ChatGPT now lets you lock your chats
OpenAI added Locked Chats, which hides selected conversations behind a four-digit PIN or biometrics on supported devices, moving them to a separate section invisible in history and search.
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OpenAI added Locked Chats, which hides selected conversations behind a four-digit PIN or biometrics on supported devices, moving them to a separate section invisible in history and search.
DeepSeek open-sourced DeepInfer, the production inference framework powering its large-scale services, supporting DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash with speculative decoding (DSpark), deterministic sampling, and structured outputs on NVIDIA SM100 and Huawei Ascend 950.
GitHub released two enterprise management features on July 27: a dedicated policy to control Copilot app access separately from CLI, and enterprise-managed settings extended to the Copilot app and cloud agent.
OpenAI released Codex CLI 0.145.0 on July 21, 2026 with Amazon Bedrock support, experimental paginated thread history with efficient session resume, audio inputs, stabilized multi-agent capabilities, and multi-folder local projects.
The Model Context Protocol releases its largest spec revision on July 28, 2026, transitioning to a stateless architecture that eliminates the initialize handshake and protocol-level session, enabling horizontal scaling behind plain load balancers. GitHub MCP Server already supports the new spec.
xAI launched a free Google Workspace add-on bringing Grok 4.5 to Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides, enabling formula building, chart creation, presentation drafting, and document editing powered by web and X data.
DeepSeek V4 graduated from preview to general availability with a 1M-token context window, V4-Pro and V4-Flash variants, MIT-licensed open weights, and the AI industry's first structural peak/off-peak API surge pricing.
GitHub Copilot integrated Claude Opus 5 for Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise plans. Requires activation via admin policy and is billed based on actual usage.
GitHub Code Quality reached general availability on July 20, 2026 for GitHub Enterprise Cloud and Team. It combines CodeQL deterministic analysis with AI-assisted detection and Copilot Autofix for pull requests. Priced at $10 per active committer per month plus AI usage.
On July 23, 2026, GitHub made the Copilot cloud agent for Linear generally available, added next MCP spec support, and introduced agent automation controls in Issues: Approvals, Confidence Ratings, and Rationale.
Perplexity expanded its Agent API with GPT-5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna, Gemini 3.6 Flash, and Grok 4.5 at first-party pricing. Sonar Chat Completions is now consolidated into the unified Agent API.
GitHub Copilot launched an Impact Dashboard for enterprise admins: it visualizes not just who is active, but at what adoption phase they are — from first use to deep integration into a developer's daily workflow.
xAI released a suite of free Microsoft 365 add-ins integrating Grok 4.5 into Excel, Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint. Grok in Excel helps write formulas and pivot tables; in Outlook it summarizes threads and drafts replies in the user's voice.
GitHub Copilot Enterprise and Business admins can now manage AI credit pools for cost centers directly in the billing UI without the REST API. The pool limit automatically adjusts as licenses are added or removed.
Gemini 3.6 Flash is rolling out in GitHub Copilot for Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise users — offering higher task-completion rates and better token efficiency for coding and agentic workflows.
GitHub Copilot now shows per-user AI credits consumed per billing cycle and introduces AI-powered security detections directly on pull requests without requiring CodeQL. GitHub Code Quality moves to a paid product.
Perplexity Computer gains Brain — a private context graph built across sessions that boosted answer accuracy by 25%. New features include website publishing and full Microsoft 365 integration.
GitHub Copilot adds two new REST API endpoints for daily per-repository metrics covering agent pull requests and code review activity counts. First time Copilot metrics are available at repository level, not just org level.
As of July 17, 2026, GitHub Copilot app usage (github.com + web) is available through the enterprise metrics API — IT admins can now track adoption organization-wide across all Copilot surfaces.
GitHub Copilot code review now reads custom instructions from the feature branch (not base), so teams can test review rules without merging first. A new copilot-code-review.yml enables independent configuration from the cloud agent, including network firewall controls.
OpenAI redesigned the ChatGPT desktop app (macOS and Windows) with a cleaner Chat/Work layout and cloud-synced Work conversations across web, mobile, and desktop.
xAI launched Grok Automations: users can schedule recurring AI jobs or trigger them via incoming email. Each execution starts a fresh Grok conversation, with results delivered via email, notification, or Slack.
Notion Agents gained calendar tools: the AI can check schedules, reschedule meetings, send invites, and create scheduling links via natural language in Notion chat. Requires connecting a calendar under Settings.
DeepSeek introduced peak-hour pricing for its V4 API — token rates double during Beijing business hours (9–12 and 14–18 CST). The deepseek-chat alias retires July 24; migration to deepseek-v4-flash or deepseek-v4-pro is mandatory.
LM Studio released Bionic — a new dedicated AI agent for local open-source models (Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek, Gemma). Fully local-first: no data leaves the device. A direct alternative to Claude Code and Codex for developers with sensitive data.
OpenAI tripled the custom instructions limit in ChatGPT to 5,000 characters. They also launched new unified search that searches across chats and projects simultaneously.
GitHub Copilot added the /security-review slash command on July 14 in public preview — AI scans in-flight code changes for vulnerabilities like XSS, SQL injection, and path traversal. AI security detections also now appear directly on pull requests.
GitHub Copilot for JetBrains IDEs expanded BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) capabilities — developers can now connect their own API keys from any model provider, giving enterprises more control over data routing and costs.
xAI released a major Grok Voice API update with 21 new flagship voices in 25+ languages, personal voice cloning from a 60-second sample, and expressive speech tags for developers.
CodeQL 2.26.0 adds a new query detecting prompt injection attacks in code — the first time it natively covers AI-specific vulnerabilities across OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google GenAI SDKs.
