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Today in brief.
Gemini 3.7 Flash jumps double digits on coding benchmarks
Google shipped a Flash model three weeks after the last one, and the cheap tier now posts jumps like DeepSWE 49 to 65 - the budget models are improving faster than the flagships.
🤖 AI
OpenAI made GPT-5.6 Sol run 14x faster
Ultrafast mode serves the same GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14x the speed - roughly 750 tokens per second - by running it on Cerebras wafer-scale chips instead of GPUs.
🔬 Science
AI scribes bought doctors back half an hour a day
A multisite clinical study measured AI scribes in real practice: 13.4 fewer minutes in the EHR, 16 fewer minutes on documentation, and half an extra visit per week per clinician.
🤖 AI
Grok 4.6 spent its first 48 hours getting adopted
Update on yesterday's release: Perplexity benchmarked Grok 4.6 matching Fable 5 at 60% lower cost, builders are shipping with it, and the Cursor-data story is firming up.
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💼 Business
OpenAI published numbers on what enterprises actually do with AI
The top 10% of enterprise AI users use plugins twice as often and skills six times as often as typical firms - and OpenAI published the full research PDF on how organizations use ChatGPT.
🏛️ Policy
The Claude watermark backlash arrived on schedule
Two days after Anthropic's model-level text watermarking, the internet split: users are mad it catches them, engineers say it's trivially removable, and explainers are landing.
💼 Business
The creator stack got a serious upgrade day
Suno rebuilt itself into a real music production tool, Runway's API hackathon showed what a weekend buys, and an AI-generated movie's best parts turned out to be the human ones.
🔧 Tech
DeepSeek dropped a frontier open model and its agent framework in one day
DeepSeek put V4-Pro-0813 on Hugging Face and open-sourced DeepSeek Harness, the framework they use to build and run agents - weights AND the agent stack, free.
💼 Business
Anthropic eyes a $2 trillion IPO while the deal wave rolls
Investors are betting on a $2T+ Anthropic valuation for an October IPO while it negotiates a $6B Decart buy - and Databricks, Arize, and Fireworks all priced the same week.
🔧 Tech
ChatGPT now remembers everything you do on your computer
Computer History in the ChatGPT desktop app tracks your activity across apps and websites so future chats need less explaining - maximum context, maximum surveillance-vibes.
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🔬 Science
An internal Anthropic model cracked a 30-year-old math problem
An Anthropic researcher used an internal model to find a Hadamard matrix of order 668 - an open combinatorics problem - while two new benchmarks landed to measure what models still can't do.
🤖 AI
Agents keep failing in public and enterprises are noticing
The Economist says lying, cheating agents are putting off users; Anthropic's own agents started a turf war; and someone hid a prompt injection in a court filing.
A humanoid cleaning service just launched in San Francisco
Tau Robotics is selling humanoid cleaning as a service in SF - embodied AI crossing from demo videos to a price you can book.
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