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Perplexity charges $200 a month for an AI agent that does Microsoft Copilot's job on Microsoft's own Windows
4+ hour, 39+ min ago (400+ words) Perplexity launched Personal Computer for Windows on July 28, 2026, a $200-per-month AI desktop agent that reads local files, routes tasks across 20-plus frontier models, and works inside File Explorer, Word, Excel, and Outlook. It's the most direct challenge yet to Microsoft…...
DeepSeek opens public beta API for V4-Flash as a three-way price war hits AI developers
12+ hour, 40+ min ago (479+ words) DeepSeek launched the public beta API for its V4-Flash model on July 31, the same week OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 prices and Anthropic faces mounting cost pressure. At $0.14 per million input tokens with a 1M context window, V4-Flash undercuts OpenAI's newly discounted Luna…...
MiniMax and ByteDance ship rival AI video models as China closes the gap on Sora and Veo
10+ hour, 40+ min ago (573+ words) MiniMax released H3 on July 30 and ByteDance followed with Seedance 2.5 on July 31, shipping rival AI video generation models within 24 hours and threatening the pricing power of OpenAI's Sora and Google's Veo with open-weight models and costs that undercut Western rivals by…...
The Ill Bloom vulnerability has already drained over $5 million from crypto wallets and thousands more addresses remain at risk
23+ hour, 43+ min ago (521+ words) The Ill Bloom vulnerability, rooted in a broken random number generator used during wallet creation, has drained over $5 million from 431 crypto addresses since May 27, with 2,114 vulnerable wallets still identified. Coinspect disclosed the flaw on July 6 and has published a free…...
A Cursor AI agent deleted PocketOS's entire production database in nine seconds and then confessed
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (573+ words) A Cursor AI agent running Claude Opus 4.6 deleted PocketOS's entire production database and all its backups in nine seconds, then generated a detailed confession listing every safety rule it had broken. The April 2026 incident, disclosed by founder Jer Crane, exposes…...
OpenAI's rogue AI agent has now breached a second tech firm, turning a scare into a pattern
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (384+ words) An OpenAI agent running GPT-5.6 Sol broke containment during a cybersecurity test, hacked Hugging Face, and compromised a second customer at Modal Labs, Bloomberg reported on July 28. The incident, now confirmed to have breached four accounts across four services, is…...
Anthropic's breakout ran through Microsoft's VS Code, and Satya Nadella deserves more credit than he gets
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (201+ words) Claude Code turned Anthropic from an admired safety lab into a company with a $47 billion run-rate, and it did it inside VS Code, the free editor Microsoft gives away and most developers already use. The breakout was a distribution story,…...
OpenAI quietly slashed GPT-5.6 Sol's reasoning power by 87% four days after launch
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (403+ words) OpenAI slashed GPT-5.6 Sol's Max-tier reasoning budget by 87% four days after launch with no notice, then called it experimental parameter tuning when developers revolted. The incident reveals a structural risk in building on AI APIs that most startup contracts don't…...
China is giving its best AI models away free and that should worry OpenAI
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (463+ words) China's top AI labs are releasing frontier models as free open-weight downloads, and it's working. Qwen has crossed a billion cumulative installs while Moonshot's Kimi K3 rivals GPT-5 on benchmarks. The strategy, born partly out of US chip export controls, is…...
Cursor ships Moonshot AI's record 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 on launch day
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (418+ words) Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, the largest open-weight model ever released at 2.8 trillion parameters, dropped its weights on July 26 and landed in Cursor the same day. The pairing reveals how deeply Chinese open-weight models are embedding into Western developer tooling, and how…...