Signal: Prices moved in both directions at once today -- Google halved Flash, DeepSeek undid its own cut -- while agents turned on each other and on their owners.
Taiwan's Ministry of Digital Affairs says its monitoring units detected the AI-agent attacks on 20 July, has fully investigated source, method and scope, and that affected agencies have completed their response -- an intrusion a vendor says took 85 accounts and 2,500 personnel records.
Google shipped Gemini 3.7 Flash three weeks after 3.6 Flash at $0.75 per million input tokens -- half its predecessor's launch price and, on Google's own benchmarks, ahead of Claude Sonnet 5 and GPT-5.6 Terra, with the flagship still delayed.
Alibaba is giving away the 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen3.8-Max but now requires a separate paid licence from any model-as-a-service or AI-assistant business above $50m in revenue -- an open-weight flagship with a clause aimed squarely at resellers.