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xAI Drops Grok Code Fast 1: Agentic Coding Now in VS Code at $1.50/M Output Tokens
Elon Musk's xAI just launched Grok Code Fast 1, a coding-first, tool-aware model purpose-built for agentic development workflows. The model lands inside Visual Studio Code and third-party extensions...
xAI Drops Grok Code Fast 1: A Speedy, Tool-Savvy AI Coder Priced to Disrupt
On August 28, Elon Musk’s xAI launched Grok Code Fast 1, an agentic coding model designed from the ground up to slash latency and cost for software teams. The company is pitching it as a practical,...
WSL 2 and WSLg Turn Windows 11 into a Linux Power User's Dream
The days of juggling dual-boot partitions or sluggish virtual machines to get a usable Linux environment on Windows are over. With WSL 2 and the recent addition of WSLg for GUI app support, Windows...
VLC 3.0.23 Adds Dark Mode and AV2 Decoder: Here Are 9 Open-Source Apps Every Windows Setup Needs
VideoLAN’s VLC media player just received its 24th update to the 3.0 branch, bringing a dark mode option for Windows and Linux, native ARM64 support for Windows, and a massive number of stability...
Inside Musk's Macrohard: The AI Agent Factory Taking Aim at Microsoft's Empire
Elon Musk has fired a trademark salvo that is both a joke and a declaration of war. On August 1, 2025, an entity linked to Musk filed for the word mark MACROHARD with the United States Patent and...
xAI’s Macrohard Aims to Upend Software Development with AI Agents Powered by 200,000 GPUs
On August 1, 2025, Elon Musk’s xAI quietly filed a trademark application for ‘Macrohard.’ The USPTO filing covers an expansive vision: agentic artificial intelligence services, code generation,...
Google Gemini's New Agent Mode, Go, and Immersive View Leak in Testing—Here's What They Do
Google is quietly testing three new experimental modes inside the Gemini web app that could fundamentally change how users interact with the AI assistant. Code-sleuths at TestingCatalog discovered...
Elon Musk Unveils Macrohard: An AI-Native Software Company Built to Outmaneuver Microsoft
Elon Musk wants to build a software company that writes itself. On August 22, 2025, the billionaire announced Macrohard—a "purely AI software company" designed to simulate what a modern Microsoft...
Windows 11 Preview Brings Apple Handoff-Style Spotify Resume from Android to PC
Microsoft is rolling out a new Android-to-PC handoff feature to Windows Insiders that lets you pick up a Spotify track exactly where you left off on your phone—with a single click on the desktop...
Elon Musk's Macrohard Takes Aim at Microsoft with AI-Powered Code Factory
On August 22, 2025, Elon Musk tweeted a job call for a new company with a name that sounds like a joke and a mission that isn’t. “Join @xAI and help build a purely AI software company called...
Microsoft's Enterprise AI Blueprint: Copilot Everywhere, Custom Silicon, and the Battle for Trust
Microsoft’s AI platform has evolved from a research-driven experiment into a full-fledged enterprise strategy that embeds generative intelligence across every layer of its stack. The Redmond giant...
GPT-5 Lands in Microsoft Copilot with Smart Mode Routing and Enterprise Governance
Microsoft flipped the switch on GPT-5 across its Copilot ecosystem on August 7, 2025, embedding OpenAI's newest reasoning engine into Microsoft 365, GitHub Copilot, Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry,...