Agents

Microsoft plans to end Claude Code subscriptions by the end of June for its Experiences and Devices teams and move nearly 100,000 engineers to GitHub Copilot CLI, with the article attributing the change to external token-based billing costs.

Alibaba Cloud JVS Crew splits Agent, Environment, and Session into three layers, with sandboxes, snapshot recovery, RBAC, and usage-based billing. Anthropic added self-hosted sandboxes to Claude Managed Agents on May 19, while the article cites 2-week deployments and 5x or 10x efficiency gains in several Chinese customer cases.

OpenAI moved Codex /goal mode from experiment to stable release, letting users set milestones in the Codex app, IDE extension, or CLI and keep tasks running for hours or days with progress checks, direction changes, and pause controls.

The sddw author released a Claude Code plugin that splits work into requirements, code analysis, and design specs, then clears context after each step to keep cost and context focused.

Westlake University and collaborators introduced HiF-VLA, a motion-centric VLA framework that extracts compact Motion vectors with codecs such as H.264 and uses a joint expert to predict future visual motion and generate action sequences, reporting 31.4GB peak memory and 117.7ms latency under the cited history-window setting.

DS4 provides a macOS local runtime path for DeepSeek V4 Flash; the post only discloses three mechanisms—multi-agent integration, KV cache disk persistence, and activation steering—and does not disclose performance numbers, hardware requirements, or pricing.

Salesforce has adopted a headless architecture that lets salespeople update data through AI; the post says MCPs, HTML, audio, and web interfaces can be generated dynamically by context, but it does not disclose implementation metrics or adoption numbers.

Claude Code v2.1.147 adds a Workflow tool, disabled by default, for deterministic multi-agent orchestration, and renames /simplify to /code-review with code-correctness reporting and GitHub PR inline-comment generation.

Daytona provides composable computers for AI agents, with one sandbox starting in about 60 ms, 50,000 sandboxes in about 75 seconds, and its largest customer running roughly 850,000 sandboxes per day.

Datasette released Datasette Agent as its first extensible AI assistant, offering conversational data queries, plugin-based chart generation, official plugins for charts, AI image creation, and sandboxed code execution, with support for Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite cloud models and local open-source models through LM Studio.

OpenAI Devs says Codex can use apps on a Mac from a phone while the Mac remains locked and the screen is off; the post does not disclose permission boundaries, pricing, or a release timeline.

Google released Kotlin ADK and Android ADK 0.1.0 for developers, with Kotlin ADK targeting backend agent workflows and Android ADK providing mobile-specific functions for building AI agents.

Runtime launched open-source sandbox infrastructure for coding agents, supporting Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini, and Devin, with hosted access, a free tier, and pricing based on a flat platform fee plus compute without token markup.

The Wall Street Journal says Anthropic is nearing its first profitable quarter, with expected second-quarter revenue of $10.9 billion and operating profit of $559 million.

Fireworks ran 720 browser-agent tasks on WebVoyager and reported a 22.9% Agent Execution Tax, defined as wasted over productive inference; MiniMax M2.5 cost 2.3x less per successful task than Gemini, while GLM-5 reached 57.1% accuracy and Kimi K2.5 had 0% parse retries across 852 calls.

Anthropic used its two-day Code with Claude event in London to show Claude Code automation, with nearly half the room saying they shipped a pull request fully written by Claude in the past week, and many keeping their hands raised when asked whether they had shipped it without reading the code.

The Verge’s Sean Hollister used Google AI Studio to generate three Android apps in one afternoon; one app came from a 148-word browser prompt and installed about 10 minutes later on an Android phone prepared with USB debugging and a PC connection.

Cursor summarizes lessons from building cloud agents: after migrating to Temporal, reliability rose above 99.9%, and the platform processes more than 50 million operations per day.

Zhan Xupeng published a roughly 50-minute article on Agent theory and a personal assistant implementation, covering memory, ReAct planning, progressive skill loading, subagents, and harness-level fault recovery.

Anthropic has completed its acquisition of Stainless, an SDK generation company used by OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Cloudflare, and other infrastructure vendors; Stainless says prior SDK ownership remains with customers, but it will shut down hosted products including SDK generator and stop providing ongoing support.