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Google rolls out Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS with audio tags for precise control over AI speech generation. The model achieves top-tier quality scores and supports 70+ languages.

Anthropic rolled out two major updates to Claude Code on April 14, 2026 — a full redesign of the desktop application and the launch of a new cloud automation feature called Routines. Together, the announcements signal a shift in how the company envisions developers using AI coding agents: not as one-prompt-at-a-time tools, but as persistent, […]

Claude Code Routines enable developers to automate recurring tasks on cloud infrastructure with scheduled, API, and GitHub-based triggers. The feature is now available in research preview on Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans.

OpenAI is preparing a major Codex update that adds pull request management, a live UI preview panel, and agentic features, as the company works toward merging ChatGPT and the Atlas browser into one desktop super app.

Nine repositories dominated GitHub’s weekly trending chart on April 10, 2026, led by a self-improving AI agent with nearly 20,000 new stars and Google’s offline Gemma 4 app.

Anthropic has launched Claude Managed Agents in beta, offering developers a fully managed infrastructure to run autonomous AI tasks without building custom agent loops.

Anthropic has updated Claude Code with a Monitor tool that runs background scripts to watch for dev server errors, test failures, and production issues, activating only when a problem is detected.

OpenAI has introduced a $100-per-month Pro tier for ChatGPT, offering five times more Codex usage than the $20 Plus plan. A limited-time promotion runs through May 31, 2026.

Five open-source GitHub AI projects are trending hard this week, from the world’s largest prompt library to a Kubernetes-based cloud OS. Here is what each one does and why developers are starring them.

Cursor has launched Composer 2, a new AI coding model with frontier-level benchmark scores and pricing starting at just $0.50 per million input tokens.

Cursor 3 AI launched today as a full agent orchestration platform, not just a code editor update. Agents now get dedicated compute environments and can run locally, over SSH, or in the cloud simultaneously.

Ex-Vercel engineer Matt Pocock’s three-line Claude Code skill forces the AI to interview you before building — here’s how to install and use it.

Anthropic has released Claude Code auto mode in research preview, allowing the AI to approve its own actions using a built-in safety layer. The feature rolls out to Enterprise and API users shortly.

OpenAI announced plans to acquire Astral, the company behind popular Python tools uv, Ruff, and ty, to accelerate development of its Codex platform. The deal is pending regulatory approval.

Sentry published a technical overview describing how developers can use HTTP content negotiation to serve optimized content to AI agents. The approach relies on the Accept: text/markdown header to distinguish agent traffic from human browser requests.

Developer Michael Livs reverse-engineered Anthropic’s Claude generative UI feature, documenting the tool-call architecture, DOM injection method, and internal design guidelines — then built an open-source terminal implementation.

Cursor added more than 30 new plugins to its marketplace, including integrations from Atlassian, Datadog, GitLab, and PlanetScale, expanding AI agent capabilities across the development workflow.

Google launched Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite on March 3, 2026, offering developers a cost-efficient model priced at $0.25 per million input tokens with 2.5x faster response speeds than its predecessor.

OpenAI launches the Codex app for macOS, a command center for managing multiple AI agents with enhanced skills, automations, and doubled rate limits for developers.