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Claude in Chrome Side Panel Is Now a Full Cowork Session — Conversations Follow You Across Devices
Anthropic upgraded the Claude in Chrome side panel to run as a full Cowork session, so conversations, skills, and connectors carry over to desktop, web, and mobile apps without any additional setup.
Sources: Anthropic · 9to5Mac · Digital Trends
Claude Code Ships Broad Session and Sync Fixes — Covers Windows Git, Resume Leaks, and Redraw Failures
The latest Claude Code update resolves a wide range of issues including interactive sessions that stopped redrawing mid-run, Git detection failures on Windows, and cross-session messaging bugs.
Sources: Releasebot · Anthropic
Claude for Government Enters Beta — Agencies Can Onboard Directly Without a Separate Cloud Contract
Anthropic's Claude for Government is now in beta, with Anthropic remaining the contracted and billing party so federal agencies can get started at claude.com/solutions/government without a separate cloud-provider agreement.
Sources: Releasebot · Anthropic
ChatGPT
OpenAI Expands ChatGPT Ads to Five New Countries — UK, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, and South Korea Now Live
After launching the U.S. ads pilot in January, OpenAI has expanded ChatGPT advertising to the United Kingdom, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, and South Korea, with further market expansions planned for later this year.
Sources: OpenAI
ChatGPT Adds Restaurant Reservations — OpenTable, Resy, and Yelp Bookable Directly in Chat
ChatGPT now shows available reservation times from OpenTable, Resy, and Yelp in response to natural-language requests; users can book without leaving the chat, rolling out across all plans on mobile, web, and desktop.
Sources: OpenAI Release Notes
OpenAI Launches Three Back-to-School Education Plugins — Covers K–12 Teachers, College Educators, and Students
Three new role-specific plugins for ChatGPT Work and Codex give K–12 teachers, college educators, and college students tools for lesson planning, course design, and study support within managed school deployments.
Sources: OpenAI · Releasebot
Gemini
Google Unveils Pixel 11 at $899 With Gemini Intelligence — Tensor G6 Chip, HiLight LED, and Agentic AI
Google's Made by Google '26 event revealed the Pixel 11 lineup powered by the Tensor G6 on TSMC's 2nm process, with Gemini Intelligence enabling agentic tasks like ordering groceries, booking rides, and making calls on the user's behalf.
Sources: TechCrunch · Android Central · Thurrott
Gemini Gets Live ASL Translation and Rambler Voice Input on Pixel 11 — New Accessibility Push From Google
Google introduced American Sign Language-to-text translation via the Pixel Camera and "Rambler," a voice-input feature that strips filler words before converting speech to text, both powered by Gemini on Pixel 11.
Sources: TechCrunch · Gizmodo · Android Central
Google Also Launches Pixel Watch 5 at $399 and Pixel Tag — Its First UWB Tracker
Alongside the phones, Google unveiled the Pixel Watch 5 and the Pixel Tag, a Bluetooth UWB tracker that pre-orders alongside the Pixel 11 family today, with all devices shipping August 20.
Sources: TechCrunch · Digital Trends
China AI
DeepSeek Forms "Harness Team" on WeChat — Hiring to Build AI Agents That Rival Claude Code
DeepSeek has launched an official WeChat account for a new "DeepSeek Harness Team" in Beijing and posted job listings targeting developers who can build agentic coding tools to compete directly with Anthropic's Claude Code.
Sources: Bloomberg
DeepSeek V4-Flash Exits Preview at $0.14/$0.28 Per Million Tokens — Beats V4 Pro on Agent Benchmarks
DeepSeek's V4-Flash model has officially left preview with a competitive price point and a Terminal-Bench score of 82.7%, outperforming its own larger V4 Pro model on agentic coding tasks.
Sources: AIToolsRecap · Releasebot
Big Story
Made by Google '26 Is Really a Gemini Event — The Phone Is the Delivery Vehicle
The Pixel 11 launch is less a hardware story than an AI platform story: Google used the event to demonstrate Gemini acting as an on-device agent that books tables, orders groceries, and translates sign language in real time.
Sources: TechCrunch · Android Central · Gizmodo
Claude in Chrome Goes Agentic — Cowork Integration Closes the Browser-to-Desktop Gap
By merging the Chrome side panel into Cowork, Anthropic has turned a simple browser assistant into a continuous agentic session that spans browser, desktop, mobile, and web — a direct move in the browser-agent race against ChatGPT and Perplexity Comet.
Sources: 9to5Mac · Anthropic · AI Tool Analysis
Business
Colorado Signs Chatbot Safety Act — First State Law Focused Specifically on Protecting Minors From AI Harms
Governor Jared Polis signed H.B. 26-1263, requiring chatbot companies to meet baseline safety requirements for all users and additional protections for minors under 18, taking effect January 1, 2027.
Sources: Mintz · AI Washington Report
EU AI Act Transparency Rules Now Fully in Effect — Chatbot Disclosure and Content Labeling Required
The EU AI Act's August 2026 compliance phase is now active, requiring AI-generated content labeling, chatbot disclosure at point of interaction, and full Commission enforcement powers over general-purpose AI providers.
Sources: EU Digital Strategy · Collibra
OpenAI Launches "Sign in With ChatGPT" Beta — Covers Airtable, GitLab, HubSpot, Notion, and More
OpenAI has begun rolling out a Sign in with ChatGPT option across select partner sites, letting users create or link accounts at services like Airtable, GitLab, HubSpot, Notion, Supabase, and Vercel in fewer steps.
Sources: OpenAI · Releasebot