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Claude Sonnet 5.5 and GPT-6.1 Sol both launch at $2/$10 per million tokens
Anthropic and OpenAI released new models a day apart at the same price, and both are already in GitHub Copilot.
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Releases and changes coming up. 18 stories.
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AI coding agents are leaving the editor
Copilot can now drive desktop apps, OpenAI's Agents API added computer use, and JetBrains Air runs several agents in parallel.
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Laravel 13.34 and the September product update
Queue improvements in Laravel 13.34.0, plus preview environments and request metrics in Laravel Cloud.
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TypeScript 7.1 beta, the release that brings back a stable API, slips about two weeks
The 7.1 beta, planned for October 6, is being pushed back about two weeks to allow more API testing.
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Vite+ 1.0 ties Vite, Vitest, Rolldown and Oxc into one command
Vite+ 1.0 (September 28) is an MIT-licensed vp command that puts the VoidZero tool chain behind one config.
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OpenJS launches a program that pays for JavaScript security work
The OpenJS Foundation's Security Stewardship Program, launched September 25, funds bug bounties and maintainers' patch and release work.
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Tech companies announced 10,799 job cuts in September, up 77% from August
Tech cuts reached 165,925 so far this year, and AI was cited for about 21% of all announced cuts.
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US hiring stays flat as software postings sit about 23% below 2020
Payrolls grew by 29,000 in September and unemployment was 4.2%. Indeed's software development postings index was 77.32.
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PHP 8.6 brings partial function application
RC1 lands on September 24 and general availability on November 19. Leave ? or ... in place of arguments and you get a closure back.
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React 19.3 makes ViewTransition and Fragment refs stable
React 19.3 (September 9) makes two APIs stable, and React DOM adds use(browser()) and Trusted Types support.
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Laracon US: an image manipulation API, Laravel LSP and artisan doctor
The July 29 announcements worth your time, from Blade formatting in Pint to human approval of tool calls in the AI SDK.
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ES2026 is approved: getOrInsert, Iterator.concat, RegExp.escape and more
ES2026 was approved on June 30. Temporal and explicit resource management (using) are slated for ES2027.
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JetBrains survey: 90% use AI coding agents at work at least weekly
JetBrains surveyed more than 15,000 professional developers from May to July 2026, and 68% use AI coding agents daily.
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GitHub Copilot moved to usage-based billing on June 1
"AI Credits" replace premium requests, each plan includes credits equal to its price, and code completions stay free.
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Laravel MCP 1.0 ships searchable tool catalogs
With 100 tools, the tool definitions drop from 58,585 bytes to 1,431, which is 97.6% smaller.
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The MCP 2026-07-28 spec makes the protocol stateless
With no initialize handshake and no session IDs, MCP servers can sit behind an ordinary load balancer.
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Software job postings sit about 23% below pre-pandemic levels
Indeed's US software development job postings index was 76.62 on September 11, 2026 (February 2020 = 100).
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BLS projects 10% growth for software developers from 2025 to 2035
That is about 174,700 new jobs, down from the 15.8% it projected for 2024 to 2034.