CHANGELOG

Orecot launched a real-time AI assistant for live conversations. It listens to your Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, or Upwork ...

Microsoft moved Copilot Agent Mode from preview to general availability on April 22 inside Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. ...

Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.6 on April 13, 2026 — an open-weight model handling 12-hour coding sessions and 300 paralle...

Vercel released AI SDK 4.0 with a unified API that works identically across Claude, GPT-4o, Gemini, Mistral, and Llama. ...

Anthropic and PwC announced an expansion of their alliance. PwC will roll out Claude Code and Claude Cowork to hundreds ...

Anthropic launched Claude for Small Business — a package of 15 pre-built agentic workflows, 15 reusable skills, and conn...

Anthropic held Code with Claude developer events in SF, London, and Tokyo. No new models — instead, 5 production-focused...

Anthropic announced a compute partnership with SpaceX (which now owns the xAI infrastructure stack after the Feb merger)...

Anthropic launched Claude Finance with 10 pre-built agents for financial services workflows: due diligence research, fin...

Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs launched a joint enterprise AI services company. The new en...

Anthropic is in talks to raise at a $900B+ valuation, with a 48-hour investor allocation window. This is the company's l...

C++ and embedded development teams in 2026 increasingly use Claude Code and Cursor for low-level programming tasks. Both...

April 24: Anthropic and NEC announced a collaboration to build Japan's largest AI engineering effort. April 27: Anthropi...

Anthropic Mythos — Anthropic's most powerful model — has not been released to the public. Reports indicate it's only bei...

Alphabet committed up to $40B to Anthropic — starting with $10B at a $350B valuation. Deal includes 5 gigawatts of compu...

New /less-permission-prompts skill scans your Claude Code transcripts for common read-only Bash and MCP tool calls, then...

Claude Design now generates cohesive design systems — buttons, fonts, color palettes — directly from uploaded files or r...

Claude Code adds xhigh effort level for Opus 4.7 — sits between high and max. Available via /effort, --effort flag, and ...

The Claude mobile app can now render fully interactive apps — live charts, sketchable diagrams, and shareable visual ass...

Claude Design now exports a handoff bundle that Claude Code can ingest directly. This replaces manual copying of specs, ...

Claude Design can read a GitHub repo or local codebase and automatically extract a design system — colors, typography, s...

Opus 4.7 uses the model string claude-opus-4-7 and supports 1M token context by default. Vision inputs now accept up to ...

Anthropic launched Claude Design, an AI tool that turns text prompts into prototypes, slides, and UI mockups. It is powe...

Claude hit #1 on the US App Store in early 2026 according to search trend data. 'Claude mania' reported at HumanX confer...

Ultraplan in Claude Code lets you draft a plan in the cloud from your CLI, review and comment on it in a web editor, the...

Extended thinking in claude-sonnet-4-6 now streams at 2x the previous throughput. Internal reasoning tokens arrive in re...

Claude Code can now open native apps, click through UI, and verify changes directly from your terminal. This is Anthropi...

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.6, the latest in the Claude 4 family, with improved reasoning, faster response times,...

Extended thinking mode in Claude now streams thinking tokens in real-time. Previously the full thinking block was buffer...

Claude Code, Anthropic's agentic coding tool that runs in the terminal, exited beta and is now generally available. It c...

OpenAI released GPT-5.5 on May 1, 2026 with improved tool use reliability for multi-agent workflows. The model is positi...

OpenAI raised over $4B at a $10B pre-money valuation for The Deployment Company — a new joint venture focused on helping...

OpenAI flipped the switch on persistent memory for all Plus and Pro subscribers. ChatGPT now automatically stores facts,...

OpenAI enabled persistent memory by default for all ChatGPT Plus and Pro users. The model automatically saves facts, pre...

OpenAI's Realtime API now supports mixing text and audio modalities in the same WebSocket session. Send text, receive au...

Cursor released Remote Agents — a feature that lets developers trigger Cursor's coding agents from any device, including...

SpaceX announced a partnership with Cursor that includes a $60B acquisition option by end of 2026, or a $10B collaborati...

Cursor 0.44 ships Background Agent — a fully autonomous coding agent that runs in a remote sandboxed environment. It can...

Cursor's Background Agent mode now supports running test suites, interpreting failures, self-correcting, and committing ...

Google has made grounding with Google Search free for up to 1,500 queries per day on Gemini 2.5 Pro via the Gemini API. ...

Google released Gemini 2.5 Pro with a 1 million token context window, improved multimodal reasoning, and native code exe...

Google made the Search grounding feature free for Gemini API users up to 1,500 queries per day, letting the model cite r...

ElevenLabs now supports Instant Voice Cloning from as little as 10 seconds of audio via their API. Upload a clean audio ...

ElevenLabs reduced the minimum audio required for instant voice cloning from 1 minute down to 10 seconds while maintaini...