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3 updates · 3 appsAugust 22, 2026

Claude's Opus 4.6 model generates explicit content, Perplexity gets smarter media search

Claude faces content moderation issues with an older model, while Perplexity makes search results more visual and helpful.

Perplexity

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Expanded summary · Perplexity

The app now intelligently picks between images, videos, or both for your search results.

When you search, Perplexity will now automatically decide if showing you images, videos, or both will give you the best answer. This means you get richer, more relevant results without having to specify what kind of media you want to see.

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.

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Claude

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Expanded summary · Claude

Claude's older Opus 4.6 model can still create sexually explicit content, despite company rules.

Even though Anthropic has rules against generating sexually explicit content, a report found that the Opus 4.6 model, which is still available, can produce such material. This highlights a gap between the company's stated safety standards and the actual behavior of some of its older models.

Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine TechCrunch Anthropic’s universal usage standards for Claude forbid the model from generating sexually explicit content, including depicting or requesting sexual intercourse or sex acts, generating content related to sexual fetishes or fantasies, or…

Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine TechCrunch

Original reportingAnthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine | TechCrunchRead original

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

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