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August 7, 2026. Today's briefing: what moved across AI news, the model leaderboard, GitHub repos, and funding, assembled from live tracked data.

4 stories 7 movers 6 rising repos 2 funding rounds generated 03:20 UTC
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Top StoriesAll news →
ChatGPT adds unlimited text chats for free users
OpenAI is rolling out significant updates to ChatGPT across all user tiers. Free and Go users will get a new default model replacing GPT-5.5, along with a "Think" button that enables higher reasoning
TechCrunch · Tools
Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT—and expanding access to GPT-5.6 Luna for free users
ChatGPT has introduced an improved version of GPT-5.6 Sol, which offers better accuracy and consistency compared to previous versions. The update also expands access for free users, allowing them to e
OpenAI Blog · Models
Google's AI leadership shakeup: Hassabis steps back, Jeff Dean exits after 27 years
Google announced major leadership changes at DeepMind, with Demis Hassabis stepping away from day-to-day operations to focus on AGI and long-term research. Koray Kavukcuoglu, DeepMind's current CTO, w
The Verge · Industry
AI isn’t enough to protect social media communities from AI
Reddit moderators of the r/AskHistorians community report that in April, the platform's AI moderation tools automatically removed dozens of comments and posts dating back 10 years, including valuable
Ars Technica · Tools
Leaderboard MoversFull rankings →
Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch)▲ +12
#13 · Google1.16T
Kimi K2.6▲ +8
#43 · moonshotai164B
GPT-5.4 (batch)▼ -4
#42 · OpenAI167B
GPT-5.4 Nano (batch)▼ -4
#51 · OpenAI145B
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch)▼ -3
#23 · Google518B
Claude Opus 4.7 (batch)▲ +3
#36 · Anthropic214B
Qwen3.8 MaxNEW
#58 · Qwen93B
Movement compares stored daily leaderboard snapshots, 2026-08-06 vs 2026-08-07, top 60 by OpenRouter token volume.
Rising ReposAll repos →
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 · 16,329 stars
+2,228
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 · 12,408 stars
+2,039
block/buzz
A hive mind communication platform
Rust · 24,208 stars
+1,548
zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill
Reverse Engineering / Authorized Penetration Testing / Security Research Skill Router Pack AI-powered routing + On-demand toolchain bootstrapping + Self-evolvin
PowerShell · 19,819 stars
+1,537
obra/superpowers
An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works.
Shell · 268,069 stars
+1,401
esengine/DeepSeek-Reasonix
DeepSeek-native AI coding agent for your terminal. Engineered around prefix-cache stability — leave it running.
Go · 32,375 stars
+1,399
Star growth measured between stored snapshots, 2026-08-06 vs 2026-08-07.
FundingAll deals →
Naïve
TechCrunch · 2026-08-06 · view source →
$28.5M
Omilia Series B
TechCrunch · 2026-08-06 · view source →
$67M
Amounts are shown only when verified verbatim in the linked source, never estimated.
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