AI Product Updates: New Features and Releases

TechCrunch reports on a newly launched AI-based software program designed to help US air traffic controllers better manage their jobs as the crossing guards of America's skies.

Lightreel's Marketing MCP lets users find Instagram influencers, write TikTok hooks, and search Meta ads directly in a Claude chat, replacing three subscriptions with one connection.

Epoch AI has launched Benchmark Reviews, auditing 15 AI benchmarks in its first round: 4 verified, 9 flawed, and 2 with too little information to review.

A message reposted by an OpenAI developer account says GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark will be retired next week, marking the model's official deprecation.

Anthropic used Claude to optimize inference for more than 30 open-source biology models, making them about 4x faster on average, and is open-sourcing all the optimization code.

Base's weekly AI project roundup lists 13 projects, including OpenGradient's private inference suite DreamFort, KORUS MCP audio tools, and Virtuals' Occupy.

Circle's Arc launched Arc Studio, an AI agent that turns a plain-language prompt into a full-stack onchain app with frontend, backend, and smart contracts, usable on the web or as a subagent in Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor.

Projects becomes a persistent main conversation where Claude splits tasks across multiple parallel cloud threads and summarizes the results, with work continuing after the computer is closed.

Vercel CLI now lets developers and their coding agents deploy static sites to production with the vercel deploy command in under one second.

Legal software company Clio released an MCP plugin for Codex that lets lawyers access Vincent's capabilities directly from Codex, alongside a blog post on the design.

RespanAI released Prompt Simulations, which lets teams pick prompts to simulate how users actually use a product and surface misuse cases in advance.

hiddnest introduced a built-in adblocker that is not a Chrome MV2 extension, supports custom adblock filters, and starts fast with low memory use.