EP 34: Anthropic acquired Bun

AgiBot’s A2 humanoid robot made history by walking 106 km from Suzhou to Shanghai over three days with zero shutdowns, using autonomous navigation and hot-swappable batteries—showcasing China’s progress in commercial humanoids already selling 1,000+ units this year. At AWS re:Invent, Amazon introduced Frontier Agents, long-running autonomous AI teammates like Kiro (software dev), the AWS Security Agent, and the DevOps Agent—systems that maintain context, operate for hours or days, and already outperform humans in tasks like pen-testing and incident response. AWS also open-sourced IAM Policy Autopilot, an MCP server that reads your code and deterministically generates least-privilege IAM policies for Python, TS, and Go—solving a longstanding developer pain point and enabling AI assistants like Claude Code and Cursor to produce accurate AWS-aware policies. DeepSeek dropped DeepSeek-V3.2, the most advanced open-source reasoning and agent model yet, matching GPT-5-High on many benchmarks, introducing a new sparse-attention mechanism (DSA), massive RL post-training, and a huge synthetic agent-task dataset—pushing open models into Olympiad-gold territory with its Speciale variant. Amazon Bedrock added 18 new open-weight models including Mistral Large 3, Ministral small models, MiniMax M2, and Qwen3 variants—expanding fully managed open-source options for coding agents and UI-to-code automation. A developer also published insights from building pi, a minimalist coding-agent harness showing that small, transparent agent loops paired with strong models like Claude Opus 4.5 can beat more complex systems on TerminalBench 2.0, emphasizing simplicity, observability, and minimal toolsets. Finally, Anthropic acquired Bun, the JavaScript runtime powering Claude Code, and revealed that Claude Code hit $1B run-rate revenue in just six months, reinforcing how fast AI-native developer tools are transforming the software ecosystem.