not much happened today

**Cognition** raised **$400M** at a **$10.2B** valuation to advance AI coding agents, with **swyx** joining to support the "Decade of Agents" thesis. **Vercel** launched an OSS "vibe coding platform" using a tuned **GPT-5** agent loop. **Claude Code** emphasizes minimalism in agent loops for reliability. **Kimi K2-0905** achieved 94% on coding evals and improved agentic capabilities with doubled context length. **Alibaba** released **Qwen3-ASR**, a multilingual transcription model with <8% WER. **Meta** introduced Set Block Decoding for 3-5× faster decoding without architectural changes. Innovations in KV cache compression and quantization include **AutoRound**, **QuTLASS v0.1.0**, and **AlgoPerf v0.6**. **Google's Veo 3** video generation API went GA with significant price cuts and vertical video support.