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Free Grok add-in for Word, Excel and PowerPoint with live web research, inline source citations, X data lookups, Mermaid diagrams, and connectors for email, SharePoint and Google Drive.
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Free Grok add-in for Word, Excel and PowerPoint with live web research, inline source citations, X data lookups, Mermaid diagrams, and connectors for email, SharePoint and Google Drive.
Grok models are now natively available in Databricks Agent Bricks. Agents can reason directly over Lakehouse data without exfiltration, with governance through Unity Catalog.
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.
Anthropic shipped new versions of three Claude API tools. code_execution_20260521 surfaces the 90-second per-cell execution limit. web_search_20260318 and web_fetch_20260318 add a response_inclusion parameter to trim consumed result blocks in agentic workflows.
xAI launched Voice Agent Builder in beta — a no-code platform for production voice agents on Grok Voice with telephony, SIP, voice cloning, and observability at $0.05/min. Available from July 1, 2026.
Vercel launched Connect, a new agent-infrastructure primitive providing short-lived scoped OAuth tokens for Slack, GitHub, Linear, Notion, Salesforce, Figma, Snowflake, Discord, plus generic OAuth/API-key and MCP server connectors.
Claude Code version 2.1.219 (July 24, 2026) sets Claude Opus 5 as the default Opus model with 1M context window, adds sandbox.network.strictAllowlist setting for sandboxed commands, and introduces a DirectoryAdded hook that fires when a new working directory is registered mid-session.
Claude Code now has /config key=value mid-conversation, macOS sandbox controls, and Apple Events — it can drive Mail, Calendar, Finder. The companion v2.1.183 blocks destructive git commands in Auto Mode.
Anthropic shipped a set of Claude Managed Agents API updates on July 22, 2026: effort levels on agent model config, webhooks for environment and memory store lifecycle events, session seeding with initial events, and thread-level event streaming deltas.
Vercel shipped Konsistent on July 1 to enforce uniform code standards for both AI agents and human developers, alongside a Security Dashboard in private beta and dry-run deployments for the Vercel CLI.
The first xAI model on Bedrock — Grok 4.3 with a 1M context window, configurable reasoning effort, $1.25 in / $2.50 out per MTok. Cheapest US-lab frontier reasoner on Bedrock.
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.
A Claude Code session can now be turned into a sharable, interactive HTML page with live code and multiple data sources — one URL for the team. Repositions Claude Code from assistant to internal-app builder.
The new Claude Design keeps a project aligned with the design system, syncs both ways with Claude Code via /design-sync, and lets you edit directly on the canvas. Imports brand from a GitHub repo, design files, or raw uploads.
Mid-conversation system messages are now GA without a beta header on Claude Fable 5, Mythos 5, and Opus 4.8 across the Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud. Updating system instructions mid-conversation no longer invalidates cache prefixes.
Fable 5 is the first public-facing version of the Mythos generation; top-tier software engineering, knowledge work and vision, with hard safety guardrails.
Eve is a TypeScript-native open-source framework where every agent = a directory of files (instructions.md + tools/ + skills/). Built in: durable execution, per-agent sandbox, human approvals, evals, OpenTelemetry. Plus the Sandbox runtime now goes up to 24h.
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.
Cursor added interactive canvas support for cloud agents with shareable links, a beta Environments API for programmatic environment management, and made large environments 5x faster to load with support for up to 300 repositories.