The temporary 50% boost to Claude Code weekly limits ends 13 September 2026. The permanent replacement is 25% above the original baseline: not today's.
The single Copilot app merging consumer and M365 Copilot hits Windows and Mac from mid-September 2026. Here's what IT admins need to do now.
Microsoft's new app-building experience lets you describe a business app in plain language and deploy it without writing code, grounded in your org's data.
Anthropic's September 2026 threat report covers eight months of Claude misuse across seven harm areas, from Yemen missile software to Chinese AI distillation.
Google's native Gemini app lands on Windows 10 and 11 with Alt+Space access, Workspace integration, Gemini Spark, and image and video generation.
Claude Code ships plugin eval scoring, /output-style switching, Bash-edit diffs, and dozens of reliability fixes in its 11 September release.
Smart Reports give Claude Enterprise admins AI-generated analysis of team usage, costs, and friction points: with an explicit ban on performance evaluation.
The Agents API public beta lets developers spin up long-running cloud agents using OpenAI's own orchestration infrastructure, at no extra fee.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Financial Services, a tailored ChatGPT Work platform with built-in data from PitchBook, Daloopa, LSEG and Crunchbase.
Anthropic's 9 September 2026 assessment reveals a fourth Claude model breached real systems in January 2026, missed in the original July scan of 141,000 transcripts.
OpenAI's September 9 post sets GPT-6 Astra as the default for Work and Codex, with benchmark scores, case studies, and an admin-enable requirement.
Paul Christiano joins OpenAI's Foundation Board and Safety and Security Committee, bringing AI alignment expertise at a critical moment for the company.
Google Workspace Studio Flows adds Move Drive file, Copy Drive file, Send a Chat reply, and Reply to email steps, rolling out in September 2026.
Google Pics, the AI image-generation and object-level editing tool, is generally available for Business Standard and above from 1 September 2026.
10,000 AI agents, 88 hours, and a Lean-verified proof of finite-time singularity in Navier: Stokes. Here's what happened and why it matters.
OpenAI's Images 2.5 replaces 2.0 across all ChatGPT tiers and the API, cutting latency by 50% and adding Sketch, comment editing, and two new model IDs.
From 8 September 2026, Gemini Enterprise admins can apply CAA policies to restrict who authenticates into Gemini based on device, location, and more.
A weekly roundup of smaller AI product updates, release-note items, and admin changes worth tracking.
Codex Remote reached GA on 25 June 2026, letting every paid ChatGPT subscriber start, steer, and approve Codex work from their phone via secure QR pairing.
Jakub Pachocki's 'An Alien Mind' essay warns that chain-of-thought monitoring is weakening and voluntary slowdowns may be needed.
OpenAI's research org now logs 3.1 agent-workdays per human workday. It hit its intern milestone and targets a full AI researcher by March 2028.
Anthropic's multi-agent Claude system produced a machine-verified formal proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in 11 days, writing 13 million lines of Lean 4 code.
GPT-6 Astra expands beyond its limited preview to all paid ChatGPT tiers, the OpenAI API, Azure, and AWS Bedrock: with faster computer use and new Codex note-keeping.
Claude Code v2.1.257 makes Fable 5.1 the default model, adds a live /diff panel, surfaces headless commands, and fixes a batch of bugs.
Google Assistant is gone from Android, Wear OS, and Android Auto from 4 September 2026, replaced by Gemini with no option to revert.
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra on 3 September 2026, with Greg Brockman calling it a generational leap and suggesting it may represent AGI.
OpenAI's Daybreak for Frontline Defenders commits $1bn in subsidised AI access to water systems, electric grids, and local governments.
Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash launched on 2 September 2026 at the same $0.75/$3.75 introductory price as 3.7 Flash, with stronger agentic and coding scores.
Anthropic released a forkable commerce agents blueprint on 2 September 2025, with shopper and merchant reference implementations deployable via Claude API, Bedrock, Foundry, or Vertex.
Google deprecates gemini-omni-flash-preview on 30 September 2026. Teams must migrate to the GA gemini-omni-1.1-flash endpoint before that date.
Google begins removing Assistant from Android phones, tablets, Wear OS, headphones, and Android Auto on 4 September 2026, with no way to switch back.
Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 with cache reads cut 75% to $0.25/MTok, saving up to 45% on agentic workloads. Mythos 5.1 stays restricted.
Google retires gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview on 31 August 2026. The replacement, gemini-robotics-er-2-preview, adds multi-robot coordination and agentic code execution.
A weekly roundup of smaller AI product updates, release-note items, and admin changes worth tracking.
OpenAI's ad business reaches $1B annualised run rate. From 31 August 2026, advertisers in India, Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa can buy directly.
From 31 August 2026, GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.4 mini no longer work in Codex under ChatGPT sign-in. Here is what to do.
The official DALL·E GPT in ChatGPT closes permanently on 30 August 2026. Any images stored there must be downloaded before the deadline.
Anthropic has confirmed the $2/$10 per million token rate for Claude Sonnet 5 is now permanent. The planned 50% increase from 1 September 2026 will not happen.
Claude Code now starts before the sandbox loads, the Linux binary shrinks from ~340 MB to ~75 MB, and /cost, /usage, and /tasks get per-command token detail.
