Claude Opus 4.8 is now available in Cursor. On CursorBench, it's able to work much more efficiently than Opus 4.7. We've also found it to be more persistent on harder tasks.
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Opus 4.8 AI Model Release: Agentic Coding Boost, Faster, Cheaper Modes
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Opus 4.8 is live. Benchmarks especially significant jump in Agentic coding, but more important: „Fast mode is available for Opus 4.8. It's the same model at roughly 2.5x the speed, and we've made it three times cheaper than before.“
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New Claude features: fast mode, dynamic workflows, effort controls
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Also shipping today:
• Fast mode for Opus 4.8 – 2.5x faster, 3x cheaper vs 4.7
• Dynamic workflows in CC – hundreds of parallel subagents in one session, and verifies its own work • Effort controls on http://
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New LangChain Academy Course on Scaling Deep Agent Deployment
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New LangChain Academy Course: Intro to LangSmith Deployment
— LangChain (@LangChain) 28 mai 2026
In this course, you’ll learn how to scale a single-user desktop Deep Agent all the way to a multi-tenant deployment running on managed, elastic infrastructure. pic.twitter.com/pFXZRhTZDHNew LangChain Academy Course: Intro to LangSmith Deployment In this course, you’ll learn how to scale a single-user desktop Deep Agent all the way to a multi-tenant deployment running on managed, elastic infrastructure.
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Gemini API Video-to-Image Generation: Frame Optimization
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API docs here: https://
ai.google.dev/gemini-api/doc
s/image-generation#video-to-image
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Nano Banana 2 Video-to-Image Feature Launch
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Fun new feature landing in Nano Banana 2 today:
— fofr (@fofrAI) 28 mai 2026
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Pass a video or YouTube URL to Nano Banana 2 along with your prompt, and it'll use the video as context to make the image.
> create a comic strip from this video pic.twitter.com/1raoUB1UlTFun new feature landing in Nano Banana 2 today: video-to-image Pass a video or YouTube URL to Nano Banana 2 along with your prompt, and it'll use the video as context to make the image. > create a comic strip from this video
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Perplexity Computer now helps prepare federal tax returns
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https://t.co/b774dXzDJ7 https://t.co/NeC9DfB4rI
— Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas) 28 mai 2026Perplexity Computer can now help prepare your federal tax return. Select “Navigate my taxes” on Computer to give it a shot.
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Integrating MagicPath AI Agent Skill with Cursor for Code Automation
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For Cursor to communicate with MagicPath, it needs our agent skill. Just paste this inside the Cursor chat. "Install this skill npx skills add https://
github.com/magicpathai/ag
ent-skills
… –skill magicpath" The agent will walk you through the installation, logging into our app and the CLI. If you -
Cursor AI Tool for Automated Code Development
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Then ask Cursor to either start working on the open MagicPath file, create a new one, or point to an existing one. Cursor will know what to do.
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AI Agents Need to Learn from Executions for Meaningful Functionality
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I've been waiting for something like this for a while. Agents that don't learn from their executions make no sense.