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Alibaba Rolls Out Wan3.0, Turning Business Files Into 30-Second AI Videos

The product is designed to turn existing material such as presentations and spreadsheets into video, while Alibaba is funding a more capital-intensive AI push.

Aug 24, 2026

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Lexis+ with Protégé Adds Agents, Context and Office Files to Legal AI Workflows

The product is built to reduce tool-switching across legal research and drafting, but customer-created workflows and LexisNexis models are still slated for later releases.

Aug 24, 2026

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Perplexity’s Agent API Adds Managed Connectors for GitHub Code and PR Workflows

The preview feature moves service setup out of individual requests; paired with Sandbox, GitHub access can reach repository edits and pull requests, within the connected account’s permissions.

Aug 23, 2026

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China’s $226M Underwater Data Center Is Running. The Ocean Still Has to Prove It Can Scale

Commercial and planned projects are testing whether seawater and offshore power can ease land and freshwater constraints without shifting AI infrastructure’s environmental and operating burdens into the ocean.

Aug 23, 2026

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ATTOM Adds 3 AI Agents That Turn Licensed Property Data Into Research and Reports

The practical shift is from data retrieval toward defined natural-language workflows, while permissions, metering and plan limits remain at the access layer.

Aug 23, 2026

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Murf’s Falcon 2 Puts a One-Cent Bet on Real-Time Voice

Murf’s new model pairs an aggressive listed usage rate with a fast-start claim. Its reported naturalness ranking, broad language coverage and deployment options give enterprises several concrete measures to compare—but those measures come from different tests and promises.

Aug 22, 2026

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Meta Opens Pocket, a Social Feed for Prompt-Generated Games

The experimental app combines simple game generation with profiles and remixing, giving Meta another consumer-AI format built around creation that can circulate socially.

Aug 22, 2026

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AWS Wants AI Agents to Carry the User’s Permissions, Not Their Own

The AgentCore pattern shifts the critical security decision to databases, knowledge systems and SaaS tools. Its strongest limitation is equally clear: each downstream service still needs correctly configured controls.

Aug 22, 2026

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Cursor Gives Cloud Agents a Way to Come Back to the Job

The new workflow controls connect coding work to pull-request activity, Slack threads and schedules, while keeping subscriptions limited to cloud agents for now.

Aug 22, 2026

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Generalist’s GEN-1.5 Lets Robots Try a Task After Watching Once

Generalist’s new model treats a demonstration as temporary instruction, potentially reducing task-specific training—but its reported one-shot results remain far from dependable execution.

Aug 22, 2026

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AWS Wants Data Agents to Write Pipelines, Then Stay Out of Production

The reference architecture uses models to draft data-engineering work, but makes human-reviewed code and policies—not live agent decisions—the default production layer.

Aug 22, 2026

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT Teens Pitches Guidance Over Answers. Teachers See a Harder Classroom Test.

Study Mode is built to steer students through questions rather than hand over homework answers. Whether that design improves learning, curbs cheating, or simply moves the problem elsewhere remains unsettled.

Aug 22, 2026

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Serval’s Catalyst Pitches AI-Built Workflows as a ServiceNow Replacement

The new agent can turn recurring ticket problems into proposed automations, but Serval must still show it can manage the customization, governance and trust demands of large enterprises.

Aug 22, 2026

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Ox Alpha Offers a Million Tokens, but Not a Name

The anonymous model exposes multimodal and agent-oriented features, but its architecture, benchmark record and price after the free preview remain unknown.

Aug 22, 2026

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AWS Brings GPT-5.6 Cross-Region Inference, With a Data-Location Choice

The new Bedrock profiles let applications draw from a wider compute pool without changing their core model calls. The trade-off is explicit: global routing offers the broadest capacity, while US routing keeps processing within that geography.

Aug 22, 2026

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Databricks Pushes Feature Stores From Batch Lag to 200ms Freshness

The company’s new streaming path targets decisions that change faster than scheduled data jobs can run. Its 200ms p99 figure is company-reported, and the operational trade-off is up to five minutes of replayed Kafka data after a failure.

Aug 22, 2026

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Databricks Says Its New Extraction Mode Beats Frontier Models on the Documents That Break Them

Precision Mode is designed for cross-page reasoning, enormous line-item outputs and deeply nested schemas. Databricks reports a seven-point lead over its best tested chunk-and-merge baseline, but the evaluation blends internal and public datasets.

Aug 22, 2026

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Grok Bot Gives Each Team Member a Persistent AI Workspace

The product gives each worker a shared cloud computer for multiple long-lived Bots, extending AI work into browsing, tools and local-machine actions while leaving several enterprise controls unfinished.

Aug 22, 2026

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