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Shipped August 20 across iMessage, SMS and RCS, available on every tier including free, working inside ChatGPT Work and Codex modes, Apple silicon only. Sending requires per-message approval, but enabling it requires Full Disk Access plus contacts and automation permissions. r/ChatGPT That's the entire local message archive handed to a cloud model, and the per-message send approval is doing very little work against the read path. The r/ChatGPT thread ran 214 upvotes with privacy front and center.
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Shipped August 13 to Pro, Business and Enterprise: ChatGPT and Codex can draw on activity memories from apps and websites on macOS, with per-app opt-in and review or delete controls. OpenAI This is Cursor's Google Workspace connector move, but reaching down to OS-level activit...
The Verge reports OpenAI is building a desktop superapp merging ChatGPT, Codex, and its Atlas AI browser into a single application. OpenAI consolidating surface area rather than maintaining separate products — competing directly with OS-level integrations from Microsoft and Ap...
milind-soni/OpenMausBot (724 stars since August 11, Electron + React 19, MIT) makes each sidebar bot a real local Claude or Codex agent with its own personality, model, cloud computer, and connected apps, with approval gates. Distributes as a signed notarized one-click .dmg fo...
Waishnav/devspace (4,247 stars, v1.0.8 August 25) runs a local Node server exposing read, edit, search and shell execution over MCP, reached through a reverse proxy tunnel like Cloudflare or ngrok, with password-gated owner approval per client. The pitch is turning ChatGPT int...
Core services failed worldwide on the morning of July 25, with 503s carrying the internal label biscuit_baker_service_me_circuit_open and saved conversation history disappearing for many accounts. Downdetector peaked around 1,535 reports, roughly 80% against ChatGPT, 8% each a...
OpenClaw tagged v2026.8.1 at 03:30 UTC this morning. The release post counts 933 contributors, 569 of them first-time, and more than 16,000 pull requests, roughly half of every PR ever merged into the project, after a seven-week gap against a prior cadence of 106 releases in 2...
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