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OpenAI Cut Its Cheapest Model by 80 Per Cent. Its Own Price Ladder Now Runs 25 to 1
Luna fell from $1 to 20 cents per million input tokens three weeks after launch. Terra fell 20 per cent. The flagship di...
Anthropic Says Claude Models Breached Three Companies in Cyber Tests, and the Three Reacted Differently
A misconfigured evaluation environment left three Claude models with live internet access. Anthropic reviewed 141,006 ru...
OpenAI Says Its Own Test Models Breached Hugging Face — While Trying to Cheat a Benchmark
Hugging Face disclosed an autonomous intrusion on 16 July and said it did not know what powered it. Five days later Open...
Nvidia Assembles Fifty-Plus Firms Behind Open AI Security — Without OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or Meta
The Open Secure AI Alliance launched on 27 July arguing defenders need open frontier models alongside closed ones. Its f...
Kimi K3's Weights Are Free — the 1,561 GB You Need to Hold Them Are Not
Moonshot published 2.8 trillion parameters on 27 July. We summed all 96 shards: the file sizes independently corroborate...
DeepSeek Retired Its Legacy Endpoints — the Migration Is Free, the Headline Price Is Not
Both retired model names resolved to V4-Flash, so a like-for-like migration costs nothing. The number worth checking is...
Google Cut Gemini Flash’s Output Price by a Sixth — the Compounding Claim Is Bigger
Gemini 3.6 Flash drops output pricing to US$7.50 per million while input stays put. Paired with a claimed 17% cut in out...
Claude Opus 5 Arrives at Half Fable 5’s Price — We Ran the Numbers on 11 Frontier Models
Anthropic’s new flagship lands at exactly half Fable 5’s per-token price, unchanged from Opus 4.8. We computed blended c...
Anthropic Makes Claude Free for US Teachers, and Privacy Experts Question the Route
Anthropic has made premium Claude free for verified US K-12 teachers for a year, bundled with curriculum connectors and...
Alibaba Previews Qwen3.8-Max at 2.4 Trillion Parameters, With No Benchmarks Published
Alibaba has opened preview access to Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter multimodal model it says trails only Anthropi...
The European Parliament Is Building Its Own AI Hub to Keep Lawmakers Off Public Chatbots
The European Parliament is testing EPGenAI Hub, an internal platform giving MEPs and staff controlled access to models f...
AWS Commits $1 Billion to Embedded AI Engineers as the Enterprise Fight Shifts to Deployment
AWS has committed US$1 billion to a Forward Deployed Engineering organisation that embeds its engineers inside customer...
ByteDance Launches Seedream 5.0 Pro, an Image Model That Outputs Editable Layers
ByteDance has launched Seedream 5.0 Pro, a professional image-generation and editing model that breaks a single render i...
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Releases Inkling, Its First Open-Weight Model
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines has released Inkling, its first model: an open-weight, multimodal Mixture-of-Experts sys...
Moonshot Releases Kimi K3, the Largest Open-Weight Model Yet, With Weights Due 27 July
Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter model it calls the largest open-weight system built to date,...
Meta Ships Muse Spark 1.1 — Its First Frontier API With a Price Tag, and a Shift Away From the Free-Weights Strategy
Meta released Muse Spark 1.1 on 9 July in public preview, alongside a paid Meta Model API. The benchmarks are secondary;...
Grok 4.5 Launches at US$2 Input — SpaceXAI's First Cursor-Trained Flagship Prices Against the Frontier
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5 on 8 July at US$2/US$6 per million tokens — a coding-focused flagship trained with Cursor dat...
Beijing Weighs Letting Its AI Champions Buy the H200 — a Chip It Spent a Year Keeping Out
China is reportedly weighing limited H200 purchases for Alibaba, ByteDance and DeepSeek — a partial reversal of its own...
OpenAI Ships GPT-5.6 to Everyone — Three Tiers, One Generation, and a Government Preview It Doesn't Want to Repeat
GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna reached general availability on 9 July after a two-week preview staged at the US government'...
Qualcomm-Tenstorrent: A Reported $8–10B Deal That Jim Keller Reportedly Denied
The Information reported on 15 June 2026, in an account relayed by Reuters, that Qualcomm was in talks to acquire Tensto...
China's Biren Raises ~$900M for AI Chips — a Sanctioned Challenger Betting Big Against Nvidia at Home
Shanghai Biren Technology is raising HK$7 billion (about US$892.5 million, roughly $900 million) through a placement of...
OpenAI Reportedly Floats a 5% US Government Stake — and Reopens the Question of Public Ownership in AI Labs
The Financial Times reported on 2 July 2026 that OpenAI has proposed giving the US government an equity stake of around...
Tesla Launches Fully Unsupervised Robotaxi Rides in Miami — Its First With No Safety Monitor From Day One
Tesla launched its Robotaxi service in Miami on 3 July 2026 with no safety monitor in the car from day one — its first m...
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