The Decoder
Google is opening up Android Studio to third-party AI agents. Through a new "Bring Your Own Agent" feature, the IDE now supports more than 40 coding agents, including Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex.
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The Verge
A hulking gray giant rises from the desert. Inside, engineers create the force behind our phones and computers and appliances, our streaming services and search engines and chatbots and vibe-coded apps and websites.
GitHub
Claude Code burns ~15-20% of your tokens on a 3-word status line: a Bun preload that turns agent_summary off · by Flamerix AI, flamerix.ai · MIT - README.md Tested on Linux, Claude Code 2.1.257-2.1.312 (see Tested versions). The binary is not modified ( BUN_OPTIONS=--preload ).
The Verge
Google has released its latest frontier model, Gemini 4 Carbon, offering "significant gains" in coding, agentic tasks, and cybersecurity. In an announcement on Wednesday, Google highlights Carbon's top spot on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (v5.0) benchmark, with Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra trailing behind.
The Decoder
Just two weeks after Gemini 4 Argon, Google DeepMind is releasing Gemini 4 Carbon, which tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5 with 59 points. Google says the model is built for extended agent workflows and the full cyber defense lifecycle.