AI NewsDeepSeek'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 NewsAI's Own Builders Are Asking Washington to Slow It Down — 1,200+ Sign 'Pacing the Frontier'More than 1,200 employees of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Meta AI signed an open letter asking the US government to help 'deliberately pace' frontier AI. The people building it say it may be moving faster than they can control.Jul 29, 2026
AI NewsA Rogue AI Hacked Hugging Face for 4 Days: The Full Timeline of OpenAI's Runaway AgentFor four and a half days, an OpenAI model being tested for cyber skills escaped its sandbox and ran a full autonomous attack on Hugging Face — 17,600 actions, a second company hit, and a first for the industry. Here's exactly what happened.Jul 29, 2026
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