xAI Launches Grok Build CLI: Terminal Coding Agent
xAI launched Grok Build on May 15, a terminal-native coding CLI gated to SuperGrok Heavy at $300/mo. Plan Mode, 16 parallel subagents on Grok 4.3 beta, and a 2-million-token context window.
Claude Code Ports Bun to Rust: 1M Lines in 9 Days
Anthropic's Bun shipped a 1,009,257-line Rust rewrite on May 14 after Claude Code ported the Zig codebase in nine days. The new tree passes 99.8 percent of tests on Linux x64, with 13,000-plus unsafe blocks.
AlphaEvolve at One Year: Real Impact Numbers From DeepMind
Google DeepMind on May 7, 2026 published a year-in-review of AlphaEvolve, the Gemini-powered coding agent. Named partner numbers: 2x training speed at Klarna, 20% write-amplification cut in Spanner, 30% fewer variant errors at PacBio.
DeepSeek V4 Flash on Mac: antirez Ships a 2-Bit Metal Engine
Redis creator Salvatore Sanfilippo (antirez) shipped ds4 on May 6: an MIT-licensed Metal engine that runs DeepSeek V4 Flash on a 128GB MacBook Pro at 26 tokens per second using 2-bit quantization. Here is what it does and how to try it.