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Matthias Bastian
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May 20, 2026
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Read full article about: Deepseek wants to take on Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex with "Deepseek Code"

Deepseek is building a Claude Code competitor. The Chinese AI company is setting up a new "Harness" team in Beijing to build its own code agent from scratch, working title "Deepseek Code." Deli Chen from Deepseek posted the job listings on X. "Harness" refers to everything beyond the model itself: tool use, planning, and memory. The core idea: model plus harness equals AI agent. We break this down in our AI Radar #1 on AI agents.

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The company is hiring a product manager and a developer, both heavy users of tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or GitHub Copilot. They'll work closely with the model research team. The product manager owns the roadmap, runs feedback analysis, and builds a community. Candidates should know agent loops, MCP, multi-agent systems, and context engineering. Experience with "vibe coding" is expected too.

Deepseek is positioning the project at the intersection of research and product, in direct competition with Anthropic's Claude Code, OpenAI's Codex, and Cursor.

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Maximilian Schreiner
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May 20, 2026
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Google tests the app market version of the SaaSpocalypse

Google AI Studio can now generate native Android apps from a prompt – built in Kotlin with Jetpack Compose and testable in a browser emulator. For simple utility apps like trackers or checklists, the Play Store could become less and less relevant. Apple is taking the opposite approach, consistently blocking vibe-coding apps.

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May 20, 2026
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Google pairs its Genie world model with Street View to create explorable AI worlds based on real places

Google Deepmind connects its Genie 3 world model to Street View imagery: users drop a pin on a map and get a walkable, AI-generated world based on a real place. Google’s Street View data, collected over many years, becomes a strategic training resource for creative demos, but above all for AI agents and robots.

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Matthias Bastian
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May 19, 2026
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Google overhauls its AI subscriptions at I/O 2026 with three tiers starting at $10 a month

Google is restructuring its AI subscriptions at I/O 2026: three tiers from $7.99 to $99.99 per month with staggered usage limits, new models like Gemini Omni, and the AI agent Gemini Spark. Instead of daily prompt limits, Google is moving to a consumption-based compute model, a trend that’s gaining traction across the industry.

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Matthias Bastian
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May 19, 2026
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Read full article about: Sorry for the outages: Bot spam is pushing our servers to the limit

Since May 17, our site has been hard to reach, and we want to say sorry for the trouble, especially to our subscribers. The cause is a heavy wave of bots crawling our pages and pushing our servers to their limit. Over the weekend, the database connection dropped several times, which led our hosting provider to block a user agent. That cut down the spam, but it also locked some of you out of the site.

We are working at full speed on a lasting fix and would welcome help from anyone in the community with the right know-how. Since the bot spam is so severe, with Perplexity in particular on our radar, we may have to put up with further outages until things are stable again.

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May 19, 2026
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Prominent AI researcher Andrej Karpathy picks Anthropic over former home OpenAI to get back into frontier LLM research

Andrej Karpathy, one of the biggest names in AI, is joining Anthropic. The former OpenAI core team member and Tesla Autopilot architect says he wants to get back into R&D, calling the next few years at the frontier of LLMs “especially formative.” That he chose Anthropic over a return to OpenAI is a clear loss for his former employer.

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