AI News 2026-08-01
New To You · 12 of 332 stories

OpenAI rolls out Presence and Astra agents while Google adds Gemini Managed Agents and Lyria 3.5

50 sources swept 332 distinct stories from the last 11 days 36 already covered, held back 12 worth your time
  1. Introducing OpenAI Presence

    Provides enterprises a battle‑tested way to deploy trusted AI agents that stay reliable as products, policies, and user behavior evolve.

    OpenAI··Products & apps·lab·2 outlets·openai.com
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  2. OpenAI announces its "next major model" Astra by dropping ten previously unsolved math solutions

    Astra coordinates multiple agents for long‑running, complex tasks and will be the first model family to undergo U.S. government review.

    The Decoder··Models & releases·press·the-decoder.com
  3. Gemini API Managed Agents: 3.6 Flash, hooks, and more

    Adds hooks, model selection and free tier, letting a single Gemini API call orchestrate reasoning, code, file and web tasks in sandbox.

    Google AI··Agents & tooling·lab·blog.google
  4. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

    Free access lets 100,000 scientists use the best ChatGPT models, already producing an AI‑generated disproof of the Erdős conjecture.

    OpenAI··Research·lab·2 outlets·openai.com
  5. AMD Releases Instella-MoE-16B-A3B: A Fully Open Mixture-of-Experts LLM With 2.8B Active Parameters Trained On Instinct GPUs

    AMD releases a fully open Mixture‑of‑Experts LLM with 16B total parameters, 2.8B active per token, and publishes all training artifacts.

    Marktechpost··Models & releases·newsletter·marktechpost.com
  6. MiniMax Releases MiniMax H3: An Omni-Modal Video Model That Generates 15-Second 2K Clips With Native Stereo Audio

    Generates 2K, 4–15 second video clips with native stereo audio from unified text‑image‑video‑audio prompts.

    Marktechpost··Models & releases·newsletter·marktechpost.com
  7. We’re launching Lyria 3.5 in Google Flow Music, with advances across musicality, lyrics, vocals, and creative control

    Improves musicality, lyrics and vocal quality, giving creators richer tracks and more creative control in Google Flow Music.

    Google DeepMind··Models & releases·lab·deepmind.google
  8. Supabase Releases Evals: an Open Source Benchmark That Scores Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode on Real Supabase Tasks

    Benchmarks coding agents on real Supabase tasks, scoring results and feeding a daily‑updated public leaderboard.

    Marktechpost··Agents & tooling·newsletter·marktechpost.com
  9. Codex Security

    Provides a CLI/SDK to locate, validate and fix code security flaws, requiring a verified account and modern runtimes.

    Hacker News AI··Products & apps·HN·596 pts·github.com
  10. Open models recap: more on Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, Xi's WAIC speech, distillation, the open-closed gap, and what's next

    Summarizes latest open‑model releases and geopolitics, packaged in a book now ranking as Amazon’s #1 AI title.

    Interconnects··Research·newsletter·interconnects.ai
  11. Scientific computing in the age of agentic AI

    Shows coding agents modernizing scientific software in genomics and other data‑rich domains, accelerating research pipelines.

    OpenAI··Agents & tooling·lab·openai.com
  12. Introducing the ChatGPT for small business program

    Offers small businesses AI tools that extend expertise, boost capacity, and provide world‑class capabilities at low cost.

    OpenAI··Business & policy·lab·openai.com