Pulse Daily — Sunday, August 16, 2026
On Sunday, August 16, 2026, the AI Pulse covers a week of transformative AI developments: OpenAI's unreleased Astra model cracked ten unsolved math problems for $2,000 in compute; ChatGPT crossed one billion users while GPT-5.6 Luna prices fell 80%; Meta's open-weight Muse Glimmer arrived for on-device agentic work; Google unveiled HEIR homomorphic encryption for private AI inference; Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 27B pushed open-source frontiers; DARPA flew an AI-piloted F-16 without a human at the controls; INTERPOL found AI driving 55% of cybercrime in Africa with losses doubling to $484 million…
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