OpenAI launches Presence, a managed enterprise agent platform with self-reported 75% resolution and 15pp handoff cuts — FDE-led, limited GA, no pricing yet.
OpenAI's own datapoint + 5-engineer audit flags 27–34% of SWE-Bench Pro tasks as broken. It just retracted its own recommendation to use the benchmark.
On 2026-07-09 OpenAI released the three-tier GPT-5.6 family and ChatGPT Work, an agentic product powered by GPT-5.6 with Codex built in and a public system card.
CodeBurn (getagentseal/codeburn) reads the session files your AI coding tools already write, breaks down every token and dollar across 31 integrations, MIT, no proxy, no API key.
Pure-C, single-binary MCP server that indexes a codebase into a Tree-Sitter knowledge graph in milliseconds. 13.3k stars, MIT, 5,604 tests, 11 agents. arXiv 2603.27277 reports 83% quality at 10× fewer tokens.
Headroom v0.27.0 is an Apache-2.0 context-compression layer for AI agents: library, proxy, agent wrapper, and MCP server. Published savings reach 92% on code search and SRE debugging.
GitHub JuliusBrussee/caveman: a TypeScript skill for 30+ agent platforms that asks the agent to drop filler. 75k stars, MIT, 65% output-token reduction.
NVIDIA GEAR, CMU, and UC Berkeley published ENPIRE, a four-module harness that puts coding agents in a closed loop on real robots. Three frontier agents hit 99% pass@8 on five manipulation tasks.
OpenAI announces the acquisition of Ona (formerly Gitpod) to give Codex a persistent, customer-controlled runtime for long-running agents. Deal signed, not closed.
Dietrich Gebert's ponytail v4.6.0 (2026-06-15): 17.9k stars, 8 releases in 4 days. MIT YAGNI skill for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, Aider, Kiro. Benchmark: 80–94% less code, 47–77% lower cost.