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According to the announcement from Factory, the enterprise-level AI software engineering company Factory has announced the acquisition of the coding intelligence collaboration platform HumanLayer, with co-founders Dex Horthy and Kyle Mistele joining.The HumanLayer platform will be open-sourced, supporting users to export data and migrate to Factory or self-host the open-source version during the transition period.

Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek has announced a design plan aimed at enhancing the autonomy of AI coding assistants, allowing them to reduce human intervention while performing multiple tasks. According to a report by the South China Morning Post on Sunday, the plan originates from a paper published by the DeepSeek Harness team, with the core goal of reducing the human effort required to coordinate and monitor multiple AI agents.The team pointed out that managing multiple agents consumes human attention and cited a statement from the paper that "the single-task limit depends on model capability, while the multi-task limit depends on human attention." The paper also stated that one person can only supervise 3 to 5 active AI agent conversations at the same time. The proposed system will allocate tasks and coordinate work among the agents, allowing humans to free up energy to review results and make decisions.This proposal comes at a time of intense competition among AI developers, involving American companies Anthropic and OpenAI. Previously, Cointelegraph reported in October last year that, according to data from blockchain analysis platform CoinGlass, Chinese AI models outperformed their American counterparts in cryptocurrency trading, with DeepSeek being the only AI model in an experiment to achieve a 9.1% positive unrealized return, while the development cost of this model was only a small fraction of that of its American competitors.

On October 28, Jack Cable, co-founder of AI coding security company Corridor, and Ashwin Ramaswami published an article on the Cognition official website stating that Corridor will join Cognition and take Devin Security to the next stage. Cognition later stated on X that the company is acquiring Corridor. Cognition is the developer of AI software engineer Devin.Jack Cable and Ashwin Ramaswami wrote that Corridor was founded about two years ago with the mission of accelerating secure and autonomous software development, and it has now become a security layer for AI-native teams. The two stated that they will collaborate with Cognition President and early Corridor advisor Russell Kaplan, Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos, and Chief Technology Officer Steven Hao. They also mentioned that throughout their careers, they have discovered and fixed vulnerabilities in critical systems and believe that AI agents are now capable of executing end-to-end attack chains, necessitating new tools for defenders.Previously, Corridor announced in August 2025 the completion of a $5.4 million seed round led by Conviction, and in March 2026 announced the completion of a $25 million Series A round led by Felicis, with a valuation of $200 million, with participation from Conviction, Timeless, Lux Capital, Datadog, SV Angel, and others. Its product positioning is to embed security controls in the process of AI-generated code, rather than adding security measures after the code is written.

Bitcoin software company Breez stated that since AI coding agents have become mainstream, the demand for its developer tools has surged significantly, with consulting requests increasing by approximately 14 times. Developers and the AI agents they deploy are seeking to integrate Bitcoin payments into their applications. Breez directly attributes this growth to Anthropic's Claude Code, which was launched as a research preview in February 2025 and officially opened three months later.Breez noted that before 2025, potential partners mainly fell into three categories: staunch Bitcoin enthusiasts, crypto developers, and fintech companies that view Bitcoin as an asset class. Since the launch of Claude Code, many developers with little to no Bitcoin experience have begun to inquire, with demand coming from fitness applications, messaging apps that want users to transfer money to each other, eSIM services for travelers, and a team developing a mushroom identification app. Breez stated that these developers often choose Bitcoin for its speed, as traditional payment processing involves bank accounts and cross-border transfers, which can take weeks or even months, while its SDK can be operational in just a few minutes.Breez mentioned that an increasing number of inquiries are coming from software rather than humans, as coding agents often represent the companies deploying them in making requests. The company believes that agents prefer Bitcoin because it is permissionless; agents can build applications and set up payments for global users without needing to open bank accounts, go through approvals, or sign documents. Breez stated that its latest SDK, built on the Bitcoin scaling protocol Spark, has successfully handled the increased traffic.

Microsoft (MSFT.O) has launched an artificial intelligence coding model that can run on personal laptops.

Arc announced the launch of the AI-driven development tool Arc Studio, which allows users to describe their requirements in natural language. It generates full-stack on-chain applications, contracts, or agents that include front-end interfaces, back-end logic, and smart contracts within minutes. It also supports code review, testing, and export.This tool natively understands the Arc and Circle development stack, including CCTP, Circle Contracts, Gateway, and Wallets. It can integrate protocols such as Aave, Morpho, and Uniswap, and can be tested on nine chains: Arbitrum, Arc, Avalanche, Base, Ethereum, Monad, OP Mainnet, Polygon, and Unichain. Arc Studio can also connect as a sub-agent to Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. The official reminder states that AI-generated code still requires independent review and testing, and Arc Studio will not deploy, sign, fund, or submit mainnet transactions on behalf of users.

