NextSlide says its team members are now working on ChatGPT.
Pokee AI Releases Pokee-Isaac 28B: A 10M-Token Context Agentic Model Built to Run Inside the Customer Boundary
Pokee AI released Pokee-Isaac 28B, a 28B text-only foundation model with a 10M-token context window built to run inside the customer boundary. It scores…
Anthropic sets Claude Code to Auto Mode by default to protect developers from bad approvals
Starting August 14, Anthropic will make Auto Mode in Claude Code the default for Pro, Max, and Team plans. The company says it’s safer. In tests, the…
Readers rate AI-generated short stories higher than human ones until they learn a machine wrote them
People can’t tell ChatGPT-generated short stories from human-written ones, according to a new study. More than 2,500 participants performed no better than…
Claude Code sessions can now talk to each other and share context across terminals
Claude Code now lets sessions talk to each other. On macOS and Linux, instances running in parallel can send messages, share insights, and check on each…
Fields Medalist who published a paper on AI-driven human extinction now works for OpenAI
Newly awarded Fields Medalist Jacob Tsimerman is leaving the University of Toronto to join OpenAI and work on AI safety. In a recent paper, he analyzes…
Backflip AI turns 3D scans into editable CAD models in minutes instead of hours
Backflip AI has released an AI model that converts 3D scans into fully editable, parametric CAD models, a process that normally takes significant time and…
Firebird Opens the CIS Region’s Largest AI Factory in Armenia
Firebird, a U.S.-based AI cloud company, opened the CIS region’s largest AI factory in Armenia on August 8, 2026: a facility in Hrazdan built on NVIDIA…
Designing Scalable Interactive Visualizations with Reflex XY: Composition, Million-Point Rendering, Streaming, Custom Marks, and Export
Dive into the advanced visualization capabilities of the Reflex XY Python library. This tutorial guides you through building high-performance, interactive…
AI agents use roughly 600 times more energy than a simple chat prompt
Climate scientist Zeke Hausfather tracked his Claude Code usage over eight weeks: 3.2 billion tokens and about 170 kWh of data center electricity. Per…
AI News Brief Hourly Summary 2026-08-08 11h : 1 posts
1 posts were published in the last hour 9:3 : xAI’s Imagine Image 2.0 lands just behind OpenAI’s GPT-Image-2 in Arena benchmarks
xAI’s Imagine Image 2.0 lands just behind OpenAI’s GPT-Image-2 in Arena benchmarks
xAI has released Imagine Image 2.0 as a new image generator for Grok. The model ranks second in the Arena benchmarks, just behind OpenAI’s GPT-Image-2.…
Improving Fable 5’s biology safeguards
We’re making updates to Claude Fable 5’s biology safeguards in a way that substantially reduces false positives. Fable 5 users will now experience many…
xAI Ships Grok Imagine Image 2.0 With Precise Editing and a Top Arena Ranking
xAI shipped Grok Imagine Image 2.0 on August 7, 2026, making the new model generally available as the Quality Mode on grok.com/imagine and inside the…
Mistral AI Releases Shieldstral 1.0 3B: An Open-Weights Policy-Adaptive Multimodal Safety Classifier Matching Models 7× Its Size
Mistral AI has released Shieldstral 1.0 3B, an open-weights, policy-adaptive multimodal safety classifier that frames content moderation as a single…
Claude Cowork Record a Skill: I’m Never Hiring a VA Again
I’ve spent way too much time doing tasks that feel like they should be someone else’s job, whether it’s formatting reports, organizing information, or…
Juan Pablo Tejela, CEO and Co-Founder of Metricool – Interview Series
Juan Pablo Tejela, CEO and co-founder of Metricool, is a software engineer and technology entrepreneur who has led the company since 2014, helping develop…
OpenAI says it slowed Astra model development over security concerns
OpenAI said it has suspended work on some aspects of its upcoming model Astra over concerns about its cybersecurity prowess.