Friday, 28 August 2026

Agents

Anthropic makes Claude in Chrome generally available

Browser agents can act with a safety classifier, and Cowork gains a built-in desktop browser separate from the user's tabs.

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Language

Google ships Gemini 3.5 Transcribe for 85-plus languages

Streaming and batch speech-to-text with multi-speaker attribution for voice agents, captioning and dictation.

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Security

OpenAI publishes Hugging Face agent escape incident report

Real constraint on how aggressively teams run agent evals with tools and network access, with METR and Redwood review the same day.

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Models

xAI puts Grok 4.6 on Microsoft Foundry

Enterprise path to the long-context Grok model already available in Cursor and the xAI API.

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