Sunday Rundown #152: Smarter Coders & "Beautiful Pasta"
Your skimmable weekly AI news catch-up.
Happy Sunday !
Welcome back to the weekly AI news roundup.
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Here’s what happened in AI over the past two weeks:
👩💻 AI releases
Anthropic news:
Claude Cowork can now join your Chrome session in a side panel, so you can sync sessions between web, desktop, and mobile on any device.
Claude Tag now gets context from your entire Slack channel instead of just individual threads, making it better at knowing when to jump in.
DeepSeek launched V4-Pro, an upgraded agentic model with adjustable reasoning efforts that let you balance speed vs. depth depending on the task.
Google news:
Gemini now connects to even more third-party apps like OpenTable, Pandora, Ticketmaster, and more, so you can access them without leaving the chat.
Gemini 3.7 Flash is smarter at coding and tool use, handling complex workflows at half the price of its predecessor.
Google Ads & Google Analytics have added AI agents that can manage your campaigns as well as new visual dashboards and benchmarking tools.
Meta open-sourced Muse Glimmer, an agentic model small enough to run on a consumer device for local coding and file management. (Try on Hugging Face.)
Microsoft launched MAI-Image-2.6, its strongest image model to date with improved portrait and 3D rendering skills. (Currently #2 on Text-To-Image Arena.)
OpenAI news:
ChatGPT desktop app for Linux (now in preview) combines ChatGPT, Codex, and Work features in a single native workspace.
Computer History for the ChatGPT Mac app can track your cross-app activity to build AI-accessible timelines and memories.
xAI news:
Grok 4.6 is better at coding, research, agentic tasks, and visual work across complex projects, catching up with current frontier models.
Grok Bot lets you deploy always-on AI agents that complete multi-step tasks inside your apps and websites around the clock.
Z.ai open-sourced GLM-5.3, a coding model with 50% better performance and stronger long-running agent workflows across complex projects.
🔬 AI research
Google introduced SL2T, a sign-language-to-text model that lets Deaf users sign to type, search, message, and interact with Gemini on Pixel 11.
Tencent previewed HunyuanWorldClaw, a system that generates explorable 3D worlds with editable terrain and objects from a single text prompt.
📖 AI resources
“From Assistance to Execution” [REPORT]: insights from several studies on how companies are transitioning from chatbots to agents by OpenAI.
🔀 AI random
Anthropic, Spotify, and Substack are all pushing for AI content transparency with disclosure tools, persona badges, watermarks, and more.
SpaceX completed its acquisition of Cursor AI, with the popular vibe-coding team joining SpaceXAI to build Grok coding products.
Twitch now shares your chats and streams with Amazon for AI training by default, so creators have to manually opt out in privacy settings.
🤦♂️ AI fail of the week
If you want to learn how to make pasta from scratch…maybe looks elsewhere?