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6 updates · 4 appsAugust 8, 2026

ChatGPT reveals smart speaker details, pauses Astra development; Perplexity gets smarter media selection

OpenAI shared new insights into its upcoming smart speaker and halted some work on its Astra model due to security. Perplexity also rolled out an update to mak…

ChatGPT

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Expanded summary · ChatGPT

Per Bloomberg, the speaker will follow in the steps of other smart speakers lately in pushing an AI-first focus aimed at helping people complete tasks, compared to simpler smart speaker tasks, like checking the weather.

Bloomberg’s sources said that OpenAI launched an internal probe on the speaker following Apple’s lawsuit and determined that…

Such a device would be significantly more expensive than most smart speakers.

Original reportingOpenAI’s expensive smart speaker will use moving parts to seem “more alive”Read original

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Apple is currently suing OpenAI , accusing the AI company of stealing trade secrets for its hardware development.

ChatGPT's upcoming smart speaker gets more design details, and a new model's development is paused…

Expanded summary · ChatGPT

In the meantime, the AI firm is setting itself up for quite the challenge should it release a speaker within the reported price range.

ChatGPT's upcoming smart speaker gets more design details, and a new model's development is paused…

Additional sourcesTechCrunch

Perplexity

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Kimi K2.7 Code — perplexity/kimi-k2.7-code , Moonshot AI’s coding and agentic model.

Grok 4.3 and the Grok 4.20 family — xai/grok-4.3, xai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning, and xai/grok-4.20-multi-agent.

Smart media selection: Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type

Original reportingChangelogRead original

Claude

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How E.M. Forster’s 1909 sci-fi story “The Machine Stops” provides a blueprint for the artificial state, and why Lepore says it now reads like “the diary of a very unhappy YouTuber”

How E.M. Forster’s 1909 sci-fi story “The Machine Stops” provides a blueprint for the artificial state, and why Lepore says it now reads like “the diary of a very unhappy YouTuber” Startups ‘If this isn’t addiction, I don’t know what is’: Light’s founders get real about screen time Amanda Silberling Historian Jill Lepore has a theory about why tech companies often use soaring language to describe their products…

Historian Jill Lepore has a theory about why tech companies often use soaring language to describe their products — almost as if they’re forming a new government.

Original reportingJill Lepore on the ‘Artificial State’ and why Silicon Valley's leaders are bad sci-fi readersRead original
Additional sourcesThe Verge

Claude Code

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Expanded summary · Claude Code

The inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by researchers, engineers and early users who built it.

The Making of Claude Code

Original reportingThe Making of Claude CodeRead original