AI News 2026-08-07 — Top 10 AI Stories

Curated AI news digest for 2026-08-07 (timezone Asia/Shanghai).

  1. ChatGPT brings unlimited text chats to free users — TechCrunch AI. OpenAI said that ChatGPT free and Go users are also getting a new think button for complex queries.
  2. OpenAI’s new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300 and $400 — TechCrunch AI. Additional details about OpenAI's mysterious new AI device make it sound like a pricey smart speaker.
  3. OpenAI says Apple’s own security practices undermine its trade secrets case — TechCrunch AI. Newly filed court exhibits show OpenAI’s legal strategy in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit: argue that Apple’s own security and offboarding practices — including allowing an Apple manager to access a former engineer’s iCloud account after he left the company —undermine its claims…
  4. From asking to doing: How the world is putting ChatGPT to work — OpenAI Blog. New OpenAI Signals data shows how people use ChatGPT worldwide, with country-level insights on adoption, usage trends, and evolving behavior.
  5. Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT—and expanding access to GPT-5.6 Luna for free users — OpenAI Blog. ChatGPT introduces improved GPT-5.6 Sol with better accuracy and consistency, plus expanded access for free users and unlimited everyday chats with GPT-5.6 Luna.
  6. OpenAI is giving ChatGPT free users unlimited text chats — The Verge. OpenAI is making a big change for ChatGPT users on its free and Go tiers: Starting next week, users on those tiers will be able to have unlimited text chats with the chatbot, according to OpenAI. Right now, you may run into rate limits if you do too many text chats on those tier…
  7. DeepSeek豪掷1.4亿护航宇树IPO,杭州绝代双骄战略合体 — 量子位. 此后模型、算力、数据中心都在合作范围内
  8. Show me《指环王》!卡帕西强推大模型评测新基准 — 量子位. 指环王成为大模型新基准
  9. 小米“迄今最清晰、最聪明”智能摄像机 4 Max AI 变焦版开售,券后 739 元 — IT之家. IT之家 8 月 7 日消息,小米智能摄像机 4 Max AI 变焦版今日正式开售,号称小米迄今为止「最清晰、最聪明的」智能摄像机,新品到手价 799 元(京东券后 739 元),大模型会员年费 349 元起。 IT之家从商品页面获悉,该机云台支持水平 360 度及垂直 180 度旋转,采用 12Mp 长焦 + 8Mp 广角设计,内置 10 颗红外补光灯,至高可实现 3 倍无损变焦、12 倍混合变焦,同时支持自动对焦及红外夜视。 新品搭载小米首款 AI 看护大模型,聚焦儿童、老人、宠物三大看护场景,AI 大模型可智能分析所录视频,快速掌握孩子学习情况、…
  10. 阿里千问:推出定时任务、办公助理、语音通话等多项新功能 — IT之家. IT之家 8 月 7 日消息,千问 App 今日宣布功能上新,推出思考研究、定时任务、办公助理、语音通话、智能体广场等多项新功能,同时支持最新旗舰模型 Qwen3.8-MAX。 思考研究 “思考研究”在原“深度思考”基础上升级,进一步强化复杂推理、工具调用、信息整合与结构化输出能力,能帮助你完成更深入、更细致的研究分析和决策支持。 比如周会汇报工作前,把资料丢给千问,千问就能根据工作背景和目标、成果概览和工作总结,生成结构清晰的完整文档。 定时任务 很多需要每天重复的工作,比如梳理行业简报、对邮件分类汇总,现在都可以交给千问自动完成,你只需要预设好执行…

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