Daily AI Pulse

August 4, 2026. Archived briefing: what moved across AI news, the model leaderboard, GitHub repos, and funding on this day.

1 stories 7 movers 6 rising repos 1 funding rounds generated 22:32 UTC
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Disrupting a Criminal Scam Operation
OpenAI disrupted a Cambodia-based scam operation that was leveraging ChatGPT to support various fraudulent schemes. The operation targeted victims through investment scams, romance scams, gambling sch
OpenAI Blog · Industry
Leaderboard MoversFull rankings →
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite▼ -15
#48 · Google159B
Ling-2.6-flash▲ +5
#39 · inclusionai197B
GPT-5.6 Luna Pro▲ +4
#32 · OpenAI272B
Kimi K2.6▼ -4
#53 · moonshotai138B
GPT-5.6 Luna▲ +3
#8 · OpenAI1.95T
Kimi K2.5▲ +3
#43 · moonshotai173B
Grok 4.3NEW
#60 · SpaceXAI88B
Movement compares stored daily leaderboard snapshots, 2026-08-03 vs 2026-08-04, top 60 by OpenRouter token volume.
Rising ReposAll repos →
slopus/happy
23,075 stars
+23,020
zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill
Reverse Engineering / Authorized Penetration Testing / Security Research Skill Router Pack AI-powered routing + On-demand toolchain bootstrapping + Self-evolvin
PowerShell · 15,689 stars
+2,349
microsoft/AI-For-Beginners
12 Weeks, 24 Lessons, AI for All!
Jupyter Notebook · 60,694 stars
+1,721
lyogavin/airllm
AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU
Jupyter Notebook · 27,045 stars
+1,418
firecrawl/pdf-inspector
Fast Rust library for PDF inspection, classification, and text extraction. Intelligently detects scanned vs text-based PDFs to enable smart routing decisions.
Rust · 8,128 stars
+1,411
TencentCloud/TencentDB-Agent-Memory
TencentDB Agent Memory is a team-level memory hub for AI Agents — turning conversations, docs, and code into four reusable memory assets (Chat Memory, Skill, LL
TypeScript · 12,055 stars
+1,072
Star growth measured between stored snapshots, 2026-08-03 vs 2026-08-04.
FundingAll deals →
Design Arena creators
TechCrunch · 2026-08-03 · view source →
$7.9 million
Amounts are shown only when verified verbatim in the linked source, never estimated.
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