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10 updates · 5 appsJuly 25, 2026

ChatGPT, Claude, Midjourney and 2 more shipped updates

Also shipped: Perplexity and Claude Code.

ChatGPT

3 updates

Expanded summary · ChatGPT

It has updated its ChatGPT desktop app to add support for ChatGPT Voice, allowing users to talk to the app to control AI agents and perform tasks on their computer.

OpenAI on Thursday said it has updated its ChatGPT desktop app to add support for ChatGPT Voice, allowing users to talk to the app to control AI agents and perform tasks on their computer. The new feature taps OpenAI’s new family of voice models called ChatGPT-Live, which it launched earlier this month.

OpenAI said ChatGPT Voice works with both ChatGPT Work and Codex, and can also tap computer use skills to loo…

OpenAI said ChatGPT Voice works with both ChatGPT Work and Codex, and can also tap computer use skills to look up websites and apps.

Original reportingOpenAI's new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app | TechCrunchRead original

Expanded summary · ChatGPT

The new feature taps OpenAI’s new family of voice models called ChatGPT-Live , which it launched earlier this month.

OpenAI launched its first piece of hardware last week — a fancy little keypad built to pair with ChatGPT.

The keypad’s layout involves six frosted “agent” keys at the top of the pad, which can be customized to carry out specific tasks within ChatGPT or its agentic coding tool Codex.

Original reportingI tried out OpenAI's new AI keypad — which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else | TechCrunchRead original

Expanded summary · ChatGPT

Meta is upgrading its AI chatbot with new productivity features in a bid to compete with rivals like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude.

Emma Roth Close Emma Roth News Writer by Emma Roth Meta is upgrading its AI chatbot with new productivity features in a bid to compete with rivals like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Cl…

Original reportingMeta is making its AI chatbot more like an assistantRead original

Midjourney

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Expanded summary · Midjourney

Midjourney, an AI lab best known for its LLM-powered image and video generators, has acquired the social astrology app Co-Star, according to Bloomberg.

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Expanded summary · Midjourney

AI Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with more capable models Ivan Mehta

Midjourney, which has gone from generating AI cat images to full-body ultrasound scans , is getting into a new field: astrology.

The AI startup announced on Thursday that it has acquired the personalized astrology app Co-Star, as reported…

Original reportingMidjourney bought the astrology app Co-StarRead original

Perplexity

1 update

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

3 updates

Expanded summary · Claude

An engineer at a trading firm used Opus 5 to build a market data feed for a new exchange in a single session.

Previous models could not complete this task at all, even given extensive plans from the engineer.

Finding no live feed to valida…

Original reportingIntroducing Claude Opus 5Read original

Expanded summary · Claude

Mid-conversation tool changes on the Claude Platform. Within a conversation, developers can now change which tools Claude can use without invalidating the prompt cache.

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Expanded summary · Claude

Automatic fallbacks on the API. Users can now choose to have requests that are flagged by our safety classifiers on Opus 5 (or Fable 5) automatically route to another model.

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Claude Code

1 update

Expanded summary · Claude Code

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