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Tue 18 Aug · 14 stories · 5 sections

Frontier labs 2 items

Z AI's GLM-5.3 lands with claims of best-in-class open coding performance and strong cyber-range results; weights ship in two weeks.
Pika releases four audio models spanning soundtracks, music, sound effects, and speech, claiming up to 20x cheaper than rivals.

Agents & tooling 3 items

OpenAI's opt-in Computer History logs clicks and typing so ChatGPT and Codex carry memory of your recent on-computer work.
Cursor rolls out Origin, its code-hosting service, in early beta on all paid plans: repos, pull requests, and GitHub sync.
CopilotKit open-sources aimock: mock LLM/API servers for CI, where one repo re-validates response schemas against real providers daily.

Research & papers 3 items

A neurosurgery resident proved Crouzeix's Conjecture (open since 2004) with GPT-5.6 Sol in a 16-hour run; experts verified, review pending.
Wiz shows an AI-generated GitHub Copilot 'Autofix' merged through CI/CD opened the door to compromising Snowflake's Jira.
CacheBlend (EuroSys 2025 Best Paper, ships in LMCache) reuses per-document KV caches and recomputes only boundary tokens: 2-4x faster RAG.

Business & policy 4 items

OpenAI signs a 20-year, 10GW Ohio data-center lease with SoftBank's SB Energy; Nvidia backstops up to $105B and invests $1.5B in SBE.
Anthropic's revenue run rate reached $65B at end of July, per Bloomberg - versus $47B in May and $9B at the close of 2025, pre-IPO.
404 Media tracked rare books to an Amazon AI facility: Amazon buys books in bulk, scans them for AI training, then destroys them.
The US DOJ has spent nearly a year probing whether a16z partners improperly serve on boards of competing AI companies, per Bloomberg.

Also notable 2 items

GitHub's API, Actions, and pull requests went down worldwide for about three hours before Microsoft mitigated the outage.
GPT-5.6 Sol's per-token price dropped 50% on OpenRouter; OpenAI's direct API pricing is unchanged - a routing-layer price war signal.
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