Google Earth Adds Nano Banana AI Image Generation
Google Earth now generates AI images from any location using Nano Banana 2, free on the web globally as of July 30, 2026.
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PrunaVAED: 2x Faster LTX-2.3 Video Decoding
PrunaVAED, a new open-weight decoder from Pruna AI, is a drop-in replacement for the LTX-2.3 VAE that decodes video up to 2.08x faster and cuts peak VRAM roughly in half.
Liquid AI's LFM2.5 Runs Full Agents On-Device
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-2.6B, a 2.6-billion-parameter open-weights agentic model that runs entirely on-device, planning and calling tools with no cloud API cost.
Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0: xAI's New Speech Model
xAI released Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 on July 29, 2026, a speech-to-speech model with sharper transcription and fewer reasoning tokens.
Channels SDK Puts AI Agents in Slack and Teams
CopilotKit open-sourced the Channels SDK, a MIT-licensed toolkit for dropping AI agents into Slack, Teams, Discord, and Telegram with native interactive UI.
Vercel Skill Packs Bundle Agent Skills to Share
Vercel launched Skill Packs on skills.sh on August 7, 2026: bundle community skills, folders, zips, and GitHub repos into one shareable pack installed with a single command.
Claude Code Sessions Can Now Message Each Other
Claude Code can now pass messages between your separate sessions. Shipped in v2.1.224 on August 7, 2026, it lets one session hand a finding to another.
Herdr: Apache-2.0 Runtime for Persistent Coding Agents
Herdr, the open-source terminal runtime for CLI coding agents, relicensed to Apache-2.0 and crossed 25,000 GitHub stars.
Greatarrow: Shared Memory for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini
GreatArrow launched an open-beta shared memory layer that lets Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Cursor read and write the same knowledge base over MCP.