A quiet day across AI apps

No major AI app updates were announced today.

Perplexity

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Expanded summary · Perplexity

Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type

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.

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Claude

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Expanded summary · Claude

Late last week, Anthropic took its new Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models offline following a United States government export-control directive barring “any foreign national” from using the services.

Since Mythos debuted in April, Anthropic has claimed—and warned—that the model has advanced capabilities for not only finding software vulnerabilities to help defenders patch…

Since Mythos debuted in April, Anthropic has claimed—and warned—that the model has advanced capabilities for not only finding software vulnerabilities to help defenders patch them, but also figuring out ways to exploit them that could be…

Original reportingDangerous’ AI Models Are Coming No Matter WhatRead original ↗

Expanded summary · Claude

Diligenta , TCS’s UK life and pensions business, will use Claude to improve the customer experience for the more than 22 million policyholders it serves.

TCS’s banking and financial services product teams will use Claude Code to boost productivity around software engineering and IT operations. TCS’s engineering teams will add reusable skills and plugins to the Claude Code ecosystem, starting with ones focused on…

TCS’s engineering teams will add reusable skills and plugins to the Claude Code ecosystem, starting with ones focused on claims adjudication and lending advisory.

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Expanded summary · Claude

Last month, Anthropic announced a billing change that would have substantially increased costs for heavy users of its automation-focused Claude Agent SDK , including many third-party apps.

That would have been a major change from the current setup, where Agent SDK use is limited only by the standard weekly caps applied to a user’s current Claude subscription tier…

“For anyone using agents heavily, this is a major cost increase,” the developers behind code editor Zed warned its users after Anthropic announced the Agent SDK price change plans.

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Claude Code

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Expanded summary · Claude Code

Building on prior work, we introduce a framework for studying interactive agentic coding based on a privacy-preserving analysis of ~400,000 Claude Code sessions from between October 2025 and April 2026.

We evaluate the composition of task…

The more domain expertise a person has, the more often the session ends in success—though the gap between intermediate and expert users is modest.

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