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What changes in ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Copilot: new features, plans, prices, availability by country and language support. We also follow Meta AI, Perplexity and Grok, and AI features in the apps you already use. Every story is checked against the vendor's own page.

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OpenAI lets businesses claim their ChatGPT profile and see how often they are mentioned

Through a new Business Hub, a company can verify its profile, keep its details and product prices current, and see aggregated mentions and website clicks. Profiles are open wherever ChatGPT operates. Business Agents, which customers can chat with, are limited to eligible U.S. ecommerce and online service companies.

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Apple opens Siri AI to every developer in a preview inside the 27.3 betas

Apple released a Developer Preview on November 3, 2026, that lets any app connect to Siri AI through App Intents. Apps can expose their own actions and content, combine several actions into skills, and surface any item from the Spotlight semantic index. The feature reaches users in a few months, and App Store submissions open in the spring.

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ChatGPT will end chats fixated on violence and limit weapons information for teens

OpenAI said on October 30, 2026, that ChatGPT will be able to end conversations showing a fixation on violence and may pause accounts where this repeats. Users under 18 will get less practical information about weapons, and a regular safety report begins in early 2027.

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Apple adds MCP support and a built-in AI assistant to Keynote, Pages, and Numbers

Apple's presentation, word processing, and spreadsheet apps will let outside AI agents read, edit, and automate documents through the Model Context Protocol on macOS 27. A built-in assistant comes with it, in beta and in U.S. English only, for Apple Creator Studio subscribers. Existing subscribers get both in a free update in November.

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Apple's 27.2 updates bring Siri AI to French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish

With its 27.2 software updates, Apple has extended Siri AI to five more languages. The feature is still in beta, it is unavailable on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch in the EU, and its server-side features run under daily limits Apple does not disclose. Apple says expanded access will cost a fee in the future. The iOS update also fixes 163 vulnerabilities.

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Gemini on Android Auto can now answer from your Gmail, Calendar, and Photos

Google began rolling out Personal Intelligence on Android Auto on October 20, 2026. With it, Gemini in the car can draw on Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Photos, Google Maps, YouTube, and Search. The feature is off until you turn it on, but if you already enabled it in the Gemini app, it follows you into the car.

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ChatGPT can now lock chats behind a four-digit PIN, but resetting a forgotten PIN deletes them

OpenAI started rolling out locked chats on October 20, 2026. A locked conversation disappears from regular history and search and opens only with an account PIN or a phone's biometric unlock. OpenAI's help page says plainly that this is not encryption, and that resetting a forgotten PIN permanently deletes every locked chat.

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Anthropic closes standalone Claude Design on December 14 without carrying over chats

The standalone Claude Design site at claude.ai/design closes on December 14, 2026, and the address will then lead to Claude. Design systems can be migrated now with one button, but chats with Claude and comments on projects stay behind and are deleted. Anthropic has not yet said how projects will move.

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ChatGPT moves every tier to GPT-6 and starts answering with interactive charts, forms, and tools

OpenAI began rolling out GPT-6 with a feature called Intelligent UI to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise on October 7, 2026, and extends it to the Free and Go tiers from October 8, 2026. Instead of a block of text, a response can now contain tappable buttons, forms, charts, and small interactive tools that the model composes while it writes. Paid tiers run on GPT-6 Sol and free tiers on GPT-6 Luna; the models behind Work and Codex do not change.

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Free Gemini accounts drop to Flash-Lite on October 9, and AI Plus loses Pro

Google's support page lists which Gemini models each plan keeps once the October changes land. Accounts without a subscription get Flash-Lite only, AI Plus keeps Flash but loses Pro, and only AI Pro and AI Ultra keep all three. Every plan gains an effort selector, and the usage meter stays compute-based with a five-hour refresh.

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An open source tool turns off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and deletes its models

RemoveMacAI is an open source command line tool that turns off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27, removes the downloaded models, and blocks macOS from downloading them again. Its author says macOS 27 no longer has a single switch for these features and keeps the models on disk after they are turned off. MacRumors puts the space freed at roughly 12 GB, depending on which models are installed. The first release came out on September 29, 2026, and four more followed by October 5, 2026.

