Artificial Intelligence News and Tech Developments: August 19

Here are the latest artificial intelligence news, tech developments, and trending AI tools on August 19, 2025:

Latest Technology News and Updates

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.
Google announced its first advanced nuclear reactor project to help meet the electricity demand for its data center.
Paradigm’s AI-powered spreadsheet is now available to the public.
Grammarly launched eight specialized AI agents and Writing Surface for students and professionals.

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.
Autopoiesis – a company that is developing an AI co-scientist named Aristotle to accelerate scientific discovery and cure diseases.
Joyland – an AI character chat platform that offers users the ability to engage in immersive roleplay with a wide range of lifelike AI characters.
Grubby AI – a tool designed to humanize AI-generated text to make it undetectable by AI detection systems.