Perplexity API: GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, and the finance_search Tool
Perplexity expanded the Sonar API with access to GPT-5.6 and Grok 4.5 models and added a new finance_search tool for real-time financial data.
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Perplexity expanded the Sonar API with access to GPT-5.6 and Grok 4.5 models and added a new finance_search tool for real-time financial data.
Meta Superintelligence Labs launched the Meta Model API (public preview) with Muse Spark 1.1 — a multimodal agentic model with 1M token context. The model outperforms Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 on MCP Atlas, JobBench, and HLE+tools. Priced at $1.25/$4.25 per MTok, $20 free.
Cursor 3.10 (June 30, 2026) lets admins configure Team MCP servers once and distribute them across cloud agents, IDE, and CLI for all team members, while also adding org group support for marketplace access control.
Perplexity AI introduces a hybrid orchestrator that automatically routes AI tasks between local device and cloud frontier models based on data sensitivity and compute requirements — no manual configuration needed.
Notion 3.6 lets you @-mention Claude and Cursor directly from a team board as external agents. Agents can now read and write PPTX, XLSX, and DOCX files, and interactive HTML blocks can be embedded in pages.
Cursor updated CursorBench to v3.1 focused on codebase understanding, bug-finding, and code review across 36 models. Fable 5 Max leads at 72.9%, while Composer 2.5 offers the best value at $0.55 per task.
Cursor released its native iOS app for iPhone and iPad into public beta for all paid plans, letting users spawn and manage cloud agents, remote-control a desktop session, and code by voice from mobile.
Perplexity AI launches on Windows (July 2026) a hybrid inference orchestrator that automatically routes AI tasks between local device and cloud frontier models without user involvement. The system decides where each part of a task should execute.
Cursor 3.9 (June 22) unifies management of plugins, skills, MCPs, subagents, rules, commands, and hooks in a new Customize hub including a leaderboard of popular plugins.
Comet for iOS shipped its eighth round of improvements: one-tap phone-number actions (Call, FaceTime, Message, save to Contacts), a refined iPad sidebar, and Finance Deep Dive opening as a real browser tab.
Linear adds auto-generated changelogs to release pipelines, ships private sub-teams for Business/Enterprise, and rebuilt desktop tabs so each tab keeps its own navigation history.
Notion released team Worker sharing (July 9) with two access tiers and a dedicated Notion Agents iOS app (July 8), enabling mobile users to launch and monitor agents from anywhere while they run on Notion's servers.
Cursor 3.8 introduces a /automate skill that creates an automation in your local agent session from a plain-language description, plus new GitHub and Slack triggers and computer-use support.
Cursor 3.11 introduces parallel Side Chats (/side, /btw, or +) running alongside the main agent, searchable agent transcripts via command palette, and new Cloud Agent Hooks for enterprise monitoring of agent conversations.
The new Bugbot cuts review time from ~5 minutes to ~90 seconds, finds 10 % more bugs and costs 22 % less per run; adds a /review pre-push flow.