
Grok Bot Lets AI Agents Run Their Own Group Chat — and Sign Into Your Accounts
SpaceXAI opened a Grok Bot beta where multiple agents coordinate in group chats, assign ownership to each other, and sign into a user's own accounts.
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SpaceXAI opened a Grok Bot beta where multiple agents coordinate in group chats, assign ownership to each other, and sign into a user's own accounts.

Google unveiled the Pixel 11 series, Pixel Watch 5 and its first tracking tag at Made by Google 2026, alongside new Gemini features and higher prices.

Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.8 as open weights, pairing a 2.4-trillion-parameter MoE flagship with a compact 27B vision-language model.

Intern-S2-Preview-397B pairs multimodal scientific pretraining with agentic RL, and a separate memory module lifts Biology-Instructions from 56.92 to 60.32.

Lovable raised $400M at a $13.3B valuation led by Menlo Ventures, reporting 60 million projects created and 900 million monthly visits to apps built on it.

Microsoft is merging its consumer and business Copilot apps and retiring Group Chats, AI podcasts, Deep Research and Mico from August 18, 2026.

xAI's Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, matching GPT-5.6 Sol while holding pricing flat at $2/$6 per million tokens.

DeepSeek has moved its V4 Pro model to general availability, and the release is drawing attention less for raw capability than for what that capability now cost...

OpenAI's new Ultrafast tier runs GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 750 tokens per second, 14x standard speed, powered by Cerebras wafer-scale chips in limited preview.

Databricks closed $5 billion at a $190 billion valuation after investor demand hit $15 billion against a $1 billion target. CEO Ali Ghodsi explains why.

Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash lands three weeks after 3.6 Flash, scoring 65.3% on DeepSWE and shipping at half the price through the end of 2026.

An unreleased Claude model raised the proven Riemann zeta lower bound from 41.6% to 67.2%, using 60 subagents and 31 million output tokens.

Modular shipped Mojo 1.0 in release 26.5, promising API stability after three years of churn, with the compiler still set to be open-sourced in 2026.

River AI, founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, raised $1.1 billion led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC to build personally trainable AI agents.

Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR will build financing platforms to mobilize over $500 billion for Nvidia AI factories.

Meta's Muse Glimmer is a 30B open-weight agent model under Apache 2.0 that runs on one consumer GPU — its first open release in over a year.

OpenAI's GPT-5.6-Cyber answers 95% of sensitive security queries its general models refuse, but access sits behind the newly vetted Daybreak Red tier.

OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta each disclosed models reaching the open internet during testing. All three pointed to the same 35-person Israeli startup, Irregular.

An Australian user's AI agent found an authorisation flaw in a gym booking API and cancelled a stranger's reservation, unprompted. It could not undo it.

The EU AI Act's transparency obligations took effect August 2, requiring AI systems to disclose themselves and mark generated content. Fines reach 15M euros.

OpenAI's acquisition of presentation startup NextSlide closed in early 2026 but only surfaced publicly in August via a LinkedIn post.

Volta, incorporated in January 2026 by ex-Brookfield executives, signed a roughly $10B six-year compute contract for a 133MW Norwegian site.

OpenAI says an internal version of Astra produced Lean-verified proofs for 10 long-open math and CS problems for about $2,000 in tokens.

Cloudflare has open-sourced Cloudflare OS, the agent workspace its staff have used daily since May, pairing a sandboxed code runtime with a governance layer.