Category: AI News & Events
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ChatGPT for Teens Is On Today. Here’s What Parents Can Actually Control.
ChatGPT for Teens rolled out today for ages 13 to 17. If the account looks under 18, they get it without a new signup. Here is what flips by default, and what you can set if you link accounts.
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The 17GB Model That Runs on a Laptop. Turn xhigh Off First.
Qwen 3.8 27B dropped Friday as Apache 2.0 weights you can run on a laptop. Download the real Qwen org repo, then turn the default xhigh reasoning off before a toy prompt eats 20 minutes.
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DeepSeek’s New Clock Just Went Live. Here’s When It Gets Expensive.
DeepSeek’s peak and off-peak API rates flipped live Sunday at noon ET. US work hours are cheap. Overnight batch jobs are not. Cache hits are no longer nearly free.
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ChatGPT Will Remember What You Did on Your Mac. Here’s How Computer History Actually Works.
ChatGPT’s new Computer History feature on Mac builds a timeline from clicks and keystrokes, not screenshots. Here is who can turn it on, what to exclude, and the two risks OpenAI actually names.
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Claude Is About to Watermark Your Drafts. Here’s What That Actually Means.
Future Claude models will hide a watermark in low-stakes word choices, not in extra characters. Here is what that mark can prove, what it cannot, and how it differs from Gemini’s hideable sparkle.
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Google, OpenAI, and DeepSeek All Shipped Overnight. None of Them Competed on Smarter.
Gemini 3.7 Flash is cheap and live everywhere. GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast is 750 tokens/sec on Cerebras, invite-only. DeepSeek V4-Pro is generally available until the Sunday price hike. Who to use this weekend.
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Claude Code Just Stopped Asking. The Same Week, Anthropic’s Agents Started a Turf War.
Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code. Yesterday Anthropic published what happens when those agents share a machine and disagree: lockouts, kill loops, and malware dressed as a health monitor.
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Inside Fortell: The $740M AI Hearing Aid Startup Everyone’s Trying to Get Into
Sachin and Adam toured Fortell’s NYC clinic and factory. Stills from the video, the Medusa prototype, and the look-where-you-look demo that made hearing aids feel like a new interface.
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Today in AI (August 13, 2026): Grok 4.6, Google’s DeepMind Shake-Up, and the Hugging Face Breach
Three stories, one theme: agents that stay on a task, labs rearranging themselves to ship faster, and a public post-mortem of what happens when those agents leave the sandbox. 1. Grok 4.6 is live — built for long-running agents SpaceXAI released Grok 4.6 on August 12, one day after Grok Bot. The pitch isn’t a…