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July 10, 2026

ChatGPT launches powerful GPT-5.6 and new 'Work' assistant

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ChatGPT gets a major upgrade with GPT-5.6 and a new 'Work' assistant, while Claude launches a 'Wrapped' feature to review your chats.

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ChatGPTChatGPT gets a major upgrade and a new 'Work' assistant.

ChatGPT

ChatGPT

You can now use a more powerful version of the app, called GPT-5.6, which is available for free on the desktop app.

News Close News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All News | To celebrate, OpenAI also unveiled a new AI agent on the same day: ChatGPT Work. It’s billed as a combination of ChatGPT and Codex, allowing the everyday non-technical user to take advantage of Codex’s capabilities for non-coding tasks, an… | Mac and Windows users worldwide, including f… News Close News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All News To celebrate, OpenAI also unveiled a new AI agent on the same day: ChatGPT Work. It’s billed as a combination of ChatGPT and Codex, allowing the everyday non-technical user to take advantage of Codex’s capabilities for non-coding tasks, an… Mac and Windows users worldwide, including free ChatGPT users, should have immediate access to ChatGPT Work and GPT-5.6 via the ChatGPT desktop app. On mobile and the web, Pro, Enterprise, and Edu users…

Source · OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.6 and announces ‘ChatGPT Work’ (reported by The Verge)
Source · OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.6 and announces ‘ChatGPT Work’ (reported by The Verge)

ChatGPT

A new feature called 'ChatGPT Work' helps you with tasks, even if you don't know how to code.

News Close News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All News | OpenAI is already shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its browser that could do tasks for you on your behalf, less than a year after launching it. Atlas was announced in October , but as part of its wave of news about ChatGPT Work today , the com… | The shutdown follows OpenAI’s push to reduce… News Close News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All News OpenAI is already shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its browser that could do tasks for you on your behalf, less than a year after launching it. Atlas was announced in October , but as part of its wave of news about ChatGPT Work today , the com… The shutdown follows OpenAI’s push to reduce “side quests” and catch up with Anthropic on productivity features . As part of that push, in March, The Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI planned to…

Source · The ChatGPT browser is already dead (reported by The Verge)
Source · The ChatGPT browser is already dead (reported by The Verge)

ChatGPT

The separate 'Atlas' browser feature is being shut down, with its abilities moving into the main app.

Learn how GPT-5.6 powers Microsoft 365 Copilot with stronger AI capabilities across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Chat, and Cowork for faster, higher-quality work. ChatGPT gets a major upgrade and a new 'Work' assistant.

Source · GPT-5.6 is now the preferred model in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Source · GPT-5.6 is now the preferred model in Microsoft 365 Copilot
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Claude

Claude

The app now has a 'reflect' feature that gives you a summary of your usage, similar to Spotify Wrapped.

News Close News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All News | The popularity of Spotify Wrapped has kicked off a wide range of year-in-review features, on apps from YouTube to Uber — and now, the lookback trend has come to AI. Anthropic on Thursday announced a “reflect” feature for its Claude chatbot… | Anthropic has spent a lot of money marketing… News Close News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All News The popularity of Spotify Wrapped has kicked off a wide range of year-in-review features, on apps from YouTube to Uber — and now, the lookback trend has come to AI. Anthropic on Thursday announced a “reflect” feature for its Claude chatbot… Anthropic has spent a lot of money marketing itself as the company behind an “AI collaborator” that allows people to think more deeply — there have been ads , billboards , and even literal “thinking”…

Source · Say hello to Claude Wrapped (reported by The Verge)
Source · Say hello to Claude Wrapped (reported by The Verge)

Perplexity

Perplexity

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

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 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 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 Kimi K2.7 Code — perplexity/kimi-k2.7-code , Moonshot AI’s coding and agentic model. | Grok 4.3 and the…

Source · Changelog
Source · Changelog

Claude Code

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 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 inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by… The Making of Claude Code

Source · The Making of Claude Code
Source · The Making of Claude Code