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August 12, 2026

ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and 2 more shipped updates

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Also shipped: Perplexity and Claude Code.

Perplexity

Perplexity

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

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 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 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 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…

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ChatGPT

ChatGPT

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News Close News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All News | After a former lead writer claimed Saber “replaced me with ChatGPT,” CEO Matthew Karch now claims, “Neither Saber nor Unigine have replaced any writers with AI,” for the Rideshare “Stimulator” game announced last month, developed by Unigin… | The writer, Stella Sacco, says differently,… News Close News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All News After a former lead writer claimed Saber “replaced me with ChatGPT,” CEO Matthew Karch now claims, “Neither Saber nor Unigine have replaced any writers with AI,” for the Rideshare “Stimulator” game announced last month, developed by Unigin… The writer, Stella Sacco, says differently, however, posting on Bluesky that “I was lead writer on this one! And Saber replaced me with ChatGPT midway through development. All the passenger voices were AI…

Source · Saber denies replacing Rideshare Stimulator’s writers with ChatGPT
Source · Saber denies replacing Rideshare Stimulator’s writers with ChatGPT

ChatGPT

As of this week, OpenAI has rectified this oversight, launching a dedicated ChatGPT app for Linux.

ChatGPT is on desktops across the world, but there’s been one place where it’s been lacking: the Linux community. Certain sectors of the open source developer community have been clamoring for OpenAI to bring its chatbot to their neck of t… | As of this week, OpenAI has rectified this oversight, launching a dedicated ChatGPT app for Linux. | “Linux has been one of the most-requested platforms for the desktop app, an… ChatGPT is on desktops across the world, but there’s been one place where it’s been lacking: the Linux community. Certain sectors of the open source developer community have been clamoring for OpenAI to bring its chatbot to their neck of t… As of this week, OpenAI has rectified this oversight, launching a dedicated ChatGPT app for Linux. “Linux has been one of the most-requested platforms for the desktop app, and this launch extends ChatGPT and Codex across every major desktop operating system,” the company said Tuesday.

Source · OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux | TechCrunch
Source · OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux | TechCrunch

ChatGPT

The AI race in general has tightened significantly this year.

The AI race in general has tightened significantly this year. Anthropic’s Claude Code became a phenomenon and forced OpenAI to catch up with Codex, while Google began integrating Gemini into seemingly every surface of its products. The com… | A free daily digest of the news that matters most. | Google’s upcoming Pixel phones are for the fans, even if its launch event isn’t The AI race in general has tightened significantly this year. Anthropic’s Claude Code became a phenomenon and forced OpenAI to catch up with Codex, while Google began integrating Gemini into seemingly every surface of its products. The com… A free daily digest of the news that matters most. Google’s upcoming Pixel phones are for the fans, even if its launch event isn’t

Source · ChatGPT and Gemini both just passed 1 billion users
Source · ChatGPT and Gemini both just passed 1 billion users

Gemini

Gemini

The company also continued rolling out new models and features, including Gemini 3.5 Flash , which Google says is designed to improve coding and autonomous AI-agent tasks.

The company has been steadily integrating Gemini across its products, from Search and Workspace to Android and its standalone app. Google’s AI Mode in Search, in particular, has achieved a lot of success, with over 1 billion monthly active… | The company also continued rolling out new models and features, including Gemini 3.5 Flash , which Google says is designed to improve coding and autonomous AI-agent tasks. | Go… The company has been steadily integrating Gemini across its products, from Search and Workspace to Android and its standalone app. Google’s AI Mode in Search, in particular, has achieved a lot of success, with over 1 billion monthly active… The company also continued rolling out new models and features, including Gemini 3.5 Flash , which Google says is designed to improve coding and autonomous AI-agent tasks. Google also shared numbers of how people are actually using the chatbot, with 63% of Gemini users talking directly to the assistant using the voice feature. Plus,…

Source · Google’s Gemini app surges to 1 billion users | TechCrunch
Source · Google’s Gemini app surges to 1 billion users | TechCrunch

Claude

Claude

Distillation is a well-established, widely used technique for efficiently copying the capabilities of existing models over to new ones, and is especially common in the development of open-weight or fully downloadable models.

“All major frontier model providers we tested share this vulnerability,” says Alexander Panfilov,⁩ a computer scientist at University of Tübingen in Germany who was involved with the work. “It can lead to personal information leakage, and… | Distillation is a well-established, widely used technique for efficiently copying the capabilities of existing models over to new ones, and is especially common in the developme… “All major frontier model providers we tested share this vulnerability,” says Alexander Panfilov,⁩ a computer scientist at University of Tübingen in Germany who was involved with the work. “It can lead to personal information leakage, and… Distillation is a well-established, widely used technique for efficiently copying the capabilities of existing models over to new ones, and is especially common in the development of open-weight or fully downloadable models. Advanced AI models solve difficult problems by breaking them into constituent parts that are analyzed in turn…

Source · A New Trick Reveals AI Models’ Inner Thoughts
Source · A New Trick Reveals AI Models’ Inner Thoughts

Claude

On Monday , Anthropic announced that an as-yet-unreleased model had made significant progress on the Riemann hypothesis, significantly increasing the lower bound of solutions for which the hypothesis holds true.

Contemporary AI models still can’t solve it either — but they can make a lot more progress than you might expect, a finding that’s likely to reopen longstanding questions about contemporary AI’s ability to discover new scientific and mathe… | On Monday , Anthropic announced that an as-yet-unreleased model had made significant progress on the Riemann hypothesis, significantly increasing the lower bound of solutions f… Contemporary AI models still can’t solve it either — but they can make a lot more progress than you might expect, a finding that’s likely to reopen longstanding questions about contemporary AI’s ability to discover new scientific and mathe… On Monday , Anthropic announced that an as-yet-unreleased model had made significant progress on the Riemann hypothesis, significantly increasing the lower bound of solutions for which the hypothesis holds true. All told, the model tested 650 different ideas for solving the problem, coordinating across 60 subagents and spending 31…

Source · An unreleased Anthropic model made progress on one of math's biggest unsolved problems | TechCrunch
Source · An unreleased Anthropic model made progress on one of math's biggest unsolved problems | TechCrunch

Claude

News Close News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All News

News Close News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All News | Jess Weatherbed Close Jess Weatherbed News Reporter Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All by Jess Weatherbed | Anthropic has pledged to start marking Claude-generated text and images with machine-readable data, in a… News Close News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All News Jess Weatherbed Close Jess Weatherbed News Reporter Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All by Jess Weatherbed Anthropic has pledged to start marking Claude-generated text and images with machine-readable data, in an effort to comply with European rules for AI transparency. “Generated text will carry embedded watermarks, and generated files will in…

Source · Claude will apply invisible watermarks to AI text and images
Source · Claude will apply invisible watermarks to AI text and images

Claude Code

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 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

Source · The Making of Claude Code
Source · The Making of Claude Code