A quiet day across AI apps

No major user-facing updates were announced today for popular AI apps.

Claude

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Inside Ode with Anthropic, the startup betting AI services are the future of enterprise TechCrunch

On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan sits down with Ode’s leaders Chris Taylor and Eddie Siegel, who founded Fractional AI, the applied AI services startup that Ode acquired earlier this year to serve as the…

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Expanded summary · Claude

Decades of research show that practices like differentiation, mastery-based learning, and small group instruction reliably improve student achievement, but teachers are often short on time and resources to implement them.

We're introducing Claude for Teachers, providing verified K-12 educators in the US free access to premium Claude capabilities, a library of teaching skills, and a direct connection to evidence-based curricula, mapped to academic stan… Decades of research show that practices like differentiation, mastery-based learning, and small group instruction reliably improve student achievement, but teachers are often s…

Budgets are stret…

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TechCrunch's AI experts cover the latest news in the fast-moving field.

Market researcher tracks sector and issuer developments, synthesizes news, filings, and broker research, and flags items for credit and risk review. We’re releasing ten ready-to-run agent templates for the most time-consuming work in financial services: building pitchbooks, screening KYC files, and closing the books at month-end.

Each one ships as a plugin in Claude Cowork and Claude C…

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ChatGPT

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Thinking Machines Lab, an artificial intelligence company started by exiles from OpenAI, has released its first model, called Inkling.

Thinking Machines Lab, an artificial intelligence company started by exiles from OpenAI , has relea…

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At an internal meeting on Tuesday, the company’s executives outlined a plan for salespeople to negatively compare AI products from companies like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic to its own, according to a new report from Bloomberg.

Copilot executive vice president Jacob Andreou reportedly went further, delivering a presentation comparing Copilot directly to Anthropic’s chatbot Claude.

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OpenAI is officially entering the hardware market with the launch of a $230 light-up keyboard designed to pair with its AI coding assistant, Codex.

The Codex Micro, co-designed with specialty keyboard designer Work Louder, is being advertised as a fancy new way for ChatGPT users to manage their fleets of AI coding agents — the semi-autonomous bots that can write and execute code with…

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Perplexity

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Kimi K2.7 Code — perplexity/kimi-k2.7-code , Moonshot AI’s coding and agentic model.

Grok 4.3 and the Grok 4.20 family — xai/grok-4.3, xai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning, and xai/grok-4.20-multi-agent.

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

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Claude Code

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The inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by researchers, engineers and early users who built it.

The Making of Claude Code

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