




xAI's Grok chatbot is developing a Skills feature that stores reusable instruction sets for automation. Leaked screenshots and code references indicate modular templates for scheduled workflows, similar to Anthropic and OpenAI's recent moves.

The 2026 Agentic Coding Trends Report reveals how AI coding agents evolve from experimental tools to production systems, enabling multi-agent teams, long-running autonomous builds, and intelligent human oversight. Key trends include collapsed SDLC cycles, orchestration of specialized agents, and the transformation of engineers into strategic collaborators.

Thinking Machines Lab introduces TML-Interaction-Small, a 276B MoE model architected for real-time, continuous audio-video-text exchange. It achieves state-of-the-art performance on interactivity benchmarks, enabling seamless turn-taking, interjections, and simultaneous tool use—scaling collaboration alongside intelligence.