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Archive August 13, 2026 20:07 UTC
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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 Confirms the Agent Raid, and Says It Coped
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.
CNN: believed to be the first disclosed fully automated attack on a government The Guardian: 'There's still a human in there somewhere,' a researcher cautions

NEWGoogle Ships Another Flash, at Half the Price
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.
Qwen Stays Open, Except for Rivals
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.
Ghost Note His Son's Roblox Friends Are All Bots