March 2, 2026
Daily AI Digest for March 2, 2026
Full archive memo · 9 app sections.
Claude Code got a big.
Claude Code
Claude Code now uses a better default AI model, Sonnet 4.5, to help with your coding tasks.
You can now use Claude Code directly inside VS Code with a new tool that shows Claude's changes as they happen.
The app can now handle longer and more complex coding projects on its own.
Grok
Grok is an AI assistant built by xAI.
Chat, create images, write code, and get real-time answers from the web and X.
Gemini
With a new funding commitment for open source security and helpful tools for defenders, we're shifting from identifying open source security threats to solving them.
Billions of people rely on an Internet built on open source software — which is software anyone can use — but that reliance only works if the software beneath it is secure.
Today, as a founding member of the Linux Foundation's Alpha-Omega Project , we’re pledging $12.5 million collectively with Amazon, Anthropic, Microsoft/GitHub and OpenAI to furthe.
Perplexity
Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type
Configurable control : Enable/disable and override media types as needed
New max_tokens parameter : Control the maximum tokens extracted per page in search results. This gives you finer control over response size and costs
OpenAI Codex
But when we built Codex Security, we made a deliberate design choice: we didn’t start by importing a static analysis report and asking the agent to triage it.
This isn’t just a theoretical pattern.
A reasonable reaction is: why not do both? Start with a SAST report, then use the agent to reason deeper.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V3.2: Official successor to V3.2-Exp. Now live on App, Web & API.
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale: Pushing the boundaries of reasoning capabilities. API-only for now.
Introduces a new massive agent training data synthesis method covering 1,800+ environments & 85k+ complex instructions.
ChatGPT
GPT‑5.4 mini significantly improves over GPT‑5 mini across coding, reasoning, multimodal understanding, and tool use, while running more than 2x faster.
GPT‑5.4 nano is the smallest, cheapest version of GPT‑5.4 for tasks where speed and cost matter most. It is also a significant upgrade over GPT‑5 nano.
These models are built for the kinds of workloads where latency directly shapes the product experience: coding assistants that need to feel responsive, subagents that quickly comp.
Cursor
We've added more than 30 new plugins from partners such as Atlassian, Datadog, GitLab, Glean, Hugging Face, monday.com, and PlanetScale.
Most plugins contain MCPs that cloud agents can use when kicked off manually or triggered automatically through automations .
New Plugins on the Cursor Marketplace
Claude
Our newest model, Claude Opus 4.5, is available today. It’s intelligent, efficient, and the best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use.
Opus 4.5 is available today on our apps, our API, and on all three major cloud platforms. If you’re a developer, simply use claude-opus-4-5-20251101 via the Claude API .
Alongside Opus, we’re releasing updates to the Claude Developer Platform , Claude Code , and our consumer apps .