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SoftBank's $40B Loan Points to a 2026 OpenAI IPO — Codex Is at the Center of the Story

The financial machinery behind OpenAI's breakneck product pace came into sharper focus this week: SoftBank has taken a $40 billion unsecured loan — backed by JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and four Japanese banks — to fund its $30B commitment to OpenAI's record $110B fundraising round. The 12-month loan

28 Mar 2026 1 min read

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Claude Code vs Cursor vs GitHub Copilot: Three Tools, Three Philosophies (2026)

Three tools dominate AI-assisted development in 2026 — GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code — and a fresh comparison published on DEV Community cuts through the feature tables to identify the philosophical difference that actually drives the choice. Copilot is a spell-checker: reactive, inline, and frictionless. Cursor is a writing coach: it

28 Mar 2026 1 min read

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10 Battle-Tested Claude Code Practices (From a 20K-Star GitHub Repo)

A GitHub repository called "claude-code-best-practice" hit 20,000 stars on GitHub Trending this week, and a developer named Evan Dong distilled its top ten practices into a hands-on post verified against production workflows. The most immediately actionable: keep your CLAUDE.md file under 60 lines. It sounds arbitrary,

28 Mar 2026 1 min read

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Claude Paid Subscriptions Have More Than Doubled in 2026 — Claude Code Is Driving It

Anthropic's bet on the developer-first go-to-market is paying off in real dollars. Credit card transaction data from roughly 28 million U.S. consumers, analyzed by research firm Indagari, shows Claude paid subscriptions more than doubling in 2026 — with new subscriber records set in both January and February. A

28 Mar 2026 1 min read

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What Developers Are Actually Using Karpathy's autoresearch Loop For: A Use Case Catalog

Two weeks ago we covered how Karpathy's autoresearch loop works and how it became a Claude Code skill. What we didn't know yet was the full range of things developers would point it at. The answer turned out to be: everything with a number. Here'

28 Mar 2026 7 min read

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Karpathy's autoresearch Is a Skill: How a 42,000-Star Repo Became a Claude Code Loop for Any Codebase

On March 7, 2026, Andrej Karpathy pushed a repo to GitHub with a README that opens like this: One day, frontier AI research used to be done by meat computers in between eating, sleeping, having other fun, and synchronizing once in a while using sound wave interconnect in the ritual

28 Mar 2026 5 min read

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TDAD: Two Papers, One Acronym, and the Real State of Test-Driven Development with AI Coding Agents

There's a naming collision worth knowing about. In March 2026, two independent research groups published papers under the same acronym — TDAD — and both are genuinely interesting for different reasons. Together, they represent the state of the art on what it actually means to practice test-driven development with AI

28 Mar 2026 6 min read

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Cisco DevNet Adds Live AI Security Labs for MCP, A2A Protocol, and AI Defense

Cisco's DevNet Learning Labs platform has rolled out a new set of hands-on security labs specifically designed for developers working with emerging agentic AI standards. The lineup covers four domains that are rapidly becoming critical as AI deployments mature: MCP Security, A2A Protocol Security, AI Defense, and Skill

28 Mar 2026 1 min read

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ByteDance Open-Sources Deer-Flow 2.0: A Super-Agent Framework for Research, Coding & Creative Tasks

ByteDance has open-sourced Deer-Flow 2.0, a new take on multi-agent architecture that the company calls a "super-agent" framework. Where most agent frameworks wire together a handful of tools inside a single reasoning loop, Deer-Flow 2.0 operates at a higher level of abstraction: it spawns specialized sub-agents

28 Mar 2026 1 min read

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OpenAI Backs Isara's $94M Raise to Build Large-Scale AI Agent Swarms

OpenAI has made a direct investment in Isara, a nine-month-old San Francisco startup that closed a $94 million Series A at a $650 million valuation. Isara's focus is not on building yet another single-agent chatbot wrapper — it is tackling the considerably harder engineering problem of coordinating thousands of

28 Mar 2026 1 min read

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LangChain & LangGraph Hit by Three Critical Security Flaws — Patch Now

Security researchers have uncovered three serious vulnerabilities in LangChain and LangGraph, the widely used Python libraries powering AI applications across thousands of enterprises. The most alarming of the trio, CVE-2025-68664, carries a CVSS score of 9.3 and exploits deserialization of untrusted data — a class of vulnerability that can allow

28 Mar 2026 1 min read

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Google DeepMind Releases First Empirically Validated AI Manipulation Toolkit

Google DeepMind published new research this week on one of AI safety's more unsettling frontiers: the potential for conversational AI to be deliberately used for harmful manipulation — shaping human beliefs and behavior in ways that are deceptive rather than helpful. The research team didn't just theorize

28 Mar 2026 1 min read

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