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5 updates · 4 appsAugust 25, 2026

Perplexity: smarter media selection

Perplexity improved its search experience with smarter media selection.

Perplexity

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The app now intelligently picks between images, videos, or both for your search results.

Perplexity can now figure out if your search would be better answered with just images, just videos, or a mix of both. This means you'll get more relevant visual results without having to manually choose a media type.

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.

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ChatGPT

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Ambrosino works on OpenAI’s biggest bet, ChatGPT Work, which was released last month and is available on the company’s lowest subscription tier, for $20 a month.

Getting the most value from a model means giving it the keys. For a control freak or the AI-hesitant, it seems like a lot.

For Andrew Ambrosino, the lead engineer for OpenAI’s desktop app, it’s the only way to test the future, which is…

“If I’m asking it to write a document, is there a possibility that it’s going to pull from a private DM on that subject and not know that it’s not supposed to share some info?…

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Claude Code

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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

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Claude

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Improving Fable 5 S Biology Safeguards

Improving Fable 5 S Biology Safeguards

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Expanded summary · Claude

Importantly, it isn’t that the model will now always be biased toward overcast or grey.

Just as with non-watermarked text, overcast might be selected in one sentence, grey in the next, depending on the words that came before. And it’s…

In internal testing, we’ve seen no impact of watermarking on the content, level of creativity, or readability of Claude’s text.

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