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March 11, 2026

AI Assistants Expand Capabilities, Coding Tools Enhance Workflows

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Grok now functions as a versatile AI assistant capable of chatting, creating images, and writing cod. Gemini for Sheets beta now enables creating,…

Grok

Grok

Grok now functions as an AI assistant capable of chatting, creating images, and writing code.

Grok is an AI assistant built by xAI. | Chat, create images, write code, and get real-time answers from the web and X. Grok is an AI assistant built by xAI. Chat, create images, write code, and get real-time answers from the web and X. Grok now functions as a versatile AI assistant capable of chatting, creating images, and writing cod It provides real-time answers by accessing current information from the web and X. Grok is an AI assistant built by xAI. Grok is an AI assistant built by xAI. | Chat, create images, write code, and get real-time answers from the web and X. Grok is an AI assistant built by xAI. Chat, create images, write code, and get real-time answers from the web and X. Grok now functions as a versatile AI assistant capable of chatting, creating images, and writing cod

Source · Grok update
Source · Grok update
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Perplexity

Perplexity

Perplexity now intelligently selects between images, videos, or both based on your search query.

Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type | Configurable control : Enable/disable and override media types as needed | New max_tokens parameter : Control the maximum tokens extracted per page in search results. This gives you finer control over response size and costs. Learn more → Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type Configurable control : Enable/disable and override media types as needed New max_tokens parameter : Control the maximum tokens extracted per page in search results. This gives you finer control over response size and costs. Learn more → Perplexity now intelligently selects and allows user control over media types (images/videos) in sea Users can now enable, disable, and override the types of media displayed in search results. Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type Smart media selection :…

Source · Changelog
Source · Changelog

Gemini

Gemini

New beta features in Gemini for Sheets allow you to create, organize, and edit entire spreadsheets by simply describing what you need.

Today we announced new beta features for Gemini in Sheets to help you create, organize and edit entire sheets, from basic tasks to complex data analysis — just describe what you need. | Gemini in Sheets has reached state-of-the-art proficiency in autonomously manipulating complex, real-world spreadsheets on the full SpreadsheetBench dataset, a public benchmark which evaluates models on their ability to edit spreadsh… Today we announced new beta features for Gemini in Sheets to help you create, organize and edit entire sheets, from basic tasks to complex data analysis — just describe what you need. Gemini in Sheets has reached state-of-the-art proficiency in autonomously manipulating complex, real-world spreadsheets on the full SpreadsheetBench dataset, a public benchmark which evaluates models on their ability to edit spreadsheets i… We look forward to seeing how you use these new capabilities. You can learn more about the full set of Gemini updates in Google Sheets, Drive, Docs……

Source · Gemini in Google Sheets just achieved state-of-the-art performance.
Source · Gemini in Google Sheets just achieved state-of-the-art performance.

Claude Code

Claude Code

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is now the default model in Claude Code, enabling it to handle longer and more complex development tasks.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the new default model in Claude Code. Run /model to switch models | We’re introducing several upgrades to Claude Code : a native VS Code extension, version 2.0 of our terminal interface, and checkpoints for autonomous operation. Powered by Sonnet 4.5 , Claude Code now handles longer, more complex developme… | We’re introducing a native VS Code extension in beta that brings Claude Code directly i… Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the new default model in Claude Code. Run /model to switch models We’re introducing several upgrades to Claude Code : a native VS Code extension, version 2.0 of our terminal interface, and checkpoints for autonomous operation. Powered by Sonnet 4.5 , Claude Code now handles longer, more complex developme… We’re introducing a native VS Code extension in beta that brings Claude Code directly into your IDE. You can now see Claude’s changes in real-time through a dedicated sidebar panel with inline diffs. The extension provides a richer, graphi……

Source · Enabling Claude Code to work more autonomously
Source · Enabling Claude Code to work more autonomously

