AI product news: new apps, assistants and tools
New AI apps and assistants, plus the tools people build with, newest first.
SpaceXAI says Grok Bot handled a 175% rise in support tickets with no new hires
The company says a resolved ticket costs it 20 to 30 cents, and puts the staff it didn't hire at 200 people.
Opus 5.5 sends most cybersecurity tasks to Opus 4.8, and costs 20% less per token
Anthropic's first model since the pacing essay ships with Fable 5.1's biology and cyber safeguards, and it says the model often suspects it's being tested.
OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol costs a fifth of Astra per token, and Luna a hundredth
Sam Altman says the pair beats the 5.6 models at half the price per token, and OpenAI's own docs still send new users to Astra first.
xAI's own table puts Grok 4.7 ahead of Fable 5.1 on three of seven benchmarks
Input tokens cost $2 a million against Fable 5.1 Max's $10, and output $6 against $50, on a table xAI drew itself.
Qwen open-sourced Qwen-Image-2.1's weights, but the license is research-only where Qwen-Image was Apache 2.0
The 7B model makes transparent images straight from a prompt, and it takes up to 10 reference pictures for a single edit.
Claude Code reads AGENTS.md as of version 2.1.277, but only when a project has no CLAUDE.md
The format came out of OpenAI's Codex and the Linux Foundation stewards it now, and the agents.md page still doesn't name Claude Code among the tools that read it.
Meta's Muse agent now reaches the files and messages on your Mac and acts on them
Zuckerberg announced it himself in a post, two days after he argued that every lab should set its own pace instead of agreeing on one.
Instinct's agent now makes phone calls, but only the early access group has it
Noah Shinn's examples are the calls people put off: the restaurant with no online booking, the dentist's cancellation list, the cable bill.
Grok's new speech model cut short-phrase word error rate from 20.6% to 6.8%
SpaceXAI kept batch transcription at $0.10 an hour, and version 1.0 goes away in the coming weeks.
Google's family AI agent has its own Google account, and up to six people share it
You cc it on the email from your kid's school, and it fills in the permission slip.
TypeSafe says its new model can't hallucinate, because it never writes a sentence
Declare the answers you'll accept and Jev fills them in with probabilities, which is why TypeSafe says it can't hallucinate and charges nothing for output tokens.
Is DeepSeek V4 Flash free in Cline, and what do you get for $9.99?
Cline's own pages put no token count, no request count and no reset window against the ClinePass quota.
Snap's new AI assistant runs on iPhone and Mac, but the anticipatory part is invite-only
Connect a Google account and it reads your mail and your calendar, then decides what you need to see before you think to ask.
Claude Code projects run parallel cloud agents, but Anthropic says they'll hit usage limits faster
A project is now something you brief rather than a folder you fill, and each thread inside it is a cloud session on its own branch.
How much Muse Spark 1.3 usage do you get on Cursor?
Cursor bills it out of the Other Models pool at Meta's list price, so what you get depends on how you use it.
Google's Home MCP lets Claude and other agents turn your lights off, but not unlock doors
Google's setup page tells you to warn the other people in your house that your agent can now read their home data.
Claude now writes documents and slide decks, and Cowork folds into the chat window
Anthropic says people kept losing time deciding which half of Claude a job belonged in, so it took the choice away.
Firefox's AI assistant now runs on Mistral, and Mozilla left the model picker in place.
Two companies that call themselves open source advocates are selling a browser deal as a brake on closed-model AI.
Salesforce says its Koa model matches leading models on CRM actions with three times fewer errors.
The weights are Nvidia's open Nemotron, the post-training is Salesforce's, and Salesforce keeps both the weights and the inference in house.
Google's new Gemini voice models talk you through a task while the tool calls run.
Google's own numbers put the better of the two at 35.1% on the hardest voice-agent benchmark it cites.
Free tools that let an AI help you build: Unreal, Blender, Godot and Krita
Two game engines, a 3D app and a paint program, and how an AI assistant gets its hands on each one.
Schwab named first custodian in Anthropic's Advisor Product
The release describes the connector in detail and quotes both companies, and leaves out when anyone can turn it on.
Apple's new Siri ships as a beta, on models built in collaboration with Google.
The release says the models behind it were custom-built with Google, and it ships switched off in the EU and in China.