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Fri 14 Aug · 13 stories · 5 sections

Frontier labs 4 items

Google ships Gemini 3.7 Flash three weeks after 3.6, citing coding and agent gains, at $0.75/$3.75 per 1M intro pricing.
OpenAI previews Ultrafast, a Cerebras-powered API tier running GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14x faster, at up to 750 output tokens per second.
DeepSeek makes V4-Pro official at $0.435/$0.87 per 1M, adding agent upgrades, adjustable reasoning effort, and Responses API support.
Zhipu's GLM-5.3 claims open-model SOTA coding and unexpected CyberGym exploit gains from post-training alone; weights due in two weeks.

Agents & tooling 2 items

DeepSeek open-sources Harness (MIT), a developer-preview agent framework where models, tools, skills, and sandboxes are swappable plugins.
OpenAI launches Computer History, an opt-in macOS feature turning recent activity into memories ChatGPT and Codex can reference.

Research & papers 1 item

Mathematicians report a neurosurgery resident used GPT-5.6 in ChatGPT to settle Crouzeix's conjecture in numerical linear algebra.

Business & policy 4 items

FT sources: Anthropic investors expect an October IPO at a $2T+ valuation and $100-120B annualized revenue by the end of 2026.
DeepSeek adds peak-hour dynamic pricing ahead of a possible IPO; V4-Flash output rises from $0.28/1M to $1.32 peak, $0.66 off-peak.
WSJ: Demis Hassabis pitched an IAEA-style independent AI-safety oversight body to top Trump officials before exiting as DeepMind CEO.
Anthropic is reportedly in talks to buy Decart, a world-model and GPU-optimization startup, for ~$6B; Decart raised $300M in May.

Also notable 2 items

X open-sources its For You ranking algorithm and ships tools that let users check whether ranking systems suppressed their posts.
YC-backed Gamgee will sell personalized mRNA dog-cancer vaccines, productizing the ChatGPT-and-AlphaFold workflow built for one dog.
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