What shipped & dropped across AI labs, today.
Friday
Fri · Aug 21 · 2 postsGrok 4.6 on Google Enterprise Agent Platform
Grok 4.6 is now available via Google Enterprise Agent Platform.
Grok Bot is now included with more plans
Grok Bot is now available for SuperGrok Plus, Cursor Pro+, and all Cursor Teams plans.
Wednesday
Wed · Aug 19 · 2 postsMonday
Mon · Aug 17 · 1 postAugust 14
Fri · Aug 14 · 3 postsHow Claude’s text watermark works
Grok 4.6 is now available in GitHub Copilot
Grok 4.6, xAI’s latest reasoning model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. It is designed for agentic coding and complex multi-step workflows. In our internal testing, Grok 4.6 showed…
Grok 4.6 in GitHub Copilot
Grok 4.6, our latest coding model, is now available in GitHub Copilot.
August 13
Thu · Aug 13 · 3 postsSecuring the frontier: How JetBrains evaluates and deploys Claude Fable 5
How JetBrains uses Claude Fable 5 and why they view safeguards and data retention as central to working with frontier models.
HeyGen x Google Cloud: Bringing Avatar IV to TPUs
HeyGen ported their 18B+ parameter Avatar IV video generation model to Google Cloud's Trillium (v6e) TPUs via torchax and XLA, utilizing FSDP and Ulysses sequence parallelism across an eight-chip mesh. To achieve a 1.86x speedup for real-time streaming, the engineering team pipelined exposed all-to-all collectives, aligned sparse attention block sizes to eliminate mask padding, and bypassed softmax serial dependencies using a precomputed Cauchy-Schwarz upper bound. These custom Pallas kernel and compiler optimizations were deployed only after passing rigorous two-tier quality gates to guarantee byte-identical or mathematically equivalent pixel outputs.
Claude Tag now reads even more of the room
Claude has more context to decide when to proactively collaborate in Slack (and when not to)
August 12
Wed · Aug 12 · 2 postsThe Claude in Chrome side panel is now Claude Cowork
The Claude in Chrome side panel is now a Claude Cowork session. Your conversations, skills, and connectors carry between the browser and the Claude apps.
Introducing Grok 4.6
Grok 4.6 builds on Grok 4.5 with a particular focus on long-running agents and more ambitious interactive and visual work.
August 11
Tue · Aug 11 · 3 postsMAI-Code-1.1-Flash available in GitHub Copilot
MAI-Code-1.1-Flash, Microsoft’s latest small-tier coding model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. Building on MAI-Code-1-Flash, it adds native vision support for image understanding and delivers improvements across coding quality,…
Introducing Grok Bot
Per-model token breakdown in the usage report
You can now see a per-model breakdown of the tokens behind your AI credits in the usage report. For each model, the AI usage report shows the input, output, cache…
August 7
Fri · Aug 7 · 2 postsImagine Image 2.0
Precise image generation and editing, built for real creative work.
Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans
Claude Code will soon run auto mode by default for Pro, Max, and Team plans, enabling longer-running autonomous work, and catching more dangerous commands.
August 6
Thu · Aug 6 · 2 postsRun Claude Code sessions on your own compute
Self-hosted environments are in public beta. Run Claude Code sessions on your own infrastructure, inside your network and next to your internal services.
Millennium and Anthropic are building a digital risk analyst with Claude
Anthropic is working with Millennium to co-develop a digital risk analyst to surface new risk insights and form opinions on risk exposure across asset classes.