Everyday AI Podcast – An AI and ChatGPT Podcast
Everyday AI Podcast – An AI and ChatGPT Podcast

Ep 802: ChatGPT’s Task Comeback, Claude’s Design upgrade, Codex Copies your workflow and 7 other Fresh AI features you’ll Want to use Today

June 19, 2026

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A busy week in AI brought a wave of immediately usable features from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and others, with the dominant theme being a shift from passive chatbots to proactive agents that can schedule, watch, and replicate your workflows. While much of the industry’s attention was on Anthropic’s government dealings and the Fable 5 model, the practical upgrades released this week are arguably more significant for daily users.

ChatGPT Tasks Returns, Pulse Departs

OpenAI has sunset its "Pulse" feature—a personalized daily summary that host Jordan Molson found "hard to steer" and of little value—and replaced it with a significantly upgraded version of ChatGPT Tasks. The new Tasks can now perform proactive background work, including setting reminders, managing recurring work, and monitoring connected apps for changes. The key improvement is that users no longer need to specify a rigid schedule; they can simply ask ChatGPT to "check this page and tell me when it's updated," making it a true monitoring agent.

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What you'll learn

  • 1 (00:16) **ChatGPT Tasks Returns, Replacing Pulse** - OpenAI sunsets the personalized Pulse agent and brings back scheduled tasks, now rolling out to all paid plans on web, iOS, and Android.
  • 2 (08:33) **Claude Design Gets a Major June Update** - Anthropic overhauls Claude Design with a WYSIWYG editor, design system imports, and two-way integration with Claude Code.
  • 3 (16:51) **Google Vids AI Avatars Get More Realistic** - Google upgrades its AI avatar tool with Gemini 3.1 Flash text-to-speech and Veo 3.1 video model, adding more styles and longer videos.
  • 4 (19:46) **OpenRouter Fusion Launches Publicly** - A new API feature that runs a single prompt through multiple models in parallel and fuses the results via a judge model.
  • 5 (23:24) **Claude Code Now Supports Artifacts** - Anthropic brings live, shareable visual pages to Claude Code, turning session work into persistent URLs with version history.
  • 6 (27:07) **New Open-Weight GLM-5.2 Model from Z.AI** - A 753 billion parameter mixture-of-experts model that scores higher than Gemini 2.5 Pro on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index.
  • 7 (30:41) **OpenAI Codex Gets Record and Replay** - Codex can now watch you perform a workflow on your Mac and turn it into a reusable, shareable AI skill.

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Show Notes

ChatGPT tasks are back, Jack. ✅

While we were collectively ping-ponging the Anthropic vs. U.S. government saga, the big tech AI players rolled out a TON of fresh AI features that are available today. 

↳ Claude Design got a big upgrade
↳ Google Vids got some serious AI sparkle
↳ And there's a new Open Weights model king 

We'll break it all down. 


ChatGPT’s Task Comeback, Claude’s Design upgrade, Codex Copies your workflow and 7 other Fresh AI features you’ll Want to use Today -- An Everyday AI Chat with Jordan Wilson


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Topics Covered in This Episode:

  1. ChatGPT Pulse Sunsetting and Tasks Comeback
    2. ChatGPT Scheduled Tasks Features and Access Tiers
    3. Claude Design June Update Overview
    4. WYSIWYG Editing and Design System Imports in Claude Design
    5. Claude Design Export Options and Third-Party Integrations
    6. Google Vids AI Avatars Upgrade with Veo 3.1
    7. OpenRouter Fusion Multi-Model Synthesis Feature
    8. Claude Code Artifacts for Team and Enterprise Plans
    9. GLM 5.2 from ZAI Open Weights Model Overview
    10. GLM 5.2 Benchmarks and Enterprise Use Cases
    11. OpenAI Codex Record and Replay Feature Explained
    12. Codex Record and Replay vs. Traditional RPA Tools



Timestamps:

00:00 Intro: 7 new AI features you can use today

02:35 ChatGPT Tasks: Pulse is gone, Tasks are back

04:31 Who has access to ChatGPT Tasks

08:18 Claude Design June update overview

09:14 WYSIWYG editing and Claude Code integration

12:07 Claude Design export options and third-party integrations

15:21 Google Vids AI Avatars upgrade

18:15 OpenRouter Fusion multi-model synthesis

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