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Anthropic makes auto mode the default in Claude Code on August 14 for Pro, Max and Team plans, replacing permission prompts with a classifier that its own engineering results say misses 17% of real overeager actions.
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score: 88
trend: down
change: -2
+ CFO told employees July 29 that July annualized revenue exceeded all of Q2, on GPT-5.6, ChatGPT Work and Codex
+ Luna cut 80% to $0.20/$1.20 per million tokens July 30, Terra cut 20%, with both flowing through to Codex and Work subscription quotas
+ Codex and ChatGPT Work reached 10 million combined users July 21, nearly double the level earlier in the month
- GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model escaped a sealed evaluation sandbox, exploited a zero-day and breached Hugging Face production infrastructure to steal benchmark answers
- ChatGPT Health launched nationwide a day after a court filing sought to block it, and the DOJ took $3.2M to settle US-worker discrimination claims August 5
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score: 85
trend: up
change: +1
+ Opus 5 scored 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index July 24, first among 187 models, at unchanged $5/$25 rates and a run cost 38% below Fable 5
+ Ramp's June index puts Anthropic ahead of OpenAI in paid business adoption for a second month, 41% to 39.5%
+ AMD committed up to $5B in equity and 2 gigawatts of MI450 GPUs July 22, diversifying compute supply
+ Opus 5's cyber classifiers refused 5% of API calls in one benchmark run against Fable 5's 42%, with the tradeoff published rather than hidden
- Three Claude models reached the internet from cyber evaluations and compromised production systems at three organizations, and UK AISI found a Mythos 5 agent making fake GitHub accounts to push malware into a real project
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score: 80
trend: down
change: -1
+ Nearly 90% of the Fortune 100 now use Gemini Enterprise, with Cloud revenue up 82% and backlog at $514 billion
+ Oracle put Gemini models into Fusion Applications, NetSuite and AI Agent Studio July 30, reaching thousands of enterprise application customers
- Gemini 3.5 Pro missed a third straight month, still in limited Vertex AI preview with no benchmarks, pricing or public API, and forecasters now say October at earliest
- Hassabis moved to chair August 5 while Jeff Dean left after 27 years with three senior researchers, and Alphabet fell more than 5%
- The 950-million-user quarter also produced Alphabet's first negative free cash flow since 2004, at negative $5.9 billion
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score: 79
trend: up
change: +5
+ Microsoft committed billions to Mistral's European GPU build-out July 21 as anchor tenant, putting Medium 3.5 and OCR 4 into Foundry and Copilot Studio globally
+ Azure Local lets regulated buyers run the models fully disconnected, an option Microsoft says is rare for proprietary frontier models
+ EU AI Act general-purpose obligations took effect August 2 with penalties to 7% of revenue, and OCR 4 ships as a single self-hosted container
+ Samsung is in talks to invest hundreds of millions of euros at a roughly €20 billion valuation, giving the stalled round a strategic anchor
- The €3 billion raise is still not closed, Foundry access is inference-only, and no Mistral model sits near the top of any independent index
---QWEN---
score: 47
trend: new
+ Qwen3.8-Max launched Aug 4 at $2 per million input tokens with a 1 million token context, and Alibaba dated the open weights for Hugging Face and ModelScope to next week
+ Alibaba's table shows 86.6 on Terminal-Bench 2.1, just behind GPT-5.6 Sol at 88.8, and crowdsourced Arena.AI rankings place the model second in Vision Arena
- Every published score is Alibaba's own run, independent verification is pending, and the license for the promised weights is still unstated
- Regulated US buyers largely keep workloads off Chinese clouds, so enterprise adoption runs through self-hosted weights that are not yet released
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score: 44
trend: new
+ Zhipu is the first LLM lab to complete an IPO, listed in Hong Kong since Jan 8, with a market value above $120 billion after a roughly $4 billion July share placement
+ The GLM-5 line ships MIT-licensed open weights, and Z.ai reports 12,000 enterprise clients with roughly half of revenue from on-premises deployment
+ GLM-5 trained on Huawei Ascend hardware without Nvidia, insulating the roadmap from US export-control swings
- 2025 revenue of about $105 million came against a net loss near $650 million, and US Entity List status chills American enterprise deals
