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Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
Agent Skills are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude loads on demand to specialize at a task. Here’s how they work, how to build one, and why they’ve become a cross-vendor open standard.
Anthropic
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An internal Meta memo lays out an aggressive wearables roadmap: an always-listening AI pendant built on its Limitless acquisition, four new smart-glasses models in 2026, and an enterprise 'Wearables for Work' service — all aimed at selling 10 million devices in the back half of the year.
Engadget
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Build 2026’s headline was MAI-Thinking-1 — Microsoft’s first from-scratch reasoning model, claiming Opus 4.6-level coding at 35B active parameters — alongside MAI-Code, Image, Voice and Transcribe, the Microsoft IQ context layer, a GitHub Copilot desktop app, and an agent-governance stack.
Microsoft
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GitHub retired Copilot premium requests in June 2026 and replaced them with metered AI Credits worth $0.01 each, drawn down by actual token usage. Here is what every plan includes and what still costs nothing.
The GitHub Blog
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A new genai.apple.com subdomain spotted on May 23 — sitting dormant but reserved — is the clearest signal yet that WWDC 2026 will be the keynote where Apple finally ships the Siri overhaul it promised in 2024, reportedly powered by a custom 1.2-trillion-parameter Gemini model from Google.
9to5Mac / MacRumors
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At Google Marketing Live 2026, Google unveiled Ask Advisor — one Gemini agent that spans Ads, Analytics, Merchant Center, and the Marketing Platform — alongside conversational ad formats built for AI Mode search.
Cursor shipped its third-generation in-house coding agent at about a tenth of the per-token price of Opus 4.7 — and benchmarks put it shoulder-to-shoulder with Anthropic's flagship.
TechTimes
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At I/O 2026 Google unveiled Intelligent Eyewear — Gemini-powered audio and display glasses built on Android XR, co-designed with Samsung, Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, with the audio frames shipping first this fall.
Google Blog
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Pics, unveiled at Google I/O 2026, lets Workspace users generate and edit marketing graphics, mockups and social posts from text prompts — with every element re-editable like a comment in Google Docs.
TechCrunch
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At I/O 2026, Google replaced its iconic blue-link search with a Gemini-powered intelligent box, generative UI, and background 'information agents' that monitor the web for you.
TechCrunch
Read more →xAI's Connectors plug Grok into the apps people already work in — GitHub, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Notion, Linear — plus any MCP server. The sharper move is Grok Skills: instead of building a rival format, xAI reads Anthropic's Claude Code conventions directly, loading CLAUDE.md and .claude skill packs with zero configuration.
xAI
Read more →OpenAI is recasting Codex as an agent for every knowledge worker, not just engineers. A June 2 update adds six role-specific plugins bundling 62 apps and 110 skills, a prompt-to-app builder called Codex Sites, and Annotations that now reach documents, spreadsheets and slides. Codex is at 5 million weekly users, with non-developers its fastest-growing cohort.
OpenAI / VentureBeat
Read more →OpenAI's new Lockdown Mode strips ChatGPT down to a more defensive core — switching off live web browsing, agent mode, deep research, web images and file downloads — to make it harder for hidden prompt-injection attacks to exfiltrate sensitive data. It's rolling out beyond enterprise to Business and personal accounts, but OpenAI is candid that it doesn't stop injections outright.
OpenAI / TechCrunch
Read more →In a busy few days, xAI previewed Grok Imagine 1.5, a single-image-to-video model that debuted at No. 1 on the Artificial Analysis arena with audio baked into every clip — and named Grok the default engine behind the voices on Vapi’s 2.5-million-agent platform.
xAI
Read more →OpenAI is rolling out “Dreaming,” a rebuilt ChatGPT memory that synthesizes context from past chats automatically and keeps it current — no more telling the assistant what to remember. It starts with US Plus and Pro users after a roughly 5x cut in compute cost.
OpenAI
Read more →Seen “ultracode” in Claude Code and wondered what “Ultra Code Mode” is? Here is how the setting works now that it is its own toggle: how to turn it on and off, what happens under the hood, what it costs, and when to leave it off.
Claude Code Docs
Read more →Jensen Huang’s GTC Taipei keynote put Vera Rubin into full production with HBM4 from Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron, unveiled the agent-first Vera CPU (1.8x vs x86), RTX Spark AI PCs landing this fall, and Cosmos 3 for physical AI.
CRN Asia
Read more →A BitsMinds analysis. The frontier fight has moved from models to the agents wrapped around them. We line up the three coding agents developers actually argue about in 2026 — Anthropic’s terminal-native Claude Code, OpenAI’s everywhere-at-once Codex, and Google’s agent-first Antigravity IDE — across form factor, autonomy, verification, model choice and price. The short version: Claude Code owns deep terminal autonomy, Codex wins ubiquity, and Antigravity is the open, free, multi-agent cockpit. Here is the full scorecard.
BitsMinds Analysis
Read more →Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has published renderings and details of iOS 27 ahead of Apple’s June 8 WWDC, centered on a long-promised Siri overhaul. The rebuilt assistant is said to run on a custom Google Gemini model — reported at roughly 1.2 trillion parameters — hosted on Apple’s Private Cloud Compute, living inside the Dynamic Island and gaining a standalone, ChatGPT-style app with chat history, voice and document upload.
Bloomberg
Read more →Meta is putting a price tag on AI for the first time. As it rolls out paid tiers across Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, the company is folding everything into a new “Meta One” subscription brand — including two AI plans, Meta One Plus at $7.99 a month and Meta One Premium at $19.99 a month, with deeper reasoning and more image and video generation. The AI tiers begin testing next month in Singapore, Guatemala and Bolivia; the free Meta AI stays free.
CNBC / TechCrunch / Bloomberg
Read more →On May 27, Robinhood opened its platform to autonomous AI agents via Model Context Protocol, letting Claude, ChatGPT and other LLMs read portfolios, analyze risk and execute equity trades out of a sandboxed wallet. Options, crypto, futures and prediction markets are next; an agentic Gold credit card ships alongside.
TechCrunch / CNBC
Read more →Luxury phone-maker Vertu unveiled the Alphafold on May 28 — a foldable Android starting at $6,880 (and topping out near $46,800) whose headline feature is Hermes Agent, an enterprise AI that connects to ERP, CRM and 80+ apps and routes prompts across Claude, GPT, Gemini and open-source models. The first 115-unit batch ships this week.
TechCrunch
Read more →Microsoft has made computer-using agents in Copilot Studio generally available across every commercial region, becoming the first major hyperscaler to put production-grade "computer use" into enterprises' hands. The agents operate desktop and web apps directly through the interface — clicking, typing and navigating like a person — using OpenAI's CUA and Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5, wrapped in Azure Key Vault, Microsoft Purview auditing and human-in-the-loop review.
Microsoft
Read more →In its May 21 release, OpenAI gave Codex permission to keep clicking, typing and navigating macOS apps even after the screen is off. The new "Locked Use" mode — triggered remotely from the ChatGPT mobile app — turns a Mac sitting on your desk into a 24/7 agent runtime, with short-lived authorization and a hard relock the moment you touch the keyboard.
OpenAI Developers / MacRumors
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