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Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash and a cybersecurity model
Google updated its Flash line: 3.8 Flash improves at coding and agent tasks, and 3.8 Flash Cyber is limited to trusted defenders.
Read News · Models 1 min readClaude Fable 5.1 launches; Mythos 5.1 stays restricted
Anthropic announced Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 on September 1. They are the same model with different safeguards and access.
Read News · Models 1 min readAsk Gemini arrives in Google Chat as a single command line
Rolling out from August 26, it is limited for now to accounts set to English. Usage limits are promotionally higher until October 1.
Read News · Models 1 min readDeepSeek V4-Pro goes live, then adds peak-hour pricing
Previewed in late April, V4-Pro became generally available on August 13. Since August 16 its price doubles for seven hours a day.
Read News · Models 1 min readGemini 3.7 Flash arrives three weeks after 3.6 at half the price
Google calls it its most intelligent workhorse model yet for coding and agents. The introductory price runs to the end of the year.
Read News · Models 1 min readPixel 11 arrives with Tensor G6 and on-device Gemini Nano
Google introduced four phones at Made by Google on August 12, all with the Tensor G6 chip running the latest Gemini Nano on device.
Read News · Models 1 min readxAI ships Grok 4.6, Grok Bot and Image 2.0 in five days
Grok 4.6 launched on August 12 with a 500,000-token context window. A day earlier Grok Bot, an AI teammate you hand work to, entered beta.
Read News · Models 1 min readOpenAI shuts Atlas; agentic browsing moves into ChatGPT
Launched for macOS last October, Atlas closed before its first birthday. Multiple tabs, downloads and account login are moving into ChatGPT and Codex.
Read News · Models 1 min readGPT-5.6 update brings Luna to free users and an effort slider
OpenAI says the updated GPT-5.6 Sol makes roughly 60% fewer factual errors. Free and Go users get a new default model.
Read News · Models 1 min readMeta Superintelligence Labs ships coding agent Muse Code
The terminal-based agent runs on Muse Spark 1.2. Meta was also reported to be restructuring its AI teams again.
Read News · Models 1 min readAlibaba opens 2.4T-parameter Qwen3.8-Max in its cloud
Previewed in July, the model went live in the cloud on August 3. Alibaba had said it would release the weights too.
Read News · Models 1 min readMoonshot AI opens the weights of 2.8T-parameter Kimi K3
Kimi K3 is the largest open-weights model released so far. Its license asks inference providers earning over $20 million a year for up to 30% revenue share.
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