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Latest AI news

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OpenAI May 2, 2026

OpenAI news feed connected

The site is ready to ingest OpenAI product, model, and research announcements from the official RSS feed.

Source: OpenAI News
NVIDIA Apr 29, 2026

NVIDIA AI feeds connected

NVIDIA blog and developer feeds are part of the first AI infrastructure news sources.

Source: NVIDIA Blog
AI Hardware Apr 27, 2026

AI hardware radar is live

The hardware desk starts with voice input, wearables, and AI-first personal devices.

Source: World Needs AI

ModelRank

Image, video, coding, audio, OCR, and vision model rankings synced from public APIs and CSV sources first.

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Agent Changelog

Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, Grok, Gemini, Doubao, Kling, Qwen, DeepSeek, and more agent/model release tracking.

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CLI 0.128.0
OpenAI / Codex

Codex CLI 0.128.0 expands goals, plugins, and multi-agent controls

Codex CLI adds persisted goal workflows, codex update, configurable keymaps, richer permission profiles, plugin marketplace flows, external-agent imports, and clearer MultiAgentV2 configuration.

Source: official changelog
CLI 0.123.0
OpenAI / Codex

Codex CLI 0.123.0 improves providers, MCP, and realtime handoffs

The 0.123.0 release continues the CLI track with provider polish, MCP verbosity and loading improvements, remote sandbox configuration work, realtime handoffs, and model metadata updates.

Source: official changelog
GPT-5.3-Codex
OpenAI / Codex

OpenAI introduces GPT-5.3-Codex for Codex workflows

GPT-5.3-Codex becomes available across paid Codex surfaces with stronger agentic coding, faster operation, better collaboration signals, and mid-turn steering in the app.

Source: official changelog
GPT-5.2-Codex
OpenAI / Codex

OpenAI introduces GPT-5.2-Codex

GPT-5.2-Codex launches as an agentic coding model for long-horizon work, large code changes, Windows performance, cybersecurity tasks, and Codex CLI and IDE defaults.

Source: official changelog
Team Marketplace
Cursor / Cursor

Cursor adds team marketplace controls for plugins

Admins can create and manage team marketplaces without first connecting a repository, and configure plugin distribution as optional, default-on, or required.

Source: official changelog
Security Review
Cursor / Cursor

Cursor Security Review enters beta for Teams and Enterprise

Cursor introduces always-on security agents for pull-request review and scheduled vulnerability scanning, with configurable triggers, tools, and Slack reporting.

Source: official changelog
Cursor SDK
Cursor / Cursor

Cursor SDK opens the agent runtime to programmatic use

The Cursor SDK lets developers build agents on the same runtime and harness used by Cursor desktop, CLI, and web agents, including local or cloud execution.

Source: official changelog
3.1
Cursor / Cursor

Cursor adds Canvases for interactive agent outputs

Cursor agents can now create durable interactive canvases with tables, boxes, diagrams, charts, diffs, and to-do lists inside the agent side panel.

Source: official changelog
Cost Tracking
xAI / Grok

xAI adds per-response cost tracking across APIs

xAI API responses now include exact request cost reporting across chat completions, Responses API, image generation, video generation, and streaming.

Source: official changelog
Voice Agent
xAI / Grok

Grok Voice Think Fast 1.0 becomes available

xAI makes grok-voice-think-fast-1.0 available for the Voice Agent API, expanding Grok voice-agent options for developers.

Source: official changelog
Grok 4.20
xAI / Grok

Grok 4.20 and Grok 4.20 Multi-agent go live

xAI releases Grok 4.20 and Grok 4.20 Multi-agent as part of the March API release notes, continuing the Grok model cadence.

Source: official changelog
Grok 4.1
xAI / Grok

xAI announces Grok 4.1 for web and mobile

Grok 4.1 rolls out to grok.com and mobile apps, with emphasis on usability, collaboration, personality, and creative and emotional interactions.

Source: official changelog
Grok 4
xAI / Grok

xAI releases Grok 4 through API and grok.com

Grok 4 becomes available through the xAI API and on grok.com, marking a major model release before the later 4.1 and 4.20 updates.

Source: official changelog
grok-2-1212
xAI / Grok

xAI adds grok-2-1212 and grok-2-vision-1212

xAI expands the early API with grok-2-1212 and grok-2-vision-1212, improving accuracy, instruction following, and multilingual capability.

