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Waymo had surpassed 450,000 weekly paid rides by Dec. 8, 2025.

Every CEO Dan Shipper on doubling headcount while automating everything, building an agent out of 30,000 copyedits, and the “dirty secret” of writing with AI

Slack wants to drag AI coding out of the terminal and into the group chat. The Salesforce-owned messaging platform today announced Slack Code , a new product that embeds AI coding agents — including Anthropic's Claude Code , Cognition's Devin , GitHub Copilot , and Vercel's agent — directly into dedicated Slack channels where entire teams can watch, steer, review, and ship software together. Slack Code is available on any Slack plan at launch, though customers need their own access to the partne

OpenAI lowered list pricing for GPT-5.6 Sol , and the 50% AI Gateway discount now applies to the new, lower price through September 18. Input drops 20%, output drops a third. The discount applies on every OpenAI service tier: Service tier You pay now (input / output) New list price (input / output) You paid before (input / output) Default $2.00 / $10.00 $4.00 / $20.00 $2.50 / $15.00 Flex $1.00 / $5.00 $2.00 / $10.00 $1.25 / $7.50 Priority (fast mode) $4.00 / $20.00 $8.00 / $40.00 $5.00 / $30.00

DeepSeek V4 Flash with vision is now available on AI Gateway. This model is an experimental version that accepts images alongside text. You can ask it to describe a picture, read text out of a screenshot, or work through a chart in the same request as your prompt. DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Experimental now available on AI Gateway. Tool use, reasoning, and caching all work the same as before. Use deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp to get started: Images can be JPEG, PNG, GIF, or WebP. The forma

Apps and agents built in v0 can now securely connect to 100+ third-party services , including Slack, Google, Notion, GitHub, and Salesforce, through Vercel Connect . Prompt v0 to connect your app to a service, and it walks you through setting up a connector for it. Connectors belong to your team, so you set one up once and reuse it across apps. For some connectors like Slack and GitHub, Vercel handles the app registration, so there's nothing to set up on the provider's side. For other services y

<p><strong><a href="https://promptwatch.com/data/chatgpt-site-operator-fanouts">ChatGPT search now uses the site:operator at scale</a></strong></p> Promptwatch is part of the emerging "GEO" space, for Generative Engine Optimization - the chatbot version of SEO, where companies offer tools and consulting to help your site increase its presence in replies to prompts inside tools like ChatGPT.</p> <p>The Promptwatch product uses automation to track responses to prompts across end-user chat products

Corporate customers can look forward to easier management of agents in Google Cloud

The Tennessee Valley Authority's Board of Directors on August 20, 2026 approved a new wholesale rate class built specifically for data centers, part of a package that also adopted the utility's 2026 Integrated Resource Plan and a fiscal 2027 budget carrying more than $13 billion in planned generation and transmission spending through FY29. The actions, taken at the board's quarterly meeting in Memphis and detailed in TVA's announcement, make the nation's largest public power supplier one of the…

OpenAI is growing faster than Anthropic among U.S. businesses so far this quarter, according to new Ramp spending data posted August 20, 2026 by the expense-management company's lead economist, Ara Kharazian, marking the first signs of a reversal since Anthropic took the lead in corporate AI spending three months ago. The numbers come from the Ramp AI Index, a monthly measure of AI adoption and spend built from transaction data across more than 70,000 American businesses using Ramp's corporate…

OpenAI has shipped an Apple Messages plugin for the ChatGPT desktop app on macOS, letting the chatbot read and search a Mac's iMessage, SMS, and RCS conversations and prepare or send texts through the Messages app itself. The feature landed August 20, 2026, in the company's release notes, and it works inside Codex and ChatGPT Work (the agentic surfaces OpenAI has been building out all year) rather than in ordinary ChatGPT chats. The plugin is available on all plans, but with a hard hardware…

FCC ban on foreign-made robots accelerated RoboStore’s US manufacturing plans.

The upcoming feature expands its Transparency Tags for marking slop songs.

Google will soon allow you to customize your Discover feed by describing what you want to see. The new feature, rolling out to the Google app in the "coming days," will use AI to automatically tweak your feed and "remember" your preferences for future visits. You'll find the option within the three-dot menu on your […]

Amazon Bedrock now offers OpenAI GPT-5.6 models (Sol, Terra, and Luna) in more than 25 AWS Regions with cross-Region inference. Learn how US geographic and global inference profiles route requests for higher throughput, how to call the models with the OpenAI and Converse APIs, and how to configure IAM, quotas, and monitoring.

