Yesterday in AI | 22 August 2026

ChatGPT Reads Your Texts, Binance Bots Trade Crypto, and Grok Speaks in Cheese

Artificial intelligence is stepping out of the browser tab and directly into the rooms where your real life happens. This episode breaks down a groundbreaking University of Southampton study in Nature Communications where an open-source AI uncovered hidden cellular patterns in breast cancer tumors—contrasted against a sobering study revealing how few FDA-cleared AI medical tools have been tested on patient outcomes.

We explore OpenAI releasing a Mac plugin granting ChatGPT full disk access to read, draft, and send your iMessage and SMS texts just weeks ahead of Apple's iOS 27 Siri overhaul. We look at Slack launching "Slack Code" to turn team channels into live, collaborative software-building hubs for autonomous agents. We examine Binance greenlighting AI agent crypto trading, AT&T slashing compute costs with open models, and Ramp's new model router. We cover US schools pivoting to teach AI literacy and hallucination detection. Finally, we dissect xAI's Grok melting down into pure word salad during a week when public satisfaction polls ranked it near the bottom of the assistant pack.

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