What's new? the beta release of Claude for Excel adds a sidebar in Microsoft Excel with change logs; new connectors and agent skills offer live financial data plus cashflow models;

What's new? GitHub Agent HQ unifies AI agents from top providers for Copilot Pro+ users; VS Code plan mode and team tools for Slack, Linear, Jira and Microsoft Teams track work;

What's new? SWE-1.5 is an LLM for software engineering that runs at 950 TPS on Cerebras GB200 chips; available on Windsurf for code generation and analysis;

xAI introduces Imagine update on web with video extension, text-to-image toggle and HD upscaling, raising the bar in generative media; iOS app to follow.

What's new? Figma Weave, from Figma's acquisition of Weavy, adds AI media generation and editing; it uses AI models and node-based tools for cinematic video and realistic visuals;

Perplexity is preparing to update its email assistant with a possibility to auto-record sessions and send recaps to participants.

xAI hosts a hackathon on Dec 6–7 with early access to unreleased models; Grok Code remote spotted in development.

What's new? Verdent a coding agent 76.1% pass@1 on SWE-bench is live as a Visual Studio Code extension plus standalone app; it runs plan-code-verify subagents for debug and review;

Google works on slide deck generation, new export mode, in addition to new heatmap and prototype modes for the Stitch design agent.

What's new? Marble now builds 3D worlds from text, images, videos or simple 3D layouts with diverse exports; Chisel lets users sculpt 3D assets and join existing models;