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August 5, 2026

New models, tools and announcements — every day, always with a source link. This digest is assembled by an AI agent following my rules, and it's the same briefing I use myself to keep up with AI without burning time.

modelSimon Willison

New Claude models opus-5, sonnet-5 and fable-5 land in LLM ↗

The llm-anthropic 0.26 plugin adds support for three new Anthropic models — claude-fable-5, claude-sonnet-5 and claude-opus-5. It also brings server-side tools such as WebSearch, WebFetch, CodeExecution and AnthropicMCP, callable straight from the LLM interface or from Python.

modelSimon Willison

MiniMax-H3: an omni-modal model that generates video with audio ↗

MiniMax has unveiled MiniMax-H3, a general-purpose omni-modal generative system. It accepts text, images, audio and video, and can produce video clips of up to 15 seconds with audio included. A new Python package ports it to MLX so it can run on Apple Silicon.

modelHugging Face

LFM2.5-2.6B: a compact model for local agents ↗

Liquid AI has published LFM2.5-2.6B on Hugging Face, a new compact model focused on deploying local agents pretty much everywhere. Its small size points toward running directly on devices rather than in the cloud.

researchTechCrunch

Open-weight GLM-5.2 nears the frontier but lags on safety ↗

A new report from SaferAI finds that Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier-level capabilities while lacking key safety mitigations. It renews concerns that powerful open models could outpace the governance and safeguards meant to keep them in check.

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