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GitHub Models is fully retired as of July 30, 2026. The playground, model catalog, inference API, and BYOK are gone for every customer. Here is the timeline and where to get model access instead.

GitHub's stacked pull requests went into public preview on July 30. Stacks turn one large change into an ordered chain of small, reviewable PRs with one-click merge, plus a gh-stack skill for coding agents.

Inkling-Small is a 276B-parameter MoE with 12B active per token, Apache 2.0, and open weights. It beats the 975B Inkling on SWEBench Verified (80.2), HLE (31.6), and tool use at a quarter of the size and a third of the output price.

A calibrated study on real ConflictBench Java conflicts finds LLM agents match the developer's own resolution on 55-59% of true conflicts versus 36.7% for the best structured tool. The edge is coverage, not accuracy: the tools abstain on 20-90% of conflicts, the LLM on none.

MiniMax launched H3, an omni-modal generation model that takes text, image, video, and audio input and outputs 2K video with native stereo sound at 0.80 CNY per second. Open weights are promised in the coming days.

The "Building abundant intelligence" essay carries real engineering numbers: GPT-5.6 Sol cut serving costs 20%, speculative decoding gained 15%, and two settings moved ARC-AGI-3 from 13.3% to 38.3% with six times fewer tokens.

OpenAI took down a Cambodia-based operation that used ChatGPT for personas, translations, forged documents, and admin work. It is the clearest picture yet of how LLMs slot into organized fraud.

A new benchmark drops five frontier coding agents into a live OpenTelemetry microservice system with real Prometheus, Jaeger, and OpenSearch telemetry. Best RCA accuracy: 25.3% on Medium, 10.0% on Hard. Even Claude Fable 5 is far from oncall-ready.

A new paper wraps code into an OWL2 ontology with SPARQL property paths to answer multi-hop structural queries for coding agents - 2.06x retrieval recall and 28.8% fewer tokens on SWE-bench Pro, versus treating code as plain text.

A systematic audit of SWE-bench Verified finds 68 of 500 instances (13.6%) pair a pull request with an issue it does not actually resolve, penalizing agents that correctly solve the stated problem. PAIChecker, a three-phase multi-agent checker, flags them with up to 92.12% binary accuracy.

Shopify's July 30 Hydrogen developer preview update ships Vue bindings, bundled GraphQL TypeScript tooling, Shopify Inbox AI chat, and agent skills for four more frameworks. What the rebuilt toolkit means for storefront developers and coding agents.

A Michigan team measures prose SKILL.md files against compiled harnesses: agents execute only 56% of the steps their own skill mandates. SIGIL compiles skills into typed graph harnesses, hitting 86% compliance with 0.58x the tokens.

A new 188-task benchmark for non-functional improvements finds coding agents hit 70% on functional correctness but lag humans on refactors and structural changes - the quality gap that becomes tech debt.

Vercel cut end-to-end deployment time by up to 7 seconds, removing 5 seconds of fixed platform overhead from every build and up to 2 more seconds from the CLI path. Here is exactly where the time went and what it means for your CI loop.

Vercel Passport is generally available: protect deployments behind Okta, Entra ID, or any OIDC provider, and read a verified identity in app code with getIdentity(). Here is how it works and why it matters.

The 7 AI developer stories that actually mattered this week - ranked, linked, and cut for builders.

Agent-Manager wraps tmux into a Go TUI that groups AI coding agents by project, shows live status for each, and lets you answer blocked agents or review their changes without attaching to their terminal.

Hugging Face published a stunning technical play-by-play of a 4.5-day AI agent intrusion. The HN community is divided on who is to blame and what it means for agent security.

Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 family gives humanoid robots whole-body control, dexterous hands, and multi-robot teamwork - with an ER 2 model devs can try today. The HN thread (575 points, 459 comments) debated how real the progress is.

OpenAI slashes GPT-5.6 Luna by 80% to $0.20/M input tokens, cuts Terra by 20%, adds Sol Fast mode at 2.5x speed, and reveals Sol autonomously optimized its own production kernels.