A weekly summary of what actually shipped across Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot — features, deprecations, pricing changes, and retirement dates. Written for operators who need to know what changed, not what was announced.
31 July – 7 August 2026
No new model this week, but three substantial enterprise and infrastructure stories. Anthropic launched inference hooks — server-side inline DLP for Claude Enterprise — and opened the public beta of self-hosted environments for Claude Code, letting enterprise teams run agent sessions on their own compute. Anthropic confirmed it is building an in-house silicon team. The Fable 5 subscription structure permanently settled on July 20; the $100 credit claim window closed August 2. Opus 4.1 retired August 5. Workbench and experimental prompt APIs retire August 17. Claude Code shipped archive plugins for air-gapped environments and a range of security and reliability fixes. OpenAI released Codex CLI 0.147.0 with portable Agent Plugins, MCP 2026-07-28 support, and a breaking removal of --full-auto. ChatGPT for PowerPoint moved to token-based credit pricing. Atlas shuts down August 9. o3 retires from ChatGPT on August 26. Google shipped inline context-filtering hooks for Vertex AI and self-hosted CLI runners for AI Studio. Microsoft Copilot mirrors both with inference hooks and self-hosted environments in public beta.
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