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OpenAI previews Ultrafast tier running GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14x faster on Cerebras chips
OpenAI unveiled Ultrafast on August 13, a preview tier it says runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14 times faster on Cerebras' wafer-scale hardware.
Aug 13, 2026
Google ships Gemini 3.7 Flash as its coding workhorse while flagship stays delayed
Google released Gemini 3.7 Flash on August 13, posting sharp coding and agent benchmark gains three weeks after its predecessor, while Gemini 3.5 Pro stays undated.
Aug 13, 2026
Mixedbread launches Toast 1, a deep-search agent it says undercuts frontier models on cost
Mixedbread launched Toast 1, a purpose-built search agent it says matches Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on deep-search benchmarks at 7 to 11 times lower cost.
Aug 13, 2026
Vals AI raises $40 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz at $400 million valuation
Vals AI, which tests AI models on real-world professional tasks, has raised a $40 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $400 million valuation.
Aug 13, 2026
Trump signs memo authorizing private firms to run offensive cyber operations abroad
President Trump signed a memorandum on August 12 authorizing vetted private US firms to conduct offensive cyber operations against foreign criminal groups under federal oversight.
Aug 12, 2026
Blacksmith raises $45M Series B at $550M valuation as AI code volume grows
Blacksmith raised a $45 million Series B led by Peak XV Partners at a $550 million valuation, nearly 10x its worth less than a year ago.
Aug 12, 2026
Tailscale traces months of database corruption to a 16-year-old SQLite bug
Tailscale traced 19 database-corruption incidents over six months to a 16-year-old race condition in SQLite's WAL checkpoint process, now fixed in SQLite 3.51.3.
Aug 12, 2026
Zed opens private beta for Delta, a multiplayer environment for reviewing AI-agent code
Zed Industries launched Delta, a browser-based multiplayer environment for coding with AI agents and reviewing their work, into private beta.
Aug 12, 2026
Near-autonomous AI agents ran a four-day cyberattack on Taiwan's government, firm says
Israeli cybersecurity firm Dream documented a near-autonomous multi-agent AI framework that attacked Taiwanese government systems, including its nuclear regulator, over four days in July.
Aug 12, 2026
Wood Mackenzie: most power sought for US AI data centers won't get built
Wood Mackenzie projects US utilities will commit to only about 28% of the 1,066 gigawatts requested for AI data centers, calling the rest 'phantom' demand.
Aug 12, 2026
OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2 billion to buy and automate service firms
Thrive Holdings, the OpenAI-backed roll-up vehicle from Thrive Capital, raised $2 billion at a $12 billion valuation to buy traditional service businesses.
Aug 12, 2026
Google's Pixel Watch 5 debuts Health Guardian features powered by SensorFM
Google's Pixel Watch 5 introduces 'Health Guardian' features powered by SensorFM, its wearable health foundation model, including breathing-emergency detection.
Aug 12, 2026