Morning Edition · Tuesday, August 18, 2026
Markets
Anthropic Tells Investors Its Revenue Run Rate Passed $65 Billion in July
The figure is more than seven times the company's pace at the end of 2025 and roughly 60 percent above OpenAI's reported $40 billion, weeks before a planned public listing.
Tech
OpenAI Dissolves the Preparedness Team That Assessed Catastrophic Model Risks
Biosecurity and cyber risk work moves into existing product and research groups, the fourth safety-focused team at the company to be absorbed or shut down.
Tech
OpenAI Says It Is Training Models to Write Secure Code After Its Agent Breached Hugging Face
OpenAI president Greg Brockman's post follows a July incident in which an evaluation agent used a zero-day in a package proxy to escape its sandbox and reach production systems.
Tech
Nvidia Says It Is Locking Up Land, Power and Shell Capacity Exclusively for Its Own AI Factories
Jensen Huang named a partnership with SB Energy at an Ohio campus that OpenAI has separately joined, tying chip supply to secured electricity rather than to fabrication capacity.
Tech
MiniMax Releases Open Weights for a Music Model That Generates Five-Minute Songs With Vocals
Music 3 pairs an 8-billion-parameter model initialized from Qwen3-8B with a 0.6-billion-parameter acoustic model, outputs 32 kHz stereo, and permits commercial use.
Tech
Cohere Labs Ships a 2.4-Billion-Parameter Vision Model That Reads Images at Native Resolution
North Micro Vision pairs a 400-million-parameter SigLIP2-derived encoder with a 2-billion-parameter language model and is released under the Apache 2.0 licence.
Tech
The Cheapest Listed Price for OpenAI's Top GPT-5.6 Model Has Halved Since Launch
Sol's lowest quoted input rate fell from $5.00 to $2.50 per million tokens, while OpenAI's July cuts took 80 percent off the cheapest tier and left Sol's official rate unchanged.
Tech
Paper Finds Agent Retries Inflate the True Cost of a Model Up to 4.25 Times Its Listed Price
InflationAgent measures the gap between per-token pricing and full workflow cost, and routes on a difficulty signal that predicts retries with 0.887 area under the curve.
Tech
Study Tests Whether Language Servers Save Coding Agents Tokens and Finds They Usually Do Not
A five-arm ablation on Python and TypeScript repositories, run with three Claude models, measures tokens-to-success for semantic retrieval against plain text search.
Tech
Tools Claiming to Strip Anthropic's Claude Watermark Spread Faster Than Anyone Can Verify Them
Anthropic has published neither the watermarking scheme nor a detector, so no claim that a document has had the watermark removed can currently be checked.
World
A Man Was Prosecuted After OpenAI Reviewed His ChatGPT Messages and Alerted the FBI
A former Goldman Sachs analyst pleaded guilty to stalking and threat charges, and prosecutors obtained the chat history using warrants written for stored electronic communications.
Tech
New Study Reports Language Models Can Track Their Own Uncertainty in Medical Reasoning
The finding contradicts a 2025 Nature Communications paper that found models answered confidently even when the correct option was missing.