New AI technologies
Emerging building blocks: reasoning, autonomous agent use, embedding inside tools, evaluation methods, and announcements that really move the market.
Articles
Models
Genie 4: Google imagines interactive worlds that move, sound and speak
Genie 4 generates interactive worlds with sound. How Google's model works, what creators might use it for and where it still falls short.
Coding agents
Agent Skills moves to the Linux Foundation: Anthropic hands its standard to the AAIF
Anthropic donates Agent Skills, the SKILL.md format adopted by more than 70 agent platforms, to the Agentic AI Foundation. Open Responses (OpenAI), OpenEnv (Hugging Face) and OpenSandbox (Alibaba) join the foundation too, which now hosts 10 projects.
Coding agents
Claude Duet: Anthropic's proactive agent, for US subscribers only for now
Anthropic opens a preview of Claude Duet, a Claude Opus 5.5 agent that works in the background on its own cloud computer and asks for approval before acting. Limited to Pro and Max subscribers in the US.
Coding agents
Claude Duet, OpenAI Dots or Grok Bot: comparing the always-on agents
Three agents that work in the background on a cloud computer, compared on vendor, model, connectors, safeguards, price and availability in France, from a developer's point of view.
Practical guides
How to set up an MCP server in Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code
What the Model Context Protocol is, how to add a server to Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code, the reference servers and the security rules, according to the official documentation.
Security
AI-generated code: a known flaw in 45% of tasks
Veracode's 2025 GenAI Code Security Report and a METR study are reminders that speed is not enough without a change in method.
Tools
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Voice & audio
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs
Pricing : Freemium
AI audio platform: text to speech, speech to text, voice cloning, dubbing, sound effects, music and voice agents, through a web app and an API with official Python and TypeScript SDKs.
- TTS
- API
- MCP