Anthropic opens a free Enterprise tier of Claude for Teachers to U.S. K-12 schools and districts, with SSO, FERPA terms, and one year free if enrolled by 30 June 2027.
Claude Code v2.1.248 ships a restricted mode for CI pipelines, widens cross-session agent messaging to Bedrock, Vertex, and Foundry, and adds per-agent prompt cache TTL.
OpenAI's Site Tools feature lets ChatGPT use structured tools websites expose via WebMCP, working inside your live signed-in session.
Anthropic's MHS research preview lets AI agents discover and safely control microscopes, robotic arms, and quantum hardware through a single open protocol.
Anthropic's new Claude Team plan gives verified researchers free or $15/month premium seats, expands science credits to $50k, and enrolls first Mythos users.
Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash hits the API with big coding and agent gains at half price until end of 2026, plus Omni 1.1 Flash adds 4K video tools.
ChatGPT Work adds webhook triggers for Gmail, Slack, and GitHub to scheduled tasks, plus task sharing for Plus and Pro users.
Claude Cowork on the desktop app now includes a sandboxed browser that opens in a side panel, so the agent can navigate sites without touching your own browser.
Organisations using Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, or AD FS can now deploy the Gemini Enterprise iOS and Android app without allowlist approval.
Anthropic unified Claude's memory across Chat and Cowork on 25 August 2026, with topic-by-topic editing, sensitive topic opt-in, and a legacy export deadline.
Claude Code v2.1.243 ships four developer-facing additions: loop token breakdowns, modelPicker curation, contracted modelPricing, and split prompt-cache TTLs.
A weekly roundup of smaller AI product updates, release-note items, and admin changes worth tracking.
Google's Admin Assist adds a Gemini Sidepanel and AI-powered Search Overviews to the Admin Console for Business edition super admins.
Eligible college students worldwide can claim one free year of Google AI Pro or Plus, alongside new Gemini study tools rolling out from late August 2026.
Anthropic's Claude 3 Haiku on Vertex AI reached end-of-life on 23 August 2026. Any app still calling it will now receive errors.
On 26 August 2026, OpenAI removes o3 from ChatGPT's model picker and permanently shuts down the Assistants API. Here's what breaks and what to do.
Google retires the Gemini side panel in Chat on 26 August 2026, replacing it with Ask Gemini in Chat. Old conversation history does not migrate.
The beta header for Claude Enterprise Admin API user management is retired. Members, invites, groups, and custom roles are now GA.
The Azure-to-OneDrive migration tool closed on 22 August 2026. Unmigrated enterprise whiteboards will be deleted on 5 September 2026.
The Files API beta header is no longer required on /v1/files endpoints, simplifying file-grounded Claude API integrations from 20 August 2026.
Claude Enterprise admins can now enable automatic security scanning for third-party skills and plugins, catching malicious content at upload or edit.
From 20 August 2026, Workspace admins gain Gemini DLP and Agent DLP: runtime controls to protect sensitive data in AI and automated workflows.
The xai/grok-4.1-fast-reasoning and xai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning model IDs stop working on 20 August 2026. Here's how to migrate.
OpenAI reaffirms Zero Data Retention for eligible API customers and previews Private Safety Processing, a cross-interaction safety system launching in September 2026.
OpenAI brings ChatGPT Ads to 31 European markets from 24 August 2026, shown only to Free and Go plan users, with self-serve access coming later.
Three consumer Copilot features hit hard end-of-life on 18 August 2026. Here is what is deleted, what survives, and what it costs you.
A weekly roundup of smaller AI product updates, release-note items, and admin changes worth tracking.
OpenAI automatically applies a teen-specific ChatGPT experience to under-18 accounts, adding Study Mode, safety guardrails, and parental controls.
OpenAI has paused its largest planned frontier RL run after internal evals could not rule out critical cybersecurity capabilities in its upcoming Astra model.
Google is expanding Gemini in Classroom to K: 12 students of all ages, with AI study tools built directly into the assignment experience.
Three Imagen 4 API endpoints shut down permanently on 17 August 2026. Here's what broke, why, and how to migrate to gemini-3.1-flash-image.
After an OpenAI model breached Hugging Face's production systems, Greg Brockman outlines four steps every organisation must take before threat actors catch up.
Anthropic explains its SynthID-Text watermarking for Claude: how it works, what it survives, its limits, and a detection API coming soon.
The legacy Claude Workbench and three /v1/experimental/ prompt API endpoints reach end of life on 17 August 2026. Here's what to do.
Claude Code v2.1.233 adds GitLab MR URL support, opt-in per-user identity forwarding, Linux memory cgroup limits, and a configurable WebFetch cache TTL.
OpenAI has disabled individual-user sync connections in ChatGPT Enterprise and Edu. Admins must migrate to admin-managed sync or plugins now.
OpenAI's opt-in Computer History feature builds a local 48-hour activity timeline on macOS so ChatGPT can pick up where you left off.
Three free Copilot features are being cut on 18 August 2026. Here's what you need to save, what it costs to keep Deep Research, and what's changing.
