Cursor 3.1 launches agent-created canvases, enabling AI to generate interactive visual dashboards, diagrams, and charts built on a React-based UI library, dramatically reducing friction in human-agent collaboration by replacing dense text with dynamic visual interfaces.
Google launches 'Skills' in Chrome, enabling users to save and reuse AI prompts via simple shortcuts, streamlining repetitive tasks as AI-powered browser features continue to surge in popularity across the industry.
Google launches a Gemini desktop app for macOS, offering instant AI access via a keyboard shortcut, but the Apple Silicon-only release with no Windows version in sight suggests Google is still playing catch-up to rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic.
OpenAI rolls out its ChatGPT Windows desktop app with screen awareness and quick-access shortcuts, but only paid subscribers can use it now — free users must wait until later this year for full access.
Google launches a free native Gemini app for macOS 15 and above, letting users share their screen for instant AI-powered insights and access the assistant from anywhere with a quick Option + Space keyboard shortcut.
Anthropic launches Claude Code, an AI coding assistant now available across terminals, IDEs, Slack, and browsers, with teams reporting 7.6x more frequent deployments and 14% week-over-week growth, starting at $17/month.
Google launches 'Skills' in Chrome, allowing users to save and reuse AI prompts as one-click tools within Gemini, with customizable workflows, a pre-built library, and multi-tab functionality for tasks like calculations, comparisons, and document scanning.
Mark Zuckerberg is building an AI clone of himself trained on his voice, image, and mannerisms so employees can interact with him directly, while Meta eyes expanding the technology to creators looking to engage their followers at scale.
OpenAI is merging ChatGPT, its Atlas browser, and Codex into a single desktop superapp for 900 million users, rolling out incrementally over the next few months as the company transforms its AI platform into a powerful agentic productivity tool for knowledge workers.
AI is reshaping the professional landscape by shifting the hardest challenge from execution to articulation, suddenly making taste, judgment, and problem-definition the most critical skills — and placing designers, who have always mastered identifying true human needs, at the center of the AI-powered future.