AI Updates on 2026-02-08

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.6 with 2.5x faster processing speed, now available via Claude Code and API @claudeai
OpenAI launches GPT-5.3-Codex achieving 2x token efficiency for coding compared to previous versions @polynoamial
xAI's Grok-Imagine-Image models achieve Pareto-optimal performance in Image Arena at mid-price tier, now available via API @xai

Google search query volume grew 61% to 5T/year from 2023-2025, with search revenue up 28% to $225B despite predictions of AI disruption @fchollet
ChatPRD replaced one full-time software engineer with token spend, finding it more cost-effective than backfilling the position @clairevo
Top AI talent competition intensifies as candidates are snatched by research labs, YC startups, or frontier AI companies within weeks of being recommended @clairevo
Qwen leads open model downloads with 40 models in top 100, followed by Llama with 13 and DeepSeek with 10 @natolambert

Craft Agents enables 100% of non-developers at Craft to use AI coding tools, now supporting Codex on Windows, Mac, and Linux @GergelyOrosz
Mitchell Hashimoto launches Vouch, a trust management system for open source that requires explicit vouching to prevent AI-generated spam PRs @GergelyOrosz
Developers report GPT-5.3 Codex working continuously for over 2 hours 40 minutes on complex C codebases until tests pass @gdb

Dataset Papers on ArXiv app classifies 52K+ papers introducing new datasets from 212K CS papers using fine-tuned ModernBERT classifier @huggingface
Anthropic research suggests AI models become more incoherent rather than systematically misaligned as reasoning duration increases @natolambert