WIREReported (single source)
Factory's Matan Grinberg drops adviser Chris Degnan as Cognition dispute spills onto X
EXPLAINEROfficial announcement
Anthropic adds mods to Claude Code in v2.1.287
EXPLAINERReported (single source)
Graphite finds 13,000 phrases twice as common in AI writing as in human text
Model Tracker2026-08-04
Shieldstral 1.0 · Mistral AI · 32k context
EXPLAINEROfficial announcement
Physicist says Claude-built BootLoops computed 30 integrals, 15 of them new
MODEL DROPReported (single source)
Ideogram 4.5 starts at 0.8 cents per image with native 2K output
EXPLAINEROfficial announcement
Amazon details S3 Vectors as a NAT memory backend, up to 2 billion vectors per index
WIREOfficial announcement
Salesforce introduces Slack Code, a coding agent that works in shared Slack channels
BREAKINGOfficial announcement
Google DeepMind extends SynthID watermarking into biology with SynthID Bio
Model Tracker2026-06-30
Leanstral 1.5 · Mistral AI · 256k context
WIREReported (single source)
AWS open sources Dogwood Local Engine, a Rust library that vets every agent tool call
WIREReported (single source)
Shopify launches Canvas, a store builder driven by chat with its Sidekick agent
FOR THE MINUTESOfficial announcement
Vercel adds Microsoft AI models to AI Gateway, names none of them
EXPLAINEROfficial announcement
AWS shows how to build ambient agents on Bedrock AgentCore, with turns capped at 15 minutes
WIREReported (single source)
ABC and SBS ask Australian parliament to extend news bargaining incentive to AI firms
WIREReported (single source)
Trump rules out nationalizing US AI labs, floats a stake in OpenAI and Anthropic
WIREConfirmed
AWS releases Strands Decider 2B, an open-source decision model for agentic workflows
WIREReported (single source)
Two dozen tech firms accept White House AI risk controls that carry no legal weight