Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
Adobe reversed its plans to discontinue Animate after creators expressed frustration, stating it won't get new features but will remain available "indefinitely" (Jay Peters/The Verge)
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Adobe reversed its plans to discontinue Animate after creators expressed frustration, stating it won't get new features but will remain available “indefinitely” — It won't get new features, but it will still be available. … Adobe is no longer planning to discontinue Adobe Animate on March 1st.
Filing: OpenAI accuses xAI of systematically destroying evidence in its antitrust case by directing employees to use auto-deleting "ephemeral messaging tools" (Madlin Mekelburg/Bloomberg)
Madlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg:
Filing: OpenAI accuses xAI of systematically destroying evidence in its antitrust case by directing employees to use auto-deleting “ephemeral messaging tools” — OpenAI accused Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company of “systematic and intentional destruction” …
OpenAI’s Codex
Simon Willison:
OpenAI just released a new macOS app for their Codex coding agent. I’ve had a few days of preview access — it’s a solid app that provides a nice UI over the capabilities of the Codex CLI agent and adds some interesting new features, most notably first-class support for Skills, and Automations for running scheduled tasks.
Interesting, for sure. But super-duper interesting? I don’t know.
Xcode 26.3 ‘Unlocks the Power of Agentic Coding’
Apple Newsroom:
Xcode 26.3 introduces support for agentic coding, a new way in Xcode for developers to build apps using coding agents such as Anthropic’s Claude Agent and OpenAI’s Codex. With agentic coding, Xcode can work with greater autonomy toward a developer’s goals — from breaking down tasks to making decisions based on the project architecture and using built-in tools.
I don’t know if this is super-duper interesting news, but I think it’s super-duper interesting that Apple saw the need to release this now, not at WWDC in June.