DeepSeek announced the general availability of DeepSeek-V4-Pro on August 13, 2026, across its app, web, and API, with the model name deepseek-v4-pro unchanged. The release includes MIT-licensed weight…
DeepSeek released DeepSeek Harness, an open-source agent framework under an MIT license, on August 13, 2026, the same day it declared V4-Pro generally available. The framework, which powers DeepSeek's…
Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic all charge exactly half their synchronous rate for batch API work, yet most cost forecasts price every token at the sync list rate, creating a 2× error on workloads that …
Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash and 3.6 Flash models carry introductory pricing of $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output through December 31, 2026, after which the posted standard rate…
Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash, launched August 13, 2026 at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output, wins 9 of 19 benchmark rows in its own model card, while GPT-5.6 Terra wins 6 and Cl…
Z.ai released GLM-5.3 on August 14, 2026, claiming all benchmark gains, including a Terminal-Bench 3.0 score jump from 4.6 to 28.3, come from post-training alone on the identical GLM-5.2 base model. T…
Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google now enforce JSON Schema at the sampling level for LLM structured output, but each vendor supports a different subset, breaking portability for shared schemas. Anthropic r…
Microsoft Ads shipped two August 2026 updates addressing visibility in Performance Max campaigns: the Ad Preview Hub now renders PMax creative before spend, and Microsoft Clarity's new Topic Insights …
Mistral launched Regional Endpoints, Priority Tier, and third-party open-model hosting on August 11, 2026, with EU or US region-pinned inference priced at 10% over list and an SLA-backed tier at 75% o…
OpenAI previewed GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast on August 13, 2026, a Cerebras-powered speed tier for its most capable model, claiming up to 14x faster processing than Standard and up to 750 output tokens per …
AI bot verification is the missing half of crawler-control guides, as User-Agent strings prove nothing and several fetchers bypass robots.txt by design. OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Perplexity, Meta, Ap…
Perplexity blocked all markdown advertising on Time.com from influencing its AI agents and search results, calling the practice deceptive, per Digiday's August 11, 2026 report. Time's program, run wit…