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v1.18.0-pre, published August 26, adds a reload path from the Agent Panel (GitHub). The same preview adds GPT-5.6's 1M-token context on Amazon Bedrock, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, Grok 4.5 and 4.6, a configurable edit_predictions.<provider>.prediction_debounce setting, and language-model connection errors that name the unreachable host rather than failing generically. Named-host errors are a small thing that saves a real debugging hour.
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GitHub issue openai/codex#37674 documents that Codex CLI 0.147.0 running GPT-5.6-Sol on Amazon Bedrock cannot pass prompt_cache_options or prompt_cache_breakpoint, so every request performs a cache write instead of a read. August 5-8 production logs: 3,656 requests, 171.94M ca...
Willison's August 13 release adds Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite plus gemini-embedding-2 and -001, rebuilding on LLM 0.32's structured message and streaming APIs so reasoning, tool calls and results emit as typed stream events while preserving Gemini thought si...
Launched August 8 as the new Quality Mode at grok.com/imagine and in the Grok mobile apps, pitching precision editing, crisp text rendering, and improved factuality, with API access promised but not shipped (The Decoder). On the August 7 Arena leaderboards the faster "low" var...
OpenAI shipped the first model family explicitly designed for subagent pipelines. GPT-5.4 mini features a 400K context window, scores 54.4% on SWE-Bench Pro (vs. the flagship's 57.7%), and handles computer use at 72.1% on OSWorld — at $0.75 input / $4.50 output per million tok...
The changelog offers Z.ai's open-weights coding model with a 1M-token context free via Blackbox AI on AI Gateway, default for new eve agents, switchable for existing ones with eve set --model zai/glm-5.2. Excludes Fast mode and the glm-5.2-fast variant. Separately, Gemini 3.7...
A spec is a press release until someone who didn't write it implements it. GitHub made Agent Plugins 1.0 generally available on August 12 across VS Code, Copilot CLI, the Copilot SDK, and the Copilot app on all plans. The spec, published August 6, was co-authored by AWS, Anysp...
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