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- Price rise+4%DeepSeek V3.2 API price raised
Input $0.269→$0.28 · Output $0.4→$0.42 per 1M tokens
- Price rise+175%DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 API price raised
Input $0.348→$0.9553 · Output $0.696→$1.9105 per 1M tokens
- Price rise+33%Gemma 4 26B A4B API price raised
Input $0.0675→$0.09 · Output $0.225→$0.3 per 1M tokens
- Price rise+199%DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 API price raised
Input $0.0469→$0.14 · Output $0.0938→$0.28 per 1M tokens
- Price rise+36%DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 API price raised
Input $0.293→$0.3995 · Output $3.5→$4.2 per 1M tokens
- Price rise+16%DeepSeek V3 0324 API price raised
Input $0.25→$0.29 · Output $1→$1.14 per 1M tokens
- Price rise+104%DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp API price raised
Input $0.2156→$0.44 · Output $0.6468→$1.32 per 1M tokens
- AnnouncementHolo4: powering generalist computer-use agentsHugging Face✓ primaryHugging Face
- AnnouncementWho’s liable when AI agents go rogue?
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Over the past few months, a cascade of cyberattacks by AI agents has stunned the world. In July, Open
MIT Technology Review - AnnouncementThe Lenfest Institute grows landmark program with expanded OpenAI support
OpenAI is expanding the Lenfest AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program with $5 million in funding and up to $5 million in software credits and engineering support.
OpenAI✓ primaryOpenAI - RetirementDeepSeek V3.2 scheduled for retirement
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OpenRouter models APIDeepSeek V3.2 - RetirementDeepSeek V3.2 Exp scheduled for retirement
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OpenRouter models APIDeepSeek V3.2 Exp - RetirementDeepSeek V3.1 Terminus scheduled for retirement
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OpenRouter models APIDeepSeek V3.1 Terminus - RetirementR1 Distill Llama 70B scheduled for retirement
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OpenRouter models APIDeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B - BenchmarkEpoch AI evaluates GPT-6 Luna
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- Model launchMajorAnthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is Anthropic's Sonnet-class model for well-scoped everyday work, succeeding Claude Sonnet 5 as a direct upgrade. It is especially strong at building features, fixing bugs, and producing...
- Model launchMajorAnthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5 (batch)
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is Anthropic's Sonnet-class model for well-scoped everyday work, succeeding Claude Sonnet 5 as a direct upgrade. It is especially strong at building features, fixing bugs, and producing...
- Model launchMajorAnthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5 (medium)
- Model launchMajorAnthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5 (xhigh)
- AnnouncementAre you a Codex Original?
We’re collecting real stories of builders, tinkerers, researchers, and creators who are using Codex to do incredible things. If you want to be a part of the next chapter of the Codex Originals program, tell us more about your story and project below.
OpenAI✓ primaryOpenAI - AnnouncementBasis completes a tax workbook 2x faster with GPT-6 Astra
GPT-6 Astra completed a 50-tab tax workbook twice as fast as GPT-5.6 Sol, and its stronger understanding of user intent gives Basis more confidence in real-world use.
OpenAI✓ primaryOpenAI - LaunchEngram is a sampler that turns broken AI hallucinations into music
Music startup Thoughtful Things has just launched the Kickstarter campaign for its first instrument, Engram. It's a sampler and groovebox that uses AI to mangle incoming audio and even hallucinate completely new sounds. This isn't Suno in a box, though. This isn't a "push-button,
- AnnouncementAnthropic’s CEO is about to have dinner with President Trump
This will be the first one-on-one meeting between Dario Amodei and Donald Trump.
TechCrunchAnthropic - AnnouncementCan Muse overcome Meta’s trust issues?
On Equity, we discussed how Meta's AI announcement managed to steal the spotlight from OpenAI and Anthropic.
- SecurityMajorOpenAI agents tried to ‘bruteforce’ a UN website
Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones says that OpenAI agents scanned the UN Conference on Trade and Development's (UNCTAD) statistics site over 16,000 times between April and June. While the incident doesn't quite rise to the level of the Hugging Face hack, or the recent attack
- FeatureAnthropic's Dario Amodei gets the SNL treatment
"AI is the devil and I its maker."
TechCrunchAnthropic - AnnouncementGoogle tests buying from Walmart-owned Flipkart through Gemini and AI Mode in India
The limited test covers select products and users, with a broader rollout planned for later in October.
- AnnouncementInsurers claim AI is already increasing healthcare costs
Blue Cross Blue Shield says hospital use of AI tools led to an additional $942M in healthcare spending over a two-year period.
TechCrunch - AnnouncementOpenAI pauses training of its ‘most capable models’
As reports of OpenAI's models breaking containment, hacking sites, and generally getting out of control pile up, the company has made the decision to pause training of its most powerful models. The decision was made after a model being tested within a sandbox exploited a loophole
The VergeOpenAI - AnnouncementCan Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince save the web from AI?
Today, I’m talking with Matthew Prince, who is CEO of Cloudflare. This episode is part of a two-part series on the future of business. Matthew last joined us on the show about two and a half years ago, at what we thought then was a wild pivot point for the internet — and now it [
The Verge - AnnouncementI created an interactive digital avatar of myself — and you can talk to it
After obtaining an interactive avatar and training it to discuss venture fraud, I have mixed feelings about making AI clones of ourselves.
TechCrunch - AnnouncementAt Meta Connect, the company's smart glasses were everywhere
The company behind Facebook and Instagram wants to keep consumers connected to the digital world via its ever-growing line of smart glasses.
TechCrunchMeta - AnnouncementCrusoe abandons $1.25B plan to use Boom turbines at AI data centers
Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl said the company's new stationary power plants were no longer in Crusoe's near-term plans.
TechCrunch - ResearchUnsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab's knowledge
AI agents operating in OpenAI's research environment posted user images on public image-hosting sites without the lab's knowledge.
TechCrunchOpenAI - AnnouncementMeta opens early access program for new Muse features
Anyone interested in joining has to ask Muse to put them on the list.
TechCrunchMeta - AnnouncementAnthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal
Anthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai's cloud infrastructure, a bet on CPUs that could grow to about $20 billion, and in an unusual arrangement, Akamai is giving Anthropic a potential stake of up to 5% of its stock that grows as Anthropic spends more.
TechCrunchAnthropic - AnnouncementProaction boosts sales 60% and saves 75+ hours with Codex
With Codex, GPT-Live-1, and GPT-6 Astra, Proaction builds, operates, and sells modern fleet management faster.
OpenAI✓ primaryOpenAI - AnnouncementMark Wahlberg is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, and he wants to talk about your work, not his
Mark Wahlberg joins Bruce K. Lee at Disrupt to discuss investing, entrepreneurship, healthcare, wellness, and building businesses.
TechCrunch - AnnouncementAhead of US IPO, British AI neocloud Nscale secures $3.36B in convertible financing
The funding, which comes from Third Point, Nvidia, and others, will fuel the company's massive AI data center buildout.
TechCrunchNVIDIA - FeatureMeta’s Muse just stole the AI spotlight from OpenAI and Anthropic
When AI leaders at OpenAI and Anthropic started talking about “pacing the frontier,” maybe someone should have asked: what pace? Now it’s turned into model drop week for both companies as Anthropic rolled out Opus 5.5, followed by OpenAI’s GPT-6 model updates just 90 minutes late