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March 12, 2026

Daily AI Digest: Enhanced Reasoning for Claude, Smarter Media in Perplexity, and New Plugins for Cursor

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ChatGPT agents now feature enhanced security against prompt injection and social engineering attacks. Perplexity now intelligently selects between images and…

ChatGPT

ChatGPT

ChatGPT agents are now better protected against prompt injection and social engineering, making interactions more secure.

How ChatGPT defends against prompt injection and social engineering by constraining risky actions and protecting sensitive data in agent workflows. ChatGPT agents now feature enhanced security against prompt injection and social engineering attacks How ChatGPT defends against prompt injection and social engineering by constraining risky actions and protecting sensitive data in agent workflows. Designing AI agents to resist prompt injection How ChatGPT defends against prompt injection and social engineering by constraining risky actions and protecting sensitive data in agent workflows. ChatGPT agents now feature enhanced security against prompt injection and social engineering attacks

Source · Designing AI agents to resist prompt injection
Source · Designing AI agents to resist prompt injection
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Perplexity

Perplexity

Perplexity now intelligently selects between images, videos, or both to best answer your queries.

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 between images and videos to best answer your search queries. You can now enable, disable, or override media types to customize your search results. Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type Smart media selection : Intelligently…

Source · Changelog
Source · Changelog

Claude

Claude

Claude now uses adaptive thinking to decide when deeper reasoning is needed, improving its problem-solving capabilities.

Claude now features adaptive thinking with user-controlled effort levels and automatic long conversa

Claude

You can now select from four effort levels to control how deeply Claude reasons on a task.

Claude now features adaptive thinking with user-controlled effort levels and automatic long conversa

Claude

Long conversations in Claude will now automatically summarize older context to prevent reaching the conversation limit.

Claude now features adaptive thinking with user-controlled effort levels and automatic long conversa

Cursor

Cursor

Over 30 new plugins from partners like Atlassian and GitLab are now available in the Cursor Marketplace.

We've added more than 30 new plugins from partners such as Atlassian, Datadog, GitLab, Glean, Hugging Face, monday.com, and PlanetScale. Cursor can now read from, write to, and take actions across more of your stack. | Most plugins contain MCPs that cloud agents can use when kicked off manually or triggered automatically through automations . | New Plugins on the Cursor Marketplace We've added more than 30 new plugins from partners such as Atlassian, Datadog, GitLab, Glean, Hugging Face, monday.com, and PlanetScale. Cursor can now read from, write to, and take actions across more of your stack. Most plugins contain MCPs that cloud agents can use when kicked off manually or triggered automatically through automations . New Plugins on the Cursor Marketplace Cursor's Marketplace now offers over 30 new plugins from partners like Atlassian and GitLab. These new plugins allow Cursor to interact with more of your development tools and services. We've added more than 30 new…

Source · New Plugins on the Cursor Marketplace
Source · New Plugins on the Cursor Marketplace

Grok

Grok

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, xAI's new assistant, offers chat, image creation, code writing, and real-time web answers. Chat, create images, write code, and get real-time answers from the web and X.

Source · Grok update
Source · Grok update

OpenAI Codex

OpenAI Codex

Rakuten uses Codex, the coding agent from OpenAI, to ship software faster and safer, reducing MTTR 50%, automating CI/CD reviews, and delivering full-stack builds in weeks.

Rakuten uses Codex, the coding agent from OpenAI, to ship software faster and safer, reducing MTTR 50%, automating CI/CD reviews, and delivering full-stack builds in weeks. Rakuten fixes issues twice as fast with Codex

Source · Rakuten fixes issues twice as fast with Codex
Source · Rakuten fixes issues twice as fast with Codex

Gemini

Gemini

"How AI is helping improve heart health in rural Australia" discusses a new healthcare program.

"How AI is helping improve heart health in rural Australia" discusses a new healthcare program. | Google's AI and local health groups are teaming up to improve rural Australians' heart health. | We’re partnering with leading Australian health organizations to bring new AI tools to regional communities. This project helps identify heart health risks early, making proactive care possible for more people. "How AI is helping improve heart health in rural Australia" discusses a new healthcare program. Google's AI and local health groups are teaming up to improve rural Australians' heart health. We’re partnering with leading Australian health organizations to bring new AI tools to regional communities. This project helps identify heart health risks early, making proactive care possible for more people. Gemini partners with Australian health groups to deploy AI tools improving rural heart health. Google's AI and local health groups are teaming up to improve rural Australians' heart health.…

Source · How AI is helping improve heart health in rural Australia
Source · How AI is helping improve heart health in rural Australia

Claude Code

Claude Code

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the new default model in Claude Code. Run /model to switch models

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… Claude…

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

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 released, featuring a new agent training data synthesis method across 1,800+ enviro 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