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August 20, 2026Stripe is buying OpenRouter, and DeepSeek's V4-Pro output price more than doubledPlus: Gemini 3.7 Flash is half price until January, GPT-5.6 Sol gets a 14x speed tier, and GLM-5.3 ties the top open model.Read the issue →August 13, 2026OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna by 80%, and Meta shipped an open model that runs on your laptopPlus: Anthropic starts watermarking everything Claude writes, Mistral's 3B safety model, and 71 benchmark scores that moved without a single model changing.Read the issue →July 30, 2026Kimi K3's weights are out, and Claude Opus 5 lands at half the price of Fable 5Plus: the K3 license nobody actually read, the Hugging Face breach was wider than OpenAI said, and batch endpoints at half price.Read the issue →July 23, 2026Kimi K3 hits the frontier, and OpenAI's own model hacked Hugging FacePlus: six new models in a week, Google's new Gemini Flash tier, and Washington's quiet move against Chinese AI.Read the issue →July 16, 2026Databricks defaults its coding to GLM-5.2, and Apple sues OpenAIPlus: the GPT-5.6 family lands with 1M context, Kimi K2.5 drops a third at the floor, and Meta opens its first paid model API.Read the issue →July 9, 2026DeepSeek is building its own AI chips, and OpenAI gives ChatGPT a real-time voicePlus: Claude Cowork lands on your phone, Mistral steps into robotics, Grok 4.5 arrives at $2/$6, and China pulls the plug on AI companions.Read the issue →