not much happened today

**Stanford** is formalizing AI-native software engineering with a major curriculum overhaul replacing **85% of Fall 2025 material** to focus on **agent skills, context engineering, MCP portals, agent-ready codebase design, agentic code review, security, parallel background agents, and software factories**. Two new courses emphasize **systems-oriented agent engineering** over prompting, highlighting stateful intelligence allocation and dynamic task understanding. Rumors about OpenAI's **Astra** architecture describe it as a **looped transformer**, a modest architectural tweak similar to **Nanbeige 4.2-3B** with layer reuse and adaptive computation passes, clarifying that recurrence does not obscure chain-of-thought reasoning. Infrastructure updates include **Photon 2.1** with **text-to-speech** and **NVIDIA B200** support, and **Baseten's GLM-5.3 Fast** for real-time multimodal inference. ByteDance Seed's **HarnessDev** reframes agent evaluation around the harness rather than task completion.