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OpenAI removes text limits for ChatGPT free users in August 2026
OpenAI eliminated text message limits for free ChatGPT accounts starting August 10, 2026, while maintaining restrictions on image generation, file uploads, and premium model access.
Zed Launches Delta, Multiplayer Environment for AI Agent Coding
Code editor maker Zed introduced Delta, a collaborative platform where developers and AI agents work together on code with shared context and real-time synchronization.
Lightspeed Maps AI Healthcare Journey from Admin to Clinical Care
Venture firm Lightspeed outlines how AI in healthcare is shifting from administrative tasks toward direct patient care, highlighting portfolio companies Doctronic and Neko as examples of autonomous clinical AI.
xAI releases Grok 4.6 with enhanced agentic capabilities
xAI launched Grok 4.6, a new model focused on long-running agents and complex interactive work that matches GPT-5.6 Sol performance across key benchmarks.
Nvidia Releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning Open Source Model for Enterprise AI Agents
Nvidia launched Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30-billion parameter open source model designed for specialized tasks in multi-agent systems, as competition with Chinese AI vendors intensifies.
CoreWeave Revenue More Than Doubles as AI Cloud Provider Beats Estimates
CoreWeave's second-quarter revenue surged past Wall Street expectations and more than doubled year-over-year, driving shares up 14% in extended trading.
Brad Lightcap leaves OpenAI COO role to start new venture
OpenAI's chief operating officer Brad Lightcap is departing to launch a new company, adding to executive turnover as the AI lab prepares for its IPO.
Google Research unveils new framework for auditing AI machine unlearning
Google Research introduces Regularized f-Divergence Kernel Tests, a statistical framework that makes auditing whether AI models have successfully 'forgotten' specific training data more accurate and computationally efficient.
MIT Spinout Ferveret Raises Funding for Nuclear-Inspired Data Center Cooling
Ferveret, founded by MIT researchers, has developed a nuclear reactor-inspired cooling system that reduces data center energy consumption by 35% while eliminating water usage entirely.
Modal raises $355M Series C to build agent-first cloud infrastructure
Modal, the serverless compute platform, closed a $355M Series C round as it shifts from developer experience to agent experience, building specialized infrastructure for AI workloads including elastic inference and sandboxes.
Databricks Tests Coding Agents on Multi-Million Line Codebase
Databricks benchmarked coding agents including OpenAI, Anthropic and open-source models on real engineering tasks across its multi-million line codebase, finding GLM 5.2 matches premium models at lower cost.
OpenAI finds 30% of SWE-Bench Pro coding tasks contain evaluation flaws
OpenAI's audit of the widely-used SWE-Bench Pro coding benchmark reveals that approximately 30% of tasks contain breaking issues including overly strict tests and underspecified prompts that misrepresent model capabilities.
Nvidia Partners with Hugging Face on Open Source Robot Models
Nvidia integrated its Isaac GR00T humanoid robotics models and teleop framework into Hugging Face's LeRobot library, expanding open source physical AI development tools.
xAI ships Grok 4.5, promising Opus-class performance at half the cost
Elon Musk's xAI released Grok 4.5 on Wednesday, claiming the model matches Anthropic's Opus capabilities while offering twice the token efficiency and significantly lower pricing.
xAI launches Grok 4.5 with 62% DeepSWE score at $2 per million tokens
Elon Musk's xAI released Grok 4.5, its most capable model yet, achieving 62% on coding benchmarks while delivering 4.2x better token efficiency than competing models.
OpenAI launches GPT-Live voice models with real-time conversation for ChatGPT
OpenAI released GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini voice models that enable simultaneous listening and speaking, ending the turn-based limitations of Advanced Voice Mode.