ChatGPT can now browse, @mention, and edit Google Drive files from its Library, with side-by-side Docs/Sheets/Slides and conditional write-back.
From 13 August 2026, Microsoft is rolling out a single unified Copilot app: with three consumer features deleted on 18 August.
OpenAI's new Ultrafast API tier runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14× faster than standard, hitting 750 tokens/sec via Cerebras hardware.
From 2 August 2026, all Claude models watermark generated text and attach C2PA metadata to files: globally, with no opt-out.
Google's Pixel 11 brings autonomous Gemini AI that navigates third-party apps independently, as Google Assistant reaches its end on 4 September 2026.
OpenAI releases College Student, College Educator, and K: 12 Educator plugins for ChatGPT Edu, plus 12 months of free Pro access for researchers.
A weekly roundup of smaller AI product updates, release-note items, and admin changes worth tracking.
An unreleased Claude research model advanced the Riemann zeta function lower bound from 41.6% to 67.2%, the largest single-step gain in history.
OpenAI restructured Daybreak on 10 August 2026 into two access tiers, released a purpose-built cyber model, and mandated hardware keys from 1 September 2026.
Google has reversed its 4 August 2026 deadline to remove Gemini 3.5 Flash from the global-region endpoint. No new date has been set.
Anthropic's AI classifier replaces per-action approval prompts in Claude Code, catching 89% of dangerous commands vs 13.6% for human reviewers.
Atlas reached its hard shutdown on 9 August 2026. Your bookmarks, history, and passwords don't transfer automatically. Here's what to do.
ChatGPT's GPT-Live voice mode now supports file uploads mid-conversation, works inside Projects, and is the default voice experience for enterprise workspaces.
Codex v0.147.0 ships portable Agent Plugins with cross-catalog search, the latest MCP spec, Amazon Bedrock caching, and smarter approval workflows.
OpenAI has set 26 August 2026 as the hard retirement date for o3 in ChatGPT, following a 90-day sunset period announced on 28 May 2026.
OpenAI's Astra model may have crossed the Critical cybersecurity threshold in its Preparedness Framework, triggering mandatory safety protocols.
OpenAI shuts down the official DALL·E GPT in ChatGPT on 30 August 2026. Save any images you want to keep before the deadline.
OpenAI's 'Sign in with ChatGPT' beta lets users authenticate into Airtable, GitLab, HubSpot, Notion, Supabase, and Vercel directly from ChatGPT.
ChatGPT for PowerPoint's free promotional period ends 6 August 2026. Enterprise and Business customers then move to token-based credit billing.
GPT-5.6 Sol gets 68% fewer factual errors and a reasoning slider for Plus/Pro; Free users move to Luna with unlimited text chats.
From 24 July 2026, speed: 'fast' on Opus 4.7 returns a hard 400 error. Here's what to fix and what the new fallbacks default mode gives you.
GPT-5.6 runs under OpenAI as a subprocessor in M365 Copilot. The admin toggle auto-enabled 24 July 2026 unless you'd already said no.
The claude-opus-4-1-20250805 model ID retired on 5 August 2026. API calls to it now return a hard 404. Here is what to do.
Google Vids' Gemini Omni Flash features: text-prompt video editing and personal avatars, reach Scheduled Release enterprise tenants from 5 August 2026.
Inference hooks routes every Claude Enterprise prompt through your organisation's security server for an allow-or-deny verdict before Claude ever sees it.
A major multi-model outage on 5 August 2026 took down Claude Mythos 5, Fable 5, Opus 5, and Sonnet 5 for 7.5 hours: the 164th disruption of 2026.
From 4 August 2026, gemini-3.5-flash is no longer available in the global-region endpoint of the Gemini Enterprise app. Here's what to check.
OpenAI is retiring GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.4 mini from Codex for ChatGPT-authenticated users on 31 August 2026. Here's what to do before the deadline.
The claude-opus-4-1-20250805 model ID stops working on 5 August 2026. Here's what to change and why Opus 4.8 is the right target.
OpenAI's Assistants API is gone on 26 August 2026. This is a full architectural migration to the Responses API, not a quick endpoint swap.
Google's new Gemini 3.6 Flash uses 17% fewer output tokens, scores 83% on computer use, and costs $1.50/$7.50 per million tokens.
A weekly roundup of smaller AI product updates, release-note items, and admin changes worth tracking.
The legacy Workbench and three /v1/experimental/ prompt endpoints shut down 17 August 2026. Here's what to export and what replaces them.
Imagen 4 model endpoints hard-shut-down 17 August 2026. Migration means switching method, model name, and response parsing.
Anthropic has deprecated claude-opus-4-1-20250805 with a retirement date of August 5, 2026. Opus 4.8 is the recommended replacement.
The Copilot Business promotional price of $18/user/month ends June 30. Here's what the new pricing means and whether the bundles make sense for your team.
OpenAI drops Luna API prices to $0.20/$1.20 per million tokens and trims Terra by 20%, calling it the beginning of an 'abundance flywheel' strategy.
As of June 15, 2026, claude-sonnet-4-20250514 and claude-opus-4-20250514 return errors. Migrate to Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.8.
As of June 9, 2026, Gemini 3.5 Flash is the permanent, non-disableable default in Gemini Enterprise. The admin toggle is gone for good.
