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Perplexity Launches Personal Finance Tracking via Plaid
Anthropic Launches Enterprise Controls for Claude Cowork
OpenAI Introduces $100 ChatGPT Pro Plan for Codex
Here's the deal: Perplexity expanded its Plaid integration beyond brokerage accounts to include bank accounts, credit cards, mortgages, auto loans, and student loans. Users can now consolidate their full financial picture inside Perplexity and query it with natural language.
The Breakdown:
Plaid connects to 12,000+ financial institutions including Chase, Schwab, Fidelity, Robinhood, and Vanguard.
The integration is read-only. User data never touches Perplexity's servers.
Perplexity Computer can build custom tools from linked data; budget trackers, net worth dashboards, debt payoff planners, cash flow forecasts.
Available now on desktop for signed-in US and Canada users. Mobile and other countries coming later.
Basic finance queries are free. Advanced Computer-powered features require Pro or Max subscriptions.
Crypto wallets and real estate are planned as future additions.
The bigger picture: This turns Perplexity into a direct competitor to personal finance apps like Mint and Copilot. Instead of pre-built dashboards, users get freeform financial analysis powered by live account data. For Perplexity, it also creates a strong retention loop. Once someone connects their bank accounts and builds custom trackers, switching costs go up significantly.
Here's the deal: Anthropic made Claude Cowork generally available on all paid plans and launched a set of organization level admin controls designed to support company wide deployment on macOS and Windows.
The Breakdown:
Role based access controls let Enterprise admins assign custom roles to user groups, managed manually or via SCIM, controlling which Claude capabilities each team can use.
Group spend limits allow per team budgets set from the admin console.
Usage analytics surface Cowork session and user data in the admin dashboard and Analytics API, including per-user activity, connector invocations and DAU/WAU/MAU metrics.
Expanded OpenTelemetry support emits events for tool calls, file operations and skill usage, compatible with SIEM pipelines like Splunk and Cribl. Available on Team and Enterprise plans.
Zoom launched an MCP connector bringing meeting summaries, transcripts and action items into Cowork.
Admins can now restrict specific actions within each MCP connector org-wide, such as allowing reads but blocking writes.
Most Cowork usage comes from non-engineering teams: operations, marketing, finance and legal.
The bigger picture: The biggest blocker to rolling AI agents across an entire company has never been the AI itself. It is spend visibility, access governance and audit trails. Anthropic is solving exactly that. With RBAC, per team budgets, SIEM-compatible telemetry, and connector level permissions, IT and security teams now have the controls they need to say yes to org-wide deployment.
Here's the deal: OpenAI is restructuring its ChatGPT subscription lineup around Codex demand. The new $100/month Pro tier sits between Plus ($20) and the existing $200 Pro plan, offering 5x more Codex usage than Plus along with all current Pro features, including the exclusive Pro model and unlimited Instant and Thinking model access.
The Breakdown:
New $100 Pro tier gives 5x the Codex usage of Plus, designed for longer, high-effort coding sessions.
Launch promo through May 31; $100 Pro subscribers get up to 10x Plus-level Codex usage.
Plus plan Codex usage is being rebalanced to spread sessions across the week instead of allowing heavy single day bursts.
The previous Plus Codex promotion ends immediately.
Existing $200 Pro users keep their 2x Codex promo extended through May 31, with rate limits reset again.
The bigger picture: This signals Codex is driving enough heavy usage to justify a mid-tier price point. Developers relying on Codex daily now have a clearer upgrade path without jumping straight to $200, while Plus users should expect tighter per-day session limits going forward.
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What else you need to know:
Anthropic introduced a Monitor tool for Claude Code that lets the agent create background scripts to watch for events like log errors or PR updates, replacing costly polling loops and saving tokens.
Shopify launched an AI Toolkit that connects AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Gemini CLI to Shopify's docs, API schemas and code validation via plugins, agent skills or MCP.
MiniMax released MMX-CLI, a command-line tool that gives AI agents native access to seven modalities (image, video, voice, music, vision, search, conversation) without requiring MCP integration.
Cursor now lets cloud agents attach demos and screenshots to the pull requests they open, allowing teams to review agent created artifacts directly within GitHub.
Alibaba's Qwen Code (v0.14.0–v0.14.2) adds remote control via Telegram, WeChat and DingTalk, cron job scheduling, sub-agent model selection, and a planning mode for stepby step execution.
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