A single daily edition of announcements from the AI coding tools you use, read from a curated source list, summarised, and linked back to the original. No infinite feed, no account, no advertising.
The million-token model you point at a repo left preview at preview prices.
DeepSeek moved V4 Pro to general availability on 12 August as the 0813 build, closing a preview that had run close to four months. The mixture-of-experts design carries 1.6 trillion total parameters with 49 billion active per token, a one-million-token context window and a 384,000-token output ceiling, and it holds the preview's rates of $0.435 per million input tokens and $0.87 per million output. Access is API-only for now, through OpenRouter and DeepSeek's own endpoint, and weights for 0813 have not been announced even though April's preview and July's V4-Flash builds are public. Vendor benchmark figures reached the public through a WeChat group and a Reddit repost, and no independent evaluator has replicated them.
A new option in Cursor is aimed at agents that run for hours.
xAI released Grok 4.6 on 12 August, pitching it at long-running agents and at turning a broad product idea into a working first version. It is live in Cursor and Grok Build alongside the API, OpenRouter, Vercel and Cloudflare, with double the included usage for a week. Published scores put it at 65.9% on DeepSWE v1.1, 69.9% on CursorBench v3.2 and 26% on Terminal-Bench v3.0, against an AA Intelligence Index of 61. Input costs $2 per million tokens and output $6, and a fast variant costs twice that.
Your bot allowlist waves a credential scanner straight through.
Known Agents reports a scanning campaign that forges the user agents of AI crawlers, with Googlebot impersonated in 0.5% of the traffic it measures and ChatGPT-User and OAI-SearchBot each at 0.1%. The requests reach for .env files, AWS credentials, Anthropic configuration files and Docker and Terraform config — what the report calls paths used by AI coding tools. A user-agent string is therefore no longer evidence that a request came from the crawler it names. The figures are recomputed daily against the previous 90 days.
AGENTS.md files now steer Kiro from wherever they sit in your tree.
Kiro's 2.18.0 CLI, released on 12 August, loads AGENTS.md as steering context from anywhere in the workspace tree rather than the root alone, so a file can sit beside the code it describes. The same release adds dictation: /voice, Ctrl+O or a held Space starts a recording that is transcribed on-device with Whisper, with a continuous flag for hands-free use. A spec review screen opens on Ctrl+X at a phase checkpoint, staging line comments that submit as one revision request. Cloud sessions are now off unless an administrator enables them in the Kiro console.
