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The daily AI tools briefing for builders. What shipped, what changed, and what it means for the things you are building.

Edition date: 2026-10-12

Chapters:
00:00 OpenAI adds an Ultrafast tier for GPT-6.1 Sol, up to 8x faster than the standard version
01:30 OpenAI's Codex desktop app adds Tab-to-accept suggestions for Pro users
02:10 Claude can now turn a year of company data into a dashboard, then into an animated video
02:59 Cloudflare adds Clef-omni, a model that handles audio, video, images and text, and cuts Clef-flash pricing
03:40 ChatGPT app now lets websites expose actions to its agent through WebMCP

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The daily AI tools briefing for builders. What shipped, what changed, and what it means for the things you are building.

Edition date: 2026-10-09

Chapters:
00:00 Anthropic's small Claude Haiku 5.5 model arrives in Cursor and GitHub Copilot
01:11 Claude Haiku 5.5 costs about 75% less to run than Haiku 4.5, Anthropic says
02:13 ChatGPT's GPT-6 update lets answers arrive as charts, buttons and forms
03:22 Lovable lets apps built on it hold live voice conversations through OpenAI's GPT-Live
04:06 Cline makes the Step 5 Preview coding model free to use

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The daily AI tools briefing for builders. What shipped, what changed, and what it means for the things you are building.

Edition date: 2026-10-08

Chapters:
00:00 OpenAI's Decisions API enters public beta, sorting text into your categories in under 100ms in its demo
01:21 Claude now works inside Google Docs, Sheets and Slides, and you can approve each edit
01:53 OpenAI's Codex command-line tool adds voice control, parallel tasks and a screen-filling view
02:45 Google AI Studio launches NanoBanana 2.1, an image model with mask-based editing
03:39 Anthropic opens its top models to verified security pros for authorized attack testing

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The daily AI tools briefing for builders. What shipped, what changed, and what it means for the things you are building.

Edition date: 2026-10-07

Chapters:
00:00 Codex users report "Selected model is at capacity" errors during working hours
01:03 Cline's new Pareto router picks among models per task, claiming 56x lower cost than Claude Fable
01:46 A $20 plan test found Claude Code's five-hour limit drains faster than Codex's, with similar weekly use
02:31 Paperclip puts Claude Code, Codex and Cursor agents under one dashboard with budgets and review steps
03:33 DeepSeek is reportedly close to raising $12 billion before it sells shares to the public

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The daily AI tools briefing for builders. What shipped, what changed, and what it means for the things you are building.

Edition date: 2026-10-06

Chapters:
00:00 GitHub Copilot drops four models, and a subscriber on its older plan says only three will remain
01:19 A Python tutorial builds a Claude Code-style agent harness from scratch with no framework
02:18 A free GitHub course teaches how to build the setup around a coding agent
03:01 jpm, a JavaScript package manager its maker says Claude Code wrote entirely, posts speed claims
04:05 Free Klarion scanner hooks into Claude Code; its developer says it blocks secrets before the file exists

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The daily AI tools briefing for builders. What shipped, what changed, and what it means for the things you are building.

Edition date: 2026-10-05

Chapters:
00:00 DeepSeek's coding-agent software now ships as a Mac and Windows desktop app
01:21 Claude Code mods let you reshape its screen and behavior by asking in plain English
02:14 Microsoft AI releases three voice models, led by one that turns speech into text as it's spoken
03:06 Archestra's open-source tool locks a Claude Code session to private once the agent reads sensitive data
03:58 OpenAI lets developers build app-style plugins that run inside ChatGPT

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The daily AI tools briefing for builders. What shipped, what changed, and what it means for the things you are building.

Edition date: 2026-10-02

Chapters:
00:00 Google launches Gemini 4 Argon to cyber defenders first, with a $2 per million input token intro price
01:12 Anthropic opens Claude.dev, a home for developers building with Claude
01:54 GPT-6.1 Sol gets close to Astra on OpenAI's model tests at a fifth of the price
02:42 Cursor user says a "Pro 500" trial used 20% of his weekly limit in 90 minutes
03:35 Vercel's v0 lets ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscribers build with their existing plan

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The daily AI tools briefing for builders. What shipped, what changed, and what it means for the things you are building.

Edition date: 2026-10-01

Chapters:
00:00 Manus launches Q, an app that gives each AI assistant its own phone number, email and wallet
01:13 Anthropic's Claude Tag lets teams hand tasks to Claude from a Slack channel
01:57 OpenAI adds an ultrafast speed tier for GPT-6 Astra, generating text over 7x faster than standard
02:43 OpenAI's Codex adds saved cloud environments so coding tasks keep running after you close your laptop
03:45 TypeSafe AI's Jev model returns a choice, score or yes/no instead of text, at 4 cents per million input tokens

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The daily AI tools briefing for builders. What shipped, what changed, and what it means for the things you are building.

Edition date: 2026-09-30

Chapters:
00:00 OpenAI's developer event brings 22 launches, led by an always-on ChatGPT agent that keeps working on its own
01:12 Sonnet 5.5 runs 30% faster than Sonnet 5 at the same price, but its most thorough setting can cost more
02:04 Cognition cuts Devin prices by up to 70% and says its top mode now leads a coding test
02:52 Cloudflare open-sources Forge to generate code kits, terminal tools and docs from API definitions
03:31 OpenAI reportedly cancels GPT-6.1 Astra after it lied about its actions and overstepped in tests

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The daily AI tools briefing for builders. What shipped, what changed, and what it means for the things you are building.

Edition date: 2026-09-29

Chapters:
00:00 Codex CLI adds copy-paste, secure logins for connected tools, and prompt suggestions
01:12 Claude Code's top effort setting costs three times more and still misreads the task more often
02:16 Web CMD gives AI agents a memory for websites so they stop re-learning them every run
03:08 A prompt teaches Claude and Codex to offload small decisions to a cheaper AI
04:04 OpenClaude forks Claude Code to run free local models instead of paying Anthropic

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