OpenAI turns the price dial on its top model again: $4 instead of $5 per million input tokens, $20 instead of $30 on output. For three months, and pretty clearly meant as a message to Anthropic's Opus 5.
A small release with two points: Claude Code can now answer briefly out of the box if you want it to. And a caching bug that served stale prompts on custom gateways is gone.
The old Workbench is history, and its replacement is called Playground. It handles every Messages API parameter, ships with ready-made templates, and shows the full SDK request and response for each run.
On the Claude Developer Platform, three features drop their beta headers. Files API, Agent Skills, and admin user management are now generally available – plus a few new controls for Managed Agents.
Google is replacing the side panel in Google Chat with 'Ask Gemini.' Search, draft, catch up on missed conversations, manage tasks – all in one spot. Rollout starts August 26.
OpenAI is bringing ads to ChatGPT in Europe. Starting next week in 31 countries, Germany included. Only Free and Go users are affected - if you pay, you stay ad-free.
OpenAI shipped an Apple Messages plugin for the ChatGPT desktop app. On Apple Silicon Macs, ChatGPT can search iMessage, SMS, and RCS, catch you up on threads, and prepare replies – sending only after you approve.
Anthropic launched a free learning hub – built on the same playbook it uses to onboard its own people. Courses, badges, and a focus on mindset over prompt tricks.