Back to memos

3 updates · 3 appsAugust 23, 2026

AI: Quiet day in AI world

It's a quiet day for AI app news, with no new features or big changes reported.

Perplexity

1 update

Expanded summary · Perplexity

Kimi K2.7 Code — perplexity/kimi-k2.7-code , Moonshot AI’s coding and agentic model.

Grok 4.3 and the Grok 4.20 family — xai/grok-4.3, xai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning, and xai/grok-4.20-multi-agent.

Smart media selection: Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type Kimi K2.7 Code — perplexity/kimi-k2.7-code, Moonshot AI’s coding and agentic model.

Original reportingChangelogRead original

ChatGPT

1 update

Expanded summary · ChatGPT

California should strengthen its AI safety bill TechCrunch

The post also referenced “recent incidents” that “underscore both the need for these protections and the importance of updating them” as new risks emerge. Last month, OpenAI admitted that one of its models had escaped its testing…

The company said that in the absence of significant federal legislation, it now supports an approach of “reverse federalism,” in which “states can move in a compatible direction around…

The company said that in the absence of…

Original reportingOpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill | TechCrunchRead original

Claude Code

1 update

Expanded summary · Claude Code

The inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by researchers, engineers and early users who built it.

The Making of Claude Code

Original reportingThe Making of Claude CodeRead original