Claude for Google Workspace (Anthropic)
Claude now works inside Google Docs, Sheets and Slides (beta)
AI Year in Review · Oct 10, 2025 – Oct 10, 2026
Claude skills, plugins & MCP
50 stories in this category.
Sonnet 5.5 cache pricing (Anthropic)
Claude Sonnet 5.5 cache reads cut to half price
jev-use (Cua)
Cua ships jev-use in dev preview: Jev-powered computer-use decisions plus skills over MCP
Unity plugin (OpenAI)
OpenAI ships a new Unity plugin
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Background computer use (Anthropic)
Anthropic ships background computer use in Claude, Claude Code, and Cowork
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Claude × Salesforce collaboration (Anthropic)
Claude and Salesforce announce a collaboration
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Claude Code /design (Anthropic)
Claude Code gets /design: Claude Design artboards inside the CLI
Claude-designed protein binders (Anthropic)
Claude autonomously designs 354 lab-validated protein binders
MCP 2026-07-28 spec (Model Context Protocol)
MCP's biggest update ever: fully stateless core, MCP Apps and Tasks extensions, OAuth 2.1
AMD MI450 / Helios capacity deal (Anthropic)
Anthropic signs an AMD compute deal: up to 2GW of MI450/Helios capacity, with up to $5B in AMD equity
Jacobian Conjecture counterexample (Fable 5) (Anthropic)
Mathematicians credit Claude Fable 5 on an explicit counterexample to the 87-year-old Jacobian Conjecture
Gemini API Managed Agents (Google DeepMind)
Gemini API Managed Agents add background tasks and remote MCP
Claude Tag (Anthropic)
Anthropic launches Claude Tag as a persistent Slack teammate
Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code (Anthropic)
Dynamic Workflows and Ultra Code land in Claude Code
W&B MCP Server (Weights & Biases)
Weights & Biases launches MCP server with 20 tools for agents
Claude off-peak usage boost (Anthropic)
Anthropic doubles Claude usage limits outside peak hours for a limited time
Colossus compute deal (Anthropic)
SpaceX IPO filing reveals Anthropic pays $1.25B/month for Colossus compute
Claude Agent SDK monthly credits (Anthropic)
Anthropic adds separate Claude Agent SDK credits to paid plans
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/goal command (OpenAI (Codex), Anthropic, Nous Research)
/goal command lands in Codex, Claude Code, and Hermes - the productized Ralph
Claude Managed Agents: Dreaming, Outcomes, multi-agent
New managed-agent capabilities for Claude.
Claude Design (Anthropic)
Anthropic ships Claude Design research preview, Figma stock drops 7%
Claude Desktop app (Anthropic)
Claude Desktop app rewritten from scratch
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Claude Code Routines (Anthropic)
Claude Code Routines: cron and event-triggered agents on Anthropic's cloud
Codex (OpenAI)
OpenAI Codex adds macOS background computer use, 90+ plugins, and memory
Managed Agents (Anthropic)
Anthropic ships Managed Agents, a fully hosted agent runtime
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Codex plugins & Guardian Approvals (OpenAI)
Codex hits 3M WAU with plugins, sub-agents and Guardian Approvals
WolfBench (WolfBench (Wolfram Ravenwolf))
WolfBench results show Hermes Agent beating Claude Code and OpenClaw
Claude computer use (Cowork + Claude Code) (Anthropic)
Claude can now control your Mac: computer use lands in Cowork and Claude Code
Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) (Anthropic)
Anthropic makes Opus 4.6 1M context the default in Claude Code, same price
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/last30days (Matt Van Horn)
/last30days research skill searches X, Reddit, YouTube and TikTok
W&B Agent Skills (Weights & Biases)
Weights & Biases launches Agent Skills
Claude Code tracker (MarginLab)
MarginLab tracker shows degradation in Opus 4.6 on Claude Code
Claude Code Remote Control & Memory (Anthropic)
Claude Code adds Remote Control and memory
Claude Cowork Automations (Anthropic)
Claude Cowork gets automations (cron jobs), matching Codex
MCP Apps (Anthropic)
Anthropic launches MCP Apps: interactive UI inside Claude chat
Browser Use Skill (Browser Use)
Browser Use ships as an installable agent skill
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Claude Code VS Code Extension (Anthropic)
Claude Code VS Code extension hits general availability
skills.sh (Vercel)
Vercel launches skills.sh, an 'npm for AI agents'
Claude Cowork (Anthropic)
Claude Cowork: Claude Code for non-developers, 100% written by Claude Code
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Claude for Healthcare (Anthropic)
Anthropic launches Claude for Healthcare with HIPAA compliance
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Chorus Skills Support (Chorus)
Chorus adds agent skills support for every LLM via OpenRouter
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Next.js/React Skill Packs (Vercel)
Vercel releases official agent skill packs for Next.js and React
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Catnip (Weights & Biases)
Catnip by W&B: open source iOS app to run Claude Code anywhere
Claude Skills (Anthropic)
Claude Skills launches — 'MCP-level if not bigger'
Monthly roundup: ThursdAI Dec 2025 ↗
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Claude Code (Anthropic)
Claude Code launches, starting the CLI agent revolution
ChatGPT App Store (OpenAI)
ChatGPT App Store opens submissions via MCP app model
MCP Apps (Model Context Protocol (Anthropic + OpenAI))
MCP-UI becomes MCP Apps, an official standard from Anthropic + OpenAI
Code execution with MCP (Anthropic)
Anthropic publishes code-execution-with-MCP pattern for token-efficient agents
Claude Code on the Web (Anthropic)
Claude Code comes to the web with sandboxed cloud coding
Claude Skills (Anthropic)
Claude Skills: custom instructions for AI agents now live