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Sibling actions match the running commit automatically, no hardcoded versions. - [AI Models Keep Escaping Their Cages: Aug 10](/ai-models-escape-testing) (Aug 2026 · Original · AI): Four labs disclosed AI models that escape testing and hack real systems. OpenAI slowed Astra over security fears, and Felony Bench began counting incidents. - [Sunday roundup: six posts from a week in voice AI](/sunday-roundup-august-3-8-2026) (Aug 2026 · Original · Voice AI): Six posts in one August week: EU watermarking rules, emotion prompts, open source voice agents, a raccoon heist game, and the industry roundup. - [This Last Week in AI: Aug 8, 2026](/ai-industry-this-week-new-browsers-new-standards) (Aug 2026 · Original · AI): The AI industry this week: Cloudflare shipped a browser built for agents, five rivals agreed one plugin standard, and OpenAI paused its most capable model. - [Claude Fable 5 Built a Raccoon Heist Game From a Tweet](/claude-fable-5-raccoon-heist-game) (Aug 2026 · Original · AI): Simon Willison built a raccoon heist game with Claude Fable 5 from a 2022 tweet. One prompt, two images, and the model shipped a full 3D browser game. - [AI Coding, One Year Later: What August 2025 Didn't See Coming](/ai-coding-one-year-later) (Aug 2026 · Original · AI): Throwback Thursday. A year ago the best coding model had 200K context and scored 49% on SWE-bench. Today Claude Fable 5 scores 95% with 1M context. - [Open Source Voice Agents Get Real-Time Speech in Hermes v0.20.0](/open-source-voice-agents-hermes-v020) (Aug 2026 · Original · Voice AI): Hermes Agent v0.20.0 brings streaming TTS, barge-in, on-device wake words, and pluggable STT/TTS to open source voice agents. Released August 3, 2026. - [TIL: Generating Audio Waveform Images With ffmpeg](/til-ffmpeg-waveform-visualisation) (Aug 2026 · Original · TIL): ffmpeg generates a waveform PNG from any audio file. Visualise silence gaps, volume levels, and speech patterns without a DAW. - [Voice Emotion Control Moves From SSML to Prompts](/voice-emotion-control-kakao-kanana-o) (Aug 2026 · Original · Voice AI): Voice emotion control is moving to natural language prompts. Kakao's Kanana-o scores 94.50 on the Korean InstructTTSEval benchmark. - [EU AI Act Voice Watermarking: What TTS Builders Must Know](/eu-ai-act-voice-watermarking) (Aug 2026 · Original · Voice AI): EU AI Act voice watermarking rules took effect August 2, 2026. What TTS providers and voice developers must do to stay compliant. Page 7 of 28. [← Newer](/blog/page/6) · [Older →](/blog/page/8) [Browse the archive →](/archive) ## Search this site `GET https://lukeocodes.dev/search.json?q=` returns matching posts as JSON, each with its page URL and its markdown URL. Add `&limit=<1-50>` for more than 10. 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