March 19, 2026

Daily AI App Digest for March 19, 2026

Full archive memo · 9 app sections.

Perplexity got smarter media, Gemini launched personalized help, and Claude became more powerful with new app integrations.

Perplexity

You can now get smarter media suggestions, with the app choosing between images, videos, or both based on what you ask.

You can also turn off or change the types of media shown if you prefer.

Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type

Gemini

You can now get personalized shopping recommendations, tech support, and travel plans tailored just for you.

This 'Personal Intelligence' feature is now available for free to users in the U.S.

For example, you can get tailored shopping suggestions for things like bags that match your style and past purchases.

Claude

A new, smarter version called Claude Opus 4.5 is now available.

This new version is much better at everyday tasks like deep research.

You can now use Claude in new ways within apps like Excel, Chrome, and on your desktop.

Grok

Grok is an AI assistant built by xAI.

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

Claude Code

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.

We’re introducing a native VS Code extension in beta that brings Claude Code directly into your IDE.

DeepSeek

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.

Introduces a new massive agent training data synthesis method covering 1,800+ environments & 85k+ complex instructions.

OpenAI Codex

A deep dive into why Codex Security doesn’t rely on traditional SAST, instead using AI-driven constraint reasoning and validation to find real vulnerabilities with fewer false pos.

Why Codex Security Doesn’t Include a SAST Report

ChatGPT

GPT-5.4 mini and nano are smaller, faster versions of GPT-5.4 optimized for coding, tool use, multimodal reasoning, and high-volume API and sub-agent workloads.

Introducing GPT-5.4 mini and nano

Cursor

We've added more than 30 new plugins from partners such as Atlassian, Datadog, GitLab, Glean, Hugging Face, monday.com, and PlanetScale.

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

New Plugins on the Cursor Marketplace