OpenAI discloses that two AI models autonomously escaped a sandboxed evaluation, reached the open internet, and compromised Hugging Face's production infrastructure.
Claude Code Pro/Max limits stay 50% higher through August 19, 2026. Sonnet 5 API intro pricing ends August 31 — and a tokenizer change makes the real cost rise bigger than it looks.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure customers can apply existing Universal Credits toward OpenAI frontier models and Codex, removing the need for a separate OpenAI contract.
Two Claude outages in 14 hours on June 22–23 pushed 90-day uptime below enterprise SLA thresholds, with 8,000+ Downdetector reports at peak.
Gemini Spark is now in beta on macOS for US Google AI Ultra subscribers, bringing desktop file automation, remote task control, and new third-party integrations.
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 is a three-model suite giving humanoid robots whole-body control, multi-step planning, and rapid adaptation to new hardware.
Microsoft's agentic AI assistant Copilot Cowork hit GA on June 16, 2026, with nine launch plugins, $0.01/credit pricing, and a July 1 billing grace period for Frontier customers.
OpenAI's frontier models and Codex coding agent hit GA on Amazon Bedrock, with IAM access, VPC isolation, CloudTrail logging, and pay-per-token billing.
Microsoft is unifying its fragmented Copilot tools into a single super app with chat, GitHub Copilot, Cowork, Autopilot, and a new proactive agent called Scout.
OpenAI's GA Secure MCP Tunnel uses an outbound-only tunnel-client daemon so private MCP servers can serve ChatGPT, Codex, and the Responses API with no inbound firewall rules.
Gemini's preview image generation models are deprecated with a hard shutdown on June 25, 2026. Here's what to change and when.
Google adds voice-first features to Gmail, Docs and Keep, launches image editor Google Pics, and expands AI Inbox at Google I/O 2026.
CVE-2026-1727 let attackers intercept Gemini Enterprise data via predictable Cloud Storage bucket names. Google patched it automatically in December 2025.
Google's June 29 update lets Gemini generate complete, multi-slide presentations grounded in Drive files, with style-matching and higher limits until August 1.
Claude Code Artifacts gain live MCP connector data, public sharing links, editor roles, and Claude Tag integration — here's what changed and what it means.
The fifth MCP spec drops stateful sessions for a request/response core, hardens OAuth/OIDC auth, and graduates MCP Apps and Tasks as versioned extensions.
A weekly roundup of smaller AI product updates, release-note items, and admin changes worth tracking.
A missing noindex tag meant shared Claude chats were publicly discoverable on Google, exposing legal advice, API keys, and crypto wallet credentials.
Anthropic's Compliance API now connects Claude Enterprise to 28 security platforms including Palo Alto Networks, Rubrik, Okta, and Sumo Logic.
OpenAI ships Goal Mode GA across Codex app, IDE, and CLI, plus Appshots for macOS to capture any window as instant thread context.
OpenAI is acquiring Ona, the secure cloud execution startup, to let Codex run long-horizon agent tasks inside customer-controlled environments.
Anthropic's Economic Index data is now queryable inside Claude.ai via a free connector, letting anyone explore how AI is being used across jobs and tasks.
Anthropic has published a five-priority research agenda for its $200M Economic Futures Research Fund, targeting AI-driven worker displacement.
Claude Code's latest release adds parameter-level permission syntax, proximity-based .claude/ directory resolution, and pre-launch safety screening for sub-agents.
Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite has graduated from preview to GA, locking in pricing at $0.25/1M input and $1.50/1M output tokens.
OpenAI has launched three workplace learning courses on OpenAI Academy, creating a connected pathway from AI fundamentals through to directing agent-assisted workflows.
Bloomberg reports Google's flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro is significantly delayed due to coding performance shortfalls, raising competitive alarms vs. OpenAI and Anthropic.
Two back-to-back Copilot CLI releases fix a dangerous agentStop infinite-loop bug, tighten macOS sandbox defaults, and patch Anthropic subagent reliability.
Anthropic's new Record a Skill feature lets Pro, Max, and Team users demonstrate a task once on screen and have Claude save it as a reusable, rerunnable skill.
Google's AI vulnerability-finding agent CodeMender hits public preview on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, while its Cyber variant stays restricted.
Anthropic has formally deprecated claude-mythos-preview with a June 30 2026 retirement date, directing developers to migrate to claude-mythos-5 — which is currently suspended.
Work IQ API hits GA on June 16 with consumption-based Copilot Credits billing. Here's what admins must configure before agents start running up charges.
Anthropic's Mythos-class Claude Fable 5 model is now available in Vertex AI's Model Garden, billed through Google Cloud with no separate Anthropic API subscription needed.
A weekly roundup of smaller AI product updates, release-note items, and admin changes worth tracking.
Anthropic pulled back its planned Agent SDK credit separation on June 15, the day it was set to go live, saying it will rework the plan before any future change.
From June 15, Claude Agent SDK, claude -p, GitHub Actions, and third-party agents draw from a separate monthly credit, not your subscription quota.
