ChatGPT rolls out conversational apps with a new SDK and partners like Canva and Spotify, OpenAI debuts Sora 2 for video+audio, and Anthropic tests customizable Claude Skills. Plus: AgentKit for agents and Gemini 2.5 Flash Image hits production.
ChatGPT introduces interactive, conversational apps using a new Apps SDK, launching with partners like Canva, Spotify, and Zillow. Available now to non-EU users, with developer tools and monetization coming soon.
OpenAI launches Sora 2, a powerful video-audio model capable of realistic world simulations and personal cameos, alongside a new iOS social app prioritizing creativity, control, and safety.
Claude is testing a “Skills” feature enabling users to upload custom, repeatable instructions for automation and control, signaling a major step toward extensibility and competitive parity with other AI platforms.
Disney sent Character.AI a cease-and-desist to remove infringing Disney characters from its chatbot platform after concerns about copyright misuse and harmful content, prompting Character.AI to pull some but not all Disney-owned characters.
OpenAI hit a $500B valuation through a $6.6B secondary share sale, surpassing SpaceX and solidifying its position as the world’s most valuable private company while bolstering employee retention amid rising AI competition.
Anthropic named ex-Stripe CTO Rahul Patil as its new CTO, tasking him with scaling infrastructure amid rising AI demand, while co-founder Sam McCandlish transitions to chief architect to focus on large-scale model training.
Reddit stock fell 12% as ChatGPT citations of its content dropped from 14% to 2%, raising concerns over future licensing deals despite strong ad revenue growth.
OpenAI launched AgentKit, a full suite for building and managing AI agents with visual workflows, integrated connectors, customizable chat UIs, and expanded eval tools to streamline and speed up development.
Tinker is a flexible API for fine-tuning open-weight language models, offering low-level control, managed infrastructure, and an open-source cookbook. Already used by top research groups, it's now in private beta and free to start.
GLM-4.6 boosts context window to 200K tokens, enhances coding and reasoning skills, and improves token efficiency by 15%, performing near Claude Sonnet 4 and surpassing other open models in real-world tasks.
Gemini 2.5 Flash Image is now production-ready, offering 10 aspect ratios, image-only outputs, and advanced tools for editing, storytelling, and live image generation, powering creative use cases from AR to AI games.
Perplexity’s Comet browser is now free to all, offering AI-powered assistants for browsing, email, and background tasks, with a mobile app and journalism-focused Comet Plus also announced to build a better, curiosity-driven internet.
It's called "Cheetah" and is not free to try, which is unusual. The cost is $1.25M in / $10M out.
It contains a long-awaited UI refresh, streamable HTTP MCP servers, named & positional args in custom prompts, experimental `codex cloud`, and a ton more polish.
A visual editor for designing conversation flows in Agents Platform. Instead of building all of your business logic in a single agent, Workflows enable you to handle more complex scenarios by routing to specialized Subagents.
They also launched two new features for managing context on the Claude Developer Platform.
Chat with Claude through DMs, tag @Claude in threads, or use the AI assistant panel—with access to web search, document analysis, and your connected tools.
A deep dive into structured outputs and token sampling in LLMs, covering grammar-based constraints, sampling optimizations, and evolving model capabilities like gpt-oss's native JSON output.
Context is a critical but finite resource for AI agents. In this post, strategies for effectively curating and managing the context that powers them are explored.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 significantly boosts coding, agent, and reasoning capabilities, setting new benchmarks while adding key upgrades like Claude Code 2.0, a VS Code extension, and Agent SDK. It outpaces rivals in many tasks but trails GPT-5 in the most complex problems.
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