#AI tools

OpenAI has introduced optional animated companions for Codex that surface task status, thread activity, and requests for user input without forcing developers to leave their current workspace.

Startup Goodfire has launched Silico, a mechanistic interpretability tool designed to let researchers inspect and adjust model behavior during training, not just audit finished systems after the fact

Global edtech investment has fallen sharply from its pandemic peak as investors retreat from K-12 startup models and move toward AI tools, workforce training, and products with clearer returns.

Vercel says a recent security incident affecting a limited subset of customers began with a compromised third-party AI tool tied to a broader Google Workspace OAuth app compromise.

A new startup is pitching itself as a kind of Cursor for hardware, using AI to help non-specialists design and assemble physical devices while Anthropic expands maker-facing tooling around it.

Anthropic has launched Claude Design in research preview, aiming to help non-designers turn prompts into prototypes, decks and one-pagers.

OpenAI has released new Academy guidance explaining how to create and refine images in ChatGPT, emphasizing short, clear prompts, targeted revisions, and explicit constraints when editing visuals.

Google is adding a Skills feature to Gemini in Chrome, giving desktop users a faster way to run repeatable prompts and custom browser-based workflows.

Google says a new Gemini API ‘Agent Skill’ that feeds models current SDK and sample-code information dramatically improves coding performance on a 117-task benchmark.