March 23, 2026

Your Daily AI App Update for March 23, 2026

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Perplexity improved search, Claude Code got a new brain and integrations, Gemini expanded personalized help, Cursor boosted coding, and Claude launched a new b…

Perplexity

You can now get smarter search results that pick the best images or videos for your question.

You can now choose if you want to see images, videos, or both in your search results.

Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type

Claude Code

Claude Code now uses a newer, smarter brain by default.

You can now use Claude Code right inside your VS Code app and see its changes as they happen.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the new default model in Claude Code. Run /model to switch models

Gemini

More people in the U.S. can now get personalized help from Gemini for free.

Gemini can now give you shopping recommendations that fit your style and past purchases.

Gemini can now help you with tech questions and planning trips, all personalized for you.

Cursor

Cursor now has a new "Composer 2" feature that helps it code better, especially for tough tasks.

Composer 2 is now available in Cursor: frontier-level coding performance with strong results on challenging coding tasks.

Standard: $0.50/M input, $2.50/M output tokens

Claude

Claude now has a new, smarter brain called Opus 4.5 that's better at coding, research, and everyday tasks.

You can now use the new Opus 4.5 brain in Claude's apps.

You can now use Claude in more places like Excel, Chrome, and on your computer.

Grok

Grok is an AI assistant built by xAI.

Chat, create images, write code, and get real-time answers from the web and X.

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

How OpenAI uses chain-of-thought monitoring to study misalignment in internal coding agents—analyzing real-world deployments to detect risks and strengthen AI safety safeguards.

OpenAI Codex

Accelerates Codex growth to power the next generation of Python developer tools