AI daily picks · 2026-10-02

Anthropic introduced Claude Code Mods: TypeScript functions that change prompts, tool calls, and the interface. Mods ship in plugins for the CLI and desktop app, run with user permissions, and are not sandboxed.

GitHub added a computer-use public preview to Copilot CLI and the Copilot app on macOS and Windows. It can read app content, click, type, and navigate workflows across apps, with approval before app control and organization settings that can disable it.

GitHub added dynamic workflows to Copilot CLI, the app, and SDK. Code combines automated steps and agents with sequential or parallel execution and checkpoint pauses; all Copilot plans are supported, while the CLI needs experimental features enabled.

OpenAI released Codex CLI 0.160.0 with a keyboard-accessible action for older tasks and fixes to queued-message recovery after reconnecting and terminal session settings. The notes also list Windows sandbox and SQLite initialization fixes.

Ai2 released Olmo-core 3, a redesigned open mixture-of-experts training stack combining expert parallelism, pipeline parallelism, and a distributed optimizer. The announcement includes trillion-parameter system tests and explicitly says random-routing benchmarks measure systems performance, not model quality.