BuildersJetBrains puts Air into its IDEs: several agents at once, all sessions in one place, on a double CtrlAir is an "open system" for agentic development, in early access from 1 October through the 2026.3 EAP builds or as a Marketplace plugin. You run several agents in parallel, locally or in the cloud, each in its own temporary worktree. A JetBrains AI subscription is not mandatory: Junie Lite is free after signing in, and you bring your own Codex, Gemini, GitHub Copilot or Claude Agent.BuildersBarclays expects half of its developers to be using Claude Code by the end of the yearOn 1 October Anthropic said British bank Barclays is expanding their collaboration and rolling Claude out across the bank. Barclays expects Claude Code to reach 50 percent of its developers by the end of 2026 and a majority of its software engineers in 2027.BuildersOpenAI launches dots - agents that can work around the clock on their own cloud computerOn 29 September OpenAI introduced dots: always-on agents powered by GPT-6 Astra that have their own cloud computer, remember context and work in the apps you connect. They start with Business Premium and with Pro, but Pro is for now outside the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the UK.BuildersMicrosoft rebuilt Copilot around three things: Home, Code and an agent that works while nobody is thereThe new Copilot brings chat and delegated work into one place, lets anyone build small apps with GitHub Copilot's technology and adds Autopilot - a persistent agent in the cloud. Long agentic work and frontier models run on usage-based billing.Buildersn8n released agents that work out the steps themselves, while workflows set how far they can reachOn 25 September n8n added a new type of agent: you describe the task, choose a model, tools and workflows, and the agent decides how to reach the result. Workflows can become its tools and so limit what it can touch. The old AI Agent node stays unchanged.BuildersDocker opened a format for what an agent is allowed to do and is handing it to the CNCFOn 24 September Docker released the Sandbox Kit Spec under Apache 2.0: the agent, its tools and a list of everything it wants to reach, in one ordinary container image. The standard goes under the neutral governance of the CNCF. The same day brought Cloud Sandboxes for agents that work for hours.BuildersGoogle closed Gemini 2.5 to new usersIn a note dated 18 September Google limited access to the Gemini 2.5 models in the API to users who have actively used them. They are not deprecated, but for a new app Google points to 3.5 Flash-Lite or 3.8 Flash, citing capacity.BuildersOpen models passed half the traffic at Vercel: 56 per cent of tokens, but 14 per cent of the moneyThe monthly AI Gateway index for August: open models handle most tokens for the first time, the price per token falls for the third month in a row, and Anthropic takes 64 cents of every dollar.
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