April 24, 2026
Claude, ChatGPT, OpenAI Codex and 1 more shipped updates
Full archive memo · 4 app sections.
Also shipped: DeepSeek.
OpenAI Codex
Try these 10 prompts to move real work forward with dashboards, decks, workflows, and more.
You’ve seen what Codex can do. Now it’s time to put it to work.
Set up a weekday heartbeat called “Morning Work Brief” that starts at 8:30 AM local time and keeps checking throughout the workday.
Claude
NEC Corporation will use Claude as it builds one of Japan’s largest AI-native engineering organizations, making it available to approximately 30,000 NEC Group employees worldwide.
In addition, NEC is already integrating Claude into its Security Operations Center services to help defend customers against increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity threats.
Anthropic and NEC partner to build AI-native engineering at scale in Japan
ChatGPT
OpenAI on Thursday released GPT-5.5 , its newest AI model, which the company calls its “smartest and most intuitive to use model” yet.
On a call with journalists, Brockman said that the new model was a big advancement “towards more agentic and intuitive computing.”
8220;This model is a real step forward towards the kind of computing that we expect in the future — but it is one step, and we expect to see many in the future,” Brockman sa.
DeepSeek
Try it now at chat.deepseek.com via Expert Mode / Instant Mode. API is updated & available today!
Enhanced Agentic Capabilities: Open-source SOTA in Agentic Coding benchmarks. 🔹 Rich World Knowledge: Leads all current open models, trailing only Gemini-3.1-Pro.
Reasoning capabilities closely approach V4-Pro. 🔹 Performs on par with V4-Pro on simple Agent tasks.