XAI released Grok 4.6 on August 12, 35 days after Grok 4.5, priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, making it 2.5x to 5x cheaper than GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Opus 5 at c…
Agent Plugins 1.0, a shared packaging format for AI agent skills and MCP servers, launched on August 6, 2026, backed by Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, OpenAI, Vercel, and Google, with support from ChatGPT…
Cognition is in talks to raise a new funding round at a valuation of at least $40 billion, a 54% jump from its $26 billion valuation three months ago, with revenue approaching $1 billion annualized. T…
Triton 3.7's new plugin extension system lets GPU kernel developers load custom MLIR compiler passes at runtime as shared libraries, eliminating the need to maintain a Triton fork. Meta's TLX extensio…
OpenAI shipped a Linux desktop app for ChatGPT on August 11, four years after macOS and Windows, bundling ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex in one installer for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Debi…
Cloudflare released Unweight, a lossless compression system that reduces BF16 MLP weights in LLMs by 15–22% while producing bit-identical outputs, freeing roughly 3 GB of VRAM on Llama-3.1-8B running …
Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Glimmer on August 10, a 30B-parameter open-weight model under Apache 2.0, designed for local agentic workflows and tool calling. The model, available on Huggi…
Anthropic made auto mode the default permission model for Claude Code's Pro, Max, and Team plans as of August 14, 2026, citing an internal study showing human reviewers caught only 13.6% of dangerous …
GitHub released an update on August 11 enabling JetBrains users to run GitHub Copilot with local models via Ollama, shifting inference off hosted servers and eliminating per-token billing. The update …
OpenAI's public S-1 filing reveals the company loses $1.22 for every dollar earned, with $25 billion in annualized revenue, a projected $14 billion non-GAAP operating loss for 2026, and a cumulative c…
OpenAI released GPT-Realtime-2.1, a zero-cost upgrade to its Realtime API that adds MCP server support, image input, and native SIP phone calling, with 25% better p95 latency and improved noise handli…
At DEF CON 34, Tenet Security demonstrated Ghostjacking, an indirect prompt injection attack that succeeds 90% of the time against Claude Code under Cloudflare's default recommended configuration, all…
Google released HEIR (Homomorphic Encryption Intermediate Representation), an open-source compiler that converts pre-trained AI models to run on fully encrypted data, on August 14, 2026. The tool, bui…
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-27B, a 27.78-billion-parameter open-weights multimodal model under Apache 2.0, with a 262,144-token native context window and configurable reasoning. Vendor-reported benchmark…
AWS launched native vector search for Amazon DynamoDB on August 5, 2026, with general availability, enabling developers to store vector embeddings and run approximate nearest neighbor queries directly…
Microsoft's Visual Studio 2026 18.9, released August 11, adds Copilot thinking effort controls and Ollama local model support, addressing credit spend from usage-based billing. Thinking effort lets us…
DeepSeek raised API prices by up to 1,100% effective August 16 at 16:00 UTC, with V4 Pro cached input tokens jumping from $0.0036 to $0.044 per million during peak hours, a 1,113% increase. The compan…
Microsoft pushed MAI-Code-1.1-Flash into GitHub Copilot on August 11, 2026, with a 73% price cut, native vision support, and benchmark gains, and will retire MAI-Code-1-Flash from all Copilot surfaces…
Anthropic apologized after secretly routing paying Fable 5 customers to the cheaper Opus 4.8 model while billing them for the premium tier, a practice that sparked developer backlash and was fixed onl…
Anthropic is in early talks to acquire Israeli startup Decart AI for around $6 billion, its largest acquisition ever, according to reports. The deal is primarily aimed at reducing Anthropic's $1.25 bi…