Claude boosts AI education, OpenAI Codex gets 'Persistent mode'

OpenAI is developing a new 'Persistent mode' for its Codex AI agent to make it more proactive.

Claude

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Accelerate Scientific Discovery: Process and analyze complex datasets, generate hypotheses, and explore new research directions with an AI assistant that understands scientific context.

Enhance Collaboration: Share insights and build on collective knowledge across interdisciplinary teams potentially spanning classified and unclassified projects. Emergency Response: Analyzing data from the National Atmospheric…

Emergency Response: Analyzing data from the National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center (NARAC) to respond to nuclear, radiological, chemical, or biological incidents

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ChatGPT

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The company said on Wednesday it will start by showing ads for 50 brands and that it has partnered with agencies WPP and Omnicom for this.

“With ChatGPT Ads, businesses of every size can introduce themselves at relevant, high-context moments when decisions are beginning to take shape,” Dave Dugan, head of global ads solutions at OpenAI, said in a statement. OpenAI has worked hard to cultivate its user base in India, launching a sub-$5 plan for ChatGPT Go in August 2025 and even running a limited promo that made that tier free for a full year .

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OpenAI Codex

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OpenAI is developing a proactive, highly persistent version of its flagship AI agent, Codex , WIRED has learned.

In recent days, OpenAI has started adding code for a new “Persistent mode” setting to its command line version of Codex, according to changes made to the product’s code base reviewed by WIRED.

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Cursor

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Cloud Agents no longer require a connected GitHub or other third-party SCM provider to get started. Prompt from the get-go, then save your work to a Cursor Origin repo.

Select Start from scratch in the repo picker, then prompt the agent.

In the background, Cursor creates an Origin repo for you.

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Gemini

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Gemini Notebook’s new ‘Expert Intelligence’ feature pulls information from the books you’ve purchased.

Emma Roth Close Emma Roth News Writer by Emma Roth Gemini Notebook’s new ‘Expert Intelligence’ feature pulls information from the books you’ve purchased.

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Perplexity

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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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