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11 updates · 9 appsMarch 12, 2026

Daily AI Digest: Enhanced Reasoning for Claude, Smarter Media in Perplexity, and New Plugins for Cursor

ChatGPT agents now feature enhanced security against prompt injection and social engineering attacks

ChatGPT

1 update

Expanded summary · ChatGPT

ChatGPT agents are now better protected against prompt injection and social engineering, making interactions more secure.

How ChatGPT defends against prompt injection and social engineering by constraining risky actions and protecting sensitive data in agent workflows.

Designing AI agents to resist prompt injection

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Perplexity

1 update

Expanded summary · Perplexity

Perplexity now intelligently selects between images, videos, or both to best answer your queries.

Smart media selection: Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type Configurable control: Enable/disable and override media types as needed New max_tokens parameter: Control the maximum tokens extracted per page in search results. This gives you finer control over response size and costs.

Learn more → You can now enable, disable, or override media types to customize your search results.

Learn more →

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Claude

3 updates

Expanded summary · Claude

Claude now uses adaptive thinking to decide when deeper reasoning is needed, improving its problem-solving capabilities.

Claude now features adaptive thinking with user-controlled effort levels and automatic long conversa

Expanded summary · Claude

You can now select from four effort levels to control how deeply Claude reasons on a task.

Claude now features adaptive thinking with user-controlled effort levels and automatic long conversa

Expanded summary · Claude

Long conversations in Claude will now automatically summarize older context to prevent reaching the conversation limit.

Claude now features adaptive thinking with user-controlled effort levels and automatic long conversa

Cursor

1 update

Expanded summary · Cursor

Over 30 new plugins from partners like Atlassian and GitLab are now available in the Cursor Marketplace.

We've added more than 30 new plugins from partners such as Atlassian, Datadog, GitLab, Glean, Hugging Face, monday.com, and PlanetScale. Cursor can now read from, write to, and take actions across more of your stack.

Most plugins contain MCPs that cloud agents can use when kicked off manually or triggered automatically through automations.

These new plugins allow Cursor to interact with more of your development tools and services.

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Grok

1 update

Expanded summary · Grok

Grok is an AI assistant built by xAI.

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

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OpenAI Codex

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Expanded summary · OpenAI Codex

Rakuten uses Codex, the coding agent from OpenAI, to ship software faster and safer, reducing MTTR 50%, automating CI/CD reviews, and delivering full-stack builds in weeks.

Rakuten fixes issues twice as fast with Codex

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Gemini

1 update

Expanded summary · Gemini

"How AI is helping improve heart health in rural Australia" discusses a new healthcare program.

Google's AI and local health groups are teaming up to improve rural Australians' heart health.

We’re partnering with leading Australian health organizations to bring new AI tools to regional communities.

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Claude Code

1 update

Expanded summary · Claude Code

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

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the new default model in Claude Code. Run /model to switch models We’re introducing several upgrades to Claude Code: a native VS Code extension, version 2.0 of our terminal interface, and checkpoints for autonomous operation.

Powered by Sonnet 4.5, Claude Code now handles longer, more complex developme…

Run /model to switch models

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DeepSeek

1 update

Expanded summary · DeepSeek

DeepSeek-V3.2: Official successor to V3.2-Exp. Now live on App, Web & API.

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.

Original reportingDeepSeek-V3.2 Release | DeepSeek API DocsRead original