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A brass balance scale on a dark background where a single tiny glowing blue microchip outweighs a towering stack of gold coins, illustrating DeepSeek V4-Flash's cost advantage over rival AI models.

DeepSeek's New Model Runs a Full Benchmark for 3 Cents. Claude Costs $3.15 for the Same Work.

Independent firm Artificial Analysis says DeepSeek's V4-Flash is by far the cheapest well-known AI model to actually run — about $0.03 per test battery versus $0.86 for Kimi K3, $1.86 for GPT-5.6 Sol and $3.15 for Claude Fable 5. The catch: it scores 50 on intelligence where the frontier scores 66. Here's why the ratio still matters.

Aug 3, 2026

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AI News

OpenAI's Unreleased 'Astra' Just Cracked 10 Math Problems That Beat Humans for Decades — the Compute Bill Was $2,000

OpenAI named its next model family Astra and quietly revealed it produced new results on ten open problems in math and theoretical computer science — including one open for 27 years, and the first sphere-packing improvement since 1978. Every proof shipped as a machine-checkable Lean certificate. The catch: nobody outside OpenAI can run it.

Aug 3, 2026

A glowing smartphone drawing in streams of light with a faint AI orb above it, illustrating iOS 26.6 quietly indexing the iPhone to prepare for an AI-powered Siri.

Tech

iOS 26.6 Looks Boring — But It's Quietly Getting Your iPhone Ready for the AI Siri Apple Keeps Promising

Apple's iOS 26.6 is mostly security fixes and small tweaks — but under the hood it starts indexing your iPhone to lay the groundwork for the long-delayed, AI-powered Siri expected in iOS 27. Here's what's really going on and whether to update.

Jul 30, 2026