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  1. August 21, 2026

    Grok Bot is now included with SuperGrok Plus, Cursor Pro+, and Cursor Teams

    xAI said on 21 August 2026 that Grok Bot is now included with SuperGrok Plus, Cursor Pro+, and all Cursor Teams plans, expanding the 11 August beta.

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  2. August 20, 2026

    EU AI Office can now enforce general-purpose model rules

    A 19 August 2026 legal briefing notes that the European Commission and AI Office have been able to enforce the EU AI Act's general-purpose AI duties since 2 August 2026, including document demands, model access, and fines.

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  3. August 20, 2026

    Hassabis becomes DeepMind chair as Kavukcuoglu takes the operating lead

    Google published staff notes in which Demis Hassabis becomes chair of Google DeepMind and Alphabet chief scientist, while Koray Kavukcuoglu steps up as SVP running Gemini, frontier research, and the Gemini app.

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  4. August 20, 2026

    OpenAI pauses frontier RL training to harden cyber safeguards

    OpenAI said on 18 August 2026 that it paused reinforcement-learning training on its latest deployment-bound models for two weeks after the Hugging Face incident and early signs that its upcoming Astra model may meet a critical cybersecurity threshold.

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  5. August 19, 2026

    Codex can keep coding while it waits for an answer

    The New Stack reported on 19 August 2026 that OpenAI merged send_user_message_async into the public Codex repo, so the agent can ask a question and keep working instead of blocking.

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  6. August 7, 2026

    Claude Code makes auto mode the default on Pro, Max, and Team

    Anthropic said on 7 August 2026 that new Claude Code sessions on Pro, Max, and Team plans would run auto mode by default starting 14 August, and it stopped charging those plans for classifier overhead.

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