Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5, a powerful AI model rivaling its flagship Fable 5 with enhanced cybersecurity safeguards, improved coding capabilities, and competitive pricing at $5 input and $25 output per million tokens — half the cost of Fable 5 and undercutting OpenAI's GPT-5.6.
OpenAI launches hands-free voice control for coding tools in its ChatGPT desktop app, letting paid subscribers on macOS and Windows use continuous voice commands to debug, review pull requests, and generate unit tests simultaneously through integrated GPT-Live full-duplex capabilities.
Anthropic upgrades Claude's voice mode with access to more powerful Sonnet and Opus AI models, app integrations with Gmail and Slack, and expanded language support, though it still lacks fully duplex processing found in rival OpenAI's GPT-Live.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health for all U.S. users 18+ across free and paid plans, integrating personal medical data as weekly health queries hit a record 300 million, even as the company faces legal scrutiny over a potentially dangerous medical suggestion.
Yelp partners with OpenAI to bring real-time local reviews and business data directly into ChatGPT, a bold distribution bet that echoes — and risks repeating — the company's complicated and ultimately adversarial history with Google.
OpenAI and Anthropic simultaneously launch major voice AI upgrades, integrating hands-free control and third-party connectivity into their flagship products as both companies race to dominate voice as AI's next big frontier ahead of anticipated IPOs.
Claude's voice mode receives a major upgrade, now powered by smarter Opus and Sonnet models, integrated with apps like Gmail, Slack, and Google Calendar for real-time actions, and expanded to support multiple languages including Hindi, Japanese, and Korean, with seamless mid-conversation language switching.
Google launches Gemini Spark, a revolutionary 24/7 AI agent that autonomously manages Gmail, Drive, Calendar, and more across complex multi-step tasks — even when your devices are completely off.
Substack partners with AI-detection tool Pangram to help users identify AI-generated content, giving creators tools to scan drafts, dispute incorrect results, and add transparency disclosures, as the platform's CEO warns that AI-written content disguised as human work erodes trust and threatens writers' livelihoods.
A critical flaw dubbed 'AgentForger' in ChatGPT's Workspace Agents builder allows attackers to hijack AI agents via a single phishing link, silently connecting to victims' Outlook, Gmail, Slack, and Teams accounts while installing persistent attacker-controlled schedules — OpenAI patches the vulnerability within four days, but researchers warn the full damage …