How Claude Code can be a productivity system for people who never touch code

Anthropic’s coding assistant Claude Code is finding an unexpected audience: people who never write a single line of code. Nolen Jonker writes for XDA Developers that the tool has become their most-used productivity app this year, simply by pointing it at a messy folder of files instead of a codebase. The idea is simple. Jonker …

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PrismML brings a 27B-parameter AI model to smartphones

PrismML introduces Bonsai 27B, a compressed version of Qwen3.6 27B that the company describes as the first model of its size to run entirely on a smartphone. PrismML announces in an official blog post that the new model shrinks a 27 billion parameter system down to a few gigabytes without abandoning its reasoning, tool use, …

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China’s Kimi K3 rivals the world’s biggest AI models and it’s open source

Moonshot AI, the Beijing based startup backed by Alibaba, has released Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter model the company calls in an official blog post the world’s first open 3T-class model. The system combines two new architectural components, Kimi Delta Attention and Attention Residuals, with a 1 million token context window and native vision …

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Codex Micro: OpenAI’s $230 gadget lets you control AI agents

OpenAI has opened orders for Codex Micro, a limited-edition desktop keypad built to monitor and control AI coding agents. Megan Morrone reports for Axios that the device is a collaboration with Work Louder, a boutique hardware maker known for customizable keyboards for developers and designers. The small macro pad sits next to a regular keyboard. …

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“Project Sand”: Cursor is working on Cowork competitor

Cursor, the coding tool used across much of the Fortune 500, is quietly building a general-purpose AI agent for people who never touch code. Eloise Jones reports for TechTimes that the project, internally codenamed Sand, began rolling out to Cursor employees in late June, running on infrastructure leased from SpaceXAI. Sand is designed to answer …

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“Project Moonraker”: Amazon invests heavily in Alexa’s brain upgrade

Amazon is developing a new Alexa project, codenamed Moonraker, designed to let its voice assistant complete several tasks from a single request. Eugene Kim reports for Business Insider that internal planning documents describe the project as enabling “multi-request” engagements, such as booking a ride and texting a friend in one interaction. Moonraker builds on Alexa+, …

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ChatGPT Work is an agent for complex, multi-step office tasks

OpenAI introduces ChatGPT Work, a new agent built into ChatGPT that takes on entire projects instead of just answering prompts, the company announces in an official blog post. Ina Fried and Madison Mills report for Axios that the tool is powered by OpenAI’s newly released GPT-5.6 model family. From answering to doing ChatGPT Work gathers …

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GPT‑5.6 is here and promises frontier power at a fraction of the cost

OpenAI announces in an official blog post that GPT‑5.6 is now generally available, following the limited preview it launched several weeks earlier. The family consists of three tiers: the flagship model Sol, the balanced option for everyday work Terra; and the most cost-efficient version Luna. According to OpenAI, all three models outperform rivals such as …

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Rowboat brings a local-first AI coworker to the desktop

A new open-source tool called Rowboat wants to turn AI assistants into a full workspace rather than just a chat window. The developer, posting under the handle segmenta, introduces the project in a Show HN post on Hacker News, describing it as a local-first alternative to Claude Desktop. The team behind Rowboat previously built AI …

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