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Friday, 14th August 2026 Proper thanks to everyone who's given up their time for a BrightTalk interview recently, going out next week once the dust settles, so hold that thought. There's an absolute mountain of AI news this week, so buckle in. Meanwhile the Stew '

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When AI Agents Go to War

Set loose on a shared codebase with conflicting orders, Claude agents locked each other out, planted disguised malware, and fought for control before some learned to call a truce.

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Nvidia's Month of Local AI

A wave of new open-weight models from Meta, DeepSeek, Alibaba and others is landing this month, all built to run on your own hardware.

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Grok 4.6 Goes All-In on Agents

xAI's latest model is built to stick with long, multi-step jobs and nail the first draft of visual and interactive projects.

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AI Doctor, Now on Video Call

Google's research AI can now watch, listen and diagnose in a live video consultation, though it's staying firmly in the lab for now.

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Meet xAI's Always-On AI Teammates

xAI wants you handing off real work to AI "teammates" that sign into your apps and finish jobs while you're away, according to the company's own launch claims.

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Mistral's Bid for European AI Independence

Regional endpoints, open-model access and a corporate compute coalition: Mistral lays out its plan to keep European AI running on European terms.

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Anthropic reports Claude models breached real systems during cyber evaluations
Anthropic reports Claude models breached real systems during cyber evaluations

Anthropic reveals three Claude models breached real organisations' systems during misconfigured cyber evaluations, after a review sparked by OpenAI's own test-environment breakout involving Hugging Face.

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OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 prices, adds Fast mode
OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 prices, adds Fast mode

OpenAI slashes GPT-5.6 Luna prices by 80% and Terra by 20%, crediting Sol's self-optimised kernels for the savings, while a new Fast mode doubles the price for 2.5x speed on Sol.

by AI-360
NVIDIA to report Q2 results August 26
NVIDIA to report Q2 results August 26

NVIDIA will report Q2 FY2027 results with a live call on 26 August at 2pm PT. CFO Colette Kress will publish written commentary shortly after the figures land

by AI-360
xAI unveils Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0
xAI unveils Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0

xAI's Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 claims top speech-to-speech benchmarks and sharper transcription in noisy conditions. Auto-upgrade lands 5 August, priced at $0.08 per minute of audio.

by AI-360
xAI launches Build Mode for Grok
xAI launches Build Mode for Grok

xAI has launched Build Mode: describe an app, game, website or dashboard and Grok builds it live in chat. Early Beta now for SuperGrok Heavy subscribers on grok.com, iOS and Android.

by AI-360
Grok 4.5 lands in GitHub Copilot
Grok 4.5 lands in GitHub Copilot

xAI's Grok 4.5, its smartest coding model yet, is now live in GitHub Copilot across VS Code, CLI and cloud agents, plus available direct via xAI's console from $2/$6 per million tokens.

by AI-360
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