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4 updates · 4 appsAugust 25, 2026

Claude is now less cautious with health questions

Also shipped: ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude Code.

Claude

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Expanded summary · Claude

The app is now less likely to refuse to answer questions about health, science, and biology.

Previously, Claude's smartest version would sometimes get overly cautious and switch to a less helpful mode for health-related topics. They've adjusted the safety settings so you'll get high-quality answers more often without being blocked unnecessarily.

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…

Original reportingImproving Fable 5 SafeguardsRead original

ChatGPT

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Expanded summary · ChatGPT

Ambrosino works on OpenAI’s biggest bet, ChatGPT Work, which was released last month and is available on the company’s lowest subscription tier, for $20 a month.

Getting the most value from a model means giving it the keys.

For a control freak or the…

Original reportingOpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them? | TechCrunchRead original

Perplexity

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Expanded summary · Perplexity

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.

Original reportingChangelogRead original

Claude Code

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Expanded summary · 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 Making of Claude Code

Original reportingThe Making of Claude CodeRead original