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Perplexity News 08/13/2026 Read AI Rating: High

Perplexity Launches Agent API, Will Retire Sonar Endpoints in September

Perplexity introduced the Agent API, a single programmable endpoint combining web search, URL fetching, code execution, MCP connections, and finance/people search behind six configurable presets โ€” with Sonar API endpoints set to retire September 27, 2026.
Sakana AI News 08/13/2026 Read AI Rating: Medium

Sakana Chat Adds Fugu and a New-Generation Namazu, Plus Python Code Execution

Sakana AI's free consumer chat app at chat.sakana.ai now offers its Fugu orchestrator model and an upgraded, next-generation Sakana Namazu, along with sandboxed Python code execution, live-preview deliverables, and image/document attachment support.
Manus News 08/11/2026 Read AI Rating: High

Manus to Resume Independent Operations, Unwinding Its Meta Acquisition

Manus announced it will soon operate as an independent company again after China's regulator blocked Meta's acquisition, with data created since the December 2025 deal being deleted August 23-24 for affected users who must back it up first.
Sakana AI News 08/10/2026 Read AI Rating: Medium

Sakana AI Verifies Fugu's Conductor Model Runs on Gemma 4

Sakana AI showed that swapping the base model behind Fugu's orchestration 'conductor' from Qwen to Google's Gemma 4 preserves accuracy and cost efficiency, validating a base-model-agnostic approach to its multi-agent system.
Sakana AI News 08/05/2026 Read AI Rating: Medium

Sakana AI and Daiwa Securities Move Wealth-Management AI Platform Into Full-Scale Development

Sakana AI and Daiwa Securities announced their joint AI project for personalized wealth-management consulting has moved from technical verification into full-scale production development, effective August 1, 2026.
Genspark News 08/03/2026 Read AI Rating: High

Genspark Open-Sources GenOffice, a Free AI-Native Office Suite for macOS and Windows

Genspark has released GenOffice, billed as the world's first full-featured open-source AI office suite, with Docs, Sheets, Slides, and PDF apps for macOS and Windows, free and ad-free under the Apache 2.0 license.
Manus News 08/03/2026 Read AI Rating: Medium

Manus Adds an ElevenLabs Connector for Voice Generation, Transcription, and Voice Cloning

Manus has integrated ElevenLabs directly into chat, letting users generate audio, transcribe and analyze recordings, and build voice-powered apps just by describing what they need โ€” no API keys or code required.
Sakana AI News 08/03/2026 Read AI Rating: Medium

Sakana AI Launches Namazu, a Japanese-Specialized LLM API Built on Moonshot's Kimi K2.6

Sakana AI opened Sakana Namazu, an OpenAI-API-compatible LLM endpoint fine-tuned from Moonshot AI's open Kimi K2.6 on proprietary Japanese data, aimed at market research, customer support, and other Japanese-language business tasks.
Perplexity News 07/30/2026 Read AI Rating: Medium

Perplexity Rebrands Spaces as Projects, Adding a Persistent File System and Self-Improving Memory

Perplexity has rebranded and upgraded its collaboration feature Spaces into Projects, adding a persistent file system where people and AI agents can edit shared files directly, plus a self-improving memory that learns from project history.