Daily AI Digest: March 31, 2026

Perplexity now offers smarter media results, and DeepSeek updated its core AI.

Perplexity

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Expanded summary · Perplexity

You can now get smarter image and video results based on what you ask.

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 turn off or change the types of media (images, videos) you see in your search results.

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DeepSeek

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Expanded summary · DeepSeek

The DeepSeek AI is now updated to version V3.2, which you can use on their app and website.

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.

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Grok

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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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Gemini

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Expanded summary · Gemini

LL reflects on his 40-year career, witnessing technology evolve from the first drum machines to generative AI.

He discusses the potential of AI to democratize access for a new generation of artists, while emphasizing the importance of prot… In the latest episode of our Dialogues on Technology and Society series, legendary artist LL COOL J sits down with James Manyika, Google's Senior Vice President of Research, La…

In the latest episode of our Dialogues on Technology and Society series, legendary artist LL COOL J sits down with James Manyika, Google's Senior Vice President of Research, Labs, Technology & Society.

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Claude

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Expanded summary · Claude

AI models can now independently identify high-severity vulnerabilities in complex software.

As we recently documented, Claude found more than 500 zero-day vulnerabilities (security flaws that are unknown to the software’s maintainers) in w… As part of this collaboration, Mozilla fielded a large number of reports from us, helped us understand what types of findings warranted submitting a bug report, and shipped fix…

As part of this collaboration, Mozilla fielded a large number of reports from us, helped us understand what types of findings warranted submitting a bug report, and shipped fixes to hundreds of millions of users in Firefox 148.0 .

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Claude Code

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Expanded summary · Claude Code

In this case, the agent understands the user's goal, and is genuinely trying to help, but takes initiative beyond what the user would approve.

Overeager behavior. For example, it uses a credential it happened to find or deletes somet…

Prompt injection .

Instructions planted in a file, webpage, or tool output hijack the agent, redirecting it from the user's task toward the attacker's.

Original reportingClaude Code auto mode: a safer way to skip permissionsRead original ↗

Cursor

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Expanded summary · Cursor

Cursor now supports self-hosted cloud agents that keep your code and tool execution entirely in your own network.

Your codebase, build outputs, and secrets all stay on internal machines running in your infrastructure, while the agent handles tool calls locally. Self-hosted cloud agents offer the same capabilities as Cursor-hosted cloud agents, including isolated VMs, full development environments, multi-model ha…

Self-hosted cloud agents offer the same capabilities as Cursor-hosted cloud agents, including isolated VMs, full development environments, multi-model harnesses, plugins, and more.

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ChatGPT

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Expanded summary · ChatGPT

AI for Disaster Response in Asia: OpenAI Workshop with Gates Foundation

Helping disaster response teams turn AI into action across Asia

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OpenAI Codex

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Expanded summary · OpenAI Codex

Accelerates Codex growth to power the next generation of Python developer tools

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