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Gemini 3.7 Flash Arrives Three Weeks After 3.6, With Real Coding Gains
Google's new workhorse model posts double-digit jumps on coding and automation benchmarks over the version it replaces. The introductory price is $0.75 per million input tokens, and it doubles on January 1, 2027.
Anthropic's Run Rate Reaches $65 Billion, Roughly 7x in Seven Months
Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate hit $65 billion at the end of July, up from $9 billion at the close of 2025. The number says a lot about enterprise AI spending, and slightly less than it appears about the company.
Google Bought a Dead Airline's Internal Records for $10 Million
Spirit Airlines is gone, but two decades of its emails, Teams chats and operational logs now belong to Google, which won them at a bankruptcy auction for $10 million and plans to use them for AI training.
Amazon Is Destroying Rare Books to Train Its AI Models
404 Media tracked a rare book with an AirTag to an Amazon warehouse, where spines are cut off for scanning and the text is used to train Nova models.
Nvidia Backstops OpenAI's Ohio Lease With Up to $105B
OpenAI signed a 20-year lease for an 8-gigawatt Ohio campus, and Nvidia is guaranteeing the finished buildings' residual value up to $105 billion.
Anthropic's Bio-Safety Filter Was Off for Nearly a Year
Anthropic's own risk report says its biological weapons classifiers were inactive from May 2025 to April 2026, with about 133 million chats running unfiltered.
Qwen 3.8 27B Ships Open Weights That Fit Into 17 GB
Alibaba released Qwen 3.8 27B under Apache 2.0: a 17 GB quantized file with a 262k context window and vision support that runs on a single workstation.
Stripe Is Buying OpenRouter for More Than $7 Billion
Bloomberg reports Stripe has acquired OpenRouter, the gateway fronting 400+ AI models, for over $7 billion. That is five times its May valuation.
OpenAI Loses Its COO and Hires a New Revenue Chief
COO Brad Lightcap is leaving OpenAI after eight years, the fourth senior exit in two months, while the company names Dali Rajic chief revenue officer ahead of a planned IPO.
Microsoft Cuts Five Copilot Features and Merges Its Apps
Deep Research, Mico and Copilot Labs are among five features Microsoft retires on August 18, as the consumer and Microsoft 365 Copilot apps merge into one.
Fable 5 Took Just 6 Percent of Anthropic's Tokens
Anthropic's strongest model took only 6 percent of the company's token volume in its first month. Ramp's data suggests corporate willingness to pay for frontier capability has a ceiling.
DeepSeek Raises API Prices as V4-Pro Gets Sharper
DeepSeek's V4-Pro jumped on coding benchmarks, but API prices rise on August 16. Cache hits get six to twelve times more expensive, while the Harness agent framework goes MIT-licensed.
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