OpenAI merges Codex into ChatGPT, bringing powerful AI agent capabilities to nearly one billion users while launching six new role-specific plugins targeting industries beyond software development, in a strategic push to transform ChatGPT's identity from conversational chatbot to task-executing powerhouse.
Poke, an AI agent startup valued at $300 million, makes history as the first AI agent approved to run on Apple's iMessage platform, bringing everyday AI assistance for tasks like calendar management and smart home control directly to iPhone users via text message.
OpenAI is rolling out a powerful new 'Dreaming' memory system for ChatGPT that automatically synthesizes and updates user context in the background, giving Plus and Pro subscribers smarter, always-current conversations — with Free users set to gain access in the coming weeks.
Miso Labs launches MisoTTS, an open-source 8-billion-parameter text-to-speech model now live on Hugging Face, featuring voice cloning, highly emotive conversational speech, and built-in audio watermarking for safety.
A new open-source AI hiring agent launches on GitHub, capable of parsing resumes, analyzing GitHub activity, and delivering scored, explainable candidate evaluations using either local Ollama models or Google Gemini for flexible, privacy-conscious deployment.
Slack's Workflow Builder is transforming workplace productivity, now powering over 3 million daily automations and delivering up to 35% time savings, with companies like Wayfair reclaiming 25,000 hours annually and Canva slashing meeting times by over 90% using AI-driven, no-code automation tools.
Sentry launches AI agent integration via its CLI, enabling developers to automatically generate custom dashboards tailored to their codebase by connecting tools like Claude Code, which can build, edit, and delete widgets tracking errors, performance, and user flows without manual configuration.
Google is rolling out a new Search Console toggle giving website owners control over whether their content appears in AI-powered search features, as AI Overviews surpasses 2.5 billion monthly users and AI Mode tops one billion, with new analytics tools tracking content visibility across AI responses.
Meta launches Meta Business Agent, an AI-powered tool providing businesses 24/7 personalized customer support across WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram, while also offering operational insights and a new enterprise platform for large-scale deployment integrating with systems like Shopify and Zendesk.
Google DeepMind launches Gemma 4 12B, a multimodal AI model that runs locally on consumer laptops with just 16GB of VRAM, featuring a groundbreaking encoder-free architecture that processes vision and audio directly through its LLM backbone for lower latency and memory use, available now on Hugging Face and Kaggle under …