Shopify just rolled out Canvas, a visual workspace powered by its AI agent, Sidekick. Instead of wrestling with theme code or static panels, merchants can pan across all pages at once, zoom into details, and chat with Sidekick to edit live code in real time. Sidekick even reviews screenshots of its own work to refine layouts. Why it matters: It turns bespoke storefront design from a multi-week coding slog into an interactive creative session.
Anthropic just launched Claude Code Mods, letting developers hack the AI coding tool with simple TypeScript functions. Mods can intercept tool calls, rewrite prompts, draw custom UI elements, and even replace native features like /diff. Better yet, you can ask Claude to write and hot-reload mods for itself. Keep in mind that mods run without sandboxing and hold full machine access.
Google just announced Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier model built for long-horizon reasoning that pushes the output limit to an unprecedented 1 million tokens. Inside Google, it is already refactoring massive C++ codebases and hunting vulnerabilities. Why it matters: giving models the headroom to think across extended trajectories moves AI from an assistant to an autonomous engineer.
OpenAI just launched the Decisions API powered by GPT-6 Luna, bringing real-time decision-making to external apps. Developers simply define questions and possible options, letting the model classify content, route requests, or steer an agent's next move. It is currently in limited preview, with a broad rollout planned within days.
CopilotKit just launched OpenDots, an open-source template for running persistent AI agents on your own infrastructure. Each agent gets its own sandboxed browser, terminal, and workspace, switching between text chat, realtime voice calls, and Slack. Why it matters: it offers developers a self-hosted alternative to proprietary assistants, keeping full control over tools and sensitive data.
EverMind-AI open-sourced Raven, a self-improving meta-harness designed to orchestrate both built-in and third-party agents like Claude Code. Over a four-day autonomous run, it built a playable Godot 4 FPS game alongside its landing page and promotional posters. Why it matters: by letting AI refine its own planning and tool execution against locked benchmarks, it brings recursive self-improvement into practical engineering.
Manus just rolled out Manus 2.0, powered by its new Cascade framework that cuts token usage and slashes runtime costs by 32%. The update revamps its desktop app into Manus Studio for timeline-based video editing and game creation, while introducing Cue—a standalone app where personal agents get their own phone numbers, emails, and wallets to run tasks collaboratively. Why it matters: Manus is moving beyond chat prompts into full-blown production environments and persistent autonomous agents.
Anthropic just released Claude Sonnet 5.5, running over 30% faster and cutting per-task costs by up to 30% compared to Sonnet 5. It marks a huge jump in agentic coding, scoring 70.6% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 up from 10.3%, while nearly matching the flagship Opus 5.5 across routine enterprise and knowledge tasks.
Anthropic just gave Claude Code a graceful wrap-up feature when hitting the 5-hour limit mid-task. Instead of abruptly aborting edits, it borrows a small allowance from your weekly quota to package up ongoing work cleanly. Pro plans get it weekly, while Max and Team users get it on every limit trigger.
Microsoft just overhauled Copilot with three major capabilities: Home, Code, and Autopilot. Home unifies chat, delegated tasks, and full Office apps, while Code lets anyone build custom tools and workflows using natural language. Autopilot acts as a persistent digital teammate that works autonomously across Teams and Outlook even while you are away. The features are rolling out via Frontier and private preview.
Anthropic just launched a plugin submission portal that lets paid Claude developers publish third-party extensions directly to the Claude directory. Creators can submit standalone MCP connectors or full GitHub-hosted skill bundles, complete with automated safety checks, review tracking, and post-launch analytics. It basically turns Claude and Claude Code into a unified ecosystem for agentic tools.
Open-source tool Magpie just turned the messy world of coding agent configs into a clean menu bar app. It sets up a local gateway that lets you plug models like DeepSeek and Kimi into Claude Code or Codex, automatically fails over when you hit rate limits, and even scrubs API keys and passwords before prompts leave your machine.
Meta just introduced Horizon Create and Horizon Studio, two agentic AI tools that turn plain text prompts into playable 2D and 3D games with multiplayer and progression systems. Projects sync seamlessly between mobile and web, and publish directly into feeds on Facebook and Instagram without extra downloads. Early access waitlists are open now.
Anthropic just introduced cloud sessions for Claude Code, letting developers offload heavy tasks to the cloud with `claude --cloud`. Sessions continue running even if you close your laptop, and you can pull them back to your local terminal anytime with `--teleport`. It is now available across Pro, Max, and Enterprise plans.
Contrastive-LM just open-sourced CLM-8B, a lightweight System 1 decision model trained to connect states and actions via contrastive learning. By caching state and action embeddings independently, it matches Jev on computer-use and tool-calling tasks with up to 9× lower latency, while scoring 87.6% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 as an agentic verifier.
OpenAI just launched GPT-6 Sol and Luna, bringing Astra-level coding and reasoning down to everyday tasks at half the API price of their predecessors. Sol takes on complex workflows while Luna is built for high-volume tasks. Why it matters: Paid ChatGPT users get access in Work and Codex immediately, and free users can try Luna on desktop.
OpenAI just released GPT-6.1 Sol, an upgraded model delivering near-Astra performance on agentic coding and multi-step workflows at one-fifth the API cost. Standard pricing sits at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with cached input cut to $0.10. It is available now in ChatGPT Work and Codex, with an Ultrafast version coming soon.
Anthropic just launched Claude Opus 5.5, kicking off its new 5.5 family with 40% lower operating costs and 30% faster output than Opus 5. The new flagship takes the top spot on agentic coding and computer use benchmarks, backed by a 60% price cut on cached reads. It is already available on Amazon Bedrock, with Sonnet and Haiku variants arriving in the coming weeks.
OpenAI just upgraded prompt caching for GPT-6, offering up to 90% discounts on eligible shared prefixes reused within a 30-minute window. Developers get new monitoring dashboards, miss-diagnostics tools, and the ability to tweak reasoning effort without busting cache.
xAI just launched Grok 4.7, its most powerful model yet for coding and knowledge work. Built on a larger base model with extended reinforcement learning for long-running tasks, it matches Grok 4.6 on speed while keeping pricing at $2 per million input tokens. It delivers elite jailbreak resistance and is available now across Cursor and the Grok API.
