Upgrades
What actually shipped, and whether you can use it. Every entry is compiled from the vendor's own changelog, release notes or help pages, and says which plan, tier or region it names — or that it names none. Things going away are listed alongside things arriving, because those are the ones that cost you an afternoon.
29 entries across 1 week
Week of 4 Sept 2026 28 Aug 2026 – 3 Sept 2026
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NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000. Not closed. NVIDIA states the platform stays open and that its compute will not be required to build or deploy there.
Who can use it No change to Hugging Face today.
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Ask Slackbot to make images, video, designs and PDFs with 70+ Adobe tools, using files already in the channel.
Who can use it Slack Business+ and Enterprise+ only.
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New top-end Claude model for coding, knowledge work and long-running agents.
Who can use it API and the cloud resellers. On claude.ai: not on Free; Pro via usage credits, Max, Team and Enterprise included.
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Re-reading context you have already sent costs $0.25 per million tokens. Anthropic estimates ~25% off typical bills and ~45% off heavy agent workloads.
Who can use it Anyone billed by token. Input and output prices unchanged.
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Cursor's cloud agents run commands and edit files on machines you control, so code and secrets stay in your network.
Who can use it My Machines on individual accounts. Team Pools require Enterprise.
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DeepSeek's first experimental model that reads images as well as text, published as downloadable weights.
Who can use it Open weights, ungated, MIT licence (~168GB). Paid API endpoint also available.
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Copilot judges whether a change is ready and, if an admin allows it, formally approves it toward required-approvals.
Who can use it Public preview on Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, Enterprise. Approval is off by default.
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New model for coding and multi-step agents, at 3.7 Flash's speed and price.
Who can use it Consumers on AI Pro and Ultra — not the free tier. Developers at $0.75/$3.75 per million, rising to $1.50/$7.50 on 1 Jan 2027.
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The model picks which parts of a video to watch instead of sampling every frame, cutting token use by up to 88%.
Who can use it Developers now, in AI Studio and the Gemini API. Standard token pricing.
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Talk to Gmail to find things, to Docs to draft by voice, to Keep to turn spoken notes into structured ones.
Who can use it Gmail and Keep Live on AI Plus, Pro and Ultra. Docs Live on Pro and Ultra only. Workspace business not yet.
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Typing suggestions no longer appear in Word and Outlook unless you switch them on.
Who can use it Word web, Windows, Android, iOS and classic Outlook. Applies to free and paid alike.
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Document OCR with paragraph-level bounding boxes, block labels and per-block confidence scores.
Who can use it Mistral API. A Premier commercial model — pay-per-use; self-deployment needs a commercial licence.
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One switch turns off every AI feature in Firefox, present and future, with individual toggles beneath it.
Who can use it Free, all Firefox users.
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Finds other PCs on your home network and spreads AI work across them instead of queuing on one graphics card.
Who can use it Free and open-source beta. Windows, macOS, Linux. Needs RTX 20-series or newer, an RTX PRO GPU, a DGX Spark, or an Apple M4 or newer. Works with Ollama and LM Studio.
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Attach more than one Gmail, Calendar and Contacts account, so work and personal appear in one conversation.
Who can use it Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise. Not Free.
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ChatGPT can use tools a website publishes via WebMCP, without you connecting anything.
Who can use it ChatGPT Work and Codex, desktop app's built-in browser only — not the Chrome extension.
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Mention open tabs as context or hand ChatGPT a browser task from those browsers.
Who can use it Desktop app users. Side chat works in Edge, Brave and Vivaldi but not Opera.
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Splits a task between a cloud model and one running on your Mac, with an on-device gate that masks sensitive file content before anything leaves.
Who can use it Pro, Max and Enterprise. Apple silicon, macOS 15+, 24GB unified memory minimum.
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Caps what each team member can spend on models per day, week or month, so one runaway agent cannot drain the budget.
Who can use it Needs CLI 59.6.2+. Keys made before this release are attributed to the team, not the person — rotate them or budgets will not apply.
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Security model for finding and patching vulnerabilities.
Who can use it Not generally available. Fairwind programme only — governments, national cyber authorities, critical infrastructure and core platforms.
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OpenAI's most capable model, and the first it rates Critical for cybersecurity capability under its own Preparedness Framework — meaning, in OpenAI's words, that it can find previously unknown security flaws and develop new ways to exploit them across well-protected systems without a person guiding each step. 1,050,000-token context, knowledge cutoff 30 April 2026.
Who can use it Enterprises in OpenAI's Trusted Access Program today. API, Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise are stated as coming 'in the coming days', with no date. Free is not mentioned. The safety page calls Astra 'the most capable model we have ever broadly deployed' while the release notes say it is 'not yet generally available'.
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A $1bn commitment to subsidise access to OpenAI's Daybreak cyber models, plus training, technical support and partnerships, for defenders of essential services — water, electricity, local government, banking. Includes a pilot with MS-ISAC and 35+ products via a Daybreak Defense Network.
Who can use it Not open enrolment and not priced. Restricted to frontline defenders of essential services; the announcement's 'Work with us' section is the only stated route in. No eligibility threshold given.
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On Fable and Mythos 5.1 the values `any` and `tool` now return a 400. Existing code using them breaks.
Who can use it Anyone calling those models.
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The free database stops serving queries for the rest of the day once you pass the daily allowance, instead of warning. Data is untouched; queries resume at midnight UTC.
Who can use it Everyone on the Workers Free plan.
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Monthly read allowances: 1GB Starter, 10GB Builder, 100GB Standard and Enterprise. On Starter and Builder, reads returning record data are blocked once spent.
Who can use it All plans. The one-time $250 / 1TB import credit is withdrawn for new subscriptions.
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Gemini 3.1 Pro, Claude Opus 4.5 and 4.6, Sonnet 4.5 and 4.6, and Raptor Mini removed. Sonnet 4.6 survives only for individual annual subscribers.
Who can use it All Copilot users.
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The Videos API and every sora-2 model are removed on 24 September. OpenAI lists no replacement.
Who can use it Anyone building on it. The consumer app already closed on 26 April.
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Custom providers, local models via Ollama and OpenRouter keys now require a Pro subscription.
Who can use it Existing users on the free tier lose it.
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Free accounts get 7 lifetime downloads, Pro 20/month, Premier 60/month — and the limits apply to songs made before 3 September.
Who can use it All tiers. New terms of service the same day.
Compiled from each vendor's own changelog, release notes or help pages. Availability is what the vendor states; where it states nothing, the entry says so.