Practical guides to AI tools and developer tooling: what to use and how.
VS Code 1.143 makes the Copilot harness the default for new agent sessions, adds a Compare Models preview that runs one task through Copilot, Claude and Codex harnesses with an optional judge, and lets you run MAI Code 1.1 Flash on a 96 GB GPU.
Notion Agents now get a computer and web browser and can run tasks for up to 24 hours. Business and Enterprise seats get 1,500 Standard and 500 Select credits a month, extra credits cost $10 per 1,000, and existing workspaces switch on November 2.
Ten real AI tools for spreadsheets, grouped by job: Copilot in Excel, Gemini in Google Sheets, Claude for Excel, Shortcut, ChatGPT, Julius AI, GPTExcel, Numerous.ai, Rows and Better Analyst. What each does, its main limit, and prices only where the vendor's page states them.
Asymptote Labs raised a $5.5M seed for Beacon, an MIT-licensed tool that records sessions from Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and 20+ other agents and turns reviewed lessons into reusable skills. How it works, what Pro costs, and what to check first.
OpenAI plans to retire custom GPTs on Dec 11, 2026 and move them to plugins. Here is what transfers, what does not, the five migration steps, and a tested prompt for turning old GPT instructions into a plugin brief, as of October 2026.
Greptile raised a $50M Series B led by Menlo Ventures at a $750M valuation. It says it reviews over 1% of GitHub PRs daily. How TREX runs your code, how Model Inversion picks the reviewer, and what Base, Plus and Apex reviews cost.
Town raised $108M at a $1B valuation and now lets each employee's AI assistant, a Townie, work with teammates' Townies and with outside contacts. What it does, plans from $0 to $199 per user a month billed annually, and what to check before you connect your inbox.
Krea 3 is Krea's new image editing model: native 2K edits in under 8 seconds, up to 6 references in the app, and $0.06 per image. Here is how Krea's speed and price numbers compare, what the API supports, how to prompt it, and what is still missing.
Eleven real AI tools for YouTubers, grouped by job: Ask Studio, A/B testing and auto dubbing inside YouTube Studio, plus vidIQ, TubeBuddy, Descript, DaVinci Resolve, CapCut, OpusClip, ElevenLabs and Canva. What each does, its main limit, and prices only where the vendor's page states them.
A beginner's guide to running an AI model on your own computer with Ollama, LM Studio or llama.cpp: hardware needs, install steps, small models to start with, and our real test results on a CPU-only Linux machine, as of October 2026.
Suno launched its v6 family on September 9, 2026, and is retiring its older models. What v6, v6-wild and v6-mini do, who gets each one, what Suno says they were trained on, the Warner, BMG and Believe deals, and the new Universal and Sony lawsuit.
Six vibe coding tools as of October 2026: browser app builders Lovable, Bolt, Replit and v0, and code-first agents Cursor and Claude Code. Free plans, entry paid plans from $8 a month, how each meters usage, and the main limit of each.
Eleven AI homework helpers grouped by job: photo solvers, math engines, AI tutors with guided learning modes, and study and writing tools. What each does, what is free, and paid prices checked on vendor pages as of October 2026.
Official October 2026 prices for ElevenLabs, OpenAI TTS, Google Cloud TTS, WellSaid, Murf, Suno, Udio, Stable Audio, Soundraw and AIVA, with monthly and yearly billing called out for each plan.
Epic's Claude Code plugin for Unreal went viral this weekend, but it dates to June. It packages a skill and hook for Unreal MCP, the Experimental UE 5.8 server that also works with Cursor and Codex. Setup steps, toolsets, and Epic's security warnings.
monday.com launched Harmony, a voice AI platform whose agents call leads, qualify them, handle objections and hand warm prospects to reps. It uses small task-specific models, starts at $0.39 a minute plus $250 a month, and runs in the US, UK, Australia and Singapore.
Eleven real AI tools for teachers, grouped by job: teacher versions of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Microsoft Copilot, plus MagicSchool, Brisk, Khanmigo, Diffit, Curipod, Canva and Gradescope. What each does, its main limit, and prices only where the vendor's page states them.
We checked free and paid vibe coding courses as of October 2026: DeepLearning.AI + Replit, Vibe Code School, zero2vibecode, Cursor Learn, Anthropic Claude Code 101, Codecademy, Coursera/Scrimba, Great Learning, and Google/Kaggle agent materials. What is free, what costs money, and where to start.
Google is replacing Gems with skills in the Gemini app, starting with personal accounts in November 2026. Here are the dates, what skills cannot do yet, how they differ from tasks and scheduled actions, and how to move a Gem yourself.
Suno Speech (beta) generates a spoken voice and original background music as one track. How Simple and Advanced modes work, the music toggle, the roughly eight-minute limit, and what Suno has not said about plans, credits, and rights.
