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OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Work and Folds Codex Into One Desktop App
AI Tools

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Work and Folds Codex Into One Desktop App

ChatGPT Work is an agent that operates across your apps and files for hours to deliver finished documents, spreadsheets, and web apps. OpenAI also merged Codex into a unified desktop app and began sunsetting the Atlas browser.

Jul 10, 20265 min read
Microsoft Quietly Routes Excel and Outlook AI Prompts to Its Own MAI Models
Big Tech

Microsoft Quietly Routes Excel and Outlook AI Prompts to Its Own MAI Models

Microsoft has begun silently redirecting AI prompts inside Excel and Outlook from OpenAI and Anthropic to its in-house MAI models, aiming to cut what AI chief Mustafa Suleyman called a very large bill to Anthropic.

Jul 9, 20264 min read
SharePoint RCE Flaw CVE-2026-45659 Confirmed Under Active Attack, Added to CISA's KEV List
Cybersecurity

SharePoint RCE Flaw CVE-2026-45659 Confirmed Under Active Attack, Added to CISA's KEV List

A CVSS 8.8 deserialization bug in on-prem SharePoint Server lets an authenticated Site Member run code remotely. Microsoft called exploitation unlikely in May — CISA says it's already happening.

Jul 9, 20264 min read
npm v12 Ships This Month, Blocking the Install Scripts That Fueled a Year of Supply Chain Attacks
Developer Tools

npm v12 Ships This Month, Blocking the Install Scripts That Fueled a Year of Supply Chain Attacks

npm's biggest security redesign in 16 years disables preinstall/install/postinstall scripts and remote/Git dependencies by default. Here's what to run before the upgrade breaks your build.

Jul 9, 20264 min read
OpenAI Replaces Advanced Voice Mode With Full-Duplex GPT-Live-1
AI Tools

OpenAI Replaces Advanced Voice Mode With Full-Duplex GPT-Live-1

OpenAI launched GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini, voice models that speak and listen at once and route complex queries to its reasoning models. The mini version is now ChatGPT's default voice.

Jul 9, 20264 min read
Meta Launches Muse Image, an Agentic AI Image Generator, in Instagram and WhatsApp
AI Models

Meta Launches Muse Image, an Agentic AI Image Generator, in Instagram and WhatsApp

Meta Superintelligence Labs shipped Muse Image, a text-to-image model with tool-calling and search grounding, ranking #2 on Arena. A Muse Video preview with native audio is coming next.

Jul 9, 20264 min read
Nvidia Launches Vera CPU: 88 Cores Built to Win the Agentic AI Bottleneck
Hardware

Nvidia Launches Vera CPU: 88 Cores Built to Win the Agentic AI Bottleneck

Nvidia's new Vera CPU bets on single-threaded performance, not raw core count, claiming 1.8x the throughput of x86 rivals on agentic workloads. A successor codenamed Rosa is already on the roadmap.

Jul 9, 20265 min read
China Quietly Lets Alibaba, ByteDance, and DeepSeek Buy Nvidia H200 Chips Again
Hardware

China Quietly Lets Alibaba, ByteDance, and DeepSeek Buy Nvidia H200 Chips Again

Beijing is reversing its own domestic-purchase restrictions on Nvidia H200 GPUs, reopening a channel it closed in response to US export controls. Nvidia shares climbed on the news.

Jul 9, 20264 min read
Claude Cowork Leaves the Desktop: Anthropic Brings Its Agent to Mobile and Web
AI Tools

Claude Cowork Leaves the Desktop: Anthropic Brings Its Agent to Mobile and Web

Anthropic expanded Claude Cowork beyond the desktop app to web and iOS/Android, letting tasks start on a laptop and finish on a phone. Usage data shows 90%+ of Cowork sessions aren't coding at all.

Jul 9, 20264 min read

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