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Anthropic Launches Claude Code Channels for Mobile
Perplexity Launches Health Dashboard With Wearable and Medical Data Support
OpenAI Announced to Acquire Astral, Bringing uv and Ruff Into Codex
Here's the deal: Anthropic released Claude Code Channels, a new feature that lets developers push messages, alerts and webhooks into a running Claude Code session through MCP servers. The first supported platforms are Telegram and Discord, enabling mobile control of active coding sessions.
The Breakdown:
Channels work as MCP server plugins that forward external events into Claude Code, and Claude can reply back through the same platform
Requires Claude Code v2.1.80 or later and a claude.ai login. API key authentication is not supported
Each channel uses a sender allowlist for security. Only paired and approved user IDs can push messages
Setup involves creating a bot on Telegram or Discord, installing the plugin, and pairing via a code exchange
Events only arrive while the session is open. For persistent use, Claude must run in a background process
Team and Enterprise organizations must have an admin explicitly enable channels before use
The feature is in research preview, and only plugins from an Anthropic-maintained allowlist are accepted
The bigger picture: This turns Claude Code into something closer to an always-available coding assistant you can direct from anywhere, not just a terminal window. For developers running long tasks or monitoring CI pipelines being able to check in and steer sessions from a phone removes a real workflow bottleneck.
Here's the deal: Perplexity launched a health integration for its Computer product that connects to wearable devices, health apps, lab results, and medical records. The feature lets users build personalized tools and applications using their own health data.
The Breakdown:
Users can combine personal health data with premium medical sources and journals directly inside Perplexity.
Use cases include custom marathon training plans from fitness data, doctor visit prep summaries, and personalized nutrition planning.
A dedicated health dashboard tracks all connected health information in one place.
Rolling out now to Perplexity Pro and Max subscribers in the US only.
The bigger picture: This positions Perplexity as more than a search tool. It is moving into the personal AI agent space where real user data meets retrieval. If the medical data integrations work reliably, it creates a template for how AI assistants could sit between users and their fragmented health records, something Apple and Google have attempted with limited AI layering on top.
Here's the deal: OpenAI announced it will acquire Astral, the company behind uv, Ruff and ty, three widely used open source Python tools. The plan is to bring Astral's team and tooling into the Codex ecosystem after the deal closes, pending regulatory approval.
The Breakdown:
Codex now has over 2 million weekly active users, with 3x user growth and 5x usage increase since the start of 2025.
Astral's tools cover dependency management (uv), linting and formatting (Ruff), and type safety (ty), all core to modern Python workflows.
OpenAI says it will continue supporting Astral's open source projects post-acquisition.
The goal is to move Codex beyond code generation into full development lifecycle support: planning, modifying codebases, running tools, and verifying results.
Astral founder Charlie Marsh confirmed the team will keep evolving their open source tools under OpenAI.
The bigger picture: This signals OpenAI is building Codex into an end-to-end software engineering agent, not just a code completion tool. Developers who already rely on Astral's tooling should watch how tightly these integrate with Codex, and whether the open source commitment holds long term.
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What else you need to know:
Anthropic is expanding its Code with Claude developer conference to San Francisco, London, and Tokyo this spring, offering workshops, demos, and office hours with Claude teams.
ElevenLabs launched a Music Marketplace inside ElevenCreative, allowing creators, artists, and musicians to publish and monetize tracks built with its music generation model.
NotebookLM expanded Cinematic Video Overviews to all Pro users globally, completing a full rollout of the feature for English-language content.
Lovable expanded beyond app building to handle data analysis, document generation, image and video creation, and file processing, all within a single conversation connected to users' existing backends.
Microsoft launched MAI-Image-2, a text-to-image model now ranked third on the Arena.ai leaderboard, with improved photorealism, in-image text generation, and access via Copilot, Bing, and select APIs.
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