Thursday, 27 August 2026

Agents

Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork memory

Agents pick up months of chat context when handed a Cowork task, without re-briefing. On by default for Free, Pro and Max.

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Agents

ChatGPT tasks can fire on Gmail, Slack and GitHub events

Event-driven agents replace polling on eligible plans. WebMCP site tools and cloud browser sign-in arrived the same day.

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Language

IBM releases Granite Speech 5.0 TurboCTC English ASR

Edge-sized open speech-to-text at about 5% OpenASR WER and very high throughput, suited to call-centre and on-device transcription.

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Models

IBM ships Granite 4.2 open reasoning models

Apache-2.0 dense models with tool calling and agentic RL on the larger sizes, usable via vLLM or SGLang without extra glue.

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Business

OpenAI publishes first Jalapeño inference chip results

First measured first-party silicon at Hot Chips. Small-volume deploy targeted end-2026. Does not change API builders this week.

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