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6 updates · 4 appsAugust 14, 2026

A quiet day across AI apps

Today was a quiet day for AI apps, with no new features or major changes for users.

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

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ChatGPT

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OpenAI’s leaders are rallying workers to respond to one of the largest crises in the company’s history —which spans across its AI safety, cybersecurity, and alignment divisions.

OpenAI’s leaders are rallying workers to respond to one of the largest crises in the company’s hist…

Original reportingThe Safety Reckoning Inside OpenAIRead original

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OpenAI is losing its second executive this week

OpenAI’s leaders are rallying workers to respond to one of the largest crises in the company’s hist…

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OpenAI hires new CRO as executive shake-up continues TechCrunch

OpenAI’s leaders are rallying workers to respond to one of the largest crises in the company’s hist…

Original reportingOpenAI hires new CRO as executive shake-up continues | TechCrunchRead original

Claude

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What happens when you pit AI agents against each other? According to Anthropic’s testing, things get messy fast.

On Thursday, Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team published new research examining how groups of AI agents behave when they encounter each other in the wild. In one experiment, Anthropic gave three Claude agents access t…

In one experiment, Anthropic gave three Claude agents access to the same software project, each with its own incompatible instructions for what to do with it.

The agents weren’t told there’d be other agents working on the same project, so…

Original reportingAnthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war. | TechCrunchRead original

Claude Code

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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

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