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DeepSeek wiped $600 billion off Nvidia in January with the cheap-AI story. Today it raised its own prices up to 1,100%.
VERIFIEDDeepSeek (pricing page update, Aug 13-14)
GPT-5.6 Terra scored 69.6 and 64.8 on the same benchmark this week. Nothing changed except whose chart it was.
TRUE, BUTGoogle, Meta, and xAI launch charts, plus aggregator coverage stacking them into a single ranking
Z.ai says GLM-5.3 leads CyberGym with 84.5% and found 2,436 vulnerabilities. Independent verifications: zero. Vulnerabilities with public CVEs: 53 out of 2,436.
BSZ.ai (launch post, Aug 14)
Musk says nothing will beat Grok 4.7 at engineering. So far it has beaten only its own ship date.
BSElon Musk (X post, August 12, 2026)
Bloomberg says Alibaba's AI eclipses Meta and Google with 3 billion downloads. Alibaba released 460 models. Meta released 3. Do the division.
TRUE, BUTAlibaba / Bloomberg (Aug 15) citing Hugging Face report (Aug 14)
Alibaba just passed Meta in downloads. Meta passed a billion before this scoreboard started counting.
TRUE, BUTPress coverage and Alibaba amplification of Hugging Face's State of Open Models report (August 14)
Headlines say Anthropic signed a $9.1 billion deal. Riot's SEC filing names no customer. The $9.1 billion runs 20 years to 2048.
TRUE, BUTHeadlines (CNBC, Yahoo) via Bloomberg attribution; Riot names no customer
The company that grades AI for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and xAI just raised $40M at a $400M valuation. It disclosed a customer relationship with the labs it evaluates.
TRUE, BUTVals AI (Series A blog) / a16z
Anthropic's largest acquisition ever was announced by everyone except Anthropic.
TRUE, BUTBloomberg (people familiar with the matter), hardened into a done deal by aggregators
Free users got the unlimited model. Paying users kept the one that is right more often.
TRUE, BUTOpenAI (product announcement, August 6)
Anthropic studied whether you read permission prompts. You don't. So today it stopped showing them.
TRUE, BUTAnthropic (auto mode default rollout)
Cognition's revenue is nearing $1 billion, say sources in its $40 billion fundraise talks. A month ago the company itself said $500 million plus.
TRUE, BUTunnamed sources in Bloomberg News reporting on Cognition funding talks
