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2026-08-18

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X.com08/18, 23:46Business

Your PR has been "in review" for 72 hours.

Your PR has been "in review" for 72 hours. CodeRabbit would've reviewed it in 3 minutes... line-by-line, with fixes ready to apply. Make "waiting on review" a thing of the past!

X.com08/18, 23:46Business

MICRO-EXPRESSIONS ARE THE NEW FRONTIER IN HUMANOID ROBOTICS.

MICRO-EXPRESSIONS ARE THE NEW FRONTIER IN HUMANOID ROBOTICS. The moment a finger presses against this robot’s neck, its expression immediately shifts-eyes widening, mouth opening in a split-second pulse of simulated surprise. The robot feels nothing, but the r

X.com08/18, 23:46Product Update

Claude Code 2.1.235 has been released.

Claude Code 2.1.235 has been released. 19 CLI changes Highlights: • Optional spellcheck underlines typos in prompts via local aspell/hunspell/ispell, improving prompt accuracy • SendMessage now rejects messages too large for cross-session delivery up front, pr

X.com08/18, 23:46Business

Unsloth AI just compressed Kimi K3 down to 1-bit, and it’s running complex physics simulation...

Unsloth AI just compressed Kimi K3 down to 1-bit, and it’s running complex physics simulations locally on 4x B200s at 36 tok/s without exploding Shrinking weights to 1-bit used to completely braindead a model. Unsloth’s custom kernels break that wall, slashing

X.com08/18, 23:46Business

My Story Den is dedicated to bringing our stories to life.

My Story Den is dedicated to bringing our stories to life. We aim to support early readers and help them develop their imaginations! Please visit our website at https:// mystoryden.com /?twclid=2id5lx4m03c7cpstwcydvcrev and sign up so you'll be among the first

X.com08/18, 23:46Business

Fei-Fei Li has mixed feelings about being called the "godmother of AI," but strong opinions a...

Fei-Fei Li has mixed feelings about being called the "godmother of AI," but strong opinions about who gets credit in tech. The World Labs CEO talks to @emilychangtv on this episode of The Circuit https:// bloom.bg/43UwKlo

X.com08/18, 23:46Business

QWEN3.8-MAX IS FREE RIGHT NOW - AND MOST PEOPLE STILL DON’T KNOW One of the strongest Qwen mo...

QWEN3.8-MAX IS FREE RIGHT NOW - AND MOST PEOPLE STILL DON’T KNOW One of the strongest Qwen models is currently available at $0 through B(.)AI launch credits. No credit card. No paid plan. Just sign up and start. Setup takes ~3 minutes: go to chat(.)b(.)ai [rem

X.com08/18, 23:46Safety

Michael Kratsios ( @mkratsios47 ) has seen the AI boom from both sides: as COO of Scale AI an...

Michael Kratsios ( @mkratsios47 ) has seen the AI boom from both sides: as COO of Scale AI and inside the White House. Today, as the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, he helps shape America’s national strategy on AI, science,

X.com08/18, 23:46Agent

A 70-line Markdown file on GitHub has nearly over 200,000 combined stars, and it doesn't teac...

A 70-line Markdown file on GitHub has nearly over 200,000 combined stars, and it doesn't teach Claude anything new. It just tells Claude what not to do In January 2026, Andrej Karpathy posted publicly about the exact failure patterns everyone using AI coding a

X.com08/18, 23:46Business

Safe Pro Group Inc.

Safe Pro Group Inc. ( @SafeProGroupCo ) ( @Nasdaq : $SPAI ) announced on August 18, 2026 that it has been awarded a new subcontract and purchase order for its patented AI threat detection and mapping solution in support of a U.S. Department of State program. T

X.com08/18, 23:46Business

Breaking: According to Bloomberg, Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 bi...

Breaking: According to Bloomberg, Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion.

X.com08/18, 23:32Business

IMAGINE YOUR NOTES APP LOOKING LIKE MISSION CONTROL this is what a second brain becomes when ...

IMAGINE YOUR NOTES APP LOOKING LIKE MISSION CONTROL this is what a second brain becomes when you stop treating it like a folder and start treating it like a system it's called omega. every note is a star. every connection is a line. and it tracks stats most pe

X.com08/18, 23:32Open Source

Origin, our code hosting platform, is now live.

Origin, our code hosting platform, is now live. It's fast, easy to use, and deeply integrated with Cursor. Get started by syncing your repos from GitHub.

X.com08/18, 23:32Business

Many drugs work by binding to a specific target in the body and blocking or changing what it ...

Many drugs work by binding to a specific target in the body and blocking or changing what it does. An important first step in the drug development process is designing a molecule that can bind tightly to its target. Traditionally, that's meant weeks or months

X.com08/18, 23:32Business

Around the Milan Olympics, Salomon put a real person inside worlds that did not exist.

Around the Milan Olympics, Salomon put a real person inside worlds that did not exist. Its global campaign combined live action and AI. A model was filmed on set. The shifting landscapes around her were generated. Unveil showed Salomon original AI artwork when

X.com08/18, 23:32Agent

"Agents are your new power users.

"Agents are your new power users. They are power users from ... Day 1. They are now your Super Users. With agents, you don't worry about onboarding. They onboard themselves. Instead, they push the limits so fast, we ask our agents 'What Functionality is Holdin

X.com08/18, 23:32Agent

IF YOUR AI REVIEWS ITS OWN WORK, IT WILL NEVER FIND ITS OWN MISTAKE a repo with 61 agents hit...

IF YOUR AI REVIEWS ITS OWN WORK, IT WILL NEVER FIND ITS OWN MISTAKE a repo with 61 agents hit 10,000 GitHub stars in a week, and it’s not because of a new model. every agent has exactly one job. but that’s not even the interesting part. when one model writes c

X.com08/18, 23:32Business

The investment in AI by enterprises has already shown a gap exceeding 600 times.

The investment in AI by enterprises has already shown a gap exceeding 600 times. According to Ramp data, the top 1% of companies with the highest AI spending invest about $7,500 per employee per month; the top 10% invest about $660, while the median company in

OpenAI08/18, 08:00Safety

New policy ideas for the Intelligence Age

OpenAI funds 14 independent projects exploring new AI policy ideas to expand economic opportunity and strengthen societal resilience in the Intelligence Age.

OpenAI08/18, 08:00Safety

The Defender’s Window

AI is reshaping cybersecurity for attackers and defenders alike. Learn how OpenAI is strengthening its defenses and what security teams can do now.