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AI Tools & Apps Keep this 2026-08-19
Teen mode is on. OpenAI's 13–17 experience is rolling out with content blocks, Study Mode and parental controls — membership decided by age prediction. We test it against rivals' rules and India's under-18 consent law.
$60B — SpaceX's Cursor buyout closed three days before Origin shipped
GitHub gets a rival. Cursor's new Origin platform hosts code for AI coding agents with GitHub sync, in early beta for paid plans — landing just as a major GitHub outage had developers eyeing exits.
Over $7B — 5x OpenRouter's valuation three months ago
Billing meets routing. The payments giant closed its purchase of the marketplace developers use to switch between AI models — at more than five times OpenRouter's valuation from three months ago.
$5.4B — Higgsfield's valuation after the $400M raise
AI video's next bet. Goldman Sachs and Intel are among the names backing the video-generation startup's new raise — a sharp vote of confidence in the format's economics.
1,000 words in, a six-minute video out
Type a script, get a video. KrAsia reports the tool — codename H — turns a roughly 1,000-word script into a six-minute video, part of Bilibili's push to monetize its creator platform, squarely against CapCut-style AI editors.
AI Tools & Apps Keep this 2026-08-02
2.78T-parameter model opens in 29.05 GB of RAM
Trunk in RAM, experts on disk. A dependency-free C engine opens the full open-weights Kimi K3 in as little as 29.05 GB of memory by streaming expert weights off NVMe — decoding, by its own admission, at about half a token per second.
Every Big Four firm, same failure. GPTZero found fabricated sources, an unverifiable product and a ChatGPT tracking link across four PwC reports; PwC is updating citations, not retracting. The full scorecard, and India's exposure.
AI Tools & Apps Keep this 2026-07-30
3,000+ critical vulnerabilities fixed, by OpenAI's own count
Open code, gated engine. The CLI scans repos, validates flaws and suggests fixes in CI pipelines; the underlying scanner stays limited to approved beta customers, and patches still need human sign-off. OpenAI credits it with 3,000+ critical fixes.
AI Tools & Apps Keep this 2026-07-29
Chrome 150 stable — first native Arm64 Linux build, unannounced
No announcement, real builds. Chrome 150 stable .deb and RPM packages for Arm64 Linux are live in Google's repos — with a native Widevine module — covering Raspberry Pi 5 and Snapdragon X laptops.
4.3 million monthly active users come with Co-Star
An odd-couple deal. The image-AI lab absorbs Co-Star's roughly 4.3 million monthly users and a two-dozen-person team — the clearest sign yet that Midjourney finally wants a standalone app of its own.
10 languages — Claude voice with live app integrations
Assistant, upgraded. Anthropic's voice assistant now runs its Opus, Sonnet and Haiku models with Gmail, Calendar, Slack, Canva and Notion hooks across ten languages — voice is quietly becoming the agent interface.
Group chat, plus agents. Block's free, open-source desktop app merges team chat, workflows and GitHub project management, with model-agnostic AI agents as first-class members of the room.
The attacker was software: the platform attributes a production breach to an autonomous agent, The Hacker News reports; its CEO warns attackers already weaponize them, per Forbes.
Our full story on the quiet rollback from 372K: what shrank, who feels it first, and the workaround that costs nothing.
CJ Pais's transcribe.cpp spans 16 ASR model families with Vulkan, Metal and CUDA acceleration — on-device, with Python, JavaScript, Rust and Swift bindings.
Bun's creator says startup is ~10% faster on Linux; Simon Willison found Bun 1.4.0 and hundreds of Rust files in the shipping binary.
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