Saturday, 15 August 2026
Grok 4.6 lands in GitHub Copilot
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SpaceXAI's Grok 4.6 coding model is now selectable inside GitHub Copilot in VS Code, priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens.
DeepSeek open-sources a Claude Code rival
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DeepSeek released Harness, an MIT-licensed agent runtime that turns its V4 models into autonomous coding agents, and it passed 100,000 GitHub stars within days.
Cognition in talks to raise at $40B value
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Devin-maker Cognition is reportedly in early talks to raise over $1B at a $40B+ valuation, up from $26B in May, as its annualized revenue nears $1B.
Google lets users hide its AI watermark
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Google will let Gemini, Flow, and Search users toggle off the visible AI watermark on generated images and video, while the invisible SynthID mark stays on.
Writer's Palmyra X6 targets token costs
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Writer's new Palmyra X6 model and upgraded agent harness aim to cut enterprise AI costs up to 50%, built on Z.ai's open-source GLM-5.2 rather than from scratch.
IBM and OpenAI strike enterprise AI deal
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IBM will fold GPT-5.6, Codex, and ChatGPT Work into its consulting arm and train tens of thousands of staff on OpenAI's tools under an expanded partnership.
Apple in talks to pay publishers per use
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Apple is discussing a nine-figure budget to pay news publishers each time upgraded Siri AI uses their content, not a flat licensing fee, ahead of a fall launch.
Qwen now has 151,000+ derivative models
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Hugging Face's Summer 2026 open-models report finds Qwen-based derivatives outnumber Llama's by 4.7x, the clearest ecosystem-size signal yet in open weights.
Nvidia backs Indonesia's first AI center
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Nvidia partnered with Universitas Gadjah Mada and Indosat to open Indonesia's first university-based AI technology center for local language model development.
Ollama adds DeepSeek Harness, Muse support
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Ollama v0.32.11 integrates DeepSeek's new Harness and Meta's Muse Code agents and adds web search to its OpenAI-compatible API.
Cline adds a web search toggle for agents
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Open-source coding agent Cline v4.1.10 lets supported models search the web mid-task, off by default and switched on in Feature Settings.