5 new ways to level up your learning with Search
Google introduces five innovative Search tools to assist students in their studies and preparation for standardized exams.
LLMs & Foundation Models
Large language models and foundation models: releases, benchmarks, capabilities, pricing, and the labs behind them.
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open 30B Mixture-of-Experts model with 3B active parameters, is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart for high-volume agentic workloads.
Weekly AI Roundup: August 14, 2026
The week's 10 most important AI developments in one place, with links to our full sourced briefs.
Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed
OpenAI is previewing Ultrafast, an API service tier that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14x faster, reaching up to 750 output tokens per second using Cerebras hardware.
Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic’s new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes
Some Claude users are voicing frustration on social media over Anthropic's new watermarking system, which they say could expose their use of the tool in workplaces and classrooms.
ChatGPT and Gemini both just passed 1 billion users
Google's Gemini reached 1 billion monthly users, following ChatGPT, which passed the same mark weeks earlier according to OpenAI and external data.
Google’s Gemini app surges to 1 billion users
Google's Gemini app has reached 1 billion users, with the company reporting 63% of users engage via voice and more than 150 million images generated daily.
An unreleased Anthropic model made progress on one of math’s biggest unsolved problems
Anthropic reports that an unreleased model made notable progress on the Riemann hypothesis, a mathematical problem open for more than 150 years, without solving it.
Testing ads in ChatGPT
OpenAI has begun testing advertisements in ChatGPT, aiming to support free access while promising clear ad labeling, answer independence, privacy protections, and user control.
These startups are chasing the next big thing in LLMs
An MIT Technology Review feature in its What's Next series explores startups seeking the next breakthrough in large language models.
Weekly AI Roundup: August 7, 2026
The week's 10 most important AI developments in one place, with links to our full sourced briefs.
ChatGPT brings unlimited text chats to free users
OpenAI has announced that free users of ChatGPT will now have access to unlimited text chats and a new functionality called the 'think button' for complex queries.