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5 updates · 3 appsAugust 1, 2026

A quiet day across AI apps

It's a slow news day, with no significant feature releases from major AI labs.

ChatGPT

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Expanded summary · ChatGPT

After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself.

After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the A…

Original reportingSam Altman isn't the only one who wants to pump the brakes on AI | TechCrunchRead original

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Chinese AI Researchers Are Finding Their Voice on X

After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the A…

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TechCrunch's AI experts cover the latest news in the fast-moving field.

A full-stack approach to making advanced AI more capable, more affordable, and more widely useful.

Original reportingBuilding abundant intelligenceRead original

Perplexity

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Kimi K2.7 Code — perplexity/kimi-k2.7-code , Moonshot AI’s coding and agentic model.

Grok 4.3 and the Grok 4.20 family — xai/grok-4.3, xai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning, and xai/grok-4.20-multi-agent.

Smart media selection: Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type

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Claude Code

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The inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by researchers, engineers and early users who built it.

The Making of Claude Code

Original reportingThe Making of Claude CodeRead original