Daily AI briefing: tools, open models, industry trends.https://danielkeller.com/en-ushttps://danielkeller.com/ai-tracker/2026-05-07/https://danielkeller.com/ai-tracker/2026-05-07/Anthropic's SpaceX/xAI compute deal doubles Claude Code rate limits and removes peak-hour throttling. New Claude Code v2.1.132 ships useful session-ID and alternate-screen env vars, and Anthropic's Managed Agents platform adds dreaming, outcomes, and multiagent orchestration.Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI TrackerDaily Briefinghttps://danielkeller.com/ai-tracker/2026-05-06/https://danielkeller.com/ai-tracker/2026-05-06/A major day for Claude Code and local inference: Anthropic held their 'Code w/ Claude 2026' event (live-blogged by Simon Willison), removed peak-hours throttling on Claude Code Pro/Max via a SpaceX compute deal, and shipped new plugin/dispatch features. Meanwhile, MTP (Multi-Token Prediction) is delivering 2-2.5x speedups for Qwen 3.6 27B locally, and Ollama shipped MTP support for Gemma 4 on Mac.Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI TrackerDaily Briefinghttps://danielkeller.com/ai-tracker/2026-05-05/https://danielkeller.com/ai-tracker/2026-05-05/OpenAI launched GPT-5.5 Instant as the new default ChatGPT model, Ollama shipped Gemma 4 MTP speculative decoding for Mac with 2x speed gains, and a practical r/LocalLLaMA post quantified exactly when local models beat cloud — directly relevant to your hybrid routing setup.Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI TrackerDaily Briefinghttps://danielkeller.com/ai-tracker/2026-05-04/https://danielkeller.com/ai-tracker/2026-05-04/A Sunday with a notable Claude Code release (v2.1.128 with plugin archives and channel auth), a Cursor changelog drop, and strong signals from JetBrains and LangChain on open models closing the gap with frontier for agent tasks.Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI TrackerDaily Briefinghttps://danielkeller.com/ai-tracker/2026-05-03/https://danielkeller.com/ai-tracker/2026-05-03/Ollama v0.23.0 ships Claude Desktop integration (including Claude Code support via local models), and Eugene Yan publishes a substantial piece on compounding with AI that aligns closely with your 'context, not control' framing.Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI TrackerDaily Briefinghttps://danielkeller.com/ai-tracker/2026-05-02/https://danielkeller.com/ai-tracker/2026-05-02/_Quiet day — A genuinely quiet day for actionable AI engineering news. The notable items are incremental llama.cpp maintenance releases, a minor LiteLLM stable cut, and event announcements — nothing that changes practice today._Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI TrackerDaily Briefinghttps://danielkeller.com/ai-tracker/2026-05-01/https://danielkeller.com/ai-tracker/2026-05-01/Claude Code v2.1.126 shipped with LiteLLM gateway model discovery and a useful project-purge command. Cursor posted a changelog, LangGraph alpha adds node-level error handlers and stream_events v3, and Simon Willison demonstrated building a full app on his phone with Claude Code.Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI TrackerDaily Briefinghttps://danielkeller.com/ai-tracker/2026-04-30/https://danielkeller.com/ai-tracker/2026-04-30/Cursor shipped a changelog update, OpenAI's Codex CLI gained a goal-loop feature reminiscent of headless agent patterns, and LangGraph added node-level error handlers in an alpha — a relatively light day but with a few items directly relevant to your agentic workflows.Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI TrackerDaily Briefinghttps://danielkeller.com/ai-tracker/2026-04-29/https://danielkeller.com/ai-tracker/2026-04-29/A relatively quiet day anchored by Simon Willison's significant LLM library refactor (now modelling conversations rather than prompts), a Cursor SDK release, a minor Claude Code patch, and DeepSeek-V4 Pro landing with 512K context. LangGraph's alpha introduces timers and graceful shutdown — relevant for long-running agent infrastructure.Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI TrackerDaily Briefing