Claude

Claude

Introducing The Anthropic Institute

We’re launching The Anthropic Institute , a new effort to confront the most significant challenges that powerful AI will pose to our societies. The Anthropic Institute will draw on research from across Anthropic to provide information that… | In the five years since Anthropic began, AI progress has moved incredibly quickly. It took us two years to release our first commercial model, and just three more to develop mo… We’re launching The Anthropic Institute , a new effort to confront the most significant challenges that powerful AI will pose to our societies. The Anthropic Institute will draw on research from across Anthropic to provide information that… In the five years since Anthropic began, AI progress has moved incredibly quickly. It took us two years to release our first commercial model, and just three more to develop models that can discover severe cybersecurity vulnerabilities , t… We predict that far more dramatic progress will follow in the next two years. One of our…

Source · Introducing The Anthropic Institute
Source · Introducing The Anthropic Institute

OpenAI Codex

OpenAI Codex

Codex Security is an AI application security agent that analyzes project context to detect, validate, and patch complex vulnerabilities with higher confidence and less noise.

Codex Security is an AI application security agent that analyzes project context to detect, validate, and patch complex vulnerabilities with higher confidence and less noise. Codex Security, an AI agent, now detects, validates, and patches complex application vulnerabilities Codex Security: now in research preview

Source · Codex Security: now in research preview
Source · Codex Security: now in research preview

Cursor

Cursor

Cursor now supports automations for building always-on agents that run based on triggers and instructions you define.

Cursor now supports automations for building always-on agents that run based on triggers and instructions you define. | When invoked, the agent spins up a cloud sandbox and follows your instructions using the MCPs and models you've configured. Agents also have access to a memory tool that lets them learn from past runs and improve with repetition. | Automations run on schedules or are triggered by events from S… Cursor now supports automations for building always-on agents that run based on triggers and instructions you define. When invoked, the agent spins up a cloud sandbox and follows your instructions using the MCPs and models you've configured. Agents also have access to a memory tool that lets them learn from past runs and improve with repetition. Automations run on schedules or are triggered by events from Slack, Linear, GitHub, PagerDuty, and webhooks. Cursor now supports building always-on agents with automations triggered by events from various plat Automations…

Source · Automations
Source · Automations

DeepSeek

DeepSeek

DeepSeek-V3.2: Official successor to V3.2-Exp. Now live on App, Web & API.

DeepSeek-V3.2: Official successor to V3.2-Exp. Now live on App, Web & API. | DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale: Pushing the boundaries of reasoning capabilities. API-only for now. | Introduces a new massive agent training data synthesis method covering 1,800+ environments & 85k+ complex instructions. DeepSeek-V3.2: Official successor to V3.2-Exp. Now live on App, Web & API. DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale: Pushing the boundaries of reasoning capabilities. API-only for now. Introduces a new massive agent training data synthesis method covering 1,800+ environments & 85k+ complex instructions. DeepSeek-V3.2 is now live, and a new agent training method covers 1,800+ environments and 85k+ instr DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale: Pushing the boundaries of reasoning capabilities. API-only for now. Introduces a new massive agent training data synthesis method covering 1,800+ environments & 85k+ complex instructions. DeepSeek-V3.2: Official successor to V3.2-Exp. Now live on App, Web & API. | DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale:…

Source · DeepSeek-V3.2 Release | DeepSeek API Docs
Source · DeepSeek-V3.2 Release | DeepSeek API Docs

ChatGPT

ChatGPT

IH-Challenge trains models to prioritize trusted instructions, improving instruction hierarchy, safety steerability, and resistance to prompt injection attacks.

IH-Challenge trains models to prioritize trusted instructions, improving instruction hierarchy, safety steerability, and resistance to prompt injection attacks. ChatGPT models now prioritize trusted instructions, improving safety and resistance to prompt inject Improving instruction hierarchy in frontier LLMs

Source · Improving instruction hierarchy in frontier LLMs
Source · Improving instruction hierarchy in frontier LLMs