Fish Audio S2.1 Pro: Free Voice Cloning for Creators
Fish Audio raised $52M and made S2.1 Pro free through August 31: production-grade voice cloning across 83 languages at roughly 90ms latency, plus an open-source path via Fish Speech.
GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, Luna Land on Amazon Bedrock
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family is now on Amazon Bedrock, giving builders three model tiers, Sol, Terra, and Luna, inside the AWS stack they already use.
Codex Slides: Open-Source AI Deck Studio in Codex
An open-source project called Codex Slides turns a prompt, a folder, or an entire code repository into a finished presentation deck, running entirely inside OpenAI's Codex.
AgentCost: See Why Your AI Coding Session Cost So Much
AgentCost is a new local CLI that reads your Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex transcripts and shows exactly what drove your token spend.
audio.cpp 0.4 Runs Higgs Audio v3 TTS Locally
audio.cpp 0.4 adds Higgs Audio v3 4B, Fish Audio S2 Pro, and Voxtral Realtime ASR to one C++/ggml engine, running flagship text-to-speech locally on CUDA with no Python.
ChatGPT Voice on Desktop: Hands-Free Agent Control
OpenAI brought ChatGPT Voice to the macOS and Windows desktop app, letting you direct Codex and ChatGPT Work agents hands-free with GPT-Live full-duplex voice.
Claude Managed Agents Now Mount 500 Skills a Session
Anthropic raised Claude Managed Agents from 20 to 500 skills per session and added five-tier effort controls, making a single agent able to hold a whole knowledge base.
Claude Security Plugin Scans Code in Your Terminal
Anthropic brought its Claude Security vulnerability scanner into the Claude Code terminal on July 22, 2026, as a public-beta plugin for every Claude Code user.
Mix Studio: A Free ComfyUI Workspace for Desktop and Phone
Mix Studio is a free, open-source ComfyUI workspace that builds and submits image and video graphs for you, and runs the same interface on your desktop or your phone.
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS: Alibaba's Top-Ranked Voice AI
Alibaba's Tongyi Lab released Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS, a hosted text-to-speech model that topped the Artificial Analysis TTS leaderboard in July 2026.
How to Turn a Repeat Task Into a Claude Skill
A step-by-step workflow for Claude Cowork's Record a Skill feature: record a repetitive task once while narrating, and Claude turns it into a reusable skill you can rerun on demand.
Devin Outposts: Run the AI Coding Agent on Your Hardware
Cognition shipped Devin Outposts on July 21, 2026, moving the coding agent's execution onto your own GPU, VM, Kubernetes cluster, or Mac mini while planning stays in the cloud.
Figma Console MCP: Your Design System as an API
Figma Console MCP is a free, MIT-licensed Model Context Protocol server with 112 tools that turns your Figma design system into a live, writable API for AI agents.
Anthropic Launches Rupee Pricing for Claude in India
Anthropic has begun showing Claude subscription prices in Indian rupees across its website and mobile apps, its first move to localize pricing for its second-largest market after the US.
aftr: Drive After Effects From Claude Code via MCP
aftr is an open-source MCP server that lets AI coding agents drive Adobe After Effects, apply one-call VFX presets, and self-correct renders through an autonomous loop.
OpenAI Discontinues ChatGPT Atlas Browser for New App
OpenAI is discontinuing ChatGPT Atlas, its standalone desktop browser, less than nine months after launch, folding its features into a unified ChatGPT app.
LiteRT.js: Google's Browser AI Inference Runtime
Google released LiteRT.js on July 9, 2026, a JavaScript runtime that runs AI models directly in the browser with no server, up to 3x faster than other web runtimes.
Mistral Studio Adds Version Control for Prompts
Mistral added version control for prompts and skills to Mistral Studio on July 9, 2026, with immutable versions, rollback, ownership tracking, and audit logs.
ResearchStudio-Reel: Turn Papers Into Video and Blogs
Microsoft open-sourced ResearchStudio-Reel, five Claude Code and Codex skills that turn one document into a consistent poster, talk video, and bilingual blog in a single pass.
How to Build Reusable Figma Agent Skills in 2026
Build a reusable Figma agent Skill in minutes, trigger it with a slash, and wire MCP connectors to Slack, Notion, and Asana.
AI Coding Model Routing: Devin Fusion vs Weave vs Copilot
Model routing has become its own layer in the AI coding stack. Three tools put the router in three different places, each with different cost and control tradeoffs.
Kage gives AI agents verified, code-grounded memory
Kage, a new open-source verification layer built on Google's Open Knowledge Format, stops AI coding agents from recalling hallucinated or out-of-date memories.
Claude Models Hit GA in Microsoft Foundry on Azure
Anthropic and Microsoft made Claude generally available in Microsoft Foundry, letting teams run Opus 4.8 and Haiku 4.5 inside their existing Azure identity, billing, and governance.
Cursor iOS App Runs Coding Agents From Your Phone
Cursor has launched a native iOS app in public beta, putting its AI coding agents on the phone in your pocket so you can start, steer, and review them from anywhere.