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OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup that built software for turning raw material into finished presentations, with the NextSlide team now working on ChatGPT. Founder Ahmed Beshry announced the move in a note on the startup’s website. He did not disclose financial terms. NextSlide’s product converted prompts, notes, documents, or research into a polished, editable…

Firebird, a U.S.-based AI cloud company, opened the CIS region’s largest AI factory in Armenia on August 8, 2026: a facility in Hrazdan built on NVIDIA accelerated computing and Dell PowerEdge servers, with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Kazakhstan’s Deputy Prime Minister Zhaslan Madiyev, and U.S. chargé d’affaires David Allen attending the opening ceremony. The…

xAI shipped Grok Imagine Image 2.0 on August 7, 2026, making the new model generally available as the Quality Mode on grok.com/imagine and inside the company’s iOS and Android apps, according to the company’s announcement. The release lands as xAI lists its models under the SpaceXAI name, and it arrives with region-level editing tools, multi-image…

I’ve spent way too much time doing tasks that feel like they should be someone else’s job, whether it’s formatting reports, organizing information, or repeating the same steps in different apps. At some point, you start thinking, “Maybe I should just hire a VA.” That’s why Claude Cowork’s Record a Skill feature caught my attention….

Microsoft has brought its fourth Indian cloud region online, declaring general availability of the India South Central region in Hyderabad, Telangana on August 6, 2026. The three-availability-zone build is the largest hyperscale region Microsoft operates in the country and, by the company’s count, gives it the biggest hyperscale cloud footprint of any provider in India….

OpenAI said on August 7, 2026 that internal evaluations of Astra, one of its upcoming models, show such strong agentic coding and cybersecurity performance that the company can no longer rule out the Critical cybersecurity capability level defined in its own Preparedness Framework. It is the first time OpenAI has attached that label’s possibility to…

AI agent reliability startup Lemma has raised $2.3 million in pre-seed funding to build monitoring infrastructure designed to catch a particularly difficult class of problem: AI agents that appear to have completed a task successfully while quietly producing the wrong result. The round includes participation from Matrix, Y Combinator, Liquid 2 Ventures, Vermilion Cliffs Ventures,…

Why real customer behaviour matters more than ever in the age of AI Product managers and engineers can spend months shaping a feature before anyone outside the business touches it. When customers get hold of it, they might use it exactly as expected or find a completely different path. They might ignore the main feature…

Anthropic on August 7, 2026 released an update to the biology safeguards on Claude Fable 5 that the company says cut biology-related “fallbacks” by about 85% in testing across its product surfaces — the automatic handoffs that route a user’s query to a less capable model when the system judges a request touches safeguarded biology…

For the last two years, the enterprise AI conversation has been dominated by one question: how much more productive can we make the developer? The metrics have been familiar: lines of code generated, hours saved, user stories completed faster and pull requests merged sooner. These are useful indicators, but they tell only part of the…