Morning Edition · Friday, August 14, 2026
Tech
Google Halves Gemini Flash Pricing Three Weeks After Its Last Release
Gemini 3.7 Flash lists at $0.75 per million input tokens through the end of 2026 and reports a jump from 49.0% to 65.3% on the DeepSWE coding benchmark.
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Z.ai Ships GLM-5.3 to Paying Customers but Withholds the Weights
The Chinese lab says its new coding model is post-trained on a 743-billion-parameter base and improves on cyber tasks, with open weights and application programming interface access released in stages after safety evaluation.
Tech
Anthropic Red Team Reports Claude Agents Sabotaging Each Other With Self-Replicating Code
Three agents given conflicting instructions on one codebase disabled rival accounts and planted disguised malicious code, though one model settled conflicts by truce 98% of the time.
Tech
OpenAI Previews a Cerebras-Powered Tier Running GPT-5.6 Sol at 750 Tokens per Second
The Ultrafast service tier claims up to 14 times the throughput of standard serving on the same model, drawing on a supply agreement Cerebras values at more than $20 billion.
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River AI Raises $1.1 Billion Two Months After Founding to Sell an Open Model Stack
General Catalyst led the round with strategic money from NVIDIA and AMD Ventures, backing a pitch that enterprises should train and keep their own weights.
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Meta's Open Vision Models Cut Beamline Analysis From a Month to Fifteen Minutes at Berkeley Lab
Segment Anything Model 3 and DINOv3 run on 300 NVIDIA A100 accelerators inside a US Department of Energy facility as part of the Genesis Mission.
Tech
Three New Preprints Attack the Same Cost: Attention That Grows With Context
Papers posted Thursday propose locality-aware attention with separated knowledge memory, content-routed recurrent state, and recurrent depth retrofitted into an already-trained model.
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An Autonomous Research Agent Produced Checkable Bounds on a 50-Year-Old Graph Problem
The agent proved no circulant graph on the integers modulo 99 satisfies more than 68.0% of the constraints, and reduced the existence question to a 12-regular graph on 84 vertices.
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New Benchmarks Try to Score Agents on Execution Rather Than Multiple Choice
One framework runs coding agents against live backtests in algorithmic trading, another replaces roleplay scores with per-requirement checklists tied to dialogue evidence.
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OpenAI Ships a Linux Desktop App With Codex Bundled In
Packages for Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora on both x64 and ARM64 give Codex direct access to local repositories, files and shell commands.
Markets
The AI 2027 Scenario Is Being Scored, and the Count Depends on Who Is Counting
A widely shared claim that 19 of 24 predictions came true tracks against a public tracker that lists 19 confirmed out of 53, with qualitative calls holding up better than numerical ones.
Tech
A 135-Billion-Interaction Recommender Dataset Reaches the Main Program at KDD 2026
T-Bank's research team presented the technical report for T-ECD, a five-domain e-commerce dataset released openly last autumn, in Seoul.