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4 updates · 4 appsAugust 18, 2026

A quiet day across AI apps

No major user-facing updates were announced today.

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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Claude

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Anthropic explains how Claude’s invisible text watermarks will work

This watermarking feature, alongside C2PA support for Claude-processed images, is being introduced to meet Anthropic’s obligations under the European Union’s AI Act , which requires synthetic audio, image, video, and text to include machin…

Original reportingAnthropic explains how Claude’s invisible text watermarks will workRead original
Additional sourcesTechCrunch

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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ChatGPT

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AI Texas halts new data centers as governor calls for audits Tim De Chant

AI Texas halts new data centers as governor calls for audits Tim De Chant AI Is the future of data centers portable? AI Is the future of data centers portable?

Runware builds a pod to find out Dominic-Madori Davis

Original reportingNvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project | TechCrunchRead original