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August 2026

232 events 31 days with news

Importance: monitoring Meta Regulation and law 1 source

Former head of civil rights at Meta criticizes the discrepancy between the manifesto by Zuckerberg and the company's practices

Former vice president for civil rights at Meta Roy Austin criticizes the manifesto “The Future is for Everyone” by Mark Zuckerberg for the discrepancy between promises of ethical AI and the company's practices – eliminating ethics teams and lobbying against AI regulation.

Importance: monitoring New models update ✓ 2

Suno releases Studio 2.0 with MIDI support, AI chat and unlimited export

Suno Studio 2.0 adds MIDI editing, a chat interface for creating instruments and effects, and stem separation; Premier subscribers get unlimited 32-bit/48 kHz export. Meanwhile, a German court ruled that Suno violates copyright law.

New: Stem separation is included in the Studio 2.0 features; Unlimited multitrack export at 32-bit/48kHz for Premier subscribers; The chat interface lets users communicate with the DAW as if it were a bandmate to create instruments and vocals; A German court ruled that Suno violates German copyright law

Importance: monitoring Amazon AI agents ✓ official

Amazon Quick arrives as an extension directly in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook

Amazon has made extensions for the Amazon Quick assistant available for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. The assistant draws on data from AWS, QuickSight and connected services and can edit documents directly. No additional licenses are required for customers on the Plus, Professional and Enterprise plans.

Importance: monitoring Business and investment 1 source

Apple is in talks with publishers about payments for content for Siri AI

According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple is in talks with publishers about paid access to their content for the new Siri AI. It is proposing payments based on actual content usage instead of a fixed licensing fee, and the budget is expected to reach a nine-digit figure. Siri AI is expected to launch later this year.

Importance: monitoring Mistral Business and investment 1 source

Mistral announced a plan for 1 GW of European compute capacity by 2030 and opening its infrastructure to third-party models

Mistral presented a plan to build 1 GW of compute capacity in Europe by 2030. It includes a choice of inference location (Regional Endpoints), Priority Tier with an SLA and opening the infrastructure to the GLM-5.2 model from Z.ai. The funding coalition consists of ASML, CMA CGM and Amadeus.

Importance: monitoring Robotics 1 source

Pony.ai plans to deploy 100 000 autonomous light vehicles by 2030

Chinese company Pony.ai has announced a plan to deploy up to 100 000 autonomous light vehicles (level L4) for urban logistics by 2030. For heavy trucks, it envisages 500–1000 vehicles within two to three years. According to the company, the cost of the autonomous driving kit (ADK) has fallen by 70 %.

Importance: monitoring Business and investment 1 source

Study: layoffs justified by AI investments reduce company productivity

A study using five years of data from publicly traded US companies shows that layoffs justified by AI investments damage employee morale and reduce the expected benefits of AI for productivity; the market reaction to such announcements is close to zero on average.

Importance: important New models ✓ official

Liquid AI has released LFM2.5-VL-3B for image processing and function calling

The model LFM2.5-VL-3B is available on Hugging Face and in Playground. It supports function calling from text and image inputs. According to Liquid AI, it improves screen understanding, object localization and handling multiple images.

Importance: monitoring OpenAI Tools and apps update ✓ 2

OpenAI released a preview version of the ChatGPT desktop application for Linux with the Codex agent included

OpenAI launched a preview of the ChatGPT desktop application for Linux with the Codex agent included. It supports Ubuntu 24.04/26.04, Debian 13 and Fedora 43/44 on both x64 and ARM64, but lacks computer use for controlling desktop applications.

New: Computer use is not available in the preview; controlling desktop applications (GIMP, OpenOffice) is not possible; The application explicitly supports x64 and ARM64 architectures with .deb and .rpm packages; It includes a built-in browser, Chrome extensions and voice control; The Mac and Windows versions were released in July 2026; The application provides a visual interface for tracking projects, files and code changes; CLI remains more accessible for terminal users

Importance: monitoring Google New models 1 source

Google DeepMind demonstrated the AMIE system for real-time clinical video consultations

Google Research and Google DeepMind presented the AMIE research system, which conducts clinical video consultations in real time. In a study with simulated patients, it achieved expert-level performance in both diagnosis and communication, according to the company; it remains a research system with no deployment plan.