Google is launching a chatbot interface in the Google app for describing Discover feed preferences in natural language, alongside personalized audio briefings in Google News and a Preferred Sources button for publisher websites.
New: The AI chatbot interface for customization is located in the three-dot menu of the Discover feed; The feature is rolling out gradually in the Google app in the coming days; Google will remember user choices for future visits; Personalization will expand to the Google News app with audio briefings; Preferred Sources will expand to include an interactive button on publisher websites
On 20 August 2026 at 19:16 UTC, Anthropic reported increased API request error rates for some Claude models; the incident was resolved at 19:42 UTC, after 26 minutes.
On 20 August 2026, between 18:32 and 19:01 UTC, Anthropic reported elevated error rates affecting Google connectors (Sheets, Docs, Slides, Chat) and custom Google integrations in Claude.ai. Core functionality was not affected, and the incident was resolved within 30 minutes.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore has expanded Policy Authoring, a tool that converts written rules in natural language into formal Dogwood policies for governing AI agent behavior – including time constraints, tool call order, and integration with Amazon Bedrock Guardrails.
Amazon published the second installment of a blog series on scaling agentic AI systems, describing architectural principles for managing heterogeneous environments with multiple frameworks, models, and providers without creating vendor lock-in.
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Following a wave of executive departures from April 2026 (including Fidji Simo, Brad Lightcap and Denise Dresser), OpenAI president Greg Brockman took over leadership of product and the entire commercial division, effectively becoming the second most powerful person at the company after Sam Altman, just before the planned IPO.
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A commentary in MIT Technology Review argues that rhetoric about the consciousness and autonomy of AI systems (J-space from Anthropic, statements by Sam Altman about the singularity, calls for AI rights) in practice helps companies avoid liability for harm caused by their AI agents.
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OpenAI confirmed that the incident involving increased error rates in ChatGPT for Plus and Pro users has been resolved. The affected components (Conversations, and previously Image Generation and ChatGPT Work as well) have returned to normal operation.
New: The incident is not resolved — it is under active investigation; The Conversations component has degraded performance; It specifically affects users on the Plus and Pro tiers; The incident has no known ETA for resolution; OpenAI is working on a mitigation measure, not a final fix
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Ads are now running in the free version of ChatGPT in the Czech Republic as well. According to an analysis by Marketing Miner, they appeared alongside roughly 75 % of answers to consumer queries. For 89 % of queries, the answer did not mention the company featured in the accompanying ad.
New: Ads were indeed launched in the Czech Republic as well in late August.; The Marketing Miner analysis covered more than a thousand ChatGPT answers.; An ad appeared alongside approximately 75 % of answers to consumer queries.; For 89 % of queries, the answer did not mention the company featured in the accompanying ad.; The frequency with which ads appear varies significantly by query topic.
Generalist AI introduced GEN-1.5, a model that, according to the company, learns a new task from a single 3 to 12-second demonstration without further training. Without training, it achieves a success rate of 59 %, rising to 83 % with ten training steps on five minutes of data. The results have not been independently verified.
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Senator Chuck Grassley introduced the AI Whistleblower Protection Act in May 2025, the first federal bill protecting employees of AI companies who report a serious risk even without a violation of the law. Similar protections are also included in an amendment to the NDAA and the Great American AI Act proposal.
The research team created DeepTCM1.0 — a multi-agent framework based on the DeepSeek V3.2 model that simulates 11 interdisciplinary agents — for mechanistic analysis of traditional Chinese medicine formulas, tested on the Guizhi Decoction case.
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