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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Qwen-AgentWorld is the first model trained to predict the next environment state (not the next action) across seven agent domains. Two MoE sizes, 256K context, Apache 2.0.
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.
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.
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.
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.