ChatGPT Gets Voice on Desktop, Claude Releases New Opus 5 Model

ChatGPT adds voice to its desktop app, Claude launches a powerful new version, and Midjourney makes a surprising acquisition.

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ChatGPTYou can now talk to ChatGPT on your desktop computer.

ChatGPT

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Voice mode is now on the desktop app, letting you talk to it to get things done on your computer.

You can now talk to ChatGPT on your desktop computer.

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On Macs, the new voice feature can also see what's on your screen to help you out.

You can now talk to ChatGPT on your desktop computer.

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OpenAI also released a special keypad with customizable shortcut keys for controlling ChatGPT.

You can now talk to ChatGPT on your desktop computer.

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Claude

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A new, more powerful version called Claude Opus 5 is now available.

A new, more powerful version called Opus 5 is here.

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The company says this new version is much better at handling complex coding requests.

A new, more powerful version called Opus 5 is here.

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An engineer at a trading firm used Opus 5 to build a market data feed for a new exchange in a single session.

Previous models could not complete this task at all, even given extensive plans from the engineer.

Finding no live feed to valida…

Original reportingIntroducing Claude Opus 5Read original ↗

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Midjourney

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Midjourney, the company that makes the popular AI image generator, has bought the astrology app Co-Star.

Midjourney, an AI lab best known for its LLM-powered image and video generators, has acquired the social astrology app Co-Star, according to Bloomberg.

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Midjourney, which has gone from generating AI cat images to full-body ultrasound scans , is getting into a new field: astrology.

The AI startup announced on Thursday that it has acquired the personalized astrology app Co-Star, as reported…

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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

Original reportingThe Making of Claude CodeRead original ↗