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4 updates · 4 appsJuly 15, 2026

ChatGPT gets a music assistant on Spotify, Claude helps teachers

ChatGPT now helps you pick music on Spotify, and Claude launched a special program for teachers.

ChatGPT

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Expanded summary · ChatGPT

You can now chat with Spotify to find music and other audio, like podcasts and audiobooks.

Spotify is taking another step to infuse AI technology into its listening experience, with Tuesday’s news that Premium users will now be able to have interactive conversations with the app to choose what music or other audio they wan… The addition is the latest example of how Spotify has put AI technology to use to help people interact with the app’s extensive catalog of music, podcasts, and audiobooks.

This new feature is available for Premium users in the U.S., Ireland, and Sweden on both iPhones and Android phones.

Original reportingSpotify expands its AI push with a ChatGPT-like music assistantRead original

Claude

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Expanded summary · Claude

Claude is now offering a special program called 'Claude for Teachers' in the US.

We're introducing Claude for Teachers, providing verified K-12 educators in the US free access to premium Claude capabilities, a library of teaching skills, and a direct connection to evidence-based curricula, mapped to academic stan… Decades of research show that practices like differentiation, mastery-based learning, and small group instruction reliably improve student achievement, but teachers are often s…

Decades of research show that practices like differentiation, mastery-based learning, and small group instruction reliably improve student achievement, but teachers are often short on time and resources to implement them.

Budgets are stret…

Original reportingIntroducing Claude for TeachersRead original

Perplexity

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Expanded summary · Perplexity

Kimi K2.7 Code — perplexity/kimi-k2.7-code , Moonshot AI’s coding and agentic model.

Grok 4.3 and the Grok 4.20 family — xai/grok-4.3, xai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning, and xai/grok-4.20-multi-agent.

Smart media selection: Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type

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Claude Code

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The inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by researchers, engineers and early users who built it.

The Making of Claude Code

Original reportingThe Making of Claude CodeRead original