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Claude Code now attempts a graceful stopping point when users hit the hour usage limit mid-task, rather than cutting off abruptly mid-edit. A small, fixed allowance drawn from the weekly limit gives the model time to wrap up ongoing work. The feature is available to Pro plan users once per week and to Max and Team Premium plan users each time a hour session limit is reached. Users can continue past the wrap-up using extra usage if needed.

Anthropic has launched a directory submission portal for Claude plugins, allowing developers on paid Claude plans to submit, track, and publish third-party extensions. Plugins can package MCP connectors, Agent Skills, or both, and support two submission paths: a single MCP connector or a bundled GitHub-hosted repo. The portal includes auto-validation, safety scanning, and review status tracking. Once live, developers gain usage analytics covering installs and search discovery. Claude also supports MCP 2.0, enabling interactive UI and enterprise OAuth features.

Alibaba unveiled a suite of Qwen-powered AI hardware at its 2026 Apsara Conference, including Qwen Book, an agentic computer running Qwen Desktop OS that unifies models, apps, and cloud services into an agent-ready stack. The lineup also includes Qwen Glasses N1 and N1 Pro with a megapixel sensor and iris-based payment, Qwen Clip AI earbuds co-engineered with Bose, and QwenNote A2, a gram note-taking device priced at RMB 1,199 that transcribes conversations and feeds context to AI agents.

Microsoft has introduced a redesigned Copilot app featuring three new capabilities: Home, Code, and Autopilot. Home serves as a unified starting point integrating Chat, Cowork, and full Office apps including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Code, powered by GitHub Copilot technology, lets any user build apps, dashboards, and automations in natural language. Autopilot, formerly called Scout, is a persistent AI agent that works autonomously in Teams and Outlook. Home and Code roll out via the Frontier program soon; Autopilot enters private preview end of September.

ElevenLabs has launched ElevenLabs for Students, offering university students aged 18 and above in the US, Canada, EU27, Australia, and UK three months of free access to ElevenCreative, ElevenAgents, and the ElevenAPI, plus a free year of ElevenReader Ultra. The plan aims to give students professional-grade AI voice and agent tools for projects, research, and skill development. Over 350 professors across nearly 50 countries have already joined ElevenLabs' educator community, extending access to more than 1,500 students.

Anthropic's Claude Tag, the beta feature that adds Claude to Slack channels, now supports personal connectors for Team plan users, with Enterprise to follow. Previously, Claude could only access admin-attached channel connectors. Now individual users can connect their own tools, such as Google Drive, calendar, or CRM accounts, directly within a channel. Users control output via review mode or auto mode, where Claude screens for sensitive content before posting. Admins on Enterprise plans can require manual review for all members.

Meta announced Horizon Create and Horizon Studio at Meta Connect, two AI-powered game-building tools using the Meta Horizon Engine. Horizon Create is a mobile app where users describe a game idea in plain text and the engine generates a complete 2D or 3D game with progression systems, characters, and multiplayer. Horizon Studio offers the same via browser with more granular visual controls. Games publish natively to Facebook, Instagram, and Horizon, and early access waitlist signups are now open.

Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5, a coding-optimized model that costs roughly 40% less than Opus 5 for typical token-billed workloads. The savings come from three changes: input and output token prices dropped 20%, cached token reads fell 60%, and the model completes open-ended tasks in fewer turns. Cached token reads on Opus 5.5 now cost one-fifth of competing models. Zeta Labs reported nearly half the cost and twice as many hard tasks completed. Opus 5.5 also generates output more than 30% faster than its predecessor.

Google has launched Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, a new enterprise conversational AI feature that pairs real-time video generation with speech to create animated personas that listen, see, and speak. Available now in Gemini Enterprise, it supports precise lip-syncing, natural expressions, fluid turn-taking, and asynchronous tool calling for background data fetching. The system handles 97 languages with native speech-to-speech synchronization and allows custom avatar creation from a reference image. All output is watermarked with SynthID.

Google's Project Suncatcher is launching its first prototype satellite aboard SpaceX's Transporter-18 rideshare mission, developed in partnership with Planet, to test how Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) perform in orbit. The mission will gather data on how TPUs handle radiation, thermal extremes, and the physical stress of spaceflight. Ground tests at UC Davis's Crocker Nuclear Laboratory showed Trillium TPUs can survive radiation exceeding a five-year mission dose. A follow-up two-satellite test targeting laser-based interconnectivity is planned for 2027.