🤖 Slack Code ships code channels for AI agents 🤖
Slack's new code channels integrate AI agents directly into team development workflows.

Slack Code introduces code channels that bring human developers and AI agents—including ChatGPT, Claude, and Devin—into a shared workspace where teams can plan, write, and review code together. Integrated tools from GitHub, Anthropic, Vercel, and other partners let engineers monitor code diffs and deployments directly within Slack, eliminating context-switching across isolated tabs. Deploying changes is gated behind human approval, and finished projects leave an archived, searchable record. This embeds AI-powered development directly where teams already communicate. Available across all Slack plans at launch, the feature transforms Slack from a messaging app into a collaborative development environment where AI agents participate as active contributors alongside teammates.

💬 ChatGPT reads Apple Messages on Mac 💬
OpenAI deepens its macOS integration by connecting ChatGPT to Apple's messaging apps.

OpenAI has rolled out a ChatGPT desktop update that connects directly to Apple's Messages app on macOS, giving the assistant access to iMessage, SMS, and RCS conversations. Users can now ask ChatGPT to analyze, summarize, or draft responses to messaging threads without leaving the assistant's interface. The feature works across all ChatGPT plans through the macOS desktop application. OpenAI deepens its grip on Apple's desktop ecosystem with this move. However, privacy concerns have been raised: granting ChatGPT access to personal messaging data carries risks, and users should exercise caution before enabling persistent approval. The update follows earlier Siri and system-level AI collaborations, signaling OpenAI's push to embed its assistant into everyday communication workflows.

⚙️ Google Antigravity expands to enterprise IDEs ⚙️
Google's enterprise rollout brings Antigravity agents to VS Code, JetBrains, and more.

Google has expanded access to its Antigravity agent platform by integrating it into eligible Gemini Enterprise subscriptions and releasing extensions for VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains, and Zed. Developers can now use the same agent workspace seamlessly across multiple editors, maintaining consistency regardless of their preferred IDE. Google directly challenges GitHub Copilot in the enterprise coding tools space. The enterprise rollout includes robust administrative controls covering sandbox environments, tool permissions, budget limits, identity management, and audit trails—addressing key adoption barriers for organizations deploying AI coding assistants at scale. Rather than requiring developers to adopt an entirely new platform, Google is embedding its agentic tools into the environments teams already use.

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🎙️ Project Parka turns meetings into Claude tasks 🎙️

Anthropic has unveiled Project Parka, a Mac-first feature whose rollout lets Claude attend meetings by capturing system and microphone audio, producing speaker-attributed transcripts in real time. Most notably, Parka transforms meeting discussions into actionable, runnable work items for Claude's agent system—bridging the gap between decisions and execution. Anthropic competes with standalone meeting AI tools through deep agentic integration. It remains unclear whether Claude will begin executing tasks autonomously or await explicit user approval.

🔬 AI spots hidden breast cancer patterns 🔬

UK researchers have built CenSegNet, an open-source AI platform that speeds up breast cancer analysis by reading tumor samples cell by cell, revealing patterns invisible to manual pathology. Analyzing data from 27 patients across 911 samples, the system identified two distinct centrosome abnormality patterns—each correlated with different survival outcomes. Open-source availability could accelerate personalized cancer treatment adoption. The collaboration between the University of Northampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS demonstrates how AI can uncover cellular structures too subtle for human detection.