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ChatGPT can now lock chats behind a four-digit PIN, hiding them from history and search
Where locked chats go On October 20, ChatGPT shipped Locked chats. A locked conversation disappears from your regular chat history, pinned list, and search, but is not deleted. To open it you enter t
Claude Duet arrives: not a chat box, a copilot that works while you are away
It is not another chat box On October 21, Anthropic opened a research preview of Claude Duet. It does not follow the ChatGPT pattern of you ask, it answers. Duet is a proactive agent: every morning i
You can now upload audio to ChatGPT — a practical look at what it can and can't do
Two hours in a meeting, your brain is tired and your hands were busy too. The most annoying part after it ends is listening to the recording again to write the minutes.In early October, ChatGPT opened
ChatGPT Slides just landed — what it actually does and where it falls short
You know that feeling. It is Friday afternoon and your boss drops a line: have a deck ready for Monday's meeting. You open a blank presentation tool, stare at the blinking cursor, and cannot write the
Google collapses the office into one Gemini agent, and it wants to be your coworker
On October 8, Google Cloud unveiled something at its yearly event that is more than another chat box: the Gemini agent. It is pitched as a universal agent for work. You hand it an objective, it breaks
GPT-6 Intelligent UI goes wide: the chat box now draws its own buttons
On October 7, OpenAI pushed Intelligent UI to everyone On October 7, OpenAI began rolling out GPT-6 together with Intelligent UI to all ChatGPT users. Paid tiers (Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise) got
Gemini 4 Argon ships: the benchmark is not the story, the guardrail-free release to vetted defenders is
Google stayed quiet for seven months and came back not faster but bolder On September 30, Google released Gemini 4 Argon, its first frontier model in more than seven months. The most memorable thing t
GPT-6 Astra changes more than the benchmark: the bill and the audit trail
On September 3, OpenAI shipped "the strongest ever" again This one is called GPT-6 Astra. The official line is "our most capable and best-aligned model yet," positioned as an AGI-grade autonomous agen
Anthropic Split Its Flagship in Two: Fable 5.1 Cuts Costs 25%, and the Real News Is the Bill
The new models shipped September 1. The benchmark bump is not the point. Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 that day. The press kit talks about benchmark gains, as usual. The d
Runway Turned the Interface Into Video: Solaris Is Here, and Designers Feel It First
The interface is no longer a design file. It is a video being generated. On August 31, Runway released Solaris. It is not "another AI that writes front-end code for you." Runway calls it the first of
Alibaba's Wan3.0 Doubles Video Length to 30s, but the Real Move Is Doc-to-Video
Alibaba doubled the clip length to 30 seconds. The length is not the point. You make short videos. The annoying part? A single shot gets cut off at 15 seconds, so telling a complete story means stitc
DeepSeek Ships V4-Flash-Vision-Exp: Eyes for Flash at No Extra Cost
Eyes for the cheap Flash On August 21, DeepSeek quietly added a new model to its API: V4-Flash-Vision-Exp. The name is long and tagged experimental. But what it does is simple: it gives the July 31 V4