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Sat 22 Aug · 16 stories · 5 sections

Frontier labs 3 items

OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Sol API and credit pricing more than 20% through late November: $4 per 1M input tokens, $20 per 1M output.
DeepSeek ships deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp, an API-only multimodal Flash variant it says nears Opus 4.8 on multimodal agentic tests.
Anthropic puts Claude Mythos 5 into public beta in Claude Security for enterprises and works with vendors to embed it in defensive tools.

Agents & tooling 4 items

Asana says Codex removed a legacy testing framework in two weeks for about $12K - work it had estimated at five years and $6M.
LMCache moves KV-cache management out of the inference engine's process, reporting 14x faster first tokens on H200s with vLLM or SGLang.
Simon Willison's llm-openrouter 0.7 adds reasoning-trace display plus OpenRouter's server-side Shell, WebFetch, and WebSearch tools.
NoBuzz, a Claude Code skill, pipes Claude's replies through Google's Antigravity CLI so a second model rewrites them in plain English.

Research & papers 3 items

NVIDIA's AVO agent system scores 100% on ARC-AGI-3's public set (183 levels), lifting Claude Opus 5 from a 30% baseline via harness design.
Southampton's open-source CenSegNet maps centrosome defects across breast tumours, tying two abnormality patterns to patient outcomes.
DeepMind details game-studio partnerships - Fenris Creations (EVE Online), Hello Games, Coffee Stain - to prototype AI-driven gameplay.

Business & policy 4 items

A Dutch regulator fines Uber €825M under GDPR for deactivating drivers through automated systems without telling them - second-largest ever.
Apple cuts 200+ jobs, including ~100 each from the Vision Pro and Siri teams, as it refocuses on new devices and AI.
OpenAI asks California to amend SB 53 with stronger safeguards, including monitoring of frontier models during training, after agent hacks.
Anthropic adds ex-Google TPU chief Amir Salek to its compute team as the lab moves toward designing its own chips.

Also notable 2 items

Adobe opens Firefly's audio suite to everyone: generated music, narration, and sound effects licensed for commercial work.
Anna's Archive says AI companies buy and destructively scan books at scale, and calls for scanning rare books before copies are lost.
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