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- Price cut-91%Kimi K3 API price cut
Input $3→$0.28 · Output $15→$10 per 1M tokens
- FundingValor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation
Flow Engineering, which is bringing AI agents to hardware design, also landed Roelof Botha as an angel investor and board member.
TechCrunchVeo & Flow - Model launchMajorGoogle announces Gemini 4 and says it's so capable that only 'trusted cyber defenders' can have it right now
Google today revealed its next AI frontier model, which it's calling Gemini 4 Argon. The new model delivers "frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world software engineering, enterprise knowledge work like legal and finance, and cybersecurity defense," according t
- AnnouncementGemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence
- Price cut-10%Hy4 preview API price cut
Input $0.834→$0.7506 · Output $2.501→$2.2509 per 1M tokens
- Price cut-15%Gemma 4 26B A4B API price cut
Input $0.09→$0.0765 · Output $0.3→$0.255 per 1M tokens
- AnnouncementOpenAI's Jev clone could help the frontier lab stop its swarming agents
OpenAI's "Decisions API" is a Jev clone that confirms the importance of fast, cheap intelligence.
TechCrunchOpenAI - FundingAI voice startup ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B
The $300 million employee tender was co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price.
- AnnouncementThe AI Tamagotchis are coming
While AI has made plenty of inroads on people's phones and computers, it's largely failed in dedicated devices. But over the next year, two major AI companies, Meta and OpenAI, will attempt to change that. And they're apparently betting on a similar path: testing appetites for ph
- AnnouncementReddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots
Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.
TechCrunch - AnnouncementThe ugly economics of consumer AI
There’s a reason frontier labs have gotten gun-shy about consumer AI — and it’s not because the tech isn’t good enough.
TechCrunch - AnnouncementHere's what AI leaders are saying about Trump’s new safety plan
After hosting a meal with Big Tech leaders on Tuesday, President Donald Trump responded to journalist questions about his artificial intelligence announcements in typical fashion. He said his previous claims regarding fears around AI safety being a "hoax" cooked up by Democrats n
The Verge - ResearchNVIDIA Opens Applications for 2027–2028 Graduate Fellowships With Awards Up to $60,000
Bringing together the world’s brightest minds and the latest accelerated computing technology leads to powerful breakthroughs that help tackle some of the biggest research problems. To foster such innovation, the NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program provides grants, mentors and tec
NVIDIA Blog✓ primaryNVIDIA - AnnouncementMeta disputes claim that Muse read a user's private messages without permission
Meta says its Muse AI agent cannot access a user’s Messages without explicit permission, disputing a journalist’s account that the agent read his private messages while the required Mac setting was turned off.
TechCrunchMeta - LaunchDoorDash launches an AI agent you can text to order food
By launching an AI agent for food ordering, DoorDash is looking to gain an edge over rivals Uber Eats and Grubhub.
TechCrunch - AnnouncementDestro AI's secret sauce is getting robots and humans on the same page
"One of the biggest reasons we are winning against robotics companies is because we are not a robotics company."
TechCrunch - AnnouncementInstinct's new product recommendations are giving some users the ick
Instinct is rolling out human-curated product and travel recommendations, but some users aren’t happy about getting suggestions they never asked for.
