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Google has launched a Preferred Sources button that publishers can embed on their websites, letting readers designate them as favorite sources to be highlighted more often across Google Search, Discover, and Google News. The feature expands on a May rollout tied to AI Mode and AI Overviews. Google says people are twice as likely to click through to a preferred source when available, and over 345,000 unique sources have already been selected. Google is also adding natural language Discover feed customization and audio briefing personalization for Android users.

Sakana AI has upgraded its free Sakana Translate service to run on the new Sakana Namazu model, which emphasizes deep understanding of Japanese language, culture, and context. The service continues to offer bidirectional translation between Japanese, English, and Chinese, along with proofreading and Q&A features. In head-to-head evaluations using Sakana AI's TransEvalnia tool across 160 Japanese-to-English tasks, Sakana Translate outperformed competing models over 50% of the time. Future plans include file translation for PDFs and Office documents, plus enterprise features like API access and SSO.

A Pew Research study found that 35% of webpages published after ChatGPT's November 2022 launch show signs of AI authorship, based on analysis of nearly half a million English-language pages from the Common Crawl archive using Open Pangram's detection technology. In a broader sample including older pages, only 10% showed AI signs. Commercial .com domains had AI authorship rates roughly 10 times higher than .edu or .gov sites, which sat near 1%. The findings arrive shortly after Cloudflare reported bot traffic surpassing human web traffic.

Corporate expense management platform Ramp has launched Router, an AI model routing service that lets users switch between large language models via API. Built on three years of internal use, Router supports models from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, xAI, and others. It offers benchmark-based routing strategies, a spend dashboard, and a $26 launch credit. The service is free through end of 2026, U.S.-only, and includes an opt-out data retention policy. Ramp, valued at $44 billion, sees Router as an entry point for new customers.

Bengaluru startup Murf AI has launched Falcon 2, a text-to-speech model priced at $0.01 per generated minute, one-fifth the cost of ElevenLabs. Available from August 20, Falcon 2 ranked higher than OpenAI's Realtime API on Artificial Analysis benchmarks, responds in under 100 milliseconds, and supports over 150 voices across 35 languages. Targeting enterprise clients like call centres, banks, and airlines, it can handle 10,000 concurrent calls. Murf AI, founded in 2020 and backed by Matrix Partners and Elevation Capital, serves over 10 million users.

Meta has launched Pocket, an AI-powered game creation app, to U.S. users after quietly testing it in Brazil last month. Built on Meta's acqui-hire of vibe-coding platform Gizmo, Pocket lets users generate small interactive games called gizmos using AI prompts. These games respond to touch and phone tilt, play sound effects, support music clips, and can use camera roll photos. Games are published to a scrollable feed where others can save, remix, or repost them. Pocket joins Meta's growing suite of standalone AI apps.

Salesforce has launched Slack Code, a new feature that brings AI-powered coding collaboration directly into Slack. Code channels give teams a dedicated multiplayer workspace where developers, PMs, and designers can work alongside coding agents like Anthropic's Claude, Cognition's Devin, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and Vercel's agents. Teams can review code diffs, check live previews, and approve work before it ships, all without leaving Slack. Code channels archive automatically when work is done, preserving searchable history. The feature is available on any Slack plan.

Google Ads is expanding its AI Max feature with new A/B testing and Performance Planner tools for Search campaigns. Rolling out in September, advertisers can now test different budgets and ROI targets across multiple Search campaigns in a single experiment. Brand and location controls can remain active during tests, removing a previous barrier. Performance Planner also gains the ability to preview how bidding or budget changes affect campaign performance, with a one-click option to apply suggested changes directly.

Black Forest Labs has launched FLUX Upscale, a standalone tool and BFL API endpoint that regenerates video from 480p up to native 4K. It natively understands FLUX 3 output and corrects artifacts that general upscalers miss, such as smudged faces and texture gridding on water or grass. Two modes are available: Precise at $0.07 per megapixel per second and Creative at $0.10, with upscale factors of 1.5x, 2x, and 3x targeting roughly 1080p, 2K, and 4K.

Perplexity has launched Brain, a structured Markdown-based memory system for its Computer AI agent that functions as a self-improving knowledge wiki. Brain organizes persistent context across three filesystem layers: a synthesized knowledge wiki, distilled notes, and raw session transcripts. Pages use wikilinks to connect related topics and citation references to verify claims against source sessions. Git-backed versioning supports multiple agents updating memory simultaneously. Internal tests showed remote filesystem access was 400–500 times slower than local file operations, informing Brain's hybrid local-plus-semantic-retrieval architecture.