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AI news digest — September 15, 2026: pacing debate, open agents, and coding tools

Seven builder stories: Amodei's pacing plan and its open-weights critique, Smaug open-weight agents, Copilot model updates, self-hosted Coder Agents, Kilo Code local coding, and a new agent-building benchmark.

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Link radar, September 15, 2026

Five reads: Anthropic's CI scaling lessons, Copilot auto-model tiers, Cloudflare per-Worker access, Cloudflare search-without-training controls, and ShadowPEFT in PEFT.

Sep 15, 2026 2 min read↗

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What is Temperature?

Temperature is the sampling dial that sets how random a model's next token feels. What low and high settings do, and where builders set it for factual versus creative work.

Sep 15, 2026 1 min read↗

AutomationRadar

Link radar, September 14, 2026

Five reads: Amodei's frontier-pacing essay, OpenAI storage engineering, WeatherNext 3, VS Code Agents usage metrics, and Copilot code-review updates.

Sep 14, 2026 2 min read↗

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What is Inference?

Inference turns a trained model and a fresh prompt into an answer, running the weights forward instead of learning. How serving differs from training, and where builders spend their latency and cost budget.

Sep 14, 2026 1 min read↗

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AI news digest — September 14, 2026: agents, local memory, and open weights

Seven builder stories: GPT-6 Astra tops agent benchmarks, METR details the Hugging Face agent incident, Kimi K2.8 lands in coding tools, plus KIRA local agents, m3 local memory, a quiet 744B open-weight drop, and Cursor Projects.