Daily AI Pulse

August 16, 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 generated 23:33 UTC
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ChatGPT's Computer History tracks your actions without screenshots
ChatGPT's desktop app on macOS has a new feature called Computer History that turns your actions into training data, learning how you work, suggesting automations, and picking up tasks you left half d
The Verge · Tools
Leaderboard MoversFull rankings →
Solar Pro 4▲ +7
#47 · upstage169B
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free)▲ +6
#27 · Nvidia413B
Claude Opus 4.6 (batch)▲ +6
#42 · Anthropic179B
GPT-5 Mini (batch)▼ -5
#48 · OpenAI166B
Laguna XS 2.1 (free)▼ -4
#46 · poolside171B
Gemini 3.5 Flash (batch)▼ -4
#50 · Google159B
Grok 4.6NEW
#45 · SpaceXAI172B
Movement compares stored daily leaderboard snapshots, 2026-08-15 vs 2026-08-16, top 60 by OpenRouter token volume.
Rising ReposAll repos →
cathrynlavery/diagram-design
29 editorial diagram types for Claude Code. Self-contained HTML + SVG. No shadows, no Mermaid-slop.
HTML · 18,586 stars
+1,385
public-apis/public-apis
A collective list of free APIs
Python · 460,153 stars
+877
github/spec-kit
129,183 stars
+683
DietrichGebert/ponytail
Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.
JavaScript · 103,344 stars
+611
citrolabs/ego-lite
10,952 stars
+601
unslothai/unsloth
Local UI to run and train LLMs and diffusion models, including Qwen3.8, Kimi K3, MiniMax-H3, Gemma 4, DeepSeek-V4, FLUX and more.
Python · 72,038 stars
+545
Star growth measured between stored snapshots, 2026-08-15 vs 2026-08-16.
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