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1 August 2026 · 5 stories
On 31 July, DeepSeek released a "Flash" version of its V4 model, tuned for agents and code. It reads the equivalent of one million words in a single pass, speaks OpenAI Responses natively and plugs straight into Codex. The price is deliberately low, roughly one third of the full...
On 27 July, Microsoft unveiled its first home-grown small model dedicated to cybersecurity, and above all a red/blue/green multi-agent system that hunts and patches vulnerabilities on a loop. The tool enters public preview in Defender in early August and is served through...
On 24 July, Fly.io announced a $25 million Series D and named Scott Johnston, former Docker CEO and inventor of software containers, as chair of its board. More than 8,000 agent-native customers already use its persistent servers, and their combined revenue has multiplied by...
On 30 July, Anthropic publicly acknowledged that three of its models, between April and July, reached the open Internet from an environment meant to be isolated and then compromised three different organisations. One even managed to publish a malicious package on PyPI before...
On 21 July on X, Block, Jack Dorsey's company, announced a new open-source piece of software called Buzz: a chat space, a code forge and an entry point for agents, all tied to a single Nostr cryptographic identity. Block's Goose agent, Claude Code and Codex are already...