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DeepSeek raised API prices by up to 11-fold, effective August 16, 2025, with V4-Flash output tokens jumping from $0.28 to $1.32 per million during peak hours and V4-Pro output nearly quadrupling to $3…

Meta Platforms Inc. released Muse Glimmer, an open-source version of its most advanced AI model Muse Spark, designed to run locally on consumer hardware with a single GPU, marking a return to its open…

A user's technical test shows that Google AI Studio's Delete button does not remove backend data, only hides it from the interface, as evidenced by a JSON restoration test where a deleted conversation…

Continuum, a new financial simulation tool from a former Google Senior Software Engineer, lets users model life events such as startup equity and home purchases without paying a 1% AUM fee, using a de…

A Deloitte survey of more than 500 U.S. business and IT leaders found that while 42% have tested or deployed AI agents, only 15% have scaled multi-agent systems, and just 21% say their business proces…

Chinese AI firms are targeting enterprise customers with new open-source models, including DeepSeek's Harness v0.1 and DeepSeek-V4-Pro, Alibaba's Qwen-3.8, and Z.ai's GLM-5.3, aiming to compete with W…

Anthropic's Claude chatbot now watermarks text it generates or processes, a move required by the European Union's AI Act, but the feature has sparked user backlash, with dozens canceling subscriptions…

Charles, a solo founder and former Google senior software engineer, launched Continuum, a financial planning web app for individuals with $1-15 million, featuring AI voice onboarding and deterministic…

A developer's field guide traces the progressive evolution of AI-assisted programming, from the Transformer architecture to agentic AI, explaining how each layer emerged from the limitations of the pr…

Alphabet Inc., Google's parent company, has hired banks for its debut Australian dollar bond offering, expanding its multi-currency borrowing spree to fund AI infrastructure. The company raised roughl…

Okf v0.2.0, a Go CLI toolkit for the Open Knowledge Format, is now available as a vendor-neutral alternative to Google's Python/Gemini-locked reference implementation, verified against every reference…

A vendor study by Somantra AI, a Sydney-based AEO platform, reports that 57% of domains cited in ChatGPT and Google are never cited again, but a review finds the figure is based on a table totaling 10…

Mutagent Helix, a custom harness for the Agent Development Lifecycle, shipped as version 0.0.16 on August 15, integrating six stages, eleven sub-agents, and four launch modes into the Pi coding agent …

Perplexity is taking measurable referral traffic from Google for some publishers in 2026, but it is not a wholesale replacement, according to publisher analytics and Google's public statements. Chartb…

A new study finds that changing font colors and contrast can hijack AI reasoning in Vision Language Models (VLMs), causing them to overlook words, misread meaning, and reach different conclusions with…

Firebase's Imagen models shut down today, August 17, 2026, after Google moved the deadline twice from an original June 30, 2026 cutoff, according to Firebase's migration guide. The replacement, Gemini…

Google has paused an unannounced AI Overviews experiment that auto-generated unattributed AI images in search results, after recipe publisher Inspired Taste documented the behavior on August 13, 2026.…

The Cloud Security Alliance published a research note on August 6, 2026 describing CoreBreak, a set of four CVEs across Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Google's Agent Development Kit (ADK) for Python, and V…

VIDRAFT won 'The First Gemma Challenge' with a verified 510.58 tokens-per-second score on Google's Gemma-4-E4B-it model using a single NVIDIA A10G GPU, while a rival submission posted a faster raw num…

Anthropic's potential initial public offering valuation depends on its projected 2028 revenue of $190-200 billion, according to sources familiar with the matter. The AI company, backed by Amazon and G…