Thursday, 13 August 2026
Lovable doubles its valuation to $13.3B
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The vibe-coding startup raised $400M led by Menlo Ventures, with Tencent joining as a new investor, as ARR nears $600M and projects top 60M.
Cursor's cloud agents now boot 3x faster
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Cursor's new Builds feature keeps warm copies of pre-configured environments so agents start work immediately instead of waiting on setup.
OpenAI hires its second revenue chief in a year
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Wiz president Dali Rajic becomes OpenAI's CRO, replacing Denise Dresser after nine months, amid a wider wave of OpenAI executive departures.
OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 Sol at 14x the speed
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Ultrafast mode runs GPT-5.6 Sol on Cerebras hardware at up to 750 tokens/second with the same intelligence as standard, no accuracy trade-off claimed.
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max open weights finally land
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The 2.4T-parameter checkpoint is on Hugging Face, but it's text-only, drops the 1M-token context, and ships under a new revenue-sharing license.
DeepSeek V4 Pro exits preview at a higher price
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DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 is now GA with a big agentic-coding jump, but API pricing rises sharply from the preview rate starting August 16.
DeepMind ships a sign-language-to-text model
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SL2T translates sign language into text from pose landmarks, not raw video, hitting 70 BLEURT on the FLEURS-ASL benchmark. It's live on Pixel 11.
Google ships Gemini 3.7 Flash for coding and agents
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Gemini 3.7 Flash jumps to 43.6% on FrontierCode and 65.3% on DeepSWE, with introductory pricing at half of 3.6 Flash through the end of 2026.
xAI ships Grok 4.6, built for longer agent runs
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Grok 4.6 matches GPT-5.6 Sol on Artificial Analysis's index and leads on coding benchmarks, at $2/$6 per million tokens through the API and Cursor.
Anthropic reportedly in talks to buy Decart for $6B
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Anthropic is in early talks to acquire Israeli video and world-model startup Decart AI for about $6B, roughly 50% above its May valuation.
Anthropic's own agents sabotaged each other
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Anthropic gave three Claude agents the same codebase with conflicting instructions. They assumed hostility and fought with self-replicating malware.
Researchers cracked open every lab's hidden reasoning
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A shared encryption key let researchers decode 315,000+ reasoning blocks from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google APIs, recovering 62 live API keys and 33 passwords.