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.
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.
GitHub released two enterprise management features on July 27: a dedicated policy to control Copilot app access separately from CLI, and enterprise-managed settings extended to the Copilot app and cloud agent.
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 releases its largest spec revision on July 28, 2026, transitioning to a stateless architecture that eliminates the initialize handshake and protocol-level session, enabling horizontal scaling behind plain load balancers. GitHub MCP Server already supports the new spec.
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.
GitHub Copilot integrated Claude Opus 5 for Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise plans. Requires activation via admin policy and is billed based on actual usage.
GitHub Code Quality reached general availability on July 20, 2026 for GitHub Enterprise Cloud and Team. It combines CodeQL deterministic analysis with AI-assisted detection and Copilot Autofix for pull requests. Priced at $10 per active committer per month plus AI usage.
On July 23, 2026, GitHub made the Copilot cloud agent for Linear generally available, added next MCP spec support, and introduced agent automation controls in Issues: Approvals, Confidence Ratings, and Rationale.
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.
GitHub Copilot launched an Impact Dashboard for enterprise admins: it visualizes not just who is active, but at what adoption phase they are — from first use to deep integration into a developer's daily workflow.
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.
GitHub Copilot Enterprise and Business admins can now manage AI credit pools for cost centers directly in the billing UI without the REST API. The pool limit automatically adjusts as licenses are added or removed.
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.
Linear launched Loops — recurring AI automations triggered by schedule or events. The model uses full workspace context and connected tools to triage issues, analyze root causes, and dispatch to coding agents.
Gemini 3.6 Flash is rolling out in GitHub Copilot for Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise users — offering higher task-completion rates and better token efficiency for coding and agentic workflows.
GitHub Copilot now shows per-user AI credits consumed per billing cycle and introduces AI-powered security detections directly on pull requests without requiring CodeQL. GitHub Code Quality moves to a paid product.
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.
GitHub Copilot adds two new REST API endpoints for daily per-repository metrics covering agent pull requests and code review activity counts. First time Copilot metrics are available at repository level, not just org level.
As of July 17, 2026, GitHub Copilot app usage (github.com + web) is available through the enterprise metrics API — IT admins can now track adoption organization-wide across all Copilot surfaces.
GitHub Copilot code review now reads custom instructions from the feature branch (not base), so teams can test review rules without merging first. A new copilot-code-review.yml enables independent configuration from the cloud agent, including network firewall controls.
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.
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.
GitHub Copilot added the /security-review slash command on July 14 in public preview — AI scans in-flight code changes for vulnerabilities like XSS, SQL injection, and path traversal. AI security detections also now appear directly on pull requests.
GitHub Copilot for JetBrains IDEs expanded BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) capabilities — developers can now connect their own API keys from any model provider, giving enterprises more control over data routing and costs.
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.
CodeQL 2.26.0 adds a new query detecting prompt injection attacks in code — the first time it natively covers AI-specific vulnerabilities across OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google GenAI SDKs.
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.
GitHub's Pull Requests Dashboard is now GA — a single view for all PRs across repositories including Copilot agent-created PRs, with saved custom views, advanced search with AND/OR operators, and keyboard navigation.
The June 2026 VS Code Copilot release (published July 8) brings parallel agent sessions in a single window, session-level credit cost tracking across subagents, more autonomous Autopilot, and a unified model provider picker.
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.
GitHub expanded Kimi K2.7 Code from Moonshot AI to Business and Enterprise plans on July 7, making it the first open-weight model in the Copilot model picker — 1T total parameters, 32B active, hosted on Azure with admin controls.
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.
GitHub made the Copilot agent-native desktop app available to all plans including Free on July 7, and rolled out GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna in Copilot for paid plans on July 9.
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.
GitHub made agentic browser tools in GitHub Copilot generally available without experimental flags — an agent can now autonomously open a browser, navigate a running app, capture screenshots, and validate UI as part of a coding task.
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.
GitHub Copilot agents in VS Code can now drive a real browser — navigating, clicking, typing, reading console output, and taking screenshots — enabled by default for all users as of July 1, 2026.
GitHub added AI credit pool support to enterprise cost centers on July 2, 2026, letting organizations cap monthly Copilot AI credits per cost center via REST API, with a UI management interface planned soon.
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.
GitHub Copilot Enterprise now streams agent session data (prompts, responses, tool calls) to external SIEM tools including Microsoft Purview. A REST API provides the last 48 hours of activity on demand.
GitHub Copilot Vision became generally available on July 1, 2026 for all Copilot plans including Free. Developers can attach images and PDFs directly to chat prompts so Copilot can reason about visual context alongside code.
Copilot CLI from July 1 automatically selects the best model per task (Auto mode, 10% discount). Enterprise customers now get real-time streaming of Copilot agent session data into external tools via a streaming endpoint or REST API.
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.
GitHub Copilot added Kimi K2.7 Code from Moonshot AI as the first open-weight model in the model picker, rolling out to Pro, Pro+, and Max plans with Business and Enterprise expansion planned.
OpenAI opened a public beta for ChatGPT Sites — a feature that allows creating and publishing websites directly from a ChatGPT conversation.