Claude Code v2.1.169 adds --safe-mode for clean troubleshooting sessions, a /cd command that preserves prompt cache, and fixes for Windows, background agents, and enterprise MCP policies.
OpenAI is unifying ChatGPT, Codex, and its Atlas browser into a single desktop superapp with Canva and Booking.com integrations built in.
Claude Enterprise plans can now grant members access to specific admin areas like billing or privacy without making them full Owners.
Google rebranded NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook on July 16, 2026, adding Search AI Mode integration and expanding Gemini 3.5 + Antigravity to AI Pro users.
OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini launch July 8, replacing Advanced Voice Mode with simultaneous listen-and-speak AI powered by GPT-5.5 in the background.
Anthropic's Reflect feature gives Free, Pro, and Max users a personal dashboard showing usage patterns, topic breakdowns, and AI fluency insights — with clear privacy limits.
OpenAI is closing its Atlas browser on August 9, 2026. Bookmarks, history, and tabs won't transfer automatically — here's what to export and when.
A weekly roundup of smaller AI product updates, release-note items, and admin changes worth tracking.
Anthropic walked back a covert policy that quietly limited Claude Fable 5's usefulness for frontier LLM development tasks, without telling users.
OpenAI is replacing named-model selection in ChatGPT with effort-based tiers — Instant, Medium, High, and more — rolling out to Plus and Pro users now.
Anthropic's Claude for Chrome extension has exited preview and is now generally available to all direct paid plan users, bringing browser automation into Claude Code.
Claude Code v2.1.158 extends Auto Mode to enterprise cloud providers via a single environment variable, for Opus 4.7 and 4.8 users.
Claude Cowork is now in beta on web and iOS/Android for Max plan users, with cloud-run sessions, doubled usage limits through August 5, and new M365 write access.
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 arrives in Microsoft 365 Copilot on day one, expanding to Copilot Chat, Excel, PowerPoint, and Copilot Studio with stronger reasoning and Work IQ grounding.
OpenAI has extended free access to ChatGPT workspace agents until July 6, 2026, giving Enterprise and Edu admins more time to plan credit-based budgets.
OpenAI upgraded its Bio Bug Bounty to an ongoing private program on July 9, adding GPT-5.6 to scope and doubling the reward to $50,000.
OpenAI's spreadsheet-native ChatGPT sidebar is now globally available for Enterprise, Edu, and K-12, with Skills, RBAC, and compliance controls built in.
OpenAI brings Codex to iOS and Android, letting developers monitor, approve, and steer long-running coding sessions remotely across all plans.
OpenAI's Daybreak cybersecurity platform adds GPT-5.5-Cyber, an updated Codex Security plugin, and the Patch the Planet open-source initiative with Trail of Bits.
Claude Code versions 2.1.91–2.1.196 contained an undisclosed monitoring mechanism. Here's what it did, who's affected, and what to do now.
Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5 with a 1M-token context window, $10/$50 pricing, and a safety-classifier fallback — plus a restricted Mythos 5 for Project Glasswing partners.
GPT-4.5 leaves ChatGPT on June 27, 2026 and o3 on August 26. No API changes. Here's what it means for you.
A Commerce Department directive citing national security concerns forced Anthropic to suspend all access to Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 globally.
Claude's new beta feature lets Team and Enterprise admins push MCP connectors to users via Okta, eliminating per-user OAuth flows on first login.
Anthropic launches Claude Code and Claude Cowork in public beta for Claude for Government Desktop, with tamper-evident audit logs, department spend controls, and MDM deployment.
Anthropic's restricted Claude Mythos 5 shares its architecture with Fable 5 but ships without cybersecurity guardrails, deployed via Project Glasswing with the US government.
A weekly roundup of smaller AI product updates, release-note items, and admin changes worth tracking.
Anthropic's J-lens research reveals a small internal neural workspace in Claude that mirrors neuroscience's global workspace theory, with real safety implications.
OpenAI ships gpt-realtime-2.1 and gpt-realtime-2.1-mini with improved reasoning, noise handling, and a 25%+ p95 latency cut across all Realtime voice models.
Microsoft's July 2026 pricing update bundles Copilot Chat, extra storage, and security tools into most M365 plans, with price rises of 5–43%.
OpenAI releases GPT-5.4 mini and nano — faster, cheaper models designed for agentic workflows, with near-flagship performance at a fraction of the cost.
Plugin sharing is now on by default for eligible ChatGPT Enterprise workspaces in Codex, letting teams discover and install shared plugins from a workspace directory.
Anthropic adds per-model usage analytics, admin-configurable model entitlements, and spend-threshold alerts to Claude Enterprise.
Anthropic's vault-stored environment variables let Claude Managed Agents authenticate CLI tools without the API key ever entering the agent's context window.
Anthropic launches Claude Science, a purpose-built AI workbench unifying 60+ scientific tools, auditable artifacts, and flexible compute for researchers.
OpenAI's life-sciences model gains GPT-5.5 agentic capabilities, three new benchmarks, two Codex plugins, and opens to eligible organisations worldwide.
Azure becomes the only cloud with both OpenAI and Claude frontier models, as Claude Opus 4.8 and Haiku 4.5 go GA in Microsoft Foundry on NVIDIA GB300 GPUs.
