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Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex

Asana used OpenAI Codex to replace an outdated testing system in two weeks, completing work expected to take five years for about $12K.

Why it matters

Agent infrastructure changes how AI systems connect to tools, data, and production enterprise workflows.

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The Download: how people really use AI, and Flock’s design choices

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. We still don’t know how people are really using AI AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using their products. But they only release the…
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Space raises $2.4M to abolish the hard drive with an AI-native filesystem for humans and agents

Every few years, someone promises to abolish the hard drive. The latest is Space, a San Francisco startup coming out of stealth with $2.4m in pre-seed funding and an unusually literal pitch: a distributed filesystem that lets people and AI agents work across petabytes of live data while using, the company claims,...
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Signal clusters

AI infrastructure and compute +8.2

Compute and data-center constraints remain central, with inference and cloud funding, government hardware buys, AMD efficiency claims, and AI workload placement debates.
Coding agents and workflows +3.3

Coding agents are spreading through real engineering workflows, from Codex migrations and Claude Code design skills to Cursor controls, COBOL modernization, and software factories.
Robotics and embodied AI -2.2

Embodied AI coverage clusters around new bipedal humanoid demos and practical limits on humanoid deployment readiness in physical settings.

Quick takes

Frontier labs are shipping denser workhorse and agent-focused model refreshes in parallel, spanning Gemini 3.7 Flash, GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast, and Grok 4.6.
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Enterprise coding agents are moving from assistance into execution, with firms reporting multi-year engineering backlogs cleared in weeks using Codex-style workflows.
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Agent tooling is shifting toward visible, steerable canvases so long-running workflows stay inspectable and cost-managed instead of disappearing into chat scroll.
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AI infrastructure capital is concentrating around data-center buildouts and neocloud pivots, with large NVIDIA, SoftBank, SpaceX, and Groq funding moves in the same window.
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Frontier labs are releasing agent-oriented models in parallel, with Gemini 3.7 Flash, Grok 4.6, and GPT-5.6 Sol updates aimed at coding and long-running workflows.
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OpenAI is pairing GPT-5.6 Sol with a Cerebras-backed Ultrafast API tier that can reach about 750 output tokens per second, shifting latency competition into serving tiers.
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Enterprise AI is moving from assistance to execution as OpenAI reports enterprise revenue now exceeding consumer sales and companies wire ChatGPT and Codex into product and ops work.
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Infrastructure capital is concentrating around capacity and neocloud pivots, from Groq's $350M raise to Nvidia's $1.5B SoftBank data-center stake tied to OpenAI compute.
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Market Pulse

AI Pulse
38/100
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AI-linked equities are under pressure, with Arm Holdings plc -6.94%, Advanced Micro Devices -5.37%, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing -4.22% driving the tracked basket lower.

ARM -6.94%
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AMD -5.37%
Advanced Micro Devices chips
TSM -4.22%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing chips
META -3.33%
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Recurring Movers

ARM 12 hits · -2.87%
META 10 hits · -3.54%
SMCI 9 hits · -3.92%
MSFT 7 hits · -3.04%

Recent headlines

Tue, Aug 18
Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex

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 Mon, Aug 17
OpenAI leases 10-gigawatt AI data center campus from SoftBank’s SB Energy

Startups

 Sun, Aug 16
OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team

Chips

 Sat, Aug 15
SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition

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 Fri, Aug 14
Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash

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