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Release 26.715 (July 23) added GPT-Live-powered ChatGPT Voice, letting you start a task in voice mode and then verbally start, check, or steer work running in other threads across Chat, Work, and Codex. Same release expanded local projects to multiple folders, with a designated primary folder handling new chats and Git operations while secondary folders stay searchable and editable. This lands the same week Karpathy described rambling into voice mode as his preferred way to instruct models. The input layer for multi-agent supervision is converging on unstructured speech, which I find slightly alarming and completely plausible.
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On July 9 the standalone Codex app merged into ChatGPT desktop for macOS and Windows, keeping a dedicated coding surface alongside Chat and Work modes, plus inline diff editing, side-panel PR review, faster Computer Use on GPT-5.6, and multi-repository projects. The tiering: S...
Four frontier models. Five sealed engineering problems. The result everybody will quote is that Claude Fable 5 won. The result that should actually change how you work is buried three-quarters down the page. JuliaHub published an evaluation on July 30 running four frontier mod...
TechCrunch reports the July 23 macOS and Windows rollout, built on ChatGPT-Live. It drives ChatGPT Work and Codex, so you can direct several agents simultaneously by voice, and macOS "Appshots" let it read the frontmost window including alt-text. Global rollout to Plus, Pro, B...
Releasebot lists migration of settings, MCP servers, plugins, sessions, commands, and project-scoped memories, plus stabilized multi-agent V2 with per-subagent models, reasoning levels and concurrency, and Bedrock login with GPT-5.6 Sol as default. The migration path is the no...
The July 18 release notes bundle fixes that restore the full window, which means it had been silently degraded for some unspecified period. If you benchmarked those models in Codex over the past few weeks and found long-context performance underwhelming, you may have been meas...
GPT-5.6 Luna went to $0.20 input / $1.20 output per million tokens on July 30. That's an 80% cut. Terra dropped 20%. Luna's input now undercuts Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite ($0.25/$1.50) and sits at one-fifth of Claude Haiku 4.5's $1 input. Simon Willison covered the announcement and...
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