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.
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.
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.
Cursor launched Cursor Router on July 22, 2026 — a request-level classifier that automatically routes each coding request to the optimal AI model from an internal roster. The router offers three modes: Intelligence (Fable 5-comparable quality), Balance (strong everyday performance), and Cost (token savings). Available for Teams and Enterprise plans.
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.
Cursor released major Slack integration improvements on July 17, 2026. Cursor now shares a detailed plan before starting any task, supports named multi-repo environments (frontend + backend + shared code in separate repos), and can read from and post back to other Slack channels mid-task.
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.
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.
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.
Cursor 3.11 introduces Side Chats for running parallel agent conversations alongside the main thread without interruption, full-text search across all past agent transcripts, and simplified project/repo picker.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cursor 3.10 (June 30, 2026) lets admins configure Team MCP servers once and distribute them across cloud agents, IDE, and CLI for all team members, while also adding org group support for marketplace access control.
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.
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.
Cursor updated CursorBench to v3.1 focused on codebase understanding, bug-finding, and code review across 36 models. Fable 5 Max leads at 72.9%, while Composer 2.5 offers the best value at $0.55 per task.
OpenAI opened a public beta for ChatGPT Sites — a feature that allows creating and publishing websites directly from a ChatGPT conversation.
Cursor released its native iOS app for iPhone and iPad into public beta for all paid plans, letting users spawn and manage cloud agents, remote-control a desktop session, and code by voice from mobile.
Perplexity Deep Research upgrades to Claude Opus 4.6 for Max users. Finance equity pages gained analyst ratings, 52-week price targets, and AI-synthesized news. The Agent API adds GPT-5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna and Grok 4.5 as first-party options.
Cursor 3.9 (June 22) unifies management of plugins, skills, MCPs, subagents, rules, commands, and hooks in a new Customize hub including a leaderboard of popular plugins.
Qwen-AgentWorld is the first model trained to predict the next environment state (not the next action) across seven agent domains. Two MoE sizes, 256K context, Apache 2.0.
OpenAI detailed how it preserved private network boundaries while supporting MCP streaming, authentication and an inspectable client, so enterprises don't have to expose internal MCP servers to the public internet.
OpenAI publishes a guide positioning Codex Remote as an 'engineering control plane' — phone as a controller for Codex sessions running on Macs, Windows machines or devboxes. Hosts, worktrees, goals, side chats, queued prompts.
Comet for iOS shipped its eighth round of improvements: one-tap phone-number actions (Call, FaceTime, Message, save to Contacts), a refined iPad sidebar, and Finance Deep Dive opening as a real browser tab.
OpenAI added credit usage analytics — broken down by user, product, and model — plus monthly spend limits configurable per workspace, group, or individual for ChatGPT Enterprise and Edu. The goal: give CFOs and IT clearer visibility into who actually burns the AI budget.
Demo a task once on a Mac and Codex bundles it into a parameterized skill — no scripting, no RPA, no low-code, just a demo.
Notion AI added External Agents — Claude and Cursor are the first external AI agents available directly in Notion. Shared multi-agent workflows let teams automate end-to-end processes. Five new MCP connections were added including Mixpanel, Miro, and Box.
OpenAI launched OpenAI for Healthcare — a product suite for healthcare organizations with HIPAA support — and improved health intelligence in ChatGPT, which now sees 230M+ weekly health-related queries.
OpenAI made GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4 and Codex available via Amazon Bedrock — ending Azure's hyperscaler exclusivity for OpenAI APIs.
Cursor 3.8 introduces a /automate skill that creates an automation in your local agent session from a plain-language description, plus new GitHub and Slack triggers and computer-use support.
OpenAI expanded ChatGPT Voice to Work and Codex modes on desktop, allowing users to steer long-horizon tasks, coordinate agents, and keep work running in the background entirely by voice.
The new Bugbot cuts review time from ~5 minutes to ~90 seconds, finds 10 % more bugs and costs 22 % less per run; adds a /review pre-push flow.
Cursor added interactive canvas support for cloud agents with shareable links, a beta Environments API for programmatic environment management, and made large environments 5x faster to load with support for up to 300 repositories.