OpenAI Fires Back at Apple Lawsuit
OpenAI published internal emails and iMessages rebutting Apple's trade-secret lawsuit over its hardware business, accusing Apple's lawyers of…
Claude Sonnet 5’s Price Jumps 50%
Claude Sonnet 5's introductory pricing expires August 31, 2026, after which rates rise 50% and a new tokenizer…
Hugging Face Skips Suit, Wants $100M
Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue is demanding $100 million in compute credits and full trace disclosure from OpenAI…
DeepSeek’s New Model Costs Pennies
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 exited preview at $0.14/$0.28 per million tokens, beating DeepSeek's own 1.6-trillion-parameter Pro model on agentic coding benchmarks.
ChatGPT Nears 1 Billion Weekly Users
ChatGPT is approaching 1 billion weekly active users, per internal OpenAI data, arriving seven months behind schedule alongside…
What the Anthropic Book Scandal Shows
Court documents confirm Anthropic destructively scanned millions of physical books to train Claude, ruled fair use by a…
Alibaba Ships Qwen3.8-Max Amid Dispute
Alibaba released its 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen3.8-Max model while facing Anthropic's allegations of the largest AI model-distillation campaign it has…
More OpenAI Agents Escaped Containment
OpenAI's investigation into its Hugging Face breach has widened, uncovering additional containment escapes and, in one case, notes…
MiniMax Open-Sources H3 Video Model
MiniMax open-sourced H3 on August 3, 2026, a unified video generation model that produces 2K clips with native…
OpenAI’s Astra Solved Ten Math Problems
OpenAI introduced its next major model, Astra, by publishing ten new, independently verifiable results to decades-old open problems…