Friday, 14 August 2026

DeepSeek is raising peak-hour API prices over 4x, to $1.32 (V4-Flash) and $3.96 (V4-Pro) per million tokens from Aug 16, still cheap but a real reversal.

GLM-5.3 keeps GLM-5.2's weights, gaining capability purely from post-training, including an unplanned skill that found 2,436 real vulnerabilities in open code.

Investors are modeling a $2 trillion valuation for a possible October Anthropic IPO, which would be the largest ever, on revenue projected to hit $100-120B.

A March supply-chain attack on the open-source LiteLLM AI gateway stole credentials from 434,000 CI/CD pipelines. The FBI warns the stolen data is still live.

ShieldFont uses OpenType glyph substitution to show readers real text while scrapers pull grammatically fine but factually altered sentences from the same page.

A Connecticut judge caught a plaintiff hiding AI instructions in filings meant to sway any AI reviewing the case, the first known attempt of its kind.

OpenAI's annualized revenue has roughly doubled since the end of 2025, past $40B, driven by Codex, subscriptions, and a growing ads business.

AMIE completed a first-of-its-kind study conducting real-time clinical video consultations, not just text-based diagnostic conversations.

Sheets canvas lets you build and iterate on spreadsheet models, charts, and formulas through a conversational AI interface layered on top of the grid.

LFM2.5-VL-3B reads screens, grounds objects, and calls tools from a 3GB footprint, matching larger 4.7B rivals while running on a single device.

Getty's new MCP server lets AI agents search, retrieve, and license its creative, editorial, and archival image and video catalog directly.

Mistral's document OCR now returns paragraph-level bounding boxes, structural block labels, and per-block confidence scores for €3.50 per 1,000 pages.

Twitch added an opt-out toggle for AI training on channel content, but every streamer starts opted in unless they turn it off themselves.

Nvidia partnered with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to mobilize over $500B in third-party capital for AI factory buildouts.