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Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
Four days before Dreamforce, Salesforce shipped seven named Agentforce agents — Casey, Paige, Carter, Marshall, Piper, Fin and Hunter — six generally available and one in pilot. The pilot is the interesting one: Hunter runs on a new long-horizon runtime built to chase a goal for weeks rather than a chat.
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The harness behind Codex is now a public-beta API. OpenAI runs the agent loop, context compaction and subagent orchestration; developers supply the tools and pick where code executes — an OpenAI sandbox, their own VPC, or one of nine partners.
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Hugging Face opened pre-orders for Microduck, a 25-centimeter open-source biped with a camera, lidar and two IMUs that developers train in simulation and redeploy on the hardware. It ships before Christmas.
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Anthropic makes auto mode the Claude Code default on August 14. Its own trial found auto caught 89% of harmful actions to manual review's 13.6% — because users were rubber-stamping 97% of permission prompts.
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Read more →Suno’s v6 generation was trained from scratch on catalogue licensed from Warner Music Group, BMG and Believe, and every older Suno model is being retired. Universal and Sony are still suing.
Suno
Read more →Google’s background agent can now search, edit, album and share a photo library on command — or on a recurring schedule it runs without being asked. It is rolling out over the coming weeks to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the US, in English only.
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Read more →Anthropic's usage panel says your weekly allowance refills on a set day. Monitoring of Claude's own usage endpoint found it refilling every 72 hours instead — and the field the interface reads from was never a prediction of when.
BleepingComputer
Read more →OpenAI wired its clinician tool into the dominant US health record system, with read-only access to charts, no write-back, and a new public health data plugin.
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Read more →Meta’s terminal coding agent ships stable with three plans from $5 a month, a TypeScript SDK in developer preview, parallel workflows and a rewind control.
Meta
Read more →The dedicated DALL·E GPT vanished from ChatGPT’s picker on 30 August, the last visible trace of the brand that made AI image generation a mainstream idea. Image generation itself stays — under a different name, on different models.
Notebookcheck
Read more →Four agents, one decision. We score GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code and OpenAI Codex on quality (50%), price (30%) and speed (20%) — then show how the winner changes the moment you change the weights.
BitsMinds
Read more →Google added flight price alerts in 180+ countries, hotel booking with ten major partners, and award pricing in points and miles — pushing AI Mode from answering travel questions to completing travel transactions.
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Read more →The first published benchmarks for OpenAI's Broadcom-built inference chip show 1.5× to 1.9× more work per watt than the best shipping systems, at half the package power of an Nvidia GB300. The caveats are real — engineering samples, 8k-context tests, no agentic workloads — but a first-generation accelerator is not supposed to land this close to Rubin.
SemiAnalysis
Read more →Agents that speak the Cross App Access standard now get registered in Okta’s directory alongside employees and receive short-lived tokens instead of a static API key.
Okta
Read more →Announced at Hot Chips 2026, the dedicated inference accelerator born from Nvidia’s $20B Groq deal is now in full production, hitting 3,400 output tokens per second on Gemma 4 31B. Nebius is the first AI cloud to deploy it.
NVIDIA Newsroom
Read more →Agent OS turns the exchange into a target for ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex and Cursor — agents get spot, margin, futures and convert access inside a walled sub-account, and Binance admits it cannot see how they decide.
Cointelegraph
Read more →Varonis social-engineered Microsoft Copilot into naming an undocumented URL parameter, then chained it into a one-click theft of Gmail, Drive and Calendar data — plus memory poisoning that survives a password reset.
Varonis Threat Labs
Read more →Warp opened a closed beta for cloud infrastructure that runs fleets of coding agents through a fixed five-stage pipeline — triage, spec, implement, review, verify — with a different model allowed at every step.
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Read more →The CS-4 puts three wafer-scale engines in one rack for 750 petaflops and more than 4,400 tokens a second per user — using the same silicon as the CS-3, clocked roughly twice as fast.
SemiAnalysis
Read more →OpenAI’s new tier for 13-to-17-year-olds blocks self-harm and romantic talk, bars the model from claiming feelings, and routes suspected minors in automatically — no self-reported birthday required.
ABC News
Read more →Users can now switch off the visible watermark on images and video from Nano Banana, Omni and Lyria. The invisible SynthID signal and C2PA metadata stay embedded either way — and Google is open-sourcing a library so anyone can check them.
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Google built the Tensor G6 on TSMC’s 2nm N2 process and spent almost all of it on inference: 50% more TPU compute, double the memory bandwidth, and on-device AI tasks up to 3.5× faster at up to 3.5× less energy. Gemini Intelligence now ships on hardware designed for it — agentic task automation, phone calls placed on your behalf, and on-device dubbing for podcasts and video.
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Read more →Sundar Pichai says the Gemini app has passed a billion monthly active users, up from about 950 million in July and roughly two months behind ChatGPT. Voice is now the interface for 63 percent of users, and the app generates over 150 million images a day. The figure counts the standalone app only — not Gemini inside Search, Workspace or Android.
TechCrunch
OpenAI is uncapping text chats for free ChatGPT users and making GPT-5.6 Luna the default, with a Think button on every tier and a reasoning slider for Plus and Pro. The rollout runs through the week of August 10.
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