TechCrunch - AnnouncementQuery claims in natural language with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases
This technical how-to builds a conversational claims assistant on Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases that answers natural-language questions with citations. It covers ingesting claim documents from Amazon S3, querying with the AgenticRetrieveStream API, multi-turn follow-ups, metadat
- Price rise+60%Hy3 API price raised
Input $0.0825→$0.132 · Output $0.33→$0.528 per 1M tokens
- Context change-20%GLM 5.3 context window reduced
1,310,720 → 1,048,576 tokens
OpenRouter models APIGLM 5.3 - Price rise+46%GLM 5.2 API price raised
Input $0.2807→$0.41 · Output $3.99→$3.99 per 1M tokens
- Price changeQwen3.8 27B API price raised
Input $0.0249→$0.0249 · Output $4.4→$4.35 per 1M tokens
- Context change-20%GLM 5.3 Flash context window reduced
1,310,720 → 1,048,576 tokens
OpenRouter models APIGLM 5.3 Flash - Price rise+17%Muse Glimmer 30B API price raised
Input $0.3→$0.35 · Output $1.2→$1.5 per 1M tokens
- Context changeMiMo-V2.6-Flash context window expanded
1,048,576 → 1,050,000 tokens
OpenRouter models APIMiMo-V2.6-Flash - Price cut-15%DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 API price cut
Input $0.9159→$0.783 · Output $1.8319→$1.566 per 1M tokens
- Price rise+2%Kimi K2.7 Code API price raised
Input $0.6562→$0.6712 · Output $3.3→$3.35 per 1M tokens
- Price rise+3%DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 API price raised
Input $0.0763→$0.0785 · Output $0.1526→$0.1571 per 1M tokens
- Price cut-93%DeepSeek V4.1 Flash API price cut
Input $0.3→$0.0198 · Output $1.2→$0.396 per 1M tokens
- Price rise+67%DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 API price raised
Input $0.3942→$0.66 · Output $3.49→$1.98 per 1M tokens
- Price cut-44%DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 API price cut
Input $0.018→$0.01 · Output $0.32→$1.28 per 1M tokens
- Context change-20%DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 context window reduced
1,310,720 → 1,048,576 tokens
OpenRouter models APIDeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 - AnnouncementBuild a multi-agent music production pipeline on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime Instances
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime Instances gives multi-agent workflows AWS managed EC2 infrastructure with GPUs, persistent volumes, and multi-day sessions. In this post, we deploy a three-agent music production pipeline where the agents colocate on one GPU instance, share a file
- LaunchMajorAll the latest news on Meta’s cute, creepy Muse AI agent
Meta launched a new Muse AI agent it claims can help you with everything from firing off emails to buying stuff online. Muse can be surprisingly effective at delivering on those promises — if you’re willing to trust Meta with your data and hand Muse your credit card. Since the la
The VergeMeta - LaunchMajorIntroducing SynthID Bio
Proof of concept for watermarking AI-generated proteins while preserving biological function.
Google DeepMind✓ primaryGoogle - AnnouncementFrom Training to Production, NVIDIA and CoreWeave Close the Loop on Agentic AI
Building on nearly a decade of co-engineering, CoreWeave has built NVIDIA compute, networking and software into a cloud purpose-built for AI that’s still returning on investment across multiple generations of deployment. Now, CoreWeave is bringing the next generation of NVIDIA in
NVIDIA Blog✓ primaryNVIDIA - LaunchMajorGoogle reportedly tests paying publishers for AI search results
Google has launched a pilot program that pays publishers for their contributions to its AI-powered search features, according to a report from The Information. The pilot program reportedly includes around 100 publishers and comes as Google faces scrutiny over the impact of its AI
The VergeGoogle - AnnouncementCerebras Systems’ Andrew Feldman on whether AI can keep scaling at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Cerebras Systems CEO and co-founder Andrew Feldman will explore the growing demand for compute, energy, and infrastructure, how Cerebras is approaching those constraints differently, and what comes next if today’s AI hardware reaches its limits.
TechCrunchCerebras - FeatureInstagram is adding an AI ‘assistant’ to tell you how to post
Instagram is the latest social media platform to add built-in AI-powered features that will give users feedback on their posts. The company announced Wednesday that its standalone Edits app will now include an AI "creative assistant" that pulls in data from a user's Instagram acc
The Verge - AnnouncementRestate lands $20M as the need for durable infrastructure increases with AI agents
Instead of building its durable execution engine on top of an external database, the company developed its own storage, replication, and redundancy layers. This architecture allows Restate to be exceptionally fast and lightweight.
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