Sunday Rundown #149: Open Source & Dino Dragons
Your skimmable weekly AI news catch-up.
Happy Sunday, friends!
Welcome back to the weekly AI news roundup.
In case you missed it, here’s this week’s Thursday deep dive:
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I was away last week, so we have two weeks’ worth of news to catch up on:
👩💻 AI releases
Anthropic news:
Claude Code Desktop now has a built-in browser so it can read docs, navigate sites, and interact with web pages directly.
Claude for Teachers gives verified K-12 educators in the US free access to premium features and a built-in teaching skills library.
Cowork is now available on web and mobile, so your background tasks can run on their own without your device needing to be on.
Reflect feature helps you track and visualize your Claude usage so you can better understand your habits.
Canva launched Code 2.0, an upgrade to its AI website builder with faster code generation, HTML import, and drag-and-drop editing.
Dropbox integrated with ChatGPT and can now help you organize files and conduct multi-step workflows directly inside the app.
Google news:
AI Mode in Search now connects to apps like Canva, Instacart, and YouTube Music, so you can finish tasks directly from Search.
Gemini in Chrome rolled out to UK desktop users to help summarize pages, conduct comparisons, and integrate with apps like Calendar, Gmail, and more.
Google Images now features an AI-powered gallery and image generation in Search to mark its 25th anniversary.
Google Photos Video Remix can create shareable video clips with cinematic relighting, background swapping, and other effects.
Google Vids added Gemini Omni editing and personal AI avatars that let you put yourself into video clips.
NotebookLM is now called Gemini Notebook and features native code execution and deeper integration with the Gemini ecosystem.
Waze now includes a motorcycle mode with AI-powered hazard detection plus Gemini conversational search for finding destinations.
Meta AI launched Muse Image, an image generator that can edit, restore, and restyle your personal photos using AI.
Moonshot AI open-sourced Kimi K3, a multimodal model that gets close to the performance of top-tier frontier models.
OpenAI news:
ChatGPT Work connects to Gmail, Google Drive, Salesforce, Slack, and Teams to manage files and run multi-step workflows on your behalf.
GPT-5.6 is a three-tier model family (Sol, Terra, and Luna) with improved intelligence, speed, and agentic capabilities.
GPT-Live voice models let ChatGPT listen and speak at the same time, making voice conversations feel natural with real-time acknowledgments.
Perplexity launched Brain, which remembers how you work, switches between AI models faster, and lets you publish websites in one click.
PrismML released Bonsai 27B, a powerful AI model that can run directly on phones and laptops for fast, private, offline use.
Superhuman launched Auto Drafts 2.0 to write ready-to-send email replies using your inbox, calendar, and personal writing style.
Thinking Machines open-sourced Inkling, a multimodal model with controllable thinking effort that can natively process audio, images, and text.
xAI news:
Grok 4.5 handles coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work at close to top-tier model quality while being faster and using fewer tokens.
Grok Automations lets you schedule recurring tasks or create workflows that are triggered by incoming emails.
Grok Build is now open-source, letting developers inspect, customize, and run its coding assistant on their own computers.
🔬 AI research
Apple announced Siri AI, which understands context, takes action across apps, and continues conversations from iPhone to Apple Watch.
Roblox previewed Build, a mobile-first tool that lets users create playable games from text prompts without coding.
Spotify is testing conversational AI features for Premium users to let them control playback and discover audiobooks, music, and podcasts via text or voice.
📖 AI resources
“Claude’s values across models and languages” [RESEARCH]: an Anthropic study of how Claude changes behavior based on language and model version.
“CursorBench 3.2” [BENCHMARK]: Cursor’s benchmark that scores coding agents on real, ambiguous tasks from actual development sessions.
🔀 AI random
Meta removed its AI image generation from Instagram after three days due to deepfake backlash as it could use anyone’s public photos by default .
Suno was hacked to reveal it had scraped over hundreds of thousands of hours of audio from Deezer, Genius, and YouTube.
🤦♂️ AI fail of the week
Nature sure works in mysterious ways!
