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The New Stack (thenewstack.io) is a tech news site covering software development, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and AI-assisted coding tools.
Microsoft's $4,300 Surface Laptop Ultra ran local models generally a bit faster than an M4 Max Mac Studio, The New Stack's reviewer found. The edge was measured on the charger with models sized to the machine, so buyers should check their own model mix.
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Akrites CTO Christopher Robinson estimates one security pull request can take an engineer up to eight hours to review. The Linux Foundation announced the shared response team in June to consolidate and validate vulnerability reports.
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GPT-4.1 scored 93.49% on BrowseComp-Plus with documents supplied and 14.58% when BM25 searched, according to The New Stack. That 78.9-point gap sizes the room for retrieval work on one fixed corpus. Production failure rates need their own measurement.
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IDC and Lenovo's joint study finds 88% of AI proof-of-concept projects never reach production, The New Stack reports. The fixes on offer from a vendor CTO are operational: timeouts, logs and per-agent credentials.
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Subquadratic's SubQ Snap decision model accepts 384,000 tokens per request, 12 times Jev's 32K limit, according to the company. CEO Alex Whedon says the cap reflects preview compute capacity. The accuracy and latency figures are Subquadratic's own.
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Anomaly's OpenCode 2.0 puts its terminal, desktop and web apps on one background service, about three months after the beta began. The long rollout left developers unsure whether 2.0 was stable, so teams building on it should check the release state.
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Elon Musk said SpaceX's Grok Bot agent will send each task to the best back-end model, Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 included. The policy moves the engineering work into routing, and into the tests that decide what 'best' means for each task.
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SAP unveiled Joule Assistants for five business areas at Connect, with most due via early adopter and GA releases by the first quarter of 2027. Controllers get a pilot calendar, while SAP Pay already moves money in the US and UK.
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OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol matched GPT-6 Astra on all 15 runs of a New Stack test, costing $2.66 against Astra's $14.77. Both models scored perfectly, so the run confirms the price gap on real token counts while leaving the accuracy ceiling untested.
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Anthropic prices Claude Sonnet 5.5 at half Opus 5.5's per-token rate, but Artificial Analysis measured $7.67 per task at max effort against Opus's $5.98. In The New Stack's own tests, runs that were billed but never finished decided which model cost less per completed job.
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Anthropic's CI job volume grew 25x in six months as coding agents raised pipeline load, The New Stack reports. Faster runners and test selection cut the cost of each run, yet repo tests still mock the service seams where distributed systems break.
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Anthropic has merged Cowork, which has run scheduled jobs after the user closes the laptop since July, into the main Claude app. Against OpenAI's new Dots, a team's choice comes down to what starts each agent and which apps it can reach.
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OpenAI's Sign in with ChatGPT lets Plus and Pro users run an app's AI requests on their own plan, up to a weekly cap they set per app. That cap reserves none of the user's quota, so builders still need their own API key for any request the plan cannot cover.
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EU Cyber Resilience Act manufacturers have had to report actively exploited vulnerabilities since September 11, before broader duties arrive in December 2027. The New Stack argues those reports hold up only if engineers can already name the affected versions, components and fixes.
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Claude Opus 5.5 matched Fable 5.1 on every hidden test in two New Stack coding trials, at $0.75 and $1.42 per run against $1.50 and $1.96. It needed more tokens and more minutes to get there, so the saving holds only for tasks that resemble these.
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OpenAI's Agents API and Cursor's Projects, both launched September 10, put one coordinator agent in charge of specialized coding workers. Teams adopting either now have to decide where that coordinator runs and who holds its state.
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Nvidia's CEO told Ezra Klein that AI-native graduates arrive around 2028 because college takes four years. The answer covers the class after next and leaves this year's entry-level hiring where it was.
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Anthropic has taken the mode picker out of Claude and handed the choice to a router inside the thread. OpenAI got close to the same design in July, but it kept a toggle between Chat and Work.
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Both terminal agents recalled planted facts inside a single project across three two-session tests on identical Node repos. Only Grok Build carried a stated convention into an unrelated repo, at about a third of the reported cost.
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The bank pooled nearly 10,000 heterogeneous accelerator cards under Kubernetes and reports average utilization rising from 35% to more than 60%. That density supplies 1.71 of the 2.5x drop in cost per million tokens.
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