xAI released Grok 4.7 for coding and knowledge work at $2/$6 per million tokens (same as 4.6), available today in Cursor, Grok Build, and the API. Vendor figures put it at 46.3% on CursorBench 4.0 and 71.0% on DeepSWE v1.1; a fast variant costs double for twice the output speed.
Amazon cut off Meta’s Muse personal AI agent from shopping on Amazon.com after Meta declined to exclude the store, citing Conditions of Use and concerns that the agent browses without identifying itself while using stored customer credentials. The move follows Amazon’s lost Perplexity injunction and tests whether platforms can fence out outside agents via contract terms rather than anti hacking law…
Builder.io’s Agent Native TypeScript framework lets you define typed actions once and expose them to React UIs, agents, HTTP, CLI, A2A, and MCP. The repo hit GitHub Trending around Sept 21 with several thousand stars; deployed apps can serve a Streamable HTTP MCP endpoint at /mcp…
Xiaomi published MiMo V2.6 Pro (1.02T MoE / 42B active) and Flash (309B / 15B active) on Hugging Face with text/image/video/audio inputs and a 1M token context, plus RL training resources. Vendor figures say Pro rose from 58.4 to 72.57 on DeepSWE v1.1 after one mixed coding/agent/visual/cyber RL run; independent replication is still pending…
GitHub is gradually rolling out xAI’s Grok 4.7 in Copilot Pro through Enterprise, including VS Code, JetBrains, Copilot CLI, and the cloud agent. It bills at provider list pricing under usage based billing; Business/Enterprise admins can gate it via model policy…
Linear’s Sept 21 engineering post says agents now write most of its tests ( 2,000/week) and the suite nearly quadrupled in 2026. Faster runners, tsgo, less setup, and Vitest shard tweaks cut runner time per test roughly in half and trimmed PR wait from 6 minutes to just over 5…
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