Latest news from the AI world
August 30, 2026: xAI connects Grok Bot to the X network with API credits for paying subscribers, GitHub announces five improvements to GitHub Issues, including a scope-aware REST API, and a post-transformer model pretrained on a single MacBook reads 10.5 million tokens without slowing down.
August 29, 2026: OpenAI stops supplying its models to Cursor on November 12, Anthropic brings Claude Code weekly limits 17% below their current level, and GitHub runs Copilot CLI on a native Rust engine.
August 28, 2026: Z.ai releases the weights of GLM-5.3 and the report on 2,436 vulnerabilities found with it, Claude Code ships three hardening releases, and OpenAI launches Rosalind Workbench as a research preview.
August 27, 2026: Anthropic launches the Model Hardware Standard, OpenAI calls for collective cyber defense with Anthropic, AWS, Google, Microsoft and Oracle, Ai2 validates a breast cancer discovery.
August 26, 2026: OpenAI publishes its post-mortem on Hugging Face, Claude in Chrome arrives on all paid plans, GLM-5.3-Flash and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next.
August 25, 2026: the Jalapeño chip delivers its first measured numbers, the WebMCP Challenge brings together six platforms, Perplexity runs its agent locally.
August 24, 2026: Wan 3.0 produces 30 seconds in one pass, NVIDIA measures peaks at 30x work per watt, Mistral signs with HUMAIN for sovereign AI.
23 August 2026: the creator of Claude Code places Claude on three levels, Gemini 3.7 Flash enters Google Search, Gemma passes one billion downloads.
August 22, 2026: Claude Code Remote Control starts sessions from the phone, GLM-5.3 beats GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 on DeepSWE, NotebookLM available to everyone, Perplexity details its Brain memory.
August 21, 2026: computer use and Skills API go GA on Claude Platform, GitHub Copilot arrives in Slack and Microsoft Teams, DeepSeek unveils its first multimodal model, and Pika Labs launches an ultra-fast TTS.
August 20, 2026: GitHub details the 7h47 outage of August 17 and speeds up its reliability work, Meta AI launches WildArtifactBench, Pika unveils its audio lineup.
August 19, 2026: Claude autonomously designs proteins with Adaptyv Bio, Gemini launches a global student offer, and Replit launches Free Mode with GPT-5.6 Luna.