xAI readies Mika, a 24-year-old Grok companion who opts for motorcycles over clichés, with assets hinting at an imminent weekend rollout.

What's new? AI Studio is a platform for enterprise teams to move from prototypes to governed AI systems; it offers observability, Agent Runtime and AI Registry in beta;

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;

FlowithOS by flowith AI rethinks desktop browsing on Mac/Windows by merging web access with AI task logs in vertical tabs and a sidebar.

What's new? Code Arena assesses AI coding models over real-world dev cycles with agentic tool calls; it logs file operations with live coding and traceable IDs;

Perplexity is testing a dedicated meetings view within its Email Assistant, grouping past calls with notes and showing upcoming events in one library tab.

What's new? Poe by Quora now offers group chat, letting up to 200 users and multiple AI models collaborate in one conversation; The feature supports text, image, video, and audio models, including custom bots, and syncs chat history across all devices;

Grok 4.1 is now live for all users, offering faster, more creative responses and top leaderboard scores across grok.com, X, and mobile apps.

What's new? Anthropics launched Claude Opus 4.5 with long context; it adds a new API effort parameter and lower token pricing; expanded Claude for Excel and Claude for Chrome support.

Perplexity introduces a conversational AI shopping feature to US users, combining search, product discovery and checkout in one seamless chat experience.

What's new? Flux.2 is a family of image models available via API and openweight versions; it supports 10-image referencing, text rendering and 4mp editing;