OpenClaw 2026.4.21 is live. Small release, important fix: npm updates now repair bundled plugin runtime deps, with Docker E2E coverage so Telegram/Discord/Slack do not break after upgrade. Also backports OpenAI Image 2 support. npm i -g openclaw@latest
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GPT 5.5 and new models added to Codex CLI
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GPT 5.5 (and a bunch of random model names) have been added to Codex Cli GPT 5.5 has arrived
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Claude Code Pricing Plan Eligibility Question for New Subscribers
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If I sign up for a new $20/month account today and roll the dice and get unlucky (1/50 chance) will I end up not being able to use Claude Code with it, or is the 2% just the chance that I'll see the new pricing grid during the signup flow?
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GitHub Copilot Pauses Signups Amid Major Pricing Changes
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Apparently my blog is mostly about token pricing now, here are some notes on the big changes GitHub Copilot just announced, including pausing new signups entirely
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SpaceX acquires coding AI startup Cursor for $60 billion
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SpaceX revealed it has secured the option to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion, or alternatively pay $10 billion for their joint work. SpaceX (xAI) will certainly help it catch up in the competition, and, just like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, it is increasingly
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Cursor xAI Partnership: $60B Option for SOTA Coding Model
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If Cursor trains a genuinely SOTA coding model on xAI's infra, xAI exercises the $60B option and Grok instantly becomes a top-tier coding agent via the Cursor harness and 500K+ dev user base. If Cursor doesn't hit SOTA, xAI walks, pays $10B for "collaboration," and still got x.com/nmasc_/status/…
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Claude Cowork Awaits Gmail Email Sending MCP Feature
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when claude cowork tells you to wait for claude cowork to add email sending via gmail mcp
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CI Pipeline Optimization Through Server Parallelization Strategy
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Did some work to get our CI times down from 8 to two minutes via some… parallelization. Kudos to the @useblacksmith folks for sponsoring + letting us melt their servers.
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xAI Cursor Partnership Leverages Data GPU Resources Coding
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My read on the structure of this deal: 1. xAI is leveraging Cursor's data / traces to help train a better coding model (both Grok base model and post-trained Composer model)
2. xAI also has a bunch of idle GPUs which Cursor can put to use
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Model Switching Limitations in Efficient AI Architectures
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You can! (unless you're using the efficient model, which uses a different agent architecture that can't swap between models)