 6.1% for OpenAI Codex and 14.5% for Devin. A pooled 'AI code' rate from that sample mostly measures Codex, so each tool needs its own numbers.
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Hone raised a $60 million seed round led by Benchmark and Index Ventures for AI agents that pursue business goals over weeks or months. Buyers have only Hone's own account of its safeguards to judge them by, because Hone has not disclosed revenue or customer results.
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Goldman Sachs will have new finance hires supervise AI agents from their first day, Asia Pacific chief Kevin Sneader said on October 8. The only reported productivity gain, more than 20%, is in engineering, so juniors checking agents in compliance and accounting is still an untested bet.
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Dioxus engineers already had code running inside Devin's command line, and they arrive with a cloud harness that snapshots and forks virtual machines on five operating systems. Neither side called it an acquisition.
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OpenAI's Thibault Sottiaux says GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol now stream about 50 tokens a second, up from 30, as day one of a 28-day ship-or-reset pledge. The figure is an approximate streaming rate, so agent run times improve only as far as text generation dominates each loop.
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Anthropic engineer Steve Weis factored the 270-digit RSA-896 in ten days with Claude and up to 2,048 idle GPUs. Cognition estimates that factoring one 1024-bit number costs about $30 million, a sum a hyperscaler could spend.
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Factory CEO Matan Grinberg says he fired advisor Chris Degnan, who two hours later announced he is chief revenue officer at $48 billion rival Cognition. Founders whose investors also back their rivals carry the same exposure on their own boards.
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Vinod Khosla publicly sided with Cognition against Factory AI, which his firm helped fund in a $200 million round last month. For founders who share investors with a rival, the episode argues for writing observer access and investor conflicts into the contract.
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Cognition says its SWE-2 model produced up to 4.8 times more total token throughput on Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL72 than on GB200, in a test on CoreWeave. The company-run result points to more agent capacity per system, but whether long coding tasks get cheaper depends on what the new systems cost per hour.
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Factory CEO Matan Grinberg says board observer Chris Degnan passed confidential information to Cognition, the $48 billion rival that made him revenue chief. Degnan denies it, and the accounts published so far do not establish that anything changed hands.
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Factory CEO Matan Grinberg says he terminated board observer Chris Degnan for weeks of talks with Cognition, the $48 billion rival hiring him as revenue chief. Degnan and Cognition deny wrongdoing, so the fight turns on when an observer owes a board notice of talks with a rival.
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Cloudflare's Workers Issues, now in open beta, groups production errors from one config line and sends them to Claude Code, Cursor or Devin. Detection and dispatch happen inside Cloudflare; the fix, and any gate before it ships, live in the agent's workflow.
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OpenAI now lets ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscribers spend their plan allowance inside tools from 16 launch partners, including Amp and Devin, via Sign in with ChatGPT. The model cost moves to the subscriber's plan, while tools like Dactyl keep billing credits for builds and assets.
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LinearB's 2026 benchmark finds only 32.7% of AI-assisted pull requests accepted within 30 days, against 84.4% of manual ones. The figures are associations, but they put review cost in the queue and in repeat rounds, where faster diff reading helps little.
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Salesforce is packaging Anthropic, GitHub, Cognition and Vercel agents into Slack channels. The shared piece is not a model or a runtime. It is the conversation.
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Jared Palmer's Kev now ships as 0.8B, 4B and 9B variants that score typed answer options over frozen Qwen3.5 weights, and on his own development comparison hosted Jev still scores higher than the largest of them.
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Two researchers moved the public RSA factoring record from 862 bits to 896 bits in sixteen days using the same classical sieve as 1990s attempts, and only the first of the two runs has a published compute bill.
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Code Review Bench reconstructs the timeline of 16,017 open source pull requests and publishes precision and recall beside every F1. The top five tools sit within five points of each other, on samples of very different size.
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Crunchbase counted four U.S. rounds of $1bn or more in one week. Tunneling, truck fleets and reusable rockets took $5.3bn of the $7.3bn, and the United Arab Emirates led the biggest check of the four.
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The model averages 53 steps a run against SWE-1.7's 127, and Cognition says its mean rollout cost is 64% below Fable 5.1's on a leaderboard Cognition built, runs and grades. Reproducing that takes Devin's harness.
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Product · August 20, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers
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