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AudioElevenLabs shipped a command line written for agents, not peopleElevenLabs' new command line puts their whole product into the terminal: music, text to speech, agents. Responses come back as structured JSON, and errors are written so a program can parse them. Its user is another agent. The human comes second.FrontierMistral and HUMAIN are building sovereign AI for Saudi ArabiaMistral and Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN announced joint work on sovereign artificial intelligence for Saudi Arabia and the Middle East: infrastructure, models, deployment, in the range of hundreds of millions of euros. The computing stays inside HUMAIN's data centres.ControlDutch regulator fines Uber nearly 825 million euros for automatically deactivating drivers with no human involvedOn 21 August the Dutch data protection authority AP fined Uber 824,990,000 euros. In the AP's assessment, Uber deactivated drivers automatically, on suspicion of fraud or low customer ratings, with no human looking at the case. Uber is contesting the fine.FrontierDeepSeek shipped vision over the API and counts an image as up to 384 tokensAn experimental variant of their fast model now understands images too, not only text. You pay for it at the text model's rate. For the promised jump on the multimodal agentic tests there is not a single published number.SecurityMicrosoft corrected its own field: the 10.0 hole in Entra ID was not exploitedOn 20 August Microsoft announced a critical hole in Entra ID with the maximum score of 10.0 and noted in its record that it was being exploited. A day later it corrected the field. The patch is entirely on their side, and for customers there is nothing to do.InfraAWS Glue 6.0 cuts the price by 30 percent and adds full Iceberg v3 supportAWS shipped version 6.0 of Glue, its data-processing service, at 30 percent lower cost than previous versions. Underneath is a new engine, and on top, full support for the Iceberg table format v3.SecurityThe Zimbra hole went from theoretical to actively exploited in eight daysOn 13 August the exploitation field for CVE-2026-73570 read one word: none. On 21 August CISA added it to the catalogue of actively exploited vulnerabilities, with a deadline of 24 August. The hole lets an attacker without a password run commands on the mail server.FrontierGrok 4.6 entered Google's enterprise platformSince 21 August xAI's model sits inside Google's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, available through Model Garden. A 500,000 token context, adjustable reasoning level, and customers who would otherwise never open an account with xAI.
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