Latest news from the AI world
August 3, 2026: Alibaba unveils Qwen3.8-Max, Genspark opens the source code of GenOffice, Vercel launches a programmable API for v0, and Cursor, GitHub, Sakana AI, MiniMax H3, and Runway publish several notable updates.
The weekend of August 1 and 2, 2026 was quiet on the AI announcements front: Amp removes the ranking page from its code agents tool, and Cohere says its Twitch streams are number 1 in the tech category.
August 1, 2026: MiniMax launches H3, a multimodal model with announced open weights and native stereo audio, Together AI claims more than 10,000x growth in served tokens, and GitHub restricts npm tokens to 2FA bypass after a wave of account takeovers.
July 31, 2026: Anthropic details three real incidents discovered in its cybersecurity evaluations, DeepSeek relaunches its API with V4-Flash-0731, and GitHub Copilot in VS Code wraps up July with a redesign of the Agents window.
On July 30, 2026, Claude Mythos reveals novel cryptographic flaws at Anthropic, Google DeepMind launches Gemini Robotics ER 2 for robot collaboration, and OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 prices.
On July 29, 2026, OpenAI and Anthropic jointly support a call to slow down research in artificial intelligence, two competitors release open source tools to secure code agents, and GPT-5.6 Sol optimizes its own service infrastructure.
On July 28, 2026, MCP moves to a stateless architecture in its 5th major version, Hugging Face publishes the full timeline of the July cyberattack, and Perplexity Computer arrives on Windows with orchestration of 15+ models.
July 27, 2026: Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, an open 2.8-trillion-parameter model; NVIDIA brings together an industry alliance on AI system security with more than 30 partners; and Perplexity publishes a dense enterprise changelog.
On July 26, 2026, the CEO of Hugging Face is organizing a mini-march in San Francisco in support of open-weight models, echoing the Open Weights letter already co-signed by Microsoft, Genspark, and GitHub. Google is evolving Antigravity and its CLI, and Suno is rolling out ten new web and mobile features.
On July 25, 2026, the Hugging Face CEO calls on OpenAI for full transparency and $100 million in compute after a security incident; OpenAI acknowledges an important moment for AI safety. Also in the lineup: Midjourney V8.2 becomes the default model, NVIDIA signs a major AI summit with South Korea, and Claude Opus 5 continues rolling out at Warp, Genspark, and Perplexity.
July 24, 2026: Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5, available the same day in Cursor, Devin, v0 and GitHub Copilot; Midjourney acquires Co-Star for its first acquisition; Jensen Huang (NVIDIA) publishes an open letter on open models; xAI orchestrates hundreds of agents in parallel in Grok Build.
AI news for July 23, 2026: OpenAI rolls out Health in ChatGPT in the United States and ChatGPT Voice on desktop, Black Forest Labs unifies image and video with FLUX 3, GitHub puts guardrails around agents in Issues, and Cognition acquires Poke and joins the DOE’s Genesis Mission.