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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Vercel v0 now features a slash command menu for keyboard-first skill attachments, Shopify storefront integration with live product data, skill chips with draft persistence, and sound notifications on response completion.
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.
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.
Vercel AI Gateway adds ByteDance's Seedream 5.0 Pro — 2K output, layer editing, and reasoning-before-draw accessible through a single AI SDK endpoint without managing another provider.
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.
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.
OpenAI opened a public beta for ChatGPT Sites — a feature that allows creating and publishing websites directly from a ChatGPT conversation.
Vercel's AI Gateway adds beta support for realtime voice agents, text-to-speech, and speech-to-text, so developers can build conversational voice apps without juggling separate providers. Audio models route through AI SDK 7 with the same observability, BYOK and spend controls as text models, at no extra Gateway fee.
New `vercel metrics` command exposes Web Analytics directly via the CLI. Supports filters, dimensions, and is positioned for coding agents to answer questions about UTM campaign performance or mobile-vs-desktop conversion.
Concurrent build capacity for Pro teams jumped from 12 to 500. Enabled by default on Pro and Enterprise plans, billed on actual build minutes consumed.
Vercel auto-detects server.ts in the root or src/ and deploys it as a Node.js application without configuration. Supports native Node HTTP, Express, Koa, and NestJS.
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.
Vercel added two new adapters to the AI SDK Harness — LangChain Deep Agents and OpenCode — letting you run either coding-agent runtime through one unified HarnessAgent API inside a Vercel Sandbox.
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.
Z.ai's GLM 5.2 Fast is now available via Wafer on Vercel AI Gateway, averaging 170+ tokens/s with 2x the throughput of other providers.
Vercel AI SDK 7.0.19 introduces Tool Drift Detection — the first framework-native protection against MCP 'rug pulls' where malicious servers dynamically redefine tool schemas mid-session. Each MCP tool receives a fingerprint at registration.
Vercel AI Gateway added Sakana AI's Fugu Ultra, a multi-agent orchestration model that routes work across 1-3 frontier-model agents and merges results, benchmarking comparably to Claude Mythos Preview and Fable 5.
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.
Copilot Cowork moves from Frontier preview to worldwide GA — Microsoft 365 Copilot's agentic layer with usage-based billing and model picks across Claude Opus 4.8 / Sonnet 4.6 / GPT-5.5.
Vercel launched Connect, a new agent-infrastructure primitive providing short-lived scoped OAuth tokens for Slack, GitHub, Linear, Notion, Salesforce, Figma, Snowflake, Discord, plus generic OAuth/API-key and MCP server connectors.
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.
Vercel shipped Konsistent on July 1 to enforce uniform code standards for both AI agents and human developers, alongside a Security Dashboard in private beta and dry-run deployments for the Vercel CLI.
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.
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.
Eve is a TypeScript-native open-source framework where every agent = a directory of files (instructions.md + tools/ + skills/). Built in: durable execution, per-agent sandbox, human approvals, evals, OpenTelemetry. Plus the Sandbox runtime now goes up to 24h.