LLM & Chatbots

Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash adds 40-second scene extension, first and last frame control, video references and 4K upscaling, plus 360p drafts at a third the cost.

IBM's Granite 4.2 ships 3B, 8B and 30B dense reasoning models under Apache 2.0 with a 512K context window and an agentic RL stage for the larger two.

Anthropic merged Claude and Cowork memory into one shared store, on by default for Free, Pro and Max users, with no option to keep the two products apart.

Adversa researchers bypassed Grok's safety filters by encrypting malicious instructions with AES-256-GCM, letting the model decrypt and execute them itself.

Artificial Analysis scored Z.ai's GLM-5.3 at 60 on its Intelligence Index, well above the 35 median, at $4.40 per million output tokens. The catch is verbosity.

OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens launches for ages 13-17 with content limits, 90-minute break reminders, opt-in parental quiet hours and age assurance over ID checks.

Alibaba's Qwen3.8 open weights pair a 2.4T mixture-of-experts model with a 27B dense multimodal model sized for a single 24GB consumer GPU.

OpenAI turned on ChatGPT sponsored placements in five more countries on 11 August, limited to logged-in adults on the Free and Go tiers.

Daybreak Red and Blue are now sold through Amazon Bedrock, moving OpenAI's gated cyber models into enterprise cloud procurement and AWS governance.

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.

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.

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