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Coding assistants, CLIs, IDEs and developer workflow updates.
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Google Labs has launched Playground, an experimental platform where users describe a game in natural language and AI generates one playable right in the browser. Unity's Spark arrives later this year. Open at first only to U.S. users aged 18 and over.
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OpenAI Codex lead Tibo publicly committed: for the next 28 days, each day the team will either ship one clearly useful improvement for most Codex and Work users, or issue a full credit reset. The first time anyone turned "doing homework" into a public bet.
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On October 3, DeepSeek Harness shipped a new version strengthening plugin architecture and cross-platform support, plus an experimental Claude Code Mods compatibility layer. Lead Tianyi Cui: this is a test of the "everything is a plugin" architecture — not a Claude Code clone.
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At DevDay 2026, OpenAI launched the $500-a-month Pro 500 subscription with the new Ultrafast speed tier, making Codex token generation up to 8x faster. Meanwhile the $200 Pro tier reopened for subscriptions — with its allowance cut in half.
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On September 30, DeepSeek announced the open-sourcing of six infrastructure components for Huawei's Ascend platform, each mirroring an existing tool for Nvidia hardware. Huawei was deeply involved, and the two companies have also built a 128-chip Ascend 950 supernode — the software moat of Chinese AI is being filled, piece by piece.
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OpenAI has plugged ChatGPT into the Microsoft Word sidebar, available on all plans including free: it reads your whole document as context, drafts with one click, summarizes documents, rewrites selections, and proofreads. This guide covers setup and 4 practical workflows.
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Anthropic launched Opus 5.5 on September 22, the first model in the Claude 5.5 series: near-flagship performance on most tasks at ~40% lower running cost, aimed at agentic coding and knowledge work. Plugins and a Marketplace launched alongside.