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The New Stack

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The New StackGitHubA developer opened Postman. Then two AI coding agents changed without their permission. A developer says Postman’s desktop app installed plugins into Claude Code and OpenAI Codex without their permission.

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The New StackGitHubCan agent standards keep up with the companies building them? Mazin Gilbert, executive director of the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation , left Google earlier this year to lead the new AAIF, and he recently shared with The New Stack a truth central to…

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The New StackGitHubGoldman Sachs restricted Claude Code for bankers — but made one surprising exception Replit CEO Amjad Masad is warning that AI coding agents running on employee devices are becoming a security risk for enterprises and governments, as financial institutions begin restricting access to…

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The New StackGitHubAnthropic speeds up Claude Code with message threads. But your token bill stays the same. Anthropic has announced a new feature that aims to speed up long-running Claude Code sessions by reducing the amount of conversation data repeatedly sent to its API, helping developers get responses…

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The New StackGitHubOpenAI built itself a new Git backend, too OpenAI on Monday detailed how it built a new Git backend for its monorepo to power the ever-increasing number of commits its developers and their agents now create.

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The New StackGitHubDevelopers are downgrading their AI on purpose — and it’s working Anthropic has confirmed that it added new restrictions to Claude Code to prevent users from recreating existing video games.

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The New StackGitHubYour AI coding agent now runs on a budget — and it can cut you off mid-task The days of pointing an AI agent at a backlog and letting it burn through compute without much oversight may be coming to an end.

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The New StackGitHubCanva’s new design model doesn’t generate images. It writes code to edit them. Australian graphic design software company Canva took the wraps off Canva Brush last week, its new vision-language model for designers.

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The New StackGitHubOpenAI’s new shared usage limit pits ChatGPT against Codex OpenAI has revealed plans to combine usage allowances across ChatGPT and Codex, as part of a broader effort to integrate its conversational AI and agentic capabilities into a single experience.

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The New StackGitHubOpen-source security in the AI exploit era: Patch without changing a thing Here’s how a vulnerability in a popular open-source library plays out in 2026: A maintainer merges a fix and publishes an advisory.

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The New StackGitHubA step-by-step guide for how to kill the line-by-line code review Agents verify; people decide. Most teams running AI code review today have it the other way around. They point a model at the diff, ask it whether the change is good, and leave a human to skim the…

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The New StackGitHubThe context problem: How Docusign built agents that understand the business behind contracts Ask a general-purpose language model to summarize a contract, and it will probably do a reasonable job.

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The New StackGitHubFive years after the fork, OpenSearch is slowly stepping out of AWS’s shadow OpenSearch has come a long way since Amazon Web Services first announced the project back in January 2021, in response to Elastic’s decision to move Elasticsearch and its accompanying visualization…

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The New StackGitHubDevelopers ask AI which tool to use. Here’s how we track the answer. We asked Claude “Which CMS platforms support MCP integration ?” It searched the web and put Webflow in its first group, Headless and SaaS CMS platforms with hosted MCP servers, sixth in…

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The New StackGitHubAmazon CEO predicts 6 to 8 AI models will be ‘good enough’ for almost everything Amazon CEO Andy Jassy expects the frontier AI model race to produce several competitive models rather than a single winner, telling analysts on Amazon’s Q3 2026 earnings call Thursday that the…

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The New StackGitHubShielding the patch gap: The exploit doesn’t wait for Patch Tuesday Four years after Log4Shell became one of the most consequential vulnerabilities in software history, vulnerable instances of the library are still turning up in production environments.

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The New StackGitHubGPT-6.1 Terra vs. Claude Opus 5.5: Cheaper and faster in three tests at max effort OpenAI launched GPT-6.1 Terra on October 26, and included two direct comparisons with Opus 5.5 in its marketing materials.

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The New StackGitHubAnthropic just removed one of Claude’s biggest usage limits — but not for everyone Claude Code users on Anthropic’s $200 plan will no longer face a rolling five-hour usage cap , provided their accounts are verified and they have weekly usage left.

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The New StackGitHubBusy GPUs can hide slow AI inference on Kubernetes A Kubernetes cluster can be healthy while the AI service running on it disappoints users. A model might return its first token quickly but take too long to finish an answer.

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The New StackGitHubWhat worries Entire co-founder Thomas Dohmke about the future of tech? Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke is taking on his old company. His startup, Entire, launched a GitHub alternative this week , replacing traditional pull requests with Trails, a review system that uses…

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The New StackGitHubKubernetes just formed a workload conformance group. Here’s why it matters for AI teams. Welcome to the final edition of Road to KubeCon , where we track the Kubernetes and cloud-native ecosystem each week on The New Stack as we head into KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA, November 9-12 in…

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The New StackGitHubGPT-6.1 Terra vs. GPT-6 Astra: One sacrifices accuracy for lower cost and higher speed at high effort OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra on October 26, marketing it as a cheap, fast model for high-volume everyday work, priced at a tenth of its GPT-6 Astra flagship.

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The New StackGitHubSam Altman almost scrapped token pricing. Here’s why he backed off. OpenAI considered dropping token-based pricing for its next model , letting developers submit a prompt and receive a price for the work, before negative customer feedback convinced the company to…

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The New StackGitHubAWS’s Hydro team wants the compiler to catch coding agents’ mistakes Earlier this month, the team behind Hydro developed a new way to check that a distributed system still works correctly when it resends messages after a failure.

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