ChatGPT launches powerful GPT-5.6 and new 'Work' assistant

ChatGPT gets a major upgrade with GPT-5.6 and a new 'Work' assistant, while Claude launches a 'Wrapped' feature to review your chats.

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ChatGPTChatGPT gets a major upgrade and a new 'Work' assistant.

ChatGPT

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You can now use a more powerful version of the app, called GPT-5.6, which is available for free on the desktop app.

To celebrate, OpenAI also unveiled a new AI agent on the same day: ChatGPT Work.

Mac and Windows users worldwide, including free ChatGPT users, should have immediate access to ChatGPT Work and GPT-5.6 via the ChatGPT desktop app.

Original reportingOpenAI rolls out GPT-5.6 and announces ‘ChatGPT Work’ (reported by The Verge)Read original ↗

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A new feature called 'ChatGPT Work' helps you with tasks, even if you don't know how to code.

OpenAI is already shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its browser that could do tasks for you on your behalf, less than a year after launching it.

As part of that push, in March, The Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI planned to combine the ChatGPT app, Codex, and A…

Original reportingThe ChatGPT browser is already dead (reported by The Verge)Read original ↗

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The separate 'Atlas' browser feature is being shut down, with its abilities moving into the main app.

Learn how GPT-5.6 powers Microsoft 365 Copilot with stronger AI capabilities across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Chat, and Cowork for faster, higher-quality work.

Original reportingGPT-5.6 is now the preferred model in Microsoft 365 CopilotRead original ↗

Claude

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The app now has a 'reflect' feature that gives you a summary of your usage, similar to Spotify Wrapped.

Anthropic on Thursday announced a “reflect” feature for its Claude chatbot…

Say hello to Claude Wrapped

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Perplexity

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Kimi K2.7 Code — perplexity/kimi-k2.7-code , Moonshot AI’s coding and agentic model.

Grok 4.3 and the Grok 4.20 family — xai/grok-4.3, xai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning, and xai/grok-4.20-multi-agent.

Smart media selection: Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type

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Claude Code

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The inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by researchers, engineers and early users who built it.

The Making of Claude Code

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