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2026-07-30 08:37
The Biggest AI Stories Weren’t Features. They Were Dependency
Between May and late July 2026, OpenAI and Anthropic shipped more than thirty user-facing products and features: new voice modes, health-record integrations, personal finance, a desktop redesign, rewritten memory systems, an enterprise agent product, and two frontier-model families apiece.
Most of them arrived with an announcement, a demo, a burst of press coverage—and then disappeared from publi...