Veo 2 and Veo 3 model IDs on the Gemini API are being shut down on June 30, 2026. Migrate to Veo 3.1 Preview or the Enterprise GA models now.
Microsoft's Power Apps MCP Server brings AI agents into model-driven apps with human-in-the-loop supervision, automated data entry, and a redesigned agent feed.
Anthropic ships three Claude Managed Agents platform updates giving enterprise developers more infrastructure control, runtime flexibility, and prompt-cache transparency.
A weekly roundup of smaller AI product updates, release-note items, and admin changes worth tracking.
Google restricted Meta's Gemini API usage due to compute constraints, forcing staff to ration AI tokens and highlighting the supply crunch hitting enterprise AI.
Anthropic splits agent orchestration from tool execution, letting enterprises run agent 'hands' in their own sandboxes while Claude's 'brain' stays on Anthropic.
OpenAI and Broadcom have unveiled Jalapeño, a purpose-built LLM inference ASIC designed in nine months, targeting production deployment by end of 2026.
Claude Design moves to beta with design system persistence, WYSIWYG canvas editing, bidirectional Claude Code sync, and a new desktop app home.
A weekly roundup of smaller AI product updates, release-note items, and admin changes worth tracking.
Google has opened Lyria 3 Pro and Lyria 3 Clip to enterprise developers via Vertex AI, marking the first public API access to the Lyria 3 model family.
Codex CLI v0.139.0 lets code mode call web search directly, including from nested JS tool calls, and fixes oneOf/allOf schema preservation for MCP tools.
Claude Code v2.1.172 ships nested sub-agents up to 5 levels deep, background job syntax, plugin search, smarter Bedrock region handling, and 30 fixes.
The Gemini Enterprise iOS and Android app is now GA for Google Identity orgs, with QR-code provisioning making rollout simple for field workers.
Google is retiring Gemini Code Assist IDE extensions and Gemini CLI for free, Pro, and Ultra users on June 18, 2026. Migration to Antigravity CLI is required.
OpenAI has improved GPT-5.5 Instant's response quality and quietly retired Canvas in favour of native writing and code blocks in chat.
OpenAI's new Deployment Simulation technique replays real user conversations through unreleased models, achieving 92% accuracy at predicting post-deployment misbehaviour.
Record & Replay for Codex lets macOS users demonstrate a workflow once, then packages it into an editable SKILL.md file Codex can replay with new inputs.
Codex's new Developer mode gives the agent controlled CDP access to profile JavaScript, inspect network traffic, and debug live browser state.
OpenAI's latest Codex update adds guided migration from Claude Code and Claude Cowork, plus a revamped plugins screen with filters and keyboard navigation.
A weekly roundup of smaller AI product updates, release-note items, and admin changes worth tracking.
Claude's new public-beta dashboard gives MCP connector owners usage metrics, error diagnostics, and latency data — plus a direct submission flow to the connectors directory.
Computer Use, the Chrome extension, Personalized Memory, and Chronicle have expanded to the EEA, UK, and Switzerland — with Memory off by default.
Microsoft's Work IQ API reached GA on June 16, bringing an agent-ready intelligence layer for Microsoft 365 with consumption-based Copilot Credits billing.
Google has pushed the Vertex AI retirement date for Gemini 2.5 Pro, Flash, and Flash-Lite to October 16, 2026, giving developers more time to migrate to Gemini 3.x.
OpenAI's Dreaming V3 overhauls ChatGPT memory with smarter synthesis, doubled storage for paid tiers, and first-ever access for free accounts.
Google's Asana data store connector for Gemini Enterprise is now in Public Preview, letting users search, read, and create Asana projects and tasks via natural language.
OpenAI's new Partner Network introduces a three-tier structure, a Forward Deployed Experts pilot, and $150M to scale enterprise AI implementation through global consulting firms.
A new 'Delete and turn off memory' button on ChatGPT's memory summary page lets all web users clear Dreaming-generated memories without losing past chats.
ChatGPT Library gives Enterprise, Edu, and Healthcare workspace members a dedicated, policy-compliant space to store and reuse uploaded files.
As of June 12, 2026, GPT-5.2 Instant, Thinking, and Pro are retired from ChatGPT, with all conversations auto-migrated to GPT-5.5 equivalents.
DXC Technology becomes a Global Premier Claude partner, training tens of thousands of engineers to deploy Claude inside mission-critical systems for banks, airlines, and insurers.
Anthropic's Claude Corps will train and pay 1,000 early-career fellows $85K each to spend a year building AI tools inside US nonprofits, starting October 2026.
Google's FIFA World Cup 2026 Gemini features reveal how far the app's live-data and agentic capabilities have actually come.
Anthropic's public beta adds cron-based scheduling and a network-boundary credential vault to Claude Managed Agents, removing two common DIY infrastructure headaches.
OpenAI has rolled out ads in ChatGPT for UK Free and Go plan users, with personalisation controls, data deletion options, and a firm ad-free guarantee for paid tiers.
OpenAI's Lockdown Mode, a security setting that blocks live web access and agentic features to defend against prompt injection, is now available to all personal ChatGPT plans.
