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.
Anthropic updated the Developer Platform July 22-24 with API key expiration settings in the Claude Console with email reminders, Memory API ordering and stability fixes, and new Managed Agents features including effort levels and expanded webhook coverage.
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 team released beta versions of Python, TypeScript, Go, and C# SDKs supporting the new stateless MCP 2026-07-28 spec. Teams building MCP servers or clients can test now before the final spec ships on July 28.
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.
Claude Code versions 2.1.215 through 2.1.218 (July 19–22, 2026) introduce manual-only /code-review and /verify invocation, new filesystem sandbox isolation control, emoji shortcode autocomplete in the prompt, and a fix for Windows path corruption with Unicode path segments.
Anthropic released a beta of Claude Security Plugin for Claude Code — a multi-agent tool that scans codebases for security vulnerabilities directly in the terminal during development, before commit. The plugin uses multiple sub-agents for parallel code examination.
Anthropic upgraded Claude's voice mode on July 23, 2026 — for the first time it runs on Opus and Sonnet models, not just Haiku. Paying users can now benefit from more capable, deeper-thinking models in voice conversations.
Anthropic launched Record a Skill in Claude Cowork: Pro, Max, and Team users can screen-record themselves doing a task and Claude turns the recording into a reusable skill. No prompt engineering needed — just show Claude how once.
Claude gained a monthly activity recap with AI observations (Settings > Reflect), Microsoft 365 write tools for drafting email and managing calendar events, and an Admin API for programmatic Enterprise organization management.
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.
Claude Code gets three key changes: artifacts now call MCP connectors live on each view (live dashboards), /fork creates a parallel background session without interrupting work, and a new EndConversation tool allows Claude to end abusive or jailbreak sessions.
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.
Mistral AI released OCR 4, a document intelligence model with bounding boxes, block-type classification, per-word confidence scores, 170-language support, and a single-container self-hosting option for enterprises with strict data privacy requirements.
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.
Claude Code released versions 2.1.207-211 with a new screen reader mode, subagent text streaming for JSON output, auto mode without opt-in on Bedrock/Vertex/Foundry, vimInsertModeRemaps, and a security fix for plugin hooks.
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.
Anthropic launched self-serve HIPAA configuration for Claude Enterprise plan admins. Healthcare organizations can now enable HIPAA-compliant mode without contacting support.
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.
Anthropic launched Claude for Teachers on July 14, 2026, giving verified US K-12 educators free access to Claude Opus 4.6, teaching skills grounded in learning science, and the Learning Commons connector with curricula mapped to academic standards in all 50 states.
Anthropic July 8-11 released configurable API key expiration with email notifications and Claude Code 2.1.206-207 with auto mode on Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, and IBM Foundry.
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.
Claude Code Desktop now includes a built-in browser panel (Cmd+Shift+B) where Claude can autonomously browse, click, and fill forms. The /doctor command now auto-fixes installation issues, CLAUDE.md bloat, and slow hooks.
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.
Anthropic launched Claude Reflect in beta on July 9, 2026 — a 'Spotify Wrapped' for AI usage showing monthly topic breakdowns, peak activity patterns, and optional wellbeing settings like break reminders and quiet hours.
New Claude Code version sets Claude Opus 5 as default model, enables nested subagents to depth 3, brings stricter sandbox network controls, and improved MCP error reporting.
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.
Anthropic expanded Claude Cowork with Microsoft 365 write access — Claude can now draft and send emails, manage calendar events, and create or update files in OneDrive and SharePoint on the user's behalf.
Anthropic launched Claude for Government Desktop in public beta with FedRAMP High authorization, bringing Claude Code, Cowork, hash-chained audit logs, and SCIM-based budget controls to U.S. government agencies.
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.
Anthropic made Claude Cowork available on web and mobile on July 7—tasks run autonomously in the cloud even when devices are offline, with status notifications.
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.
Anthropic released an expanded admin dashboard for Claude Enterprise: cost breakdowns by group and user, model-level entitlements, spend threshold alerts, and an Analytics API. Claude Code gets dedicated insight tabs updated daily.
Anthropic on July 22 updated the Claude Managed Agents API: configurable effort levels on model configuration, webhooks for environment and memory store lifecycle events, session seeding with initial events, and event deltas for subagent thread streaming.
Claude Opus 4.8 and Haiku 4.5 are now GA in Microsoft Azure Foundry with native Azure authentication, consolidated billing through Microsoft Enterprise Agreements, and optional US data zone for compliance.
Anthropic released Claude Apps Gateway — a self-hosted control plane for enterprise Claude Code on Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud, with SSO (OIDC), central policy enforcement, per-user spend limits, and OTLP telemetry.
The July 19, 2026 Claude Code update changes /verify and /code-review skill behavior — Claude no longer triggers them autonomously, only on direct invocation. Increases agentic pipeline predictability.
OpenAI opened a public beta for ChatGPT Sites — a feature that allows creating and publishing websites directly from a ChatGPT conversation.
Anthropic raised Claude API rate limits across the board — Sonnet and Haiku now match Opus at every tier — and collapsed usage tiers into three (Start, Build, Scale), powered by a new SpaceX compute deal.
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.
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.
Anthropic released Claude Tag — a Slack-native agent you tag with @Claude to delegate work. Internally it ships 65% of product team code changes.
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.
Anthropic shipped new versions of three Claude API tools. code_execution_20260521 surfaces the 90-second per-cell execution limit. web_search_20260318 and web_fetch_20260318 add a response_inclusion parameter to trim consumed result blocks in agentic workflows.
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.
Claude Code version 2.1.219 (July 24, 2026) sets Claude Opus 5 as the default Opus model with 1M context window, adds sandbox.network.strictAllowlist setting for sandboxed commands, and introduces a DirectoryAdded hook that fires when a new working directory is registered mid-session.
Claude Code now has /config key=value mid-conversation, macOS sandbox controls, and Apple Events — it can drive Mail, Calendar, Finder. The companion v2.1.183 blocks destructive git commands in Auto Mode.
Anthropic shipped a set of Claude Managed Agents API updates on July 22, 2026: effort levels on agent model config, webhooks for environment and memory store lifecycle events, session seeding with initial events, and thread-level event streaming deltas.
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.
A Claude Code session can now be turned into a sharable, interactive HTML page with live code and multiple data sources — one URL for the team. Repositions Claude Code from assistant to internal-app builder.
The new Claude Design keeps a project aligned with the design system, syncs both ways with Claude Code via /design-sync, and lets you edit directly on the canvas. Imports brand from a GitHub repo, design files, or raw uploads.
Mid-conversation system messages are now GA without a beta header on Claude Fable 5, Mythos 5, and Opus 4.8 across the Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud. Updating system instructions mid-conversation no longer invalidates cache prefixes.