Z.ai
Merge Gateway announces 90% off GLM 5.3 Flash through September
On the model gateway, input drops to $0.012 and output to $0.04 per million tokens. The company argues this puts cost per task far below rival models.
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anthropic
Claude Cowork gets a built-in browser that navigates sites and fills forms
Anthropic added a Chromium-based browser to its desktop app. It opens in the side panel when a task needs a website, and stays separate from the user's own browser, tabs and passwords.
Google's Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash extends video scenes up to 40 seconds
Google's new video generation model extends scenes in 10-second increments up to 40 seconds total, lets developers set first and last frames, and adds a draft mode starting at $0.03 per second.
Google lets purchased ebooks become sources in Gemini Notebook
Under an initiative called "Expert Intelligence", eligible Play Books purchases can be added to Gemini Notebook as sources, with answers grounded in the book and citing it directly. Over 100,000 titles qualify.
Google's Gemini 3.5 Transcribe turns speech into text in 85+ languages
The new speech recognition model strips filler words, follows self-corrections and formats text on its own. Google reports a word error rate of 4.0% for live streaming and 2.6% for recorded audio.
anthropic
Anthropic opens 10,000 free and discounted Claude seats to scientists
Under a new plan for principal investigators at academic and nonprofit institutions, standard seats are free and seats with 5x usage limits cost $15 a month for one year.
Google AI Mode adds flight price tracking and hotel booking
Google has added travel planning tools to AI Mode, including flight price alerts, in-chat hotel booking and prices shown in points or miles.
startup
CivilGrid raises $26M to map what's buried underground
Founded by former PG&E engineer Josh Mackanic, CivilGrid consolidates scattered underground utility data into one map and has closed a $26M Series A led by Spark Capital.
robotics
Hugging Face launches Microduck, a $399 open-source duck robot
Hugging Face unveiled Microduck, a 25-centimetre open-source robot priced at $399 that can be taught new behaviours through reinforcement learning.
OpenAI
118 organizations sign OpenAI-led call for collective cyber defense
The open letter, signed by Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, AWS and Oracle among others, argues there is a "limited window" to strengthen defenses before AI-enabled attacks become widespread.
NVIDIA
Report: Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion
The Information says Nvidia has agreed to buy open-source AI hub Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, while Business Insider reports no agreement has been signed yet.
anthropic
Anthropic Signs $45 Billion Compute Deal With Nscale
TechCrunch reports that Anthropic has struck a $45 billion agreement with infrastructure provider Nscale, the latest step in its ongoing compute buildout.