2026-08-12Model releaseSpaceXAI releases Grok 4.6: same price as 4.5, mixed results on its own benchmarksThe new model is pitched at long-running agents and holds Grok 4.5's $2/$6 list price. Every benchmark figure comes from SpaceXAI, and two of them put Grok 4.6 behind GPT-5.6 Sol Max and Fable 5 Max on agentic coding.6 min read→
2026-08-11ProductGoogle says the Gemini app passed 1 billion monthly usersThe milestone is app-only, self-reported and arrives three weeks after Google told investors the figure was 950 million. The usage breakdown underneath it is the more interesting part.4 min read→
2026-08-10Model releaseMeta releases Muse Glimmer, a 30B open-weight agent model built for one consumer GPUApache 2.0 weights, a 131K context and 4-bit quantization that fits a 24GB card. The benchmarks are Meta's own, and they do not all favour Meta.5 min read→
2026-08-09OtherWeek aheadThe week ahead: KDD, USENIX Security, and one read on AI capexThree confirmed dates between 9 and 15 August. None of them is a model launch.3 min read→
2026-08-08OtherAI Daily launches: one verified AI story a day, with its sources attachedPromptea now runs a daily editorial desk. Here is how a story gets chosen, what gets checked before it publishes, and what will never appear here.2 min read→
2026-08-07ProductAnthropic loosens Fable 5's biology safeguards, and says over-blocking fell 85%The company rewrote the rules its safety classifier follows. Everyday health and biology questions should now get answers — but the headline number is Anthropic's own, and nobody has checked it independently.3 min read→