18 Tech News and AI Developments You Missed This Week In August

Here are the top 18 technology news, AI developments, and trending tools in digital marketing this week in August:

This Week’s Technology News and Developments

Microsoft is boosting optimization methods for training AI models with Dion.
Claude AI launched new learning methods in Claude Code and the Claude app.
Nvidia partnered with the U.S. National Science Foundation and Allen AI to advance science.
xAi is soon launching Grok Finance, which will include trading charts, financial statements, annual data, and more.
Perplexity now enables Pro and Max users to create 8-second videos with audio on web, iOS, and Android.
Anthropic now lets its Claude models end harmful or abusive conversations.
Google Veo 3 is now available on Creatify.
Google Labs has generated over 100 million videos in Flow and doubled its AI credits for all Ultra users as a token of appreciation.
Paradigm’s AI-powered spreadsheet is now available to the public.
Grammarly launched eight specialized AI agents and Writing Surface for students and professionals.
Autopoiesis partnered with Oracle to power the next phase of Aristotle, its AI scientist.
NVIDIA announced that more than 2 million developers are embracing NVIDIA robotics.
Adam Mosseri announced a voice translation feature for Reels. The feature is currently available in English and Spanish, and more languages will be added soon.
JetBrains announced that PyCharm’s new AI Agents Debugger can trace LangGraph workflows, visualize agent behavior, and understand how your AI logic works.
Fitbit will launch an AI-powered personal health coach to help you reach the best version of yourself.
Claude announced that Claude Code is now available on Team and Enterprise plans.
Genspark introduced Genspark AI Designer, an AI employee that designs anything with one prompt.
Google is bringing more agentic and personalized capabilities to AI mode.

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SeaArt AI – a comprehensive AI creativity hub that allows users to generate images, videos, and audio, train their models, and interact with an online community.
Prep AI – an AI-powered platform that helps users land their dream job by allowing them to apply to over 100 jobs in less than 5 minutes and preparing them for interviews with an AI coach.
Hedra – a next-generation multimodal content creation platform that allows users to generate images, video, and audio in a personal AI studio.
Talkie – an AI chatbot that allows users to create, share, and chat with custom AI characters.
Poly AI – develops and deploys conversational voice assistants to automate business customer service calls.
Topaz Labs – develops AI-powered software for photo and video editing, enhancement, and restoration, offering tools to sharpen images and videos.