DeepSeek will deactivate legacy aliases deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner on July 24, 2026 at 15:59 UTC. Developers must update calls to deepseek-v4-pro or deepseek-v4-flash — note critical mapping caveat for deepseek-reasoner.
OpenAI has restored ChatGPT on WhatsApp for European Economic Area users after a 6-month absence due to EU regulation. ChatGPT simultaneously expanded to Kakao (South Korea) and Viber, requiring no OpenAI account.
GitHub's Pull Requests Dashboard is now GA — a single view for all PRs across repositories including Copilot agent-created PRs, with saved custom views, advanced search with AND/OR operators, and keyboard navigation.
The June 2026 VS Code Copilot release (published July 8) brings parallel agent sessions in a single window, session-level credit cost tracking across subagents, more autonomous Autopilot, and a unified model provider picker.
Perplexity expanded the Sonar API with access to GPT-5.6 and Grok 4.5 models and added a new finance_search tool for real-time financial data.
GitHub expanded Kimi K2.7 Code from Moonshot AI to Business and Enterprise plans on July 7, making it the first open-weight model in the Copilot model picker — 1T total parameters, 32B active, hosted on Azure with admin controls.
Starting July 9, 2026, ChatGPT users can no longer create new group chats — OpenAI is retiring the pilot feature to simplify the product and redirect development toward ChatGPT Work and agentic capabilities.
GitHub made the Copilot agent-native desktop app available to all plans including Free on July 7, and rolled out GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna in Copilot for paid plans on July 9.
xAI released Grok 4.5 — its first model purpose-built for coding and agentic tasks, co-trained with Cursor on real engineering tasks. Available via xAI API at $2/M input tokens and $6/M output tokens, with a 500K-token context window and configurable reasoning effort (low/medium/high).
OpenAI on July 8, 2026 launched GPT-Live, a new family of full-duplex voice models that listen and speak simultaneously, handle interruptions naturally, and can use web search and memory mid-conversation.
GitHub made agentic browser tools in GitHub Copilot generally available without experimental flags — an agent can now autonomously open a browser, navigate a running app, capture screenshots, and validate UI as part of a coding task.
OpenAI released new Realtime API models on July 6—gpt-realtime-2.1 cuts p95 latency by 25% and the mini variant brings reasoning and tool use at 6× lower cost.
SpaceXAI added /goal to Grok Build for handing off large implementation tasks autonomously, and /voice (Ctrl+Space) for hands-free prompt dictation — the first native voice interface in Grok Build.
GitHub Copilot agents in VS Code can now drive a real browser — navigating, clicking, typing, reading console output, and taking screenshots — enabled by default for all users as of July 1, 2026.
GitHub added AI credit pool support to enterprise cost centers on July 2, 2026, letting organizations cap monthly Copilot AI credits per cost center via REST API, with a UI management interface planned soon.
DeepSeek's official V4 release is coming mid-July with a 1-million-token context window and the platform's first-ever peak/off-peak API pricing — calls during Beijing business hours will cost 2x the off-peak rate.
Codex 0.144.5 (July 16, 2026) expands dangerous shell command detection (rm and variants) and improves rejection informativeness — developers now receive a specific reason, not just a generic error message.
Perplexity AI introduces a hybrid orchestrator that automatically routes AI tasks between local device and cloud frontier models based on data sensitivity and compute requirements — no manual configuration needed.
GitHub Copilot Enterprise now streams agent session data (prompts, responses, tool calls) to external SIEM tools including Microsoft Purview. A REST API provides the last 48 hours of activity on demand.
Notion released version 3.6 on July 1, 2026, introducing External Agents support (Claude and Cursor as the first two), native Excel and PowerPoint file handling for Notion AI, speaker labels in meeting notes, and expanded MCP connections with stronger admin controls.
GitHub Copilot Vision became generally available on July 1, 2026 for all Copilot plans including Free. Developers can attach images and PDFs directly to chat prompts so Copilot can reason about visual context alongside code.
Copilot CLI from July 1 automatically selects the best model per task (Auto mode, 10% discount). Enterprise customers now get real-time streaming of Copilot agent session data into external tools via a streaming endpoint or REST API.
xAI shipped a rapid series of Grok Build patches (0.2.66–0.2.73) over three days: sandbox profiles with kernel-deny lists, no-restart MCP server management, new agent dashboard with model visibility, and a fix for stdio hangs on Windows.
xAI added 21 multilingual voices to Grok Voice on July 6 (25+ languages) and launched a no-code Voice Agent Builder for production voice agents with built-in telephony, MCP connectors, and observability.
GitHub Copilot added Kimi K2.7 Code from Moonshot AI as the first open-weight model in the model picker, rolling out to Pro, Pro+, and Max plans with Business and Enterprise expansion planned.
OpenAI opened a public beta for ChatGPT Sites — a feature that allows creating and publishing websites directly from a ChatGPT conversation.
Copilot Agent is now available inside JetBrains AI Assistant, expanding agentic coding to millions of IntelliJ-based IDE users. Enterprise admins can now set per-user AI credit budgets for cost centers. Claude Sonnet 5 is also GA in Copilot.
GitHub Copilot now offers Claude Opus 4.8 in a new fast-mode preview that delivers significantly faster output token speeds while keeping the same intelligence as standard Opus. The variant is rolling out to Copilot users in preview, aimed at speeding up agentic and long-form coding tasks.
xAI's Grok audio family — realtime voice, TTS, and STT — is now routable through Vercel's AI Gateway with the same observability and spend controls as Grok's text models. Developers can compose voice agents with grok-voice-think-fast-1.0, grok-tts and grok-stt straight from AI SDK 7.
The desktop Copilot app can now connect your own API keys to OpenAI, Azure, Anthropic, Ollama or LM Studio. Keys are stored in the OS keychain and traffic routes through your own account or gateway.