AI & software engineering news
Daily coverage of AI and software engineering: model releases, developer tools, frameworks and industry shifts — explained clearly, with sources.
DeepSeek V4 Flash left preview on July 31, 2026 as build 0731, keeping $0.14/$0.28 pricing but posting new agent benchmarks. Here is what changed.
Claude Sonnet 5's introductory API pricing ends August 31, 2026. Standard $3/$15 per-million-token rates take over, a 50% jump. What to do before then.
OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna pricing 80% and Terra 20% on July 30, 2026, and added a Sol Fast mode. New pricing table and what changes for developers.
GitHub shipped stacked pull requests to public preview on July 30, 2026. How gh stack works, what changes for reviewers, and how it compares to Graphite.
MCP's final 2026-07-28 spec deprecates Sampling, Roots and Logging and adds Multi Round-Trip Requests. Claude's core support is still rolling out.
Nvidia and 60+ firms formed the Open Secure AI Alliance after the Hugging Face breach. Here's which tools are real, usable code today, and which aren't.
