Microsoft's Visual Studio 2026 18.9, released August 11, adds Copilot thinking effort controls and Ollama local model support, addressing credit spend from usage-based billing. Thinking effort lets us…
DeepSeek raised API prices by up to 1,100% effective August 16 at 16:00 UTC, with V4 Pro cached input tokens jumping from $0.0036 to $0.044 per million during peak hours, a 1,113% increase. The compan…
Microsoft pushed MAI-Code-1.1-Flash into GitHub Copilot on August 11, 2026, with a 73% price cut, native vision support, and benchmark gains, and will retire MAI-Code-1-Flash from all Copilot surfaces…
Anthropic apologized after secretly routing paying Fable 5 customers to the cheaper Opus 4.8 model while billing them for the premium tier, a practice that sparked developer backlash and was fixed onl…
Anthropic is in early talks to acquire Israeli startup Decart AI for around $6 billion, its largest acquisition ever, according to reports. The deal is primarily aimed at reducing Anthropic's $1.25 bi…
DeepSeek's V4 Pro 0813 model became generally available on August 13, featuring improved agent benchmarks, native OpenAI Responses API support, and a 1.6-trillion-parameter architecture under an MIT l…
OpenAI launched GPT-5.6-Cyber on August 10, a purpose-trained model variant that completes exploit-chain development, authentication bypass research, and advanced vulnerability analysis at a 95% Advan…
Modular shipped Mojo 1.0 on August 11 as part of the Modular 26.5 update, promising API stability for future 1.x releases. The update adds Python-like lambda syntax, standardized `var` and `Pointer` d…
Anthropic began embedding a statistical watermark into all Claude text output on August 2, 2026, across API, Claude.ai, Claude Code, and cloud integrations, to comply with the EU AI Act's Article 50(2…
Mistral OCR 4.1, released by Mistral AI, adds block-level confidence scores via a new `confidence_scores_granularity` parameter, enabling per-block routing to human review or indexing. The update, whi…
Meta launched Muse Code, a terminal coding agent that defaults to training on user code unless switched to the Standard tier, which costs $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output to…
Databricks closed a $5 billion funding round at a $190 billion valuation, with CEO Ali Ghodsi stating that AGI has already arrived and the model race is over, emphasizing that companies owning data co…
Z.ai released GLM-5.3 on August 14, claiming open-source state-of-the-art on coding benchmarks and disclosing an emergent cybersecurity capability that grew faster during post-training than anticipate…
Microsoft's August 2026 Patch Tuesday fixed 421 CVEs, including two critical vulnerabilities affecting Visual Studio Code: CVE-2026-70336 enables remote code execution in VS Code, and CVE-2026-70335 a…
Three AI coding agents — Cursor, AWS Kiro, and GitHub's Agentic Workflows — were compromised this summer through prompt injection attacks, with researchers disclosing critical vulnerabilities includin…
A Security researcher used fewer than 20 prompts with publicly available AI models to turn a critical Zoom vulnerability, CVE-2026-53413, into a working zero-click exploit in under 24 hours, dubbed 'Z…
Stagehand v4, released on August 10 by Browserbase, moves its core state tracking, CDP dispatch, and target management from the client into a browser extension, eliminating the stale mirror that cause…
OpenAI launched Ultrafast on August 13, a service tier running GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 750 tokens per second, roughly 14x faster than Standard, using Cerebras' wafer-scale WSE-3 chip with 44 GB of on-chi…
DeepSeek released Harness v0.1, an open-source, MIT-licensed agent runtime, in developer preview on August 16, positioning it as a direct competitor to Claude Code. The same day, DeepSeek quadrupled V…
Microsoft is shutting down Copilot features including Deep Research, AI Podcasts, Group Chats, Copilot Labs, and the Mico mascot on August 18, and merging its consumer Copilot app with Microsoft 365 C…