Week 20, 2026 AI roundup

Dev Tools Codex is very good, but it is still a very "developer coded" interface for an everything app. And it continues the somewhat annoying AI pers Ethan Mollick Startups Top stories in tech today: - This startup wants to sell space-made drugs - Anduril just doubled its valuation to $61B - Ray-Ban Display’s ne The Rundown AI Models Translating Claude’s thoughts into language Anthropic Creative Runway started by helping filmmakers. Now it wants to beat Google at AI. TechCrunch AI Dev Tools x.AI plays catch-up with Grok Build, its first terminal-based coding agent The Decoder Dev Tools Pennsylvanians use town hall meeting to rail against data center boom Ars Technica AI Agents “Dependably for LLM agent failures” Harrison Chase Models "1,000 days left" Anthropic founder Wes Roth Agents Codex for Everyday Work: AI Agents Beyond Coding OpenAI Creative Inside image generation’s Renaissance moment — the OpenAI Podcast Ep. 19 OpenAI Models Bose Lifestyle Ultra Speaker vs. Sonos Era 100: I compared both models, and here's the winner ZDNET AI Dev Tools If Luigi knows you, there’s a good chance a box is headed to your desk soon NVIDIA AI