AI news on 8 August 2026

• 13:40

  AI framework rooted in cognitive science could complete tasks more efficiently

  TechXplore+5

  • Pinecone’s Nexus Knowledge Engine for AI Agents Reaches General AvailabilityUnite.AI
  • Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Vercel unite on a shared standard for AI agent pluginsThe Decoder
  • Prompt: Why Better AI Models Aren't EnoughAI Business
  • Four AI agents coordinating in real time outperformed Claude Opus 4.8 on enterprise coding tasksVentureBeat
  • Neuromorphic AI framework rooted in cognitive science could complete tasks more efficientlyr/singularity
• 19:41

  OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide

  TechCrunch+3

  • OpenAI Acquires NextSlide, the AI Presentation StartupUnite.AI
  • Is the NextSlide.ai → OpenAI acquisition real? The lack of any product footprint seems really weirdr/OpenAI
  • OpenAI acquires NextSlide to bring AI-generated presentations into ChatGPTThe Decoder
• 14:58

  Anthropic sets Claude Code to Auto Mode by default to protect developers from bad approvals

  The Decoder▴249+3

  • Anthropic Flips Claude Code to Auto Mode by Default Aug 14, after finding AI blocks 80%+ dangerous queries while humans only 14%r/ClaudeAI
  • Anthropic is turning Claude Code’s auto mode on by defaultTechCrunch
  • Auto mode is now the default in Claude CodeHacker News front page
• 12:28

  Claude Code sessions can now talk to each other and share context across terminals

  The Decoder▴129+3

  • Claude Code Sessions Can Now Run on Infrastructure Your Team ControlsUnite.AI
  • Claude code : your sessions can now message each other.r/ClaudeAI
  • Message your other Claude Code sessionsHacker News front page
• 15:30

  Claude Vs ChatGPT: How These AI Assistants Differ

  Engadget+2

  • The Hottest New AI Chatbot Is Just a Guy Answering Your QuestionsWIRED
  • Claude ai optimizationr/ClaudeAI
• 21:24

  Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the U.S.

  TechCrunch▴159+1

  • New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.Hacker News front page
• 08:22

  xAI's Imagine Image 2.0 lands just behind OpenAI's GPT-Image-2 in Arena benchmarks

  The Decoder+1

  • xAI Ships Grok Imagine Image 2.0 With Precise Editing and a Top Arena RankingUnite.AI
• 21:58

  Firebird Takes Its AI Factory Platform Global With a 2-Gigawatt Pipeline

  Unite.AI
• 15:51

  Forecasting the AI bubble: When scarcity turns to surplus

  SiliconANGLE
• 14:18

  Readers rate AI-generated short stories higher than human ones until they learn a machine wrote them

  The Decoder
• 14:07

  Here’s how we played the massive rebound in AI stocks this week

  CNBC Technology
• 12:36

  Is football AI-proof? Why tech investors wanted a slice of the World Cup

  BBC Technology
• 12:00

  Hugging Face hack marks start of dangerous AI cyber era and many firms 'don't even know it'

  CNBC Technology
• 11:26

  Backflip AI turns 3D scans into editable CAD models in minutes instead of hours

  The Decoder
• 11:08

  Fields Medalist who published a paper on AI-driven human extinction now works for OpenAI

  The Decoder
• 10:41

  Firebird Opens the CIS Region’s Largest AI Factory in Armenia

  Unite.AI
• 10:00

  How to Disable Gemini in Gmail and Google Docs

  WIREDlimited
• 09:44

  AI agents use roughly 600 times more energy than a simple chat prompt

  The Decoder
• 01:53

  Claude Cowork Record a Skill: I’m Never Hiring a VA Again

  Unite.AI
• 00:58

  OpenAI reveals upcoming Astra model may possess ‘critical’ hacking capabilities

  SiliconANGLE