Kagi updated its Search and Assistant products on August 21, 2026, adding a redesigned Stocks widget, expanded Assistant search tools, and new retention controls for temporary chats. The Stocks widget now supports exchange-traded funds alongside individual stocks, includes price charts, and animates transitions between selected time windows. Kagi says the widget will appear more often in relevant searches. Search users can also enable a setting that automatically removes paywalled links from results. Kagi Assistant now renders links, Markdown, and LaTeX in user messages. Users can search across all conversation threads, sort results by recency or alphabetically, and use “/” to begin filtering by folder. Temporary Assistant threads can be retained for 24 hours, seven days, or 30 days. The update also includes bulk export of Assistant chats, controls for prompt submission behavior, expandable thinking sections, code-fence syntax highlighting, and protections intended to prevent search-engine indexing of shared Assistant threads. Additional fixes cover Search lenses, shortcuts, Quick Answer source handling, URL behavior, mobile navigation, web-search toggle persistence, speech-to-text pauses on Android, iOS login, and Kagi Translate extension and preset issues.

Hackmyclaw.com allows users to email Fiu, an OpenClaw assistant, in an attempt to extract data from a secrets.env file. Despite receiving over 6,000 emails from more than 2,000 users, the sensitive information remained secure.

Kapa.ai indexes millions of images, including screenshots and diagrams, to enhance AI assistants that answer technical questions. Images are processed in a way that they are not sent to the model at query time, optimizing their utility in the retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline.

zclaw is a personal AI assistant designed for ESP32 boards, with a firmware size limit of 888 KiB. It supports GPIO control, scheduled tasks, persistent memory, and allows for custom tool composition using natural language.

Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to develop the next generation of personal agents, focusing on smart agents that interact to provide useful services. OpenClaw will be maintained as an open-source project, reflecting OpenAI's commitment to supporting multi-agent systems and open-source initiatives.

IronClaw is an AI assistant implemented in Rust, designed with a focus on privacy and security. It ensures that user data remains local, encrypted, and under the user's control, promoting transparency in data handling.