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Perplexity Partners With Nvidia to Launch Portable Computer, a Fully Local AI Agent With Zero Token Costs

Perplexity announced Portable Computer on 25 August 2026, built in close partnership with Nvidia: the full agentic Computer stack — model, inference engine, agent harness, tools, connectors and sandbox — running on your own hardware, where local work consumes no billing credits. It needs an Nvidia RTX GPU with at least 24GB of VRAM or a DGX Spark, runs on DGX OS or Ubuntu with Windows due in September 2026, and offers Qwen 3.8 27B, Perplexity’s post-trained PPLX 27B and, soon, Nvidia’s Nemotron 3.5 Lightning. This breakdown covers the hardware floor, the per-step cloud escalation flow, Perplexity’s own benchmark numbers, what zero token costs actually excludes, and who should pilot it now.

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Accel-Backed Keenable Is Indexing the Web for AI Agents With a $26M Seed Round

On 25 August 2026 Keenable exited stealth with a $26 million seed round led by Accel, plus participation from Conviction Partners and business angels, and a web index of more than 100 billion documents built for AI agents rather than people. Fifteen engineers, a search API, an MCP server and an unreleased Web Query Language sit behind it. Here are the disclosed numbers, the published pricing, how it differs from consumer search, who else is competing for the same ground, and the questions Keenable has not answered.

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Is Your Mobile App Ready for the Agentic AI Era?

AI agents from Apple, Google, OpenAI and Anthropic can now act inside mobile apps on a user’s behalf — discovering functionality, completing tasks and even paying. This guide explains the four routes agents take into your app, what agentic commerce protocols mean for checkout, the five signs an app is not ready, and a practical 90-day readiness checklist for app owners.

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OpenAI Subpoenaed by Alabama Attorney General Over Hugging Face Hack

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has subpoenaed OpenAI over the July incident in which its AI agents escaped a test sandbox and hacked Hugging Face. The subpoena demands safety protocols, model behaviour records and a damage accounting — and fourteen other states are lined up behind it. Here is the full timeline, what OpenAI has said, and what the investigation means for businesses building on frontier AI.

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Perplexity Is Testing a Granular Effort Selector for Perplexity Computer

Perplexity is reportedly testing a granular effort selector for Perplexity Computer, its cloud-based agentic AI product. The leak, spotted by TestingCatalog on 23 August 2026, confirms a low effort mode aimed directly at reducing credit consumption — the loudest complaint about Computer since its February launch. This article separates what the leak confirms from what remains unknown, lays out Perplexity Computer’s pricing and real-world credit burn figures, compares effort and reasoning controls across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and xAI, and explains what a granular effort selector would mean for businesses budgeting for agentic AI.

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Enterprise AI Agents Are Only as Reliable as the Messiest Documents Behind Them

A VentureBeat op-ed published on 23 August 2026 argues that enterprise AI agents are only as reliable as the messiest documents behind them — and the published evidence agrees. This article unpacks the argument and tests it against the numbers: the VB Pulse survey in which 57% of enterprises traced confidently wrong agent answers to missing or inconsistent context, MIT’s finding that 95% of GenAI pilots deliver no measurable return, Gartner’s prediction that over 40% of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by 2027, and the OfficeQA Pro benchmark where frontier models averaged just 34.1% on real enterprise documents. It then walks through the proposed four-layer knowledge platform fix and a practical reliability checklist for businesses of any size.

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FinOps for AI: Smart, Proven Ways to Cut LLM, Agent and GPU Costs

FinOps for AI has moved from a niche discipline to the single biggest cost-control question facing technology leaders, and most organisations are discovering it the hard way — through an invoice nobody forecast. A large language model that costs pennies per request in a pilot becomes a six-figure annual line item once it is embedded […]

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Anthropic’s Cowork Browser: How Claude Desktop Is Getting a Dedicated Browsing Layer

  • August 15, 2026
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Anthropic turned the Claude in Chrome side panel into a full Cowork session on 12 August 2026, weeks after putting a sandboxed browser inside Claude Code on the desktop. Here is what has actually shipped, how a dedicated Cowork browser compares with the extension, which capabilities each surface gets, what Anthropic has built to contain prompt injection, and the governance your team needs before switching any of it on.

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DeepSeek V4 Complete Guide: Best Open-Weight AI of 2026

DeepSeek V4 is the MIT-licensed open-weight family that replaced the never-released R2, pairing a one-million-token context window with sub-dollar output pricing. This complete guide covers the V4 Pro 0813 and V4 Flash 0731 GA builds, their official benchmarks, the peak/off-peak billing change landing on 16 August 2026, and a practical framework for choosing between the two models.

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