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4 updates · 4 appsAugust 21, 2026

ChatGPT can now send texts for you, and Perplexity got smarter media search.

ChatGPT launched a new plug-in for texting, and Perplexity improved its search results with smart media selection.

ChatGPT

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A brief commercial advertising the new plug-in shows a user asking the chatbot to suggest follow-up messages to their contacts based on the messages received the previous day.

If you’ve ever wanted to share all of your digital conversations with OpenAI, we have good news for you: The AI lab has just launched an Apple Messages plug-in for ChatGPT, allowing interested users to connect their Messages inbox with the…

OpenAI told Bloomberg that the plug-in runs locally on a user’s machine and that it “doesn’t create an index of all someone’s messages.” Still, the specific…

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Perplexity

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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

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Grok

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Grok keeps sending gibberish responses to users TechCrunch

Cursor capitalizes on GitHub frustration, launches rival hosting platform Lucas Ropek Anthropic shares more details about how Claude’s new watermarks will work Anthony Ha

Original reportingGrok keeps sending gibberish responses to users | TechCrunchRead original