Val Town's July 2026 community roundup highlights user-built vals, including Mitch Jacovetty's three-headed hydra experiment, Vincent Termini's AI-slop linter, and Paul Chin Jr.'s lava lamp fluid simu…
OpenAI cut API prices for GPT-5.6 Terra by 20% and GPT-5.6 Luna by 80% on July 30, listing Terra at $2 per million input tokens and $12 per million output tokens, and Luna at $0.20 and $1.20, respecti…
OpenAI Group PBC today launched ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, a program giving 100,000 scientists free access to advanced ChatGPT features as part of a $250 million initiative to support scientifi…
Codex will restore a five-hour usage limit tomorrow after temporarily pausing it while investigating why GPT-5.6 Sol was consuming usage faster than expected. Codex says it has landed several improvem…
OpenAI's agent harness, the technology underneath its Codex coding agent, has been optimized to slash token costs by up to 80%, according to an exclusive interview with OpenAI engineers. The harness n…
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work on July 9, 2026, an enterprise agentic capability powered by GPT-5.6 that turns ChatGPT into a multi-step workflow assistant operating under organizational controls. The t…
OpenAI's Codex and ChatGPT Work have reached 10 million combined users less than two weeks after the July 9 launch of ChatGPT Work, with monthly active users up more than 10x from January 2026, accord…
OpenAI slashed the Max-tier reasoning budget on its newly launched GPT-5.6 Sol from 960 to 128 — an 87% cut — four days after launch without any announcement, then called it an experiment when develop…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 model family, previewed in late June to government-vetted partners and fully released on July 9, includes three variants—Sol, Terra, and a third—with a 1.05-million-token context wind…
OpenAI is reportedly building a 'Places' feature for ChatGPT to help users explore locations, check weather, and plan travel, according to a report from Tom's Guide. The feature would provide restaura…
OpenAI's ChatGPT Work materials raise enterprise questions about automation, governance, and rollout. The research identifies official OpenAI documentation covering capabilities, governance, and enter…
Meta AI can now schedule tasks, connect to Gmail and Google Calendar, create slides, and handle recurring work, powered by the Muse Spark 1.1 model with a 1 million token context window. The feature r…
OpenAI on Thursday updated its ChatGPT desktop app to support ChatGPT Voice, allowing users to control AI agents and perform tasks on their computer using voice commands. The feature taps OpenAI's new…
Google's Gemini Spark AI agent is now available to U.S. users on the $20/month Google AI Pro tier and globally on the $100/month Google AI Ultra tier, but remains unavailable in the EEA, UK, Switzerla…
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Voice for desktop, extending its GPT Live voice technology to PC users and enabling hands-free, conversational task completion while coding or working in other apps. The fe…
OpenAI announced on July 23, 2026, that ChatGPT Voice is now available in its desktop app, enabling users to control their computer and direct multiple agents running in ChatGPT Work or Codex using vo…
OpenAI Group PBC today introduced Presence, a product that enterprises can use to build artificial intelligence agents, and is already using it to power its own call center where it processes about 75…
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Work, a packaged offering for small businesses that provides native workflow automation and skill-building tools, signaling a push to standardize AI adoption below the ente…
OpenAI's Codex and ChatGPT Work have crossed 10 million weekly active users, nearly doubling since early July, according to Bloomberg. The combined figure, reported July 21, reflects rapid adoption af…
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work, a productivity layer powered by GPT-5.6 that automates multi-step tasks across apps like Slack, Google Drive, and Microsoft Teams, targeting over 5 million business users…