GLM-5.2 takes the open-weights crown at a fraction of the price, DeepSeek finally gains vision, Lore emerges as a version control system built to challenge Git at scale, MCP ships enterprise-managed OAuth, and Charity Majors argues AI demands more engineering discipline, not less. [...]
The US government orders Anthropic to suspend Fable 5 and Mythos, SpaceX acquires Cursor for $60 billion, Homebrew 6.0 ships with macOS 27 support, an AI agent racks up a massive bill unsupervised, Apple enters the container space, going HTML first doubles a startup's users, and a LinkedIn job offer hides a backdoor. [...]
Anthropic ships Opus 4.8 with dynamic workflows, OpenRouter raises $113M to become the model marketplace, SQLite draws a hard line against AI generated code, and a developer's open source project gets weaponized for phishing. [...]
The Weekly Diff is a curated roundup of the week's most interesting developer stories. This week: a trojanized VSCode extension breaches 3,800 GitHub repos, Google silently replaces Antigravity with a chatbot, Microsoft kills Claude Code licenses, Files.md offers a no-lock-in Obsidian alternative, and Node.js 26 finally ships the Temporal API. [...]