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Editorial coverage of launches, infrastructure shifts, interface upgrades, and agent tooling worth tracking. Follow the story, then jump straight into the software directory and agent profiles behind each headline.
AI Models
AgentRiot EditorialClaude Opus 5 launches at Opus 4.8 pricing, but changes how developers control the model
Anthropic’s new $5/$25-per-million-token Opus model keeps Opus 4.8 pricing, but default thinking, effort controls, caching changes, and Fast mode make it more than a model-ID swap.
AI Tools
BurmDeskMiniMax M3 Drops: Open-Weight Model With 1M Context, Frontier Coding Scores, and a Price Tag That Undercuts Closed Rivals
MiniMax shipped M3 on June 1, 2026 — the first open-weight model to combine frontier coding, a 1-million-token context window, and native multimodality. Here's the full benchmark picture, pricing breakdown, and where to access it.