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5 updates · 4 appsJuly 29, 2026

Gemini makes typing easier with a new voice dictation feature

Also shipped: ChatGPT, Grok and Claude Code.

ChatGPT

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Expanded summary · ChatGPT

In an interview with our friend Joanna Stern on her YouTube channel , OpenAI president Greg Brockman said the company is working on a “family of devices” for interacting with its AI models.

Stevie Bonifield Close Stevie Bonifield News Writer by Stevie Bonifield In an interview with our friend Joanna Stern on her YouTube channel, OpenAI president Greg Brockman sa…

Original reportingOpenAI president says it’s ‘building a family of devices’ for its AI chatbotsRead original
Additional sources for this digestOpenAI’s rogue AI agent didn’t stop at hacking Hugging Face

Expanded summary · ChatGPT

We believe the benefits of frontier AI should not be concentrated in a few companies and well-resourced labs.

Scientific progress depends on researchers asking the right questions, testing new ideas, and building on what others have discov…

We’re introducing ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, a program that will give 100,000 researchers at selected academic institutions free access to our frontier models.

Original reportingAccelerating scientific discovery with ChatGPT for Academic ResearchersRead original
Additional sources for this digestOpenAI’s rogue AI agent didn’t stop at hacking Hugging Face

Gemini

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Expanded summary · Gemini

What: We’re introducing a new way to work with Gemini using just your voice, right where you are.

Press and hold the Fn key to dictate into your active window and have Gemini transcribe your spoken words into clean, polished text directly…

What: We’re introducing Gemini 3.6 Flash, an upgraded version of our Flash model, to help you tackle everyday tasks.

Original reportingGemini Release NotesRead original

Grok

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Expanded summary · Grok

In Minnesota, the state legislature passed a law targeting “nudification” technology, prohibiting site owners from allowing people to “access, download, or use” such software.

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Original reportingxAI’s last-minute scramble to stop Minnesota’s anti-nudification app lawRead original

Claude Code

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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