AI Product Updates: New Features and Releases

Applied Compute released Shift-1, a frontier coding router trained on AC2 that it says cuts coding agent cost by up to 55% with no noticeable quality drop.

PDD Kit from Microsoft Research lets you state intent in plain English and uses a verifier to prove the code meets it for every input, so you review the plan instead of the diff; it is in limited research preview.

The Hedera Network MCP is live on testnet, letting Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and ChatGPT send HBAR, mint tokens or query the network through one endpoint, with settlement only after you sign in your own wallet.

Hebbia reports tripled new ARR and 5x DAU while launching Max, an AI teammate, Matrix 2.0 research agents, and an API plus MCP server.

Nil is a wallet-login, client-side-encrypted team workspace bundling tasks, voting, bounties and MCP so AI agents get scoped permissions.

CrawlHive Brain exposes swarm wallet and token verdicts as a free API with batch checks, MCP tools, and x402 USDC payments.

Keiki offers startups $500 in credits and a free iMessage line for six months, letting agents reach iMessage, WhatsApp, Slack and Telegram via one integration.

StarkWare introduced provably.fast, open research environments where AI agents work on cheaper quantum-safe signature verification and smaller STARK proofs, with verifiable results and contribution credit.

Falconer, built by the creator of Stripe's docs, is a knowledge base for teams and agents that updates itself when code changes, backed by people from Ramp, Cursor and Graphite.

Wabi 2.0 launches as an AI agent shared across a group chat, syncing calendar changes, finding common free time and booking tickets.

In tests, an AI agent paid nine times via the Base blockchain for information retrieval and image creation, with humans only setting a budget in advance.

Binance rolled out AI Pro in its app, letting an agent turn repeated actions into auto-running strategies, with a $19.99/month premium tier.