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OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU, and API customers can opt in

OpenAI published its plan for text watermarking on October 5, 2026, in response to the EU AI Act. Over the coming weeks, eligible ChatGPT and Codex text output in the European Union will carry an invisible watermark called textGrain. In the API, watermarking is available worldwide from the same day for select models, and it stays off unless you turn it on. The detector is not public: OpenAI is limiting it to approved researchers and expert organizations.

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OpenAI will test visual ads in ChatGPT during image generation, starting in the US

OpenAI announced a visual ad format for ChatGPT on October 5, 2026. The first test shows image-based ads while ChatGPT generates an image, and it starts later in October in the US with an initial group of advertisers. OpenAI says the ads are clearly labeled, stay separate from the image being created, and do not influence ChatGPT's answers. For advertisers, the same announcement adds conversion tracking through measurement tools they already use.

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Suno opens its Speech beta to everyone, generating a voice and background music as one track

Suno opened the beta of Speech to all users on October 1, 2026. The feature turns a typed idea, poem, or script into spoken audio set to original background music, with the voice and the musical style described in the prompt. Suno calls it the first audio model that generates voice and music together as one track. The announcement gives no price in credits, no length limit, and no list of supported languages.

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Google launches Guided Vision in Gemini Live, a spoken camera guide for blind users

Google launched Guided Vision in Gemini Live on October 1, 2026. You share your phone camera, and Gemini describes what it sees, answers follow-up questions, and tells you how to move the camera when the subject is out of frame. The feature works on Android 9 and above, in the regions and languages where Gemini Live is supported. Google says it is not a mobility aid and is not intended for navigation or obstacle detection.

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Shopify launches Canvas, where merchants build a store theme by chatting with Sidekick

Shopify announced Canvas on October 1, 2026. It is a workspace that shows every page of an online store side by side and lets Sidekick, the company's AI agent, build or change the theme from a description. Shopify says Canvas renders the store's real code, not a static preview. The Help Center lists it as early access for certain stores, on desktop only, and only for Shopify's own themes and custom themes. A theme edited in Canvas stops receiving theme updates and cannot be downloaded, which matters if you build or maintain themes for clients.

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ChatGPT gets Space, Pages, and shared team tasks on Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans

At DevDay on September 29, 2026, OpenAI added a document layer to ChatGPT. Space is a shared workspace for a team, ChatGPT, and the user's dot. Pages is a document type that agents and people edit together. Collaborative slides follow in the coming weeks, with export to PowerPoint and Google Slides. All three are limited to Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans. Business and Enterprise also get teams with scheduled tasks and an @ChatGPT mention in Slack and Microsoft Teams.

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ChatGPT plugins can now run as sidebar apps and react to events from connected tools

OpenAI opened the interface layer it uses for its own ChatGPT features to outside developers. A plugin can now claim a place in the sidebar, open a panel beside a conversation, and act as the viewer for its own file types. A separate MCP Events integration lets a plugin start an automation when something happens in a connected app, which requires MCP 2.0 and webhook delivery. Sign in with ChatGPT lets a Plus or Pro allowance be spent in 16 partner tools.

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OpenAI launches Dots, always-on agents with their own cloud computer, for Pro and Business Premium plans

A dot runs on GPT-6 Astra, has its own cloud computer and browser, and reaches more than 4,000 apps through plugins. It messages you with progress and questions in ChatGPT, Slack, or Teams, and keeps working while you are away. The first dot is included in a Pro or Business Premium plan, and talking to it does not count against ChatGPT limits. Enterprise workspaces get a beta that is off until an administrator turns it on.

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Microsoft's new Copilot app puts Cowork, Code, and Autopilot on usage-based billing

Microsoft introduced a redesigned Copilot app on September 25, 2026, with three tabs: Home, Code, and Autopilot. The per-user license still covers everyday chat and Office work. Cowork, Code, Autopilot, and frontier models such as Fable and Astra are billed by usage in Copilot Credits.

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Claude Tag can now use your own connectors when you ask it something in a Slack channel

Anthropic announced on September 24, 2026, that Claude Tag can use the connectors of the person who makes a request in a Slack channel. Until now it could reach only the connectors an administrator attached to the channel. The feature is rolling out on Team plans, with Enterprise to follow.

