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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
OpenAI opened a public beta for ChatGPT Sites — a feature that allows creating and publishing websites directly from a ChatGPT conversation.
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.
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.
Linear adds auto-generated changelogs to release pipelines, ships private sub-teams for Business/Enterprise, and rebuilt desktop tabs so each tab keeps its own navigation history.
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.
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.