Claude Design: Best Use Cases, Workflow, and Prompts
18 May 2026
Claude Design can help users turn rough notes, sketches, specs, and ideas into visual first drafts for brands, prototypes, decks, and campaigns.
ChatGPT Launches Personal Finance Tools for Pro Users
15 May 2026
ChatGPT can now connect to financial accounts through Plaid, giving Pro users a personal finance dashboard with read-only access to balances, transactions, investments, subscriptions, upcoming bills and savings goals.
Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Previews Real-Time AI Interaction Models
12 May 2026
Thinking Machines has previewed Interaction Models for near-real-time voice, video and text AI, built to listen, speak, see and use tools simultaneously.
Alibaba Integrates Qwen AI With Taobao Shopping
10 May 2026
Alibaba is preparing to integrate Qwen with Taobao and Tmall, giving the AI app access to more than 4 billion products as Taobao Shopping moves toward agentic commerce.
How to Use Claude Memory So You Stop Repeating Yourself
8 May 2026
Claude memory can reduce repetitive setup prompts by carrying useful context across conversations, including preferences, project details, tone, and workflow rules.
OpenAI Launches GPT-Realtime-2 for Live Voice AI and New Voice API Models
7 May 2026
OpenAI has launched three new voice API models for live audio agents, real-time translation and streaming transcription, with GPT-Realtime-2 adding larger context, adjustable reasoning effort, tool transparency and stronger recovery behaviour.
OpenAI Rolls Out GPT-5.5-Cyber for Vetted Security Teams, Racing Anthropic’s Mythos
7 May 2026
OpenAI has introduced GPT-5.5-Cyber, a limited-preview model for vetted cybersecurity professionals, as Anthropic investigates reported unauthorized access to Claude Mythos.
Anthropic Introduces Dreaming for Claude Managed Agents
7 May 2026
Anthropic introduced dreaming for Claude Managed Agents, a research preview feature that lets agents review past sessions, extract patterns, update context files, and create reusable playbooks for future work.
Microsoft, Google DeepMind and xAI Join US Government AI Model Testing
5 May 2026
Microsoft, Google DeepMind and xAI have agreed to give U.S. officials early access to new AI models for pre-release AI model testing focused on national security risks.