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AI & Automation

8/4/2026 4 min

@ZachasADMIN

Claude Cowork doubles usage limits through August 5 during paid-plan rollout

Anthropic’s Claude account says doubled Cowork usage limits run through August 5, giving paid-plan users a short window for larger delegated tasks while Cowork expands across web and mobile.

AI & Automation

8/3/2026 5 min

@ZachasADMIN

Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Max for frontier coding and agent work

Alibaba’s Qwen team released Qwen3.8-Max on August 3, positioning it as the family’s strongest model for coding, multimodal reasoning, and agent workflows while API availability and open-weight timing remain the details to verify.

AI & Automation

8/3/2026 4 min

@ZachasADMIN

xAI releases Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 with an August 5 alias switch

xAI released Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 for speech-to-speech developers, with a documented August 5 switch for the grok-voice-latest alias and $0.08-per-minute audio pricing.

AI & Automation

8/1/2026 4 min

@ZachasADMIN

OpenAI says Astra generated ten mathematical advances with Lean certificates

OpenAI says an internal version of its next major model, Astra, produced ten new results across mathematics and theoretical computer science, with human-prepared manuscripts and Lean certificates released for scrutiny.

AI & Automation

8/1/2026 4 min

@ZachasADMIN

MiniMax releases H3 for unified 2K video and native stereo audio

MiniMax H3 combines text, images, video, and audio in one generation context, with 2K output, native stereo sound, reference-based creation, and natural-language video editing.

AI & Automation

7/31/2026 3 min

@ZachasADMIN

Google releases Gemini Robotics ER 2 for public API preview

Google DeepMind has released Gemini Robotics ER 2 through the Gemini API and AI Studio, adding public preview endpoints for embodied reasoning, video progress tracking, and multi-robot orchestration.

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