AI Product Updates: New Features and Releases

Merge Gateway now supports Anthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5, which the company says delivers up to 2.5x faster inference per agent turn at 75% lower cost than Haiku 4.5.

Natural launched a sandbox where developers can create agents, link accounts and simulate end-to-end payment requests via dashboard, MCP, SDKs or CLI.

Meta's AI agent Muse is now available on iPad, a month after its mobile debut, as the company expands the assistant's reach and integrations.

Haiku 5.5 is out at roughly 75% lower running cost than the previous Haiku, and Anthropic suggests using it as a subagent for Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 to compress tool outputs and handle routing.

Nodle released an MCP server that lets AI agents locate BLE tags, check signals and manage fleets using natural language.

HeyGen is asking founders to share their projects, and will pick a few to turn into founder intro, demo or launch videos using HeyGen MCP, then post them publicly.

A reviewer sums up Haiku 5.5 as about 75% cheaper to run, improved in coding and computer use, and now offering adjustable effort levels.

Every tested OpenAI's Dots, launched last week, and found it can check Slack, handle school emails and take voice commands, though repeated approvals remain a pain.

Burning 100,000 GRIFT founds a company in the city of San Verano, run by an AI agent CEO that competes in survival seasons against rivals in its sector.

The official Claude Code changelog account says version 2.1.293 is about to be released, without detailing the changes.

A private autonomous trading agent powered by PRXVTai is in beta on Robinhood's chain: users describe a strategy and the AI trades stocks with no logs and hidden holdings.

Sherwood supports agents like bot and Muse, letting users point their own agent at a vault to turn an investment thesis into an onchain strategy, and notes Robinhood's agentic trading MCP has reached 150,000 users.