Claude Code Adds /design Skill, Google Releases Gemini 3.7 Flash
Ben's Bites · rss · 2026-08-18
This edition of Ben's Bites highlights several AI updates: Grok Bot is gaining traction with use cases in enterprise GTM and personal assistance; Codex introduced a feature to turn desktop activity into memories/timelines; Claude Code added a /design skill for generating editable UI artboards and implementing them; Google released Gemini 3.7 Flash, claiming better benchmarks than GPT-5.6 Terra and Sonnet 5, with 50% off until year-end. Additionally, Cursor launched its Origin competitor during a GitHub outage, and Stripe is reportedly acquiring OpenRouter for over $7B.
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