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July 16, 2026

ChatGPT launches its first hardware, Claude integrates with Slack and Microsoft Office

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ChatGPT enters the hardware game with a new keyboard, while Claude gets major workflow upgrades for Slack and Microsoft Office.

ChatGPT

ChatGPT

OpenAI is now selling its first-ever hardware product: a special $230 keyboard for its coding assistant.

OpenAI is now selling its first hardware product, a keyboard.

ChatGPT

The 'Codex Micro' keyboard has light-up keys to show what the AI is doing, plus custom buttons and a joystick for shortcuts.

OpenAI is now selling its first hardware product, a keyboard.

ChatGPT

Thinking Machines Lab Drops Its First Model

Thinking Machines Lab, an artificial intelligence company started by exiles from OpenAI , has released its first model, called Inkling. The startup’s new model is open-weight, which means that researchers and startups will be able to downl… | In a a blog post , the company says Inkling was trained from scratch to make sense of audio and video input as well as text. It says that while Inkling isn’t the best model on… Thinking Machines Lab, an artificial intelligence company started by exiles from OpenAI , has released its first model, called Inkling. The startup’s new model is open-weight, which means that researchers and startups will be able to downl… In a a blog post , the company says Inkling was trained from scratch to make sense of audio and video input as well as text. It says that while Inkling isn’t the best model on popular benchmarks, it performs well at many tasks, and is capa… In a sign of how AI models are increasingly being used to build AI , the lab used Inkling to…

Source · wired.com
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Claude

Claude

You can now bring Claude into any Slack conversation just by typing '@Claude' to ask it for help.

Claude gets a new Slack integration and Microsoft Office tools.

Claude

The app now works inside Microsoft Office programs like Excel, PowerPoint, and Word to help you with your documents.

Claude gets a new Slack integration and Microsoft Office tools.

Claude

For people working in finance, Claude has added ten new ready-to-use helpers for common tasks.

Claude gets a new Slack integration and Microsoft Office tools.

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

Grok

Grok

News Close News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All News

News Close News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All News | Emma Roth Close Emma Roth News Writer Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All by Emma Roth | The Elon Musk-owned xAI is suing a South Carolina man who allegedly used the company’s Grok AI chatbot to generate child sex… News Close News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All News Emma Roth Close Emma Roth News Writer Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All by Emma Roth The Elon Musk-owned xAI is suing a South Carolina man who allegedly used the company’s Grok AI chatbot to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM). In a lawsuit reported earlier by Reuters , xAI claims Terry Wayne Harwood “knowingly and… News Close News Posts from this topic will…

Source · xAI sues a man for using Grok to generate CSAM ‘deepfakes’
Source · xAI sues a man for using Grok to generate CSAM ‘deepfakes’

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

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Source · The Making of Claude Code