AI users now strategically deploy over 30 different models for specialized tasks, with no single model capturing more than 17% of usage as the market fragments from two dominant models controlling 90% in January to four models each holding just 10% by December.
OpenAI unveils an upgraded Codex app for macOS that revolutionizes coding by letting developers manage multiple AI agents simultaneously across parallel project threads, featuring custom Agent Skills, automated background tasks, and team-based delegation capabilities that surpass single-agent competitors like Claude Code.
New research reveals software engineers who heavily rely on AI coding tools complete tasks faster but score 17% lower on programming comprehension tests, with passive AI users showing the steepest skill decline compared to developers who actively engage with AI explanations.
AI startup Decagon secures Series D funding led by Coatue and Index Ventures to revolutionize customer support, targeting automation of 70% of interactions by 2030 while achieving 85% ticket deflection rates and tripling customer satisfaction in a $600 billion market opportunity.
Anthropic launches plug-in support for Claude Cowork, releasing 11 open-source tools spanning productivity, sales, finance, data analysis, customer support, and biology research to help users tackle specific tasks more efficiently through bundled workflows and custom integrations.
Airtable launches Superagent, its first standalone AI agent product in 13 years, featuring specialized AI agents that work together to research complex business questions and deliver interactive visualizations, even as the company's valuation plummets from $11.7 billion to $4 billion since 2021.
Revolutionary AI coding agents could soon compile natural language commands directly into machine code, potentially eliminating traditional programming languages and making current software development practices obsolete as artificial intelligence bypasses the need for human-readable code entirely.
Anthropic's study of 52 developers reveals AI coding assistants reduce programming skills by 17% despite modest speed improvements, with the biggest learning deficits occurring in debugging abilities unless developers actively engage by asking conceptual questions rather than simply delegating code generation.
Cursor revolutionizes code development by reducing codebase indexing time from over 4 hours to just 21 seconds through a breakthrough system that shares indexes between teammates, leveraging 92% similarity in codebases and cryptographic security to deliver instant search results.
Anthropic's Claude Code AI sparks viral 'vibecoding' trend as non-programmers build apps through simple prompts, while software engineers express growing concern that the autonomous tool replicates decades of expertise and threatens traditional programming careers.