Google (GOOG.O) announced the launch of the Google Cloud Developer Plugin, which is used for the artificial intelligence coding assistant.

According to the official announcement from Zhipu, the "Citywide Coding Program" launched on September 10, providing coding package subsidies for employees in Hangzhou, students from universities in Hangzhou, and companies in Shangcheng District.The subsidy for individual quarterly and annual cards is 44% and 51%, respectively, while the subsidy for corporate annual cards is 55% (with a maximum limit of 1 million yuan per company). Each individual is limited to one use, and must choose between a quarterly or annual card, with a requirement to submit proof of social insurance participation or a student status verification report for application.

On September 2, the domestic large model manufacturer Zhipu opened an official flagship store on Tmall, selling products such as the Coding Plan package.Currently available products include personal versions like Lite, Pro, Max, etc., which can be purchased via monthly/quarterly/annual subscriptions. In the future, buying Tokens will also be possible on the e-commerce platform.

Z.ai released GLM-5.3, which is based on the same foundational model as GLM-5.2, achieving capability improvements through expanded post-training. The official statement claims that GLM-5.3 has improved by 50% on the internal Z.ai Code Bench coding benchmark compared to GLM-5.2, and has reached leading levels among open models in public benchmarks such as Terminal Bench 3 and Agents' Last Exam.In terms of cybersecurity, GLM-5.3 achieved a score of 84.5% in the CyberGym vulnerability discovery test, and showed significant improvements in exploitation chain-related tests such as ExploitBench and ExploitGym compared to its predecessor.

According to official news, Tether's local AI development platform QVAC has launched SDK 0.13.0, which adds local integration for OpenCode and coding proxies, improves compatibility with OpenAI's API, and supports one-click packaging of Mac, Windows, and Linux desktop applications through an Electron plugin.

Cysic today announced a joint launch with MiniMax of the CyOps Arena AI Hackathon, offering a $5,000 prize pool open to developers, and providing an 80% discount on model token prices during the event to support more developers in building projects using MiniMax's new model M3.This hackathon focuses on AI Coding and long-cycle engineering tasks. Participants can use Cysic's multi-agent coding platform CyOps to collaboratively complete planning, development, review, and iteration, and build real engineering projects based on MiniMax's new model M3.The submission deadline for the CyOps Arena is June 15, EOD PT. Participants can complete real engineering tasks, submit projects, and participate in evaluations based on CyOps's multi-agent coding capabilities.Cysic is a computing power infrastructure project aimed at high-performance computing scenarios, while CyOps is its multi-agent coding platform launched for AI Coding and engineering automation.

Developers can officially call the latest Claude Fable 5 model released by Anthropic through the B.AI platform. As Anthropic's strongest coding model to date, Claude Fable 5 is designed for challenging engineering scenarios such as legacy system migration, complex bug troubleshooting in production environments, and long-cycle asynchronous development. It excels in code generation, logical reasoning, and problem-solving. This model further enhances long-context understanding and task planning capabilities, able to handle complex development processes that last for hours or even days. Currently, the API is fully open, supporting flexible integration and invocation; the web-based dialogue function will also be launched on the B.AI platform soon, providing developers with a more convenient and smooth interactive experience.

The B.AI platform officially launched the Claude Opus 4.8 model. This model maintains the same price as version 4.7 while significantly enhancing coding and reasoning capabilities, achieving several key breakthroughs, including a notable reduction in code defect detection failure rates by approximately 4 times, more objective and accurate task progress feedback, and further enhancement of the ability to independently execute complex tasks for extended periods, better supporting automated development and deep reasoning scenarios.Currently, Opus 4.8 has fully opened API integration and Web Chat access. Users can log in to the official website to experience it immediately or refer to the official documentation for more technical details.

According to official news, the AI Agent platform HolmesAI announced that its registered users have officially surpassed 4 million, and simultaneously launched a new product form called Coding Agent. This product aims to expand the application scenarios of "digital avatars" from social interactions to coding and development fields. Users can generate their own Coding Persona by importing Markdown documents and attach it to the Agent to execute development tasks.It is reported that HolmesAI has accumulated a total of $8 million in financing to date, with investors including well-known institutions such as Bitrise Capital, IBG Capital, Generative Ventures, Waterdrip Capital, and CGV Fund. HashKey Group also participated in early incubation support.The official stated that with the launch of the new product, HolmesAI has officially entered the Pre-TGE stage. From now until June 30, the platform will offer free creation benefits for Coding Agent and provide a daily quota of 100,000 Tokens for calls. In addition, HolmesAI will collaborate with Web3 ecosystem partners in the coming weeks to continuously launch multiple rounds of airdrops and limited-time benefits as part of Pre-TGE community incentive activities.