Orecot launched a real-time AI assistant for live conversations. It listens to your Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, or Upwork call, transcribes the other party in real-time, and surfaces structured talking points (STAR frameworks, technical context, project examples) on your screen. The Windows app stays invisible during screen-share.
OTHER / BASH
# Quick start1. Open https://orecot.com → Sign in2. Upload resume (PDF or DOCX)3. Open Zoom/Meet/Teams meeting4. Start Orecot listening5. AI talking points appear as questions arrive
Anthropic launched Claude for Small Business — a package of 15 pre-built agentic workflows, 15 reusable skills, and connectors for QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Canva, Docusign, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Slack. Runs inside Claude Cowork as a toggle install. Available via Team or Enterprise plans.
CLAUDE / BASH
# Example workflow: invoice chasing# 1. Toggle Claude for Small Business in Cowork# 2. Connect QuickBooks# 3. Run: "Find all overdue invoices, draft chase emails, queue for my approval"# 4. Claude returns: list of overdue invoices + drafted emails# 5. You approve each email before send
Anthropic held Code with Claude developer events in SF, London, and Tokyo. No new models — instead, 5 production-focused agent features shipped: Dreaming (background reasoning during idle time), Outcomes (evaluable goals not just completions), multi-agent orchestration with manager+worker patterns, Claude Finance with 10 pre-built finance agents, and Add-ins (deeper Microsoft Office integration).
CLAUDE / BASH
# 3-agent team that builds a full site in parallelclaude --agent-team "manager,frontend,backend" \ "Build a SaaS landing page with auth, billing, dashboard"
OpenAI released GPT-5.5 on May 1, 2026 with improved tool use reliability for multi-agent workflows. The model is positioned for production agentic systems where GPT-5.4 saw degradation in long tool chains.
C++ and embedded development teams in 2026 increasingly use Claude Code and Cursor for low-level programming tasks. Both handle pointer arithmetic, memory management, and cross-compilation toolchains.
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# Example: analyze entire firmware codebasecd ~/firmware-projectclaude --effort xhigh "Review all ISR handlers in src/ for missing volatile keywords on shared variables. Check ARM Cortex-M memory barriers."# Example: cross-compilation safetyclaude "This code targets ARM Cortex-M0 with no FPU. Find any floating-point operations that need to be replaced with fixed-point math."
New /less-permission-prompts skill scans your Claude Code transcripts for common read-only Bash and MCP tool calls, then proposes a prioritized allowlist for .claude/settings.json.
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# Run after 5-10 sessions/less-permission-prompts# Review the proposed allowlist it outputs# Accept to write to .claude/settings.json
Claude Code adds xhigh effort level for Opus 4.7 — sits between high and max. Available via /effort, --effort flag, and the model picker. Other models fall back to high.
CLAUDE / BASH
# Launch with xhigh effortclaude --effort xhigh# Or change mid-session/effort xhigh# Interactive slider (new)/effort
Claude Design now exports a handoff bundle that Claude Code can ingest directly. This replaces manual copying of specs, design tokens, and component structure.
CLAUDE / BASH
# In your project directoryunzip ~/Downloads/claude-design-handoff.zip -d ./design-handoffclaude "Implement the design in ./design-handoff using our existing component library. Follow the design tokens in design-handoff/tokens.json. Generate React + Tailwind."
Opus 4.7 uses the model string claude-opus-4-7 and supports 1M token context by default. Vision inputs now accept up to 3.75MP images for pixel-accurate UI reasoning.
Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.6 on April 13, 2026 — an open-weight model handling 12-hour coding sessions and 300 parallel agents. Pricing: $0.60/$2.50 per million input/output tokens vs Claude Sonnet 4.6's $3.00/$15.00 (5-6x cheaper). 4,000-step coordinated agent ceiling.
OTHER / BASH
# Plug Kimi into Claude Code as backendexport ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=https://api.moonshot.cn/anthropicexport ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=your-moonshot-keyclaude
Extended thinking in claude-sonnet-4-6 now streams at 2x the previous throughput. Internal reasoning tokens arrive in real-time via the thinking content block, with no additional latency penalty on the first token.
