Meta Acquires AI Coding Startup Conductor to Power Multi-Agent Developer Workflows
Meta acquired Conductor, a startup that orchestrates multiple AI coding agents working simultaneously across code branches. The cloud service shuts down November 20.
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Meta acquired Conductor, a startup that orchestrates multiple AI coding agents working simultaneously across code branches. The cloud service shuts down November 20.
DeepSeek released an open-source autonomous coding agent that proactively monitors developer group chats and suggests fixes without being prompted — a direct challenge to Anthropic's Claude Code.
GitHub announced at Universe 2026 it is repositioning as an AI agent-driven software delivery platform, with a new standalone Copilot app designed to manage code autonomously.
GitHub's Copilot Fusion automatically routes coding tasks to the cheapest capable model, matching premium AI coding tools at roughly half the cost.
Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 at $0.10/$0.50 per million tokens — 75% cheaper than the previous generation — targeting developers building high-volume consumer AI applications.
Anthropic cut the price of its lightweight Claude Haiku model by 75%, matching OpenAI on cost and introducing a new Effort Setting that lets developers control compute trade-offs per request.
OpenAI opened its Decisions API to all developers, returning typed answers at roughly ten times the speed of the Responses API, with output tokens unbilled and HIPAA support included.
OpenAI is discontinuing the Sora API on September 24, ending developer access to its video generation model with no successor announced.
Microsoft unveiled MAI-Code-1-Flash at Build 2026, a model that converts written descriptions into working application code — the clearest sign yet that it is building around OpenAI, not through it.
Microsoft is replacing GPT-4 Turbo in GitHub Copilot with Project Polaris, its own in-house mixture-of-experts coding model, starting August 2026 — the company's biggest step yet toward AI independence from OpenAI.
Microsoft released Windows Agent Framework 1.0 under the MIT license at Build 2026, enabling developers to build AI agents that run across local PCs, cloud desktops, and edge devices from a single YAML manifest.