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6 updates · 5 appsAugust 26, 2026

Claude adds economic data connector

Claude now lets you connect to real-world data about AI's impact on jobs and the economy.

Claude

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Expanded summary · Claude

You can now connect Claude to the Anthropic Economic Index to get real-time data on AI's impact on jobs and the economy.

This new connector lets you enable the Anthropic Economic Index directly within the Claude app. Once enabled, Claude can use real-world data to answer your questions about how AI is changing jobs, tasks, and various industries.

It's easy to turn on from the connectors menu in any conversation.

People have hard questions about AI and work: which jobs will change, which tasks are being automated, and what it means for their own field.

Original reportingThe Anthropic Economic Index connectorRead original

Perplexity

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Expanded summary · Perplexity

Kimi K2.7 Code — perplexity/kimi-k2.7-code , Moonshot AI’s coding and agentic model.

Grok 4.3 and the Grok 4.20 family — xai/grok-4.3, xai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning, and xai/grok-4.20-multi-agent.

Smart media selection: Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type Kimi K2.7 Code — perplexity/kimi-k2.7-code, Moonshot AI’s coding and agentic model.

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OpenAI Codex

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Expanded summary · OpenAI Codex

Discover how loveholidays uses OpenAI Codex to make software development accessible across the business, helping teams turn ideas into products faster.

How loveholidays is making everyone a builder with Codex

Original reportingHow loveholidays is making everyone a builder with CodexRead original

Claude Code

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Expanded summary · Claude Code

The inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by researchers, engineers and early users who built it.

The Making of Claude Code

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Expanded summary · Claude Code

Building on prior work, we introduce a framework for studying interactive agentic coding based on a privacy-preserving analysis of ~400,000 Claude Code sessions from between October 2025 and April 2026.

We evaluate the composition of… The more domain expertise a person has, the more often the session ends in success—though the gap between intermediate and expert users is modest.

Over the seven months we…

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ChatGPT

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Expanded summary · ChatGPT

Its new AI chip, Jalapeño, completes tasks more efficiently and returns responses faster than other AI systems, according to a blog post published on Tuesday .

Emma Roth Close Emma Roth News Writer by Emma Roth OpenAI says its new AI chip, Jalapeño, completes tasks more efficiently and returns responses faster than other AI…

Emma Roth Close Emma Roth News Writer by Emma…

Original reportingOpenAI says its Jalapeño chip can power faster AI responses than the competitionRead original