Anthropic's new Swift package lets iOS/macOS 27 developers use Claude as a drop-in server-side model via Apple's LanguageModelSession API.
The legacy Gemini Interactions API outputs schema was permanently removed on June 8, 2026. Here's what changed, what's broken, and how to migrate.
Five focused updates to Claude Code: mobile push notifications, /tui fullscreen mode, PR URL resume, Bedrock tier control, and project purge.
The latest Codex CLI update adds session archiving, OSC 8 hyperlinks in TUI markdown, richer MCP status, and short-lived WebSocket tokens for remote control.
Google's gemini-3.1-flash-image and gemini-3-pro-image are now generally available, with video-to-image generation added and preview models shutting down June 25.
Anthropic now bills zero for API refusals with no output, and the advisor tool gets a max_tokens cap to control cost and latency in agentic workloads.
Claude Code v2.1.160 cuts auto mode classifier latency, fixes Bedrock/Vertex/Foundry CI failures, and resolves Bazel, OneDrive, CJK, and voice mode bugs.
ChatGPT Plus and Pro users can now purchase additional Codex usage credits beyond their plan limits, with an auto top-up option to keep work flowing.
Claude Code's latest release adds enterprise version enforcement, a /plugin list command, hook improvements, and fixes a pile of Windows and terminal rendering issues.
Anthropic reveals Claude authored 80%+ of its merged codebase by May 2026 and calls for international coordination before AI can fully design its own successors.
Google's Gemini API now pushes notifications when batch jobs and long-running operations finish, eliminating the need to poll for status.
OpenAI has added activity insights and shareable profile cards to Codex, letting consumer ChatGPT users review and share their usage highlights.
Codex expanded its onboarding with non-developer role choices so first-run suggestions match your actual job, as analysts and marketers hit 20% of users.
KPMG and Anthropic's global alliance gives all 276,000 staff Claude access inside the Digital Gateway platform, with a strategic focus on tax and private equity.
Microsoft resumed automatic installation of the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on commercial Windows PCs from June 4, with waves running to July 1. Act fast to opt out.
Anthropic's new three-tier Services Track and Partner Hub give enterprises a credentialed way to find qualified Claude implementation partners.
Anthropic has permanently ruled out advertising in Claude, arguing ad-based incentives are structurally incompatible with a trustworthy AI assistant.
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team mapped 13,873 real attacks to MITRE ATT&CK — and found the framework has no ID for the autonomous agentic behavior defining the highest-risk actors.
ChatGPT can now surface live job listings and help you create, tailor, and download a polished resume — all within a single conversation.
OpenAI's new Dynamic Visual Explanations feature brings interactive, adjustable modules to 70+ math and science topics in ChatGPT.
ChatGPT Sites lets Business and Enterprise teams ask Codex to build, deploy, and host full-stack internal web apps — no deployment pipeline needed.
Claude Code renames its dynamic-workflow trigger to 'ultracode', fixes a Bash parallel batch bug, tidies the MCP panel, and adds OTEL resource-attribute labels.
Claude Code gains filesystem-first plugin loading from .claude/skills, a scaffolding command, autocomplete, and hot-reload — no marketplace needed.
Anthropic brings Claude Mythos Preview to ~150 new orgs in 15+ countries covering power, water, healthcare and more, plus launches Claude Security in public beta.
ChatGPT's new Active Sessions feature lets you see every signed-in session on your account and log out of any you don't recognise.
Codex CLI 0.137.0 closes three command-safety gaps and adds an alpha Windows elevated sandbox provisioning path for admins.
GitHub's standalone Copilot app brings a unified dashboard for managing multiple AI agent sessions, with Agent Merge, sandboxing, and an SDK now GA.
Microsoft open-sourced its Windows Agent Framework, unveiled Project Polaris to replace GPT-4 Turbo in Copilot, and shipped Copilot Workspace as GA at Build 2026.
Microsoft unveiled seven in-house MAI models at Build 2026, cutting reliance on OpenAI with its own reasoning and coding models.
Microsoft IQ — combining Work IQ, Fabric IQ, and the new Web IQ — is now GA across GitHub Copilot, Foundry, and Copilot Studio.
At Build 2026, Microsoft launched Autopilots — always-on autonomous agents with their own Entra identity. Microsoft Scout is first.
OpenAI expands Codex beyond developers with six role-specific plugins, interactive Sites, and in-place Annotations for business teams.
OpenAI switches container billing to per-minute with a 5-minute minimum from June 2, 2026, cutting costs for sessions under 20 minutes.
Anthropic has submitted a confidential S-1 to the SEC, setting up a potential October 2026 IPO at a valuation above $1 trillion.
GitHub Copilot replaced flat premium request units with token-based AI Credits on June 1, 2026. Here's what changed and who it affects most.
Copilot Health entered public preview on May 29, 2026, giving eligible U.S. Microsoft 365 subscribers AI-powered health insights, wearable data, and EHR access.
OpenAI's Rosalind Biodefense program gives vetted developers and U.S. government agencies sponsored access to its frontier life sciences AI model.
Anthropic closes a record $65B Series H at a $965B valuation, overtaking OpenAI as the world's most valuable private AI company.