CLAUDE / TYPESCRIPT
import Anthropic from "@anthropic-ai/sdk";const client = new Anthropic();async function streamWithThinking(prompt: string) { const stream = await client.messages.stream({ model: "claude-sonnet-4-6", max_tokens: 16000, thinking: { type: "enabled", budget_tokens: 10000, }, messages: [{ role: "user", content: prompt }], }); let thinkingText = ""; let responseText = ""; for await (const event of stream) { if (event.type === "content_block_delta") { if (event.delta.type === "thinking_delta") { thinkingText += event.delta.thinking; process.stdout.write("\x1b[2m"); // dim process.stdout.write(event.delta.thinking); process.stdout.write("\x1b[0m"); } else if (event.delta.type === "text_delta") { responseText += event.delta.text; process.stdout.write(event.delta.text); } } } return { thinking: thinkingText, response: responseText };}streamWithThinking( "Design a database schema for a multi-tenant SaaS app with row-level security.");
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. Previously this was a paid add-on. Beyond 1,500 queries, standard grounding rates apply.
GEMINI / PYTHON
import google.generativeai as genaiimport osgenai.configure(api_key=os.environ["GEMINI_API_KEY"])model = genai.GenerativeModel( model_name="gemini-2.5-pro", tools=[{"google_search": {}}],)response = model.generate_content( "What are the latest updates to Claude's API in 2026?", generation_config=genai.GenerationConfig( temperature=0.1, ),)# Print grounded responseprint(response.text)# Access grounding metadata (sources)if response.candidates[0].grounding_metadata: for chunk in response.candidates[0].grounding_metadata.grounding_chunks: print(f"Source: {chunk.web.uri}") print(f"Title: {chunk.web.title}")
ElevenLabs now supports Instant Voice Cloning from as little as 10 seconds of audio via their API. Upload a clean audio sample, get a voice_id back in under 3 seconds, and immediately use it for text-to-speech generation.
ELEVENLABS / PYTHON
import requestsimport osELEVEN_API_KEY = os.environ["ELEVEN_API_KEY"]# Step 1: Clone a voice from a short audio sampledef clone_voice(name: str, audio_path: str) -> str: with open(audio_path, "rb") as f: response = requests.post( "https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/voices/add", headers={"xi-api-key": ELEVEN_API_KEY}, data={"name": name}, files={"files": (audio_path, f, "audio/mpeg")}, ) response.raise_for_status() return response.json()["voice_id"]# Step 2: Generate speech with the cloned voicedef speak(voice_id: str, text: str, output_path: str): response = requests.post( f"https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/text-to-speech/{voice_id}", headers={ "xi-api-key": ELEVEN_API_KEY, "Content-Type": "application/json", }, json={ "text": text, "model_id": "eleven_multilingual_v2", "voice_settings": {"stability": 0.5, "similarity_boost": 0.8}, }, ) response.raise_for_status() with open(output_path, "wb") as f: f.write(response.content)voice_id = clone_voice("My Narrator", "sample.mp3")speak(voice_id, "Welcome to the future of voice AI.", "output.mp3")
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.6, the latest in the Claude 4 family, with improved reasoning, faster response times, and better instruction following compared to Sonnet 3.7.
Claude Code, Anthropic's agentic coding tool that runs in the terminal, exited beta and is now generally available. It can edit files, run tests, commit code, and navigate large codebases autonomously.
CLAUDE / BASH
# Installnpm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code# Navigate to your project and startcd your-projectclaude# Give it a task# > Add rate limiting to the /api/auth/login endpoint using Redis
Google made the Search grounding feature free for Gemini API users up to 1,500 queries per day, letting the model cite real-time web sources.
GEMINI / PYTHON
import google.generativeai as genaigenai.configure(api_key=os.environ["GEMINI_API_KEY"])model = genai.GenerativeModel("gemini-2.5-pro")response = model.generate_content( "What happened in AI this week?", tools=[{"google_search_retrieval": {}}])print(response.text)# Access source citationsfor chunk in response.candidates[0].grounding_metadata.grounding_chunks: print(f"Source: {chunk.web.uri}")
Vercel released AI SDK 4.0 with a unified API that works identically across Claude, GPT-4o, Gemini, Mistral, and Llama. Includes streaming, tool use, and structured output.
OTHER / TYPESCRIPT
import { generateText } from "ai";import { anthropic } from "@ai-sdk/anthropic";const { text } = await generateText({ model: anthropic("claude-sonnet-4-6"), prompt: "Explain RAG in one paragraph"});console.log(text);// Swap provider in one line — same API// import { openai } from "@ai-sdk/openai";// model: openai("gpt-4o")
OpenAI's Realtime API now supports mixing text and audio modalities in the same WebSocket session. Send text, receive audio, or switch modes mid-conversation.