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Bolt.new introduced Skills -- reusable bundles of context, rules, and workflows (tech stack, design standards, code review rules) that Bolt applies during development, shareable across individual projects or entire workspaces.
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.
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.
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.
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.
