Hey Devs! AI tools are moving fast! Siri gets Gemini brains, Codex becomes IDE-native, Claude lets you teleport coding sessions across environments, and more. Here’s what matters this week.
Apple Chooses Google’s Gemini for Siri 2.0
Apple has selected Google’s Gemini models and cloud infrastructure to power its next-generation Apple Foundation Models, including the upcoming Siri refresh. After reportedly testing both Claude and ChatGPT, Apple chose Gemini for its superior multimodal reasoning and contextual understanding.
Read more: https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/company-announcements/joint-statement-google-apple/
JetBrains IDEs Now Support OpenAI Codex
JetBrains has integrated OpenAI Codex into the AI chat of its IDEs, including IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, and WebStorm (v2025.3). Developers can now access Codex via a JetBrains AI subscription, their ChatGPT account, or OpenAI API key, enabling smarter in-editor code assistance.
Read more: https://blog.jetbrains.com/ai/2026/01/codex-in-jetbrains-ides/
Lightning AI + Voltage Park Merge to Build Full-Stack AI Cloud
New York-based Lightning AI has merged with GPU infrastructure provider Voltage Park, forming what they call the first full-stack AI cloud. The combined platform offers on-demand access to 35,000+ NVIDIA GPUs across six U.S. data centers, streamlining the path from development to deployment for AI teams.
Read more: https://lightning.ai/blog/lightning-ai-voltage-park-merger-ai-cloud
GitHub Copilot SDK: Build Your Own Copilot Agents
GitHub has launched a technical preview of the Copilot SDK, letting developers embed Copilot’s agentic runtime into their own apps. The SDK (for Node.js, TypeScript, Python, Go, and .NET) gives you access to the same runtime powering Copilot CLI-no orchestration required.
Claude Code Session Teleportation: CLI ↔ VS Code ↔ Cursor
Learn how to transfer your entire coding context, including conversation history, file state, and branches, seamlessly between the web UI, local CLI, VS Code, and Cursor IDE.
Watch on YouTube: Claude Code Session Teleportation
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