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Amazon's Selling Partner plugin connects seller accounts to Claude, in beta for US sellers only

On September 23, 2026, Amazon introduced a Selling Partner plugin that connects a seller's account to Amazon Quick and, in beta, to Anthropic's Claude. The AI tool can read sales and inventory data and take actions such as price changes once the seller approves them. The beta covers only sellers in Amazon's US stores.

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ChatGPT Voice can now use plugins and run Work tasks on the web and on phones

OpenAI changed two things in ChatGPT Voice on September 23, 2026. The Live voice mode can now call the plugins and connected apps on your account, on the web, iOS, and Android. Voice also works inside Work, where it can build documents, presentations, and spreadsheets or operate a browser. Approvals still happen on screen, because spoken approval is not supported.

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Amazon has cut Meta's Muse agent off from shopping on its store

Amazon says it has blocked Meta's Muse from buying on its site for customers, after asking Meta to leave the store out of the product and getting nowhere. Shoppers who send Muse to the site are shown a notice calling it an unauthorized agent and citing Amazon's terms. The objection is not automation: it is that the agent arrived unannounced and does not say who it is while it browses. For anyone building an agent that acts on someone else's site, this is the first clear case fought over terms of service rather than over the federal anti-hacking law.

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Meta's Muse reached the Mac, where the agent acts inside your own files and apps

Meta announced Muse on September 8, 2026 as a personal agent that does things rather than answers questions, and named iOS, Android and the web, with AI glasses still to come. The Mac app arrived nine days later, announced by Alexandr Wang on X rather than through the company newsroom. The difference is not only the platform. Until now Muse worked inside a virtual machine Meta runs, watched by a second agent that has to approve anything leaving for the internet; the Mac app works in files, apps and browser tabs on a machine Meta does not run.

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Google's CC agent gets an account of its own and admits six household members

Google Labs has turned CC, its experimental personal agent, into one that a household shares. The agent now holds its own verified Google account, admits up to six members, and reads only the mail and files each of them hands over. It writes a shared morning brief, keeps the group calendar and task list, and fills in registration PDFs. The experiment is open on web and mobile to people 18 and older in the United States.

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Gemini Spark now runs multi-step jobs on your Google Photos, and it can schedule them to repeat

Google has started making Google Photos available inside Gemini Spark, the mode of the Gemini apps that carries out a task instead of answering a question. One prompt can find photos, enhance copies of them, put them in a new album, and draft an email with the link. The same job can be attached to a schedule and left running in the background. It needs a Google AI Pro or Ultra subscription and a personal account rather than a work or school one, and the Photos part is limited to people 18 or over in the United States, in English.

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ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini all had trouble inside the same two hours on September 3

On September 3, 2026, Anthropic logged elevated errors across Claude Mythos 5.1, Claude Fable 5.1, and Claude Opus 5, OpenAI logged elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex, Grok showed users an error message, and third-party monitors recorded a likely Gemini API interruption. Four independent providers, one morning. No status page names a shared cause, and Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Cloudflare reported nothing major. For anyone whose product calls more than one of these, this is the failure mode that a second provider does not fix.

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Gmail, Docs, and Keep get a voice mode, and which of the three you get depends on your plan

Google announced Gmail Live, Docs Live, and Keep Live on September 3, 2026. All three run on Gemini 3.5 Live: you talk to your inbox instead of typing a search, dictate a document that pulls context from Gmail, Drive, Chat, and the web, or turn a spoken ramble into a structured note. Gmail Live and Keep Live go to Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers, while Docs Live is limited to Pro and Ultra. Business customers on Google Workspace get all three later, and the post gives no date for that.

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ChatGPT for Healthcare now connects to Epic records and nine official public health sources

OpenAI announced an Epic integration and a Healthcare Public Data plugin for ChatGPT for Healthcare on September 1, 2026. A clinician can bring authorized patient context into ChatGPT instead of reading across notes, labs, medications and specialist documentation. The EHR integration is not available to individual accounts. Every accuracy figure in the announcement comes from an evaluation OpenAI itself organized.

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