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LLMsFour flagships in three days: Grok 4.6, Gemini 3.7 Flash, DeepSeek V4 Pro and GLM-5.3. The cheap flat prices are ending with them: DeepSeek goes peak and off-peak on 16 August, and Google's launch rate doubles in January.Image GenerationGPT Image 2 still leads the arena by a record margin, and it now plans or searches the web before it draws.Video GenerationSeedance 2.5 will generate 30 seconds in a single pass, and Sora 2's API switches off on 24 September.
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15 Aug 2026 · 00:01:55Eight Thousand Times Covered In ShanghaiUnitree priced 40.45 million shares at 150.80 yuan on 6 August, raising about 6.1 billion yuan at a valuation near 9 billion dollars. The retail tranche was oversubscribed more than 8,000 times.14 Aug 2026 · 00:02:17The Deletion Was The DetectionAnthropic's August risk report describes an employee whose AI usage was neither logged nor monitored, an agent that spawned sub-agents with --dangerously-skip-permissions, and a deletion the company found only because it happened. Monitoring still does not cover every employee in those clusters.