Gemini launched new hardware with voice upgrades, and Claude's company is navigating global AI access concerns and expanding internationally.
Claude
World leaders are worried that the US government could stop other countries from using powerful American AI tools like Claude at any time.
Claude's creators are working with the US government to build AI tools that can help monitor for risks related to nuclear weapons information.
Claude's company has opened a new office in Seoul, South Korea, and is partnering with local companies and the government to promote safe AI use.
Gemini
Google has launched a new Google Home Speaker that uses Gemini AI, letting you have more natural, two-way conversations beyond simple commands.
The new Google Home Speaker comes with 10 new voices, making your chats with Gemini feel more personal and less like talking to a robot.
After years of incremental updates, Google is betting that its Gemini AI can reinvent its smart speaker.
Perplexity
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
Claude Code
Building on prior work , we introduce a framework for studying interactive agentic coding based on a privacy-preserving analysis of ~400,000 Claude Code sessions from between Octo.
The more domain expertise a person has, the more often the session ends in success—though the gap between intermediate and expert users is modest.
Agentic coding has taken off.