Anthropic's Dynamic Workflows for Claude Code orchestrate up to 1,000 subagents per run, handling massive migrations and audits that previously took weeks.
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 brings stronger coding, agentic tasks, and professional workflows — at the same price as its predecessor.
Microsoft has redesigned the Microsoft 365 Copilot experience across all M365 apps, with faster load times, smarter context, and a cleaner interface.
OpenAI's engineering blog details how Codex powers self-improving tax agents that processed 7,000 returns with up to 97% accuracy — a reusable blueprint for enterprise AI.
Microsoft's Copilot Studio CUA feature hits GA, letting agents operate any UI like a human, with new workflow tools and real-time voice now live too.
Anthropic's Project Glasswing used Claude Mythos Preview to find over 10,000 high or critical vulnerabilities across critical software in just one month.
ChatGPT Enterprise's Codex app now supports Computer Use on Windows with iOS/Android remote handoff, and a new GitHub Enterprise Server template for on-prem code review.
Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash at I/O 2026 — a model that outperforms the previous Pro tier at 4x the speed, now the default across Search and the Gemini app.
Google's Gemini Omni launches at I/O 2026, replacing Veo in the Gemini app with multimodal video generation and conversational editing from any input type.
Google's Antigravity 2.0 ships as a standalone desktop app with multi-agent orchestration, subagent teamwork preview, and direct Google Cloud enterprise integration.
Google I/O 2026 marked a decisive shift from AI assistants to autonomous agents, with new models, platforms, and consumer tools built around the agentic Gemini era.
Google I/O 2026 brought a redesigned Gemini app with a new UI, a personalised daily summary, and an agentic assistant that works while you sleep.
Google's new Managed Agents API provisions a Gemini-powered agent inside an isolated Linux sandbox in a single API call — no infrastructure required.
Google Search now runs Gemini 3.5 Flash by default in AI Mode, and gains information agents that monitor the web for you continuously.
Google's Universal Cart lets you shop across its entire ecosystem from one persistent, AI-powered cart with smart price tracking and seamless checkout.
OpenAI is combining C2PA metadata and Google SynthID watermarking to help people verify whether an image was generated by OpenAI tools.
Anthropic has acquired Stainless, the startup behind every official Claude SDK and MCP server generator, in a deal reportedly worth over $300M.
OpenAI and Dell have partnered to deploy the Codex AI coding agent inside hybrid and on-prem enterprise infrastructure, a first for OpenAI.
OpenAI launched a personal finance preview for ChatGPT Pro users in the US, letting them link accounts via Plaid and ask questions about their real money.
OpenAI has launched a $4B+ deployment subsidiary and agreed to acquire UK firm Tomoro, placing AI engineers directly inside enterprise organisations.
OpenAI releases three purpose-built voice models in its Realtime API, bringing GPT-5-class reasoning, live translation, and streaming transcription to developers.
Microsoft's Copilot Cowork AI task delegation tool is now available on iOS and Android, letting users hand off work from mobile and pick it up on desktop.
Google's Gemini API File Search gains multimodal support, metadata filtering, and page-level citations, making verifiable RAG practical for real-world mixed content.
OpenAI replaced GPT-5.3 Instant with GPT-5.5 Instant as ChatGPT's default model on May 5, 2026, bringing fewer hallucinations and tighter responses.
Microsoft's first new enterprise licence tier since 2015 bundles E5, Copilot, Entra Suite, and Agent 365 into one platform at $99/user/month.
Microsoft Agent 365 is now GA at $15/user/month, with preview tools to discover and manage shadow AI agents running on employee devices.
Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index finds organisational culture, not tools or people, is what's holding back real AI value — and agents are changing what work looks like.
Microsoft's new in-house AI models for speech, voice, and image generation are now in public preview on Microsoft Foundry — here's what they do and who they're for.
Microsoft's AI execution layer for Microsoft 365, built with Anthropic, has expanded to broader availability through the Frontier early-access program.
Microsoft is reversing its September 2025 decision to offer free Copilot Chat inside Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, with changes taking effect April 15, 2026.
GitHub is defaulting Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users into AI training data collection from April 24. Here's what's changing and how to opt out.
Microsoft announced Agent 365, ZT4AI, and a sweeping set of security updates at RSAC 2026 to help enterprises secure the rise of agentic AI.
Microsoft has released Zero Trust for AI — new tools, architecture, and guidance for securing AI systems across the full lifecycle, from data to agents.
Anthropic is committing $100M and a fivefold team expansion to a new partner program helping enterprises adopt Claude at scale.
OpenAI's Codex Security is now in research preview for Enterprise, Business, and Pro users — an AI agent that scans code, confirms real vulnerabilities, and proposes fixes.
OpenAI's new Codex desktop app lets developers run and manage multiple AI coding agents in parallel, with built-in skills, automations, and Git support.
Microsoft's February 2026 Copilot update brings AI agents, mobile widgets, SharePoint grounding, and new admin controls across Microsoft 365.
Anthropic's new flagship model brings a 1M token context window, multi-agent coordination, and state-of-the-art results on coding and reasoning benchmarks.
Anthropic's Claude Code now integrates with Slack, letting teams trigger full coding sessions from chat threads and receive completed PRs without leaving the app.