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August 7, 2026

ChatGPT gets smarter, offers unlimited free chats, and may be building a smart speaker

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ChatGPT's big updates include a smarter free model and a hardware rumor, while Claude gets better at answering health questions.

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ChatGPT

ChatGPT

The default AI model for all users is now smarter, with better accuracy and consistency.

OpenAI has upgraded the standard AI model in ChatGPT to a version called GPT-5.6 Luna. This means everyone, including free users, will get more accurate and consistent answers for their everyday questions. ChatGPT introduces improved GPT-5.6 Sol with better accuracy and consistency, plus expanded access for free users and unlimited everyday chats with GPT-5.6 Luna. ChatGPT gets a smarter model and a new hardware rumor.

Source · Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT—and expanding access to GPT-5.6 Luna for free users
Source · Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT—and expanding access to GPT-5.6 Luna for free users

ChatGPT

Free users can now have unlimited text chats, without hitting a message limit.

Previously, free users might get cut off after a certain number of messages. Starting next week, OpenAI is removing that limit for text conversations, so you can chat as much as you want without interruption. 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 making a big change for ChatGPT users on its free and Go tiers: Starting next week, users on those tiers will be able to have unlimited text chats with the chatbot, according to OpenAI . Right now, you may run into rate limits if… | Next week, OpenAI is also adding a “Think” b… 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 making a big change for ChatGPT users on its free and Go tiers: Starting next week, users on those tiers will be able to have unlimited text chats with the chatbot, according to OpenAI . Right now, you may run into rate limits…

Source · OpenAI is giving ChatGPT free users unlimited text chats
Source · OpenAI is giving ChatGPT free users unlimited text chats

ChatGPT

(Reported by The Verge) OpenAI is reportedly working with famous designer Jony Ive on a smart speaker, which could launch next year.

According to reports, OpenAI is developing its first hardware device, a smart speaker. The project is said to be in collaboration with Jony Ive, the designer behind many of Apple's iconic products like the iPhone. News Close News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All News | Stevie Bonifield Close Stevie Bonifield News Writer Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All by Stevie Bonifield | The “doughnut-shaped” device could cost more than $300 when it launches next year, according to Bloombe… News Close News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All News Stevie Bonifield Close Stevie Bonifield News Writer Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All by Stevie Bonifield The “doughnut-shaped” device could cost more than…

Source · Jony Ive’s first OpenAI gadget is reportedly a hockey puck-sized smart speaker
Source · Jony Ive’s first OpenAI gadget is reportedly a hockey puck-sized smart speaker
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Claude

Claude

The AI is now less likely to mistakenly refuse to answer appropriate questions about biology and health.

Anthropic has adjusted Claude's safety settings to be more helpful. This means you should see fewer incorrect refusals when asking about things like understanding lab results, learning about symptoms, or studying biology. We’re making updates to Claude Fable 5’s biology safeguards in a way that substantially reduces false positives. Fable 5 users will now experience many fewer “fallbacks”—where the system switches to a less capable model after they make a b… | In practice, users should see far fewer fallbacks on everyday health and educational questions—for example, interpreting lab results, understanding symptoms, and learning about… We’re making updates to Claude Fable 5’s biology safeguards in a way that substantially reduces false positives. Fable 5 users will now experience many fewer “fallbacks”—where the system switches to a less capable model after they make a b… In practice, users should see far fewer fallbacks on everyday health and educational questions—for example,………

Source · Improving Fable 5 Safeguards
Source · Improving Fable 5 Safeguards

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