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6 updates · 6 appsAugust 27, 2026

Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity and 3 more shipped updates

Also shipped: OpenAI Codex, Cursor and Claude Code.

Perplexity

1 update

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.

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Claude

1 update

Expanded summary · Claude

Accelerate Scientific Discovery: Process and analyze complex datasets, generate hypotheses, and explore new research directions with an AI assistant that understands scientific context.

Enhance Collaboration: Share insights and build on collective knowledge across interdisciplinary teams potentially spanning classified and unclassified projects. Emergency Response: Analyzing data from the National Atmospheric…

Emergency Response: Analyzing data from the National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center (NARAC) to respond to nuclear, radiological, chemical, or biological incidents

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ChatGPT

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Expanded summary · ChatGPT

Brockman now oversees the company’s entire consumer and enterprise product teams, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its major infrastructure build out.

As Hayden recently reported, he is effectively now the day-to-day operational leader of… Absolutely.

There’s never a calm week.

If there’s a calm week coming up, I know something even crazier is coming the next week.

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OpenAI Codex

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Expanded summary · OpenAI Codex

OpenAI is developing a proactive, highly persistent version of its flagship AI agent, Codex , WIRED has learned.

In recent days, OpenAI has started adding code for a new “Persistent mode” setting to its command line version of Codex, according to changes made to the product’s code base reviewed by WIRED. Changes to the Codex command line tool are…

Persistent mode has not been broadly rolled out or announced…

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Cursor

1 update

Expanded summary · Cursor

Cloud Agents no longer require a connected GitHub or other third-party SCM provider to get started. Prompt from the get-go, then save your work to a Cursor Origin repo.

Cloud Agents no longer require a connected GitHub or other third-party SCM provider to get started. Prompt from the get-go, then save your work to a Cursor Origin repo.

Select Start from scratch in the repo picker, then prompt the agent.

In the background, Cursor creates an Origin repo for you.

Original reportingStart from scratch, without a repo · CursorRead original

Claude Code

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Expanded summary · Claude Code

Making Of Claude Code

Discovered from Claude Code sitemap updates.

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