AI Product Updates: New Features and Releases

Codex now supports a Chrome extension, enabling more actions in browser scenarios.

Claude Code 2.1.278 defaults Auto mode to the server-side classifier to avoid classifier overhead charges and shows in /status whether the classifier runs server-side.

Vercel says Jev was adopted faster than any other model in AI Gateway history, reaching about 13% of teams in the first day, twice the rate of previous models.

Cloudflare's Quick Tunnels tunneling service updated its homepage and copy and added a JSON output format that is friendlier to agents, with the features themselves unchanged.

Kii released an Abstracted FX Trade Page for 24-hour on-chain FX settlement between USDT, USDC and local stablecoins, with over $600M in cumulative volume, and is extending the infrastructure toward agentic payments.

Compositor is a free, MIT-licensed Mac image editor at just 12MB, with layers, masks and content-aware fill, plus groundwork for Codex-driven automation.

Claude Code is set to support reading the AGENTS.md config file, connecting it with the existing agent convention file.

Claude Code version 2.1.278 is about to be released, with no details yet beyond the version number.

Securo is an open-source personal finance manager that runs self-hosted on Docker, syncs bank statements automatically, supports multiple currencies, and can optionally connect to a self-hosted AI agent to analyze financial history.

A user reports that an AI coding tool finally supports AGENTS.md config files, letting the agent read project-level instructions.

Vercel says the Jev model is free on AI Gateway until September 25, letting developers call the Gateway's fastest-adopted model at no cost.

Google Home now runs as an MCP server, so agents like Claude and OpenClaw can read Nest camera feeds and control Matter lights, though door unlocks are blocked and setup requires a cloud project and OAuth.