Agents kept inching toward autonomy and everyday usefulness: ChatGPT previewed personal finance, Vercel’s v0 learned to drive the apps it builds, and a new agent‑first language, Zero, debuted. Dev tools shipped steady polish—Claude Code added plugin safety and token‑cost visibility, Next.js refreshed its dev overlay, and Zed embraced ChatGPT subscriptions—while OpenAI probed GPT‑5.5 regressions and Erlang/OTP 29 landed.