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.
Midjourney promoted V8.2 to default for all subscribers, featuring significantly enhanced Personalization that better understands aesthetic taste and bolder, more sophisticated visual output compared to V8.1.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Vercel added two new adapters to the AI SDK Harness — LangChain Deep Agents and OpenCode — letting you run either coding-agent runtime through one unified HarnessAgent API inside a Vercel Sandbox.
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.
Midjourney added automatic random styles to Draft Mode. Each batch now injects stylistic variations to broaden creative exploration.
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.
Z.ai's GLM 5.2 Fast is now available via Wafer on Vercel AI Gateway, averaging 170+ tokens/s with 2x the throughput of other providers.
Vercel AI SDK 7.0.19 introduces Tool Drift Detection — the first framework-native protection against MCP 'rug pulls' where malicious servers dynamically redefine tool schemas mid-session. Each MCP tool receives a fingerprint at registration.
xAI becomes the third independent lab on Bedrock after Anthropic and OpenAI. 1M context, configurable reasoning effort, $1.25/$2.50 per M tokens.
Vercel AI Gateway added Sakana AI's Fugu Ultra, a multi-agent orchestration model that routes work across 1-3 frontier-model agents and merges results, benchmarking comparably to Claude Mythos Preview and Fable 5.
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.
Vercel launched Connect, a new agent-infrastructure primitive providing short-lived scoped OAuth tokens for Slack, GitHub, Linear, Notion, Salesforce, Figma, Snowflake, Discord, plus generic OAuth/API-key and MCP server connectors.
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.
Vercel shipped Konsistent on July 1 to enforce uniform code standards for both AI agents and human developers, alongside a Security Dashboard in private beta and dry-run deployments for the Vercel CLI.
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.
Eve is a TypeScript-native open-source framework where every agent = a directory of files (instructions.md + tools/ + skills/). Built in: durable execution, per-agent sandbox, human approvals, evals, OpenTelemetry. Plus the Sandbox runtime now goes up to 24h.