AI news: week of Aug 17–23, 2026

Usage resets

Completed and reported resets, announcements and banked resets. Only Completed entries count as a finished reset. Full monthly logs: Codex resets in August 2026.

• 23 AugCodex Codex reset announced on Aug 23, 2026, 06:32 UTCA correction to the earlier rollout time. The completion report appears separately on August 24.
• 23 AugCodex Codex reset announced on Aug 23, 2026, 06:29 UTCAn initial rollout time was proposed and then corrected in the following post. This is an announcement, not a second reset.
• 23 AugCodex Codex reset announced on Aug 23, 2026, 06:11 UTCThe start of the August 23 reset announcement thread. Later posts update the schedule and report completion.
• 22 AugCodex Codex banked reset on Aug 22, 2026Banked reset credit
• 21 AugCodex Codex banked reset on Aug 21, 2026, 23:40:34 UTCBanked reset credit
• 21 AugCodex Codex banked reset on Aug 21, 2026, 23:40:12 UTCBanked reset credit
• 21 AugCodex Codex banked reset on Aug 21, 2026, 11:43 UTCBanked reset credit

Claude Code releases (8)

• 23 AugClaude Code 2.1.241
• 22 AugClaude Code 2.1.240
• 21 AugClaude Code 2.1.239Cost estimates (/cost, status line, --max-budget-usd) now include the 1.1× US-only-inference premium for data-residency workspaces · Added the one-time fullscreen renderer offer on Bedrock,…
• 20 AugClaude Code 2.1.238Added a keybindingFlavor setting: set it to "readline" to make Ctrl+W in the prompt delete back to the previous whitespace, as in Bash; the…
• 20 AugClaude Code 2.1.237Fixed prompt caching for sessions using an LLM gateway or custom base URL · Added a built-in "Concise" output style: Claude leads with results…
• 19 AugClaude Code 2.1.236Added ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_MODEL environment variable: sets the model new sessions start on, while a /model pick still overrides it and persists across restarts (unlike ANTHROPIC_MODEL)…
• 18 AugClaude Code 2.1.235Added an optional spellcheck setting that underlines misspelled words in the prompt input as you type, using your installed aspell, hunspell, or ispell ·…
• 17 AugClaude Code 2.1.234Added the optional CLAUDE_CODE_PROJECT_DIR_NAME environment variable: hosts that give each session its own config directory can choose a short name for the per-project transcript…

Claude Code changelog

Codex CLI releases (2)

• 20 AugCodex CLI 0.149.0Added an interactive codex agents dashboard for searching, starting, opening, renaming, and stopping tasks, with configurable shortcuts. (#39094, #39112, #39114, #39142) · Added /cd,…
• 18 AugCodex CLI 0.148.0Export complete TUI conversations to Markdown with /export, either to the clipboard or a new file. (#37358) · Fork sessions with codex exec fork,…

Codex CLI changelog