Amazon said its Prime Air drones can deliver nearly all items 5 lb. or less that can fit in a large shoebox. The post Amazon plans to expand Prime Air to nearly 500 cities by the end of 2026 appeared first on The Robot Report .

In Part 2 of this no-code ML series, you connect Amazon SageMaker Canvas to Snowflake, prepare and join transaction data with Data Wrangler visual transformations, and train an XGBoost fraud detection model. All without writing machine learning code, laying the groundwork for interactive dashboards in Part 3.

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v 1.27 expands generics to support methods

With Private Safety Processing, AI biz promises discreet, automated prompt surveillance

Enterprise AI teams have stopped betting on a single orchestration platform. The median enterprise now runs three at once — not by accident, but because none of them fully trusts a single vendor to run the show, according to VB Pulse data . This is not just to avoid vendor lock-in and retain flexibility (although that’s a big part of it). There’s still a lot of uncertainty, even distrust, in vendors’ security and permissioning capabilities. Enterprises want the ability to impose their own. Micro

A teen who died by suicide was reportedly part of the test.

5 nm ML accelerators promise 1,000+ TOPS, ultra-low latency

Adobe is making three AI audio tools broadly available in Firefly. Generate Music, Generate Speech, and Generate Sound Effects create royalty-free music, voiceovers, and sound effects for video projects. Adobe has also added Gemini Omni Flash to the platform. The article Adobe Firefly adds AI audio tools and Google's Gemini Omni Flash appeared first on The Decoder .

It's called Pocket and is described as a "platform for making and sharing gizmos."

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You can now use the Vercel CLI to manage Vercel Toolbar comments. vercel comments covers the full triage loop: List and filter unresolved comments for the linked project, scoped to your current Git branch Inspect a full thread with every message and its IDs Reply, resolve, reopen, edit, or delete from the terminal --format json output for scripts and agents Common workflow Start by listing all of the unresolved comments in the current branch: Dig deeper into a specific thread: Reply, resolve, ed

Improve your proficiency with Claude Code. The post How to Effectively Align Your Intent with Claude Code appeared first on Towards Data Science .

Asana completed a testing framework migration in two weeks, that they would have delayed for years more, and they’re not alone. Also: AI startups could make Gartner much less relevant, and more

Par Chadha, Founder, CEO and CIO of HandsOn Global Management, is an entrepreneur, investor, and technology executive with decades of experience building and scaling technology-enabled businesses. Since founding HandsOn Global Management in 2001, he has focused on investments in workflow automation, big data, robotic process automation (RPA), cognitive technologies, and artificial intelligence across financial services, healthcare, insurance, and legal markets. He is also Co-Founder of Rule14…

Google DeepMind's Gemma family of open models has passed one billion cumulative downloads, the company said on August 20, 2026, capping two years in which outside developers published more than 100,000 variants built on the models' open weights. The figures, disclosed in Google's official announcement by Clement Farabet, a vice president at Google DeepMind, and product director Olivier Lacombe, mark the first time Google has put a cumulative total on Gemma adoption since the family launched in…

We're already waiting for the new gen-AI-powered Siri, but a home hub may be on the way as well.

OpenAI presented details of its AI’s model’s cyberattack on Hugging Face at Black Hat last week. Simon Willison details the timeline. It’s really interesting to read through—and really impressive cyberoffense work.

ATDev is developing a modern power wheelchair with a coordinated robotic arm that can take on reaching and lifting tasks for the user. The post ATDev gives update on its journey building autonomous wheelchairs appeared first on The Robot Report .

LLMs don't write in a recognizable style because they can't do better. Post-training and safety guardrails sharply narrow their expressive range, argues Pangram CTO Bradley Emi. Base models without these constraints already write with far more variety. The article LLMs could write like humans but post-training guardrails make their text detectable appeared first on The Decoder .

Three-quarters of organizations have found AI layoffs cost more than they saved, and as many as nine in 10 companies would rethink them given the chance.

Adding an AI agent to Slack sounds appealing to many enterprises — but, as VentureBeat has experienced ourselves first hand — the reality is often far more complex and clunkier than it first seems. Now NanoCo ., the company behind the hit open source, enterprise-friendly, autonomous AI agent harness NanoClaw (a more sandboxed, lower code version of OpenClaw), is hoping to make it just as easy as typing a Slack message. To go one step further: the company's new NanoClaw Slack integration lets hum

A lot of this week’s trouble starts with something trusted doing exactly what it was allowed to do. Signed drivers get turned against defenses. Legitimate apps help malware blend in. A weak header check opens a path to code execution. Elsewhere, exposed systems, old bugs, odd hiding tricks, and AI-assisted exploit research keep lowering the effort needed to cause damage. Nothing here needs