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Issue #1 — February 25, 2026

• Diffusion models are coming for LLMs. Inception Labs dropped Mercury 2, a reasoning model that generates tokens in parallel. 1,000+ tokens/sec on Blackwell GPUs. This changes the math on agentic loops.

• The "agentic IDE" war is heating up. Emdash (YC W26) runs 21 coding agents in parallel. Cloudflare shipped a full agent hosting SDK. Pi Mono is trending hard.

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