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.
Google announced that Gemini in cars will gain access to users' personal context — calendar, home and work addresses, preferences — enabling more relevant navigation suggestions, messaging, and hands-free assistance while driving.
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.
xAI launched a free Google Workspace add-on bringing Grok 4.5 to Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides, enabling formula building, chart creation, presentation drafting, and document editing powered by web and X data.
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.
xAI released a suite of free Microsoft 365 add-ins integrating Grok 4.5 into Excel, Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint. Grok in Excel helps write formulas and pivot tables; in Outlook it summarizes threads and drafts replies in the user's voice.
Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash with improved coding (+12pp on DeepSWE), the ultra-fast 3.5 Flash-Lite (350 tokens/s), and security-specialized 3.5 Flash Cyber — but the long-awaited 3.5 Pro is still absent.
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.
Google made gemini-omni-flash-preview available in Google AI Studio and the Gemini API — a natively multimodal video API priced at $0.10/sec of output with automatic SynthID watermarking. Also launched Nano Banana 2 Lite — Google's fastest and cheapest image model.
Stable Gemini CLI v0.51.0 (July 16, 2026) closes path traversal vulnerabilities, prevents model thought leakage into session history, and hardens the macOS sandbox. Nightly v0.52.0 (July 18) adds LLM triage orchestrator and ReAct loop mitigation.
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.
xAI launched Grok Automations: users can schedule recurring AI jobs or trigger them via incoming email. Each execution starts a fresh Grok conversation, with results delivered via email, notification, or Slack.
Google Vids now supports personal AI avatars (selfie + voice recording = SynthID-watermarked digital stand-in) and Gemini Omni Flash for text-prompt video generation and conversational editing of existing clips.
Google renamed NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook and introduced new features: in-notebook code execution, integration into Google Search AI Mode and Gemini app, Gemini 3.5 model, and the Antigravity agentic coding platform.
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.
xAI released a major Grok Voice API update with 21 new flagship voices in 25+ languages, personal voice cloning from a 60-second sample, and expressive speech tags for developers.
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.
The Gemini app gained Study Notebooks: a space to upload syllabi and notes, where Gemini diagnoses your knowledge level, creates adaptive lessons, and tracks progress across 100+ learning objectives. Launching on web for personal accounts.
Google significantly upgraded Gemini 3 Deep Think with iterative reasoning rounds for complex scientific problems. The model identified a logical flaw in a technical math paper missed by peer review. Available for Google AI Ultra subscribers.
Gemini CLI version 0.50.0 (July 8) introduces Tool Registry Discovery — automatic discovery and registration of external tools for AI agents.
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.
Google, alongside the Gemini Spark expansion to the AI Pro tier (July 24), rolled out key improvements: the agent is 50% faster via parallel source retrieval and can now edit shared Workspace files.
xAI released Grok 4.5 — its first model purpose-built for coding and agentic tasks, co-trained with Cursor on real engineering tasks. Available via xAI API at $2/M input tokens and $6/M output tokens, with a 500K-token context window and configurable reasoning effort (low/medium/high).
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.
SpaceXAI added /goal to Grok Build for handing off large implementation tasks autonomously, and /voice (Ctrl+Space) for hands-free prompt dictation — the first native voice interface in Grok Build.
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.
xAI shipped a rapid series of Grok Build patches (0.2.66–0.2.73) over three days: sandbox profiles with kernel-deny lists, no-restart MCP server management, new agent dashboard with model visibility, and a fix for stdio hangs on Windows.
xAI added 21 multilingual voices to Grok Voice on July 6 (25+ languages) and launched a no-code Voice Agent Builder for production voice agents with built-in telephony, MCP connectors, and observability.
OpenAI opened a public beta for ChatGPT Sites — a feature that allows creating and publishing websites directly from a ChatGPT conversation.
xAI's Grok audio family — realtime voice, TTS, and STT — is now routable through Vercel's AI Gateway with the same observability and spend controls as Grok's text models. Developers can compose voice agents with grok-voice-think-fast-1.0, grok-tts and grok-stt straight from AI SDK 7.
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.
xAI added /goal to Grok Build — a long-running autonomous mode that plans, executes and verifies multi-step coding tasks with status, pause, resume and clear controls.
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.
xAI becomes the third independent lab on Bedrock after Anthropic and OpenAI. 1M context, configurable reasoning effort, $1.25/$2.50 per M tokens.
Free Grok add-in for Word, Excel and PowerPoint with live web research, inline source citations, X data lookups, Mermaid diagrams, and connectors for email, SharePoint and Google Drive.
Grok models are now natively available in Databricks Agent Bricks. Agents can reason directly over Lakehouse data without exfiltration, with governance through Unity Catalog.
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.
xAI launched Voice Agent Builder in beta — a no-code platform for production voice agents on Grok Voice with telephony, SIP, voice cloning, and observability at $0.05/min. Available from July 1, 2026.
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.
The first xAI model on Bedrock — Grok 4.3 with a 1M context window, configurable reasoning effort, $1.25 in / $2.50 out per MTok. Cheapest US-lab frontier reasoner on Bedrock.
Google deprecated temperature, top_p, and top_k sampling parameters for the latest Gemini models. The API also now allows combining built-in tools (Google Search, code execution) with custom function calling in a single request.
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.