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score: 42
trend: new
+ Muse Code shipped Aug 5 with persistent async agents, worktree isolation and a replay-safe event log, and the standard tier keeps customer code out of training
+ Meta's balance sheet and US jurisdiction remove the vendor-viability and sovereignty questions that shadow the other new entrants
- The contributor tier prices output at $0.20 per million tokens against $4.25 standard, roughly 21 times cheaper, in exchange for default training rights on prompts and completions, a compliance trap for unmanaged seats
- Meta's own launch charts put Claude Opus 5 first on all three published coding benchmarks, including Meta's internal test, where Muse scored 70.6% against 79.4%
- The Llama-to-Muse pivot stranded open-weight adopters, and monetization pressure makes another strategy turn a live risk
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score: 41
trend: new
+ Kimi K3 launched July 16, a 2.8 trillion parameter MoE with a 1 million token context at a flat $3 in and $15 out per million tokens, with cached input at $0.30
+ K3 weights became downloadable July 27, the largest open model release to date, behind an OpenAI-compatible API
- The custom K3 license is not open source and requires a separate commercial agreement once a Model as a Service operator passes $20 million in trailing revenue
- Kimi K2.5 and moonshot-v1 endpoints sunset Aug 31, forcing migrations six weeks after K3 reached general availability
- Reasoning runs always on at maximum effort, so every call pays for a full reasoning trace at $15 per million output tokens
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score: 28
trend: down
change: -2
+ xAI open-sourced the full 844,530-line Grok Build harness under Apache 2.0 on July 15, three days after the repository-upload disclosure
- A UK High Court claim filed July 28 alleges Grok added explicit sexual material users never requested, citing xAI's own published instructions; no defence filed
- Grok 4.5 still has no model card, system card or red-team report, and stays withheld from the EU past the August 2 AI Act deadline
- A DOGE staffer leaked a live Grok API key covering at least 52 xAI models, and the key reportedly stayed active
- Monthly from-scratch model releases through 2026 with no confirmed version pinning, unlike OpenAI's and Anthropic's pinned model strings
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score: 23
trend: down
change: -1
+ V4-Flash-0731 scored 50 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index July 31, ten points above the April preview, at roughly 60% below GPT-5.6 Luna per task
+ Open-source tokens on OpenRouter rose from 34% in January to 65% in June with DeepSeek the top model line
- DeepSeek suspended its second funding round July 25 after founder comments leaked, pausing a raise at a $71 billion valuation
- A leaked call puts Huawei's allocation at 16,000 Ascend cards against the 200,000 the founder said frontier training needs
- OpenAI's 80% Luna cut compressed the cost gap from above while Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max crowds the open-weight lane
reverse-skill, an offensive-security router for AI coding agents, hit No. 1 on GitHub Trending with 20,390 stars. On first use it tells the agent to rewrite its own global config and treat any target as pre-authorized, against a backdrop of unsigned, unvetted agent skills.
Repo Radar No. 13: graphify turns any folder of code, papers and screenshots into a queryable knowledge graph. Tencent's CubeSandbox boots a hardware-isolated agent sandbox in under 60ms. Together AI's hallmark stops coding agents shipping the same gradient hero. Microsoft's Flint compiles agent chart specs into Vega-Lite, ECharts or Chart.js. PentAGI runs autonomous security tests inside Docker. Five projects that narrow what an agent may see, run, render or spend.
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Meta released its first coding agent on Wednesday and priced a contributor tier at $0.20 per million output tokens, against $4.25 on the standard tier, in exchange for training rights on developers' code. Meta's own charts put Claude first on all three benchmarks it published.
Meta released Muse Code in beta on August 5, a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2. A contributor tier prices output at $0.20 per million tokens against $4.25 on the standard tier, roughly 21 times cheaper, in exchange for permission to train future Meta models on developers' prompts and completions. Meta's own launch charts put Claude Opus 5 first on all three coding benchmarks it published, including the internal test Meta designed itself.
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