This Week in All Things AI - Week 14-2026
Anthropic's policy change of disallowing their Pro/Max subscribers to use it for third-party harnesses such as Openclaw/Hermes was the big news event capping week 14.
Other news was the release of Qwen-3.6 Plus, Gemma 4, GLM-5V-Turbo, 3 in-house models MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 from Microsoft and compendium of material about voice dictation tools including Wispr Flow's March updates.
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The following messages were posted on the ' All Things AI ' Telegram group from Sunday 29th Mar 2026 to Saturday 4th Apr 2026
Sunday 29th March 2026
Monday 30th March 2026
Boris Cherny [creator of Claude Code] shared 15 tips for Claude Code include /loop for recurring tasks like PR reviews, /batch for parallel refactors, /teleport for remote sessions, and voice mode by holding the spacebar.
I wanted to share a bunch of my favorite hidden and under-utilized features in Claude Code. I'll focus on the ones I use the most.
Here goes.
Copilot adding ads to PRs
https://mastodon.social/@danluu/116317069604398190
via Yat Siu
just shared this, thoughts, critics or otherwise of course welcome:
Alibaba Launches Qwen3.5-Omni Multimodal AI Model Series
Alibaba's Qwen team released the Qwen3.5-Omni model series, including Plus, Flash, and Light Instruct versions. The models support native text, image, audio, and video understanding with 256k context length, over 10 hours of audio input, and more than 400 seconds of 720P video. Key features include Audio-Visual Vibe Coding for generating runnable code from video sketches, speech recognition in 113 languages, speech generation in 36 languages, real-time interaction capabilities, and 215 state-of-the-art scores across multimodal tasks.
Tongyi Lab 1/10 Qwen3.5-Omni is here! Scaling up to a native omni-modal AGI.
Meet the next generation of Qwen, designed for native text, image, audio, and video understanding, with major advances in both intelligence and real-time interaction.
A standout feature:
Audio-Visual Vibe
Tuesday 31st March 2026
OpenAI Launches Codex Plugin for Anthropic's Claude Code
OpenAI released the 'codex-plugin-cc', letting users integrate its Codex coding agent into Anthropic's Claude Code via a simple marketplace install. Key commands like /codex:review, /codex:adversarial-review, and /codex:rescue handle code checks, tough challenges, and stalled tasks, all powered by models like GPT-5.3-Codex and requiring just a ChatGPT subscription or API key.
Romain Huet We’ve seen Claude Code users bring in Codex for code review and use GPT-5.4 for more complex tasks, so we thought: why not make that easier?
Today we’re open sourcing a plugin for it! You can call Codex from Claude Code with your ChatGPT subscription. We love an open ecosystem!
Vaibhav (VB) Srivastav Starting today you can use Codex in Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add openai/codex-plugin-cc
Try it out today with:
/codex:review for a normal read-only Codex review /codex:adversarial-review for a steerable challenge review /codex:rescue to let codex rescue your code.
Wednesday 1st April 2026
A collection of news tidbits about voice dictation products and the rapid rate of adoption of voice dictation amongst enterprises.
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March 2026 Wispr Flow product updates
March 2026 | Wispr Flow
20-minute dictations, one-click language switching, custom dictionary on Android, new iOS style controls, and more.
https://wisprflow.ai
Willow did a recent April's Fool prank to bring attention to their voice dictation product with a launch video of their new Atlas model The premise was that the new model is actually a call center, and they had humans listening to you as you dictate.
Independent of this prank Willow has a reasonable userbase and people who like its quality.
[Available on Mac, Windows, iOS with Android expected soon]
OTOH, my Instagram feed these days is filled with Mr Beast's promoting Typeless voice dictation software [it's available on Mac, Windows, iOS, Android].
Wispr Flow's CEO Tanay Kothari with a LinkedIn post which mentions speed of adoption of voice dictation at companies.
andrew chen so i bought a USB foot pedal that triggers voice dictation for coding/email/whatever.
Thursday 2nd April 2026
Qwen 3.6 Plus dropped and it's free on OpenRouter.
Specifically designed for agentic workflow with 1M context window. 65K output tokens. 3x faster than Claude Opus 4.6 in early tests.
Chujie Zheng Here is Qwen3.6-Plus: qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6
Mercor AI Suffers Data Breach Exposing 939GB of Source Code and 4TB of Training Data from Major AI Labs via LiteLLM Supply Chain Attack
Mercor AI experienced a data breach through a supply chain compromise in the LiteLLM dependency. The incident exposed 939GB of source code and 4TB of state-of-the-art training data belonging to multiple major AI laboratories.
Garry Tan Wow. Incredible amount of SOTA training data now just available to China thanks to @mercor_ai leak. Every major lab. Billions and billions of value and a major national security issue.
Friday 3rd April 2026
Consolidating a flurry of news into one post
Zhipu aka ZAI launches GLM-5V-Turbo: Vision Coding Model a next-generation foundation model specifically engineered to bridge the gap between visual perception and software engineering.
OpenAI Acquires Tech-Industry Talk Show TBPN from John Coogan. TBPN will remain editorially independent, retaining control over programming, guest selection, and production, while winding down its advertising business. The TBPN team will join OpenAI's strategy organization to assist with global communications, marketing, and encouraging constructive conversations about AI.
Cursor 3 launched which introduces the Agents Window, where multiple agents run in parallel across local machines, remote SSH, or cloud setups, handling coding tasks and producing editable diffs with full editor support.
Google launches Gemma 4 with permissive Apache 2.0 license and SOTA performance for their size
Microsoft launches in-house AI models MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2, built by its superintelligence team, as it pursues “AI self-sufficiency”.
Saturday 4th April 2026
via Boris Cherny , creator of Claude Code
Starting tomorrow at 12pm PT, Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw. You can still use these tools with your Claude login via extra usage bundles (now available at a discount), or with a Claude API key.