Source: official changelog
Account Security
OpenAI / ChatGPT

ChatGPT adds Advanced Account Security

ChatGPT begins rolling out an optional Advanced Account Security setting with stronger sign-in methods, recovery keys, session controls, and tighter account safeguards.

Source: official changelog
Model picker
OpenAI / ChatGPT

ChatGPT moves model selection into the composer

ChatGPT makes model choice available from the composer and moves thinking-effort controls into the model picker for paid web users.

Source: official changelog
Shopping
OpenAI / ChatGPT

ChatGPT improves product discovery and comparison

ChatGPT shopping results become more visual and easier to compare, with richer product detail, fresher product data, and Agentic Commerce Protocol context.

Source: official changelog
Codex command center
OpenAI / ChatGPT

OpenAI introduces the Codex app from ChatGPT release notes

OpenAI releases the Codex macOS app as a command center for managing multiple coding agents, background tasks, clean diffs, worktrees, skills, and automations.

Source: official changelog
Interactive code
OpenAI / ChatGPT

ChatGPT makes code blocks more interactive

ChatGPT code blocks become more interactive with in-line editing, previews for diagrams and mini apps, and split-screen review for generated code.

Source: official changelog
3.1 Flash TTS
Google / Gemini

Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS Preview launches

Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS Preview as a cost-efficient, expressive, steerable text-to-speech model.

Source: official changelog
Doubao-Seed-2.0
ByteDance / Doubao

Doubao Seed 2.0 launches on Volcano Ark APIs

ByteDance launches the Doubao-Seed-2.0 model family with Pro, Lite, Mini, and Code options available through Volcano Ark APIs.

Source: official changelog
Doubao-1.5
ByteDance / Doubao

Doubao 1.5 launches across Volcano Ark

Doubao 1.5 brings pro, lite, vision, and realtime voice model updates to Volcano Ark with a cost-focused MoE design.

Source: official changelog
Kling 3.0
Kuaishou / Kling AI

Kling AI launches 3.0 model series

Kling AI 3.0 adds Video 3.0, Video 3.0 Omni, Image 3.0, and Image 3.0 Omni with stronger consistency, native audio, and multimodal orchestration.

Source: official changelog
2.5 Turbo
Kuaishou / Kling AI

Kling AI launches 2.5 Turbo Video Model

Kling AI 2.5 Turbo upgrades text-to-video and image-to-video generation quality while reducing creator costs.

Source: official changelog
2.0
Kuaishou / Kling AI

Kling AI advances to the 2.0 era

Kling AI 2.0 introduces new video and image generation models plus multimodal visual language for richer creator control.

Source: official changelog
Qwen3.6-Plus
Alibaba / Qwen

Qwen3.6-Plus launches for real-world agents

Qwen3.6-Plus launches through Qwen research with a focus on real-world agents, agentic coding, long-context work, and multimodal reasoning.

Source: official changelog
Qwen3.5-Omni
Alibaba / Qwen

Qwen3.5-Omni scales toward native omni-modal AGI

Qwen3.5-Omni adds fully omnimodal understanding across text, images, audio, and audio-visual content with 256k long-context support.

Source: official changelog
Qwen3.5-Max Preview
Alibaba / Qwen

Qwen3.5-Max Preview becomes available on Arena

Qwen deploys Qwen3.5-Max-Preview on Arena for community evaluation ahead of final optimization and release.

Source: official changelog
Qwen3.5
Alibaba / Qwen

Qwen3.5 releases toward native multimodal agents

Qwen3.5 introduces a native vision-language model with benchmark gains in reasoning, coding, agent capabilities, and multimodal understanding.

Source: official changelog
DeepSeek-V4
DeepSeek / DeepSeek

DeepSeek V4 updates the API model family

DeepSeek API adds V4-Pro and V4-Flash through OpenAI ChatCompletions and Anthropic interfaces, with legacy names scheduled for retirement.

Source: official changelog
DeepSeek-V3.2
DeepSeek / DeepSeek

DeepSeek V3.2 upgrades chat and reasoner models

DeepSeek upgrades deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner to V3.2 non-thinking and thinking modes, with a temporary V3.2-Speciale endpoint.

Source: official changelog

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