Apple integrates Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s Codex into Xcode 26.3 in push for ‘agentic coding’

Apple on Tuesday announced a major update to its flagship developer tool that gives artificial intelligence agents unprecedented control over the app-building process, a move that signals the iPhone maker's aggressive push into an emerging and controversial practice known as "agentic coding."

Xcode 26.3, available immediately as a release candidate, integrates Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex directly into Apple's development environment, allowing the AI systems to autonomously write code, build projects, run tests, and visually verify their own work — all with minimal human oversight.

Qwen3-Coder-Next offers vibe coders a powerful open source,
ultra-sparse model

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba's Qwen team of AI researchers has emerged in the last year as one of the global leaders of open source AI development, releasing a host of powerful large language models and specialized multimodal models that approach, and in some cases, surpass the performance of the proprietary U.S. leaders such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and xAI.

Now the Qwen team is back again this week with a compelling release that matches the "vibe coding" frenzy that has arisen in recent months: Qwen3-Coder-Next, a specialized 80-billion-parameter model designed to deliver elite agentic performance within a lightweight active footprint.

OpenAI Codex App: Claude Cowork Killer?

Explore the OpenAI Codex app, a potential command center for AI agents. This video demonstrates the app's features, including multi-project handling and built-in voice dictation. A firsthand setup and usage walkthrough on macOS is also included.

I use the ‘potato’ prompt with ChatGPT every day — here is how it finds the holes in my logic

I’ve spent years using AI as a sounding board, but I recently realized I was using it wrong. I was asking ChatGPT to "help me plan" or "summarize my ideas," which usually resulted in the AI simply agreeing with me. It was a digital echo chamber.

Now, when I have a new strategy, a pitch or a controversial argument, I don't ask for a "critique." I type one word.

Potato.

Claude In Excel Is A Game Changer

In this video, I share the inside scoop on how Claude in Excel changes what knowledge work actually means:

• Why Anthropic embedded Opus 4.5 directly inside Microsoft's 40-year-old software
• How data partnerships with Moody's, S&P, and FactSet create moats benchmarks can't match
• What Norway's sovereign wealth fund learned from 213,000 hours saved
• Where the model race ends and workflow integration begins

For operators and builders, the strategic question has shifted—it's no longer who trains the best model, but who controls the workflows where real decisions happen.

Contextual AI launches Agent Composer to turn enterprise RAG into production-ready AI agents

In the race to bring artificial intelligence into the enterprise, a small but well-funded startup is making a bold claim: The problem holding back AI adoption in complex industries has never been the models themselves.

Contextual AI, a two-and-a-half-year-old company backed by investors including Bezos Expeditions and Bain Capital Ventures, on Monday unveiled Agent Composer, a platform designed to help engineers in aerospace, semiconductor manufacturing, and other technically demanding fields build AI agents that can automate the kind of knowledge-intensive work that has long resisted automation.

How Moonshot's Kimi K2.5 helps AI builders spin up agent swarms easier than ever

Cinese company Moonshot AI upgraded its open-sourced Kimi K2 model, transforming it into a coding and vision model with an architecture that supports an agent swarm orchestration. 

The new model, Moonshot Kimi K2.5, is a good option for enterprises that want agents that can automatically pass off actions instead of having a framework be a central decision-maker.