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• Slack Turns AI Coding Into a Team Workflow With New Slack Code Channels

  • By Chris ChatAI (Admin)
  • August 21, 2026

  • Core News and Trends

  Slack launched Slack Code, a new way for teams to work with AI coding agents inside dedicated Slack channels rather than limiting agent sessions to private terminals, browser tabs or standard...

• NVIDIA Research Shows AI Agent Harness Can Push Claude Opus 5 to 100% on ARC-AGI-3

  • By Chris ChatAI (Admin)
  • August 21, 2026

  • Tech Deep Dive

  NVIDIA published research showing that its Agentic Variation Operators system, or AVO, achieved a 100.00 score on the public ARC-AGI-3 benchmark when paired with Claude Opus 5. The system completed...

• Starcloud Raises $250 Million to Build AI Data Centers in Space

  • By Chris ChatAI (Admin)
  • August 21, 2026

  • Finance

  Starcloud announced a $250 million Series A extension on August 21 at a $2.3 billion post-money valuation, giving the space-based data center company additional funding to expand manufacturing,...

• Anthropic’s Claude Academy Offers Free Courses for Claude Code, API and Agents

  • By Chris ChatAI (Admin)
  • August 21, 2026

  • Core News and Trends

  Anthropic launched Claude Academy, introducing a free education platform with courses and tutorials for learning how to use and build with Claude. The platform is open to anyone and offers material...

• ChatGPT Can Now Read, Write and Send iMessages on Mac

  • By Chris ChatAI (Admin)
  • August 21, 2026

  • Core News and Trends

  OpenAI added support Thursday for controlling Apple’s Messages app through ChatGPT on Mac, giving users the ability to read, compose and send messages from the AI assistant. The integration can also...

• AI Training Data Startup Micro1 Hits $500 Million Annual Run Rate

  • By Chris ChatAI (Admin)
  • August 21, 2026

  • Finance

  Micro1 has reached a $500 million gross annual run rate, up from $100 million eight months ago, as the four-year-old startup expands its business supplying training data and human feedback to AI...

• Liquid Death and Garage Beer Target AI Data Center Water Use in New Campaign

  • By Chris ChatAI (Admin)
  • August 21, 2026

  • Energy and Sustainability

  Liquid Death and Garage Beer have launched a promotional campaign criticizing data center water consumption, using former NFL player and Garage Beer co-founder Jason Kelce in a music video that calls...

• Meta AI Comes to Mac With Instagram, Facebook and Google Workspace Integration

  • By Chris ChatAI (Admin)
  • August 20, 2026

  • Core News and Trends

  Meta has released a dedicated Meta AI app for Mac, adding screen sharing and cross-app dictation while expanding the assistant’s connections to Facebook, Instagram, advertising data and Google...

• Google Adds Preferred Sources to Search as Gemini Gets New Discover Controls

  • By Chris ChatAI (Admin)
  • August 20, 2026

  • Core News and Trends

  Google has introduced an embeddable Preferred Sources button that publishers can add to their websites, giving readers a direct way to tell Google they want to see more content from a particular...

• Rippling Launches AI MCP Gateway After Ending Legal Battle With Runlayer

  • By Chris ChatAI (Admin)
  • August 20, 2026

  • Core News and Trends

  Rippling and Runlayer dropped their lawsuits against each other Wednesday night, ending a legal dispute centered on competing MCP gateway technology without a settlement or payments between the...

• Ramp Router.com Automatically Picks the Cheapest AI Model for Every Request

  • By Chris ChatAI (Admin)
  • August 20, 2026

  • Core News and Trends

  Ramp launched Router.com giving developers a single API for accessing AI models from multiple providers while automatically selecting the lowest-cost option that meets a specified performance...

• Meta’s New Pocket App Turns AI Prompts Into Interactive Games

  • By Chris ChatAI (Admin)
  • August 20, 2026

  • Core News and Trends

  Meta is rolling out Pocket, its experimental AI-powered game-creation app, to users across the U.S. after initially testing the product in Brazil last month. Pocket lets users describe small...