Perplexity API: GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, and the finance_search Tool
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.
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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.
Meta Superintelligence Labs launched the Meta Model API (public preview) with Muse Spark 1.1 — a multimodal agentic model with 1M token context. The model outperforms Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 on MCP Atlas, JobBench, and HLE+tools. Priced at $1.25/$4.25 per MTok, $20 free.
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 released GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini — full-duplex voice models that can listen and speak simultaneously; GPT-Live-1 mini replaces Advanced Voice Mode for all ChatGPT users globally.
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.
ChatGPT Business adds admin controls for plugins with centralized management, a new speech-to-text dictation model in 25+ languages, and extended the Workspace Agents free period to July 6 when credit-based pricing begins.
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.
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 AI launches on Windows (July 2026) a hybrid inference orchestrator that automatically routes AI tasks between local device and cloud frontier models without user involvement. The system decides where each part of a task should execute.
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.
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.
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.
Cursor 3.11 introduces parallel Side Chats (/side, /btw, or +) running alongside the main agent, searchable agent transcripts via command palette, and new Cloud Agent Hooks for enterprise monitoring of agent conversations.
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Sites in public beta, letting Pro, Pro Lite, and Edu users build interactive websites, dashboards, and internal portals inside ChatGPT and share them via a public URL without any coding.
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.