AI tools, products and developer platforms worth knowing.

Tools9 Jul 2026 · 1 min

Meta Ray-Ban Display adds real-time call captions

The heads-up display glasses can now caption phone calls live, and support browsing Instagram Reels directly from the lens display.

Tools8 Jul 2026 · 1 min

Cursor crosses half a billion in annualized revenue

The AI-native code editor has become the strongest case study yet for developer tools built around agents rather than autocomplete.

Tools7 Jul 2026 · 1 min

Windsurf relaunches as Devin Desktop

The rebrand follows Windsurf's acquisition and signals a shift toward Devin's autonomous-agent identity rather than a standalone editor brand.

Tools7 Jul 2026 · 1 min

Seven serious contenders now define the AI coding agent market

Claude Code, Antigravity, Codex, Cursor, Kiro, Copilot and Windsurf each take a different bet on philosophy, pricing and workflow fit.

Tools7 Jul 2026 · 1 min

OpenAI ships gpt-realtime-2.1 for faster voice and multimodal apps

The updated realtime model family cuts p95 latency by at least a quarter while improving recognition, tool use and instruction following for voice agents.

Tools7 Jul 2026 · 1 min

ChatGPT swaps in GPT-5.5 Instant Mini as its new fallback model

The update replaces GPT-5.3 Instant Mini and brings conversational quality improvements aimed at decision-making, planning and shopping use cases.

Tools7 Jul 2026 · 1 min

Grok Imagine reaches completion as xAI's image and video generator

Elon Musk confirmed the feature is done and shared a new preview update, moving Grok firmly into multimodal territory alongside its text and voice products.

Tools7 Jul 2026 · 1 min

Kling 3.0 tops the AI video leaderboard as Sora exits

Chinese models now dominate the text-to-video arena, with Kling, Seedance and Happy Horse leading a category OpenAI is stepping back from.

Tools7 Jul 2026 · 1 min

Runway Gen-4.5 holds its ground as the professional's choice

Where leaderboard scores favor newer entrants, Runway's latest model remains the pick for creators who need fine-grained creative control.

Tools6 Jul 2026 · 1 min

Midjourney ships V8.1 with HD 2K output and image-to-video

The April 30 update adds faster generation and Raw mode, while a still image can now become a video extendable up to 21 seconds.

Tools6 Jul 2026 · 2 min

Claude Code adds multi-agent workflows that survive context compaction

Anthropic's CLI can now orchestrate dozens of subagents through deterministic scripts, with progress that persists across context window resets. Demo content.

Tools6 Jul 2026 · 1 min

xAI's Speech to Text API goes generally available

The API supports transcription across 25 languages with both batch and streaming modes, rounding out xAI's developer-facing audio tooling.