Anthropic replaced Git with an in-house version control system called Scion after Claude coding agents pushed its daily code merges from around 2,500 in May to more than 30,000 in September. The company says the bottleneck moved from writing code to the plumbing around it.
Google Labs has launched Playground, an experimental platform where users describe a game in natural language and AI generates one playable right in the browser. Unity's Spark arrives later this year. Open at first only to U.S. users aged 18 and over.
OpenAI Codex lead Tibo publicly committed: for the next 28 days, each day the team will either ship one clearly useful improvement for most Codex and Work users, or issue a full credit reset. The first time anyone turned "doing homework" into a public bet.