August 7, 2026

ChatGPT gets smarter, offers unlimited free chats, and may be building a smart speaker

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ChatGPT's big updates include a smarter free model and a hardware rumor, while Claude gets better at answering health questions.

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ChatGPTChatGPT gets a smarter model and a new hardware rumor.

ChatGPT

The default AI model for all users is now smarter, with better accuracy and consistency.

OpenAI has upgraded the standard AI model in ChatGPT to a version called GPT-5.6 Luna. This means everyone, including free users, will get more accurate and consistent answers for their everyday questions.

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Free users can now have unlimited text chats, without hitting a message limit.

Previously, free users might get cut off after a certain number of messages. Starting next week, OpenAI is removing that limit for text conversations, so you can chat as much as you want without interruption.

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(Reported by The Verge) OpenAI is reportedly working with famous designer Jony Ive on a smart speaker, which could launch next year.

According to reports, OpenAI is developing its first hardware device, a smart speaker. The project is said to be in collaboration with Jony Ive, the designer behind many of Apple's iconic products like the iPhone.

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Claude

The AI is now less likely to mistakenly refuse to answer appropriate questions about biology and health.

Anthropic has adjusted Claude's safety settings to be more helpful. This means you should see fewer incorrect refusals when asking about things like understanding lab results, learning about symptoms, or studying biology.

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We’re making updates to Claude Fable 5’s biology safeguards in a way that substantially reduces false positives.

In practice, users should see far fewer fallbacks on everyday health and educational questions—for example, interpreting lab results, understanding symptoms, and learning about bi.

Perplexity

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

Claude Code

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