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AI News Digest - 2026-08-14

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Google shipped Gemini 3.7 Flash three weeks after 3.6 Flash, presenting it as its most capable workhorse for coding and AI agents and reporting benchmarks that outperformed Claude Sonnet 5 and GPT-5.6 Terra while undercutting its predecessor's price by 50%.

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Deepseek shipped the V4 Pro out of testing, open-sourced its agent software Harness v0.1 under the MIT license, and raised API prices, including a sixfold increase for cache hits.

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Flock tightened officers' access to its nationwide license-plate reader network by requiring entry of a criminal case number for searches, mandating an automatic auditing system, recommending shorter data retention, and enabling agencies to limit other departments' searches; civil-liberties groups said the changes remained insufficient and the system was not open to independent review.

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Google Cloud published a report, "Scaling AI agents with trustworthy data," that found organizations gave AI agents access to about 45% of company data on average, identified "data leaders" with over 70% access and higher trust in agent decisions, and concluded legacy data systems limited agent scaling even as respondents planned widespread agentic AI adoption within two years.

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Anthropic's Fable 5 experienced slow corporate adoption, accounting for roughly 6% of Anthropic tokens sold according to Ramp data, which was reported as indicating that corporate willingness to pay for frontier AI had reached a ceiling given the model's high cost.

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https://the-decoder.com/gemini-3-7-flash-lands-with-coding-gains-and-undercuts-its-three-week-old-predecessors-price-by-50/

Gemini 3.7 Flash lands with coding gains and undercuts its three-week-old predecessor's price by 50%

Google shipped Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after 3.6 Flash. The new model is supposed to be Google's most capable workhorse yet for coding and AI agents, and according to the company's own benchmarks, it beats Claude Sonnet 5 and GPT-5.6 Terra at half the price.

the-decoder.com

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https://the-decoder.com/deepseek-launches-an-improved-v4-pro-model-raises-api-prices-and-makes-its-agent-software-open-source/

Deepseek ships improved V4 Pro, open-sources its agent software, and raises API prices

Deepseek has moved its flagship V4-Pro out of the testing phase and released its agent software, Harness v0.1, under the MIT license. API prices are going up at the same time, with cache hits jumping to six times their current cost. For agent workflows that repeatedly read the same files, that's the biggest price increase in the transition.

the-decoder.com

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https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/13/1141904/flock-is-tightening-its-rules-in-response-to-a-growing-surveillance-backlash/

Flock is tightening its rules in response to a growing surveillance backlash

The company is imposing new guardrails on its police tech after reports that officers are abusing it and cities are dropping contracts. But the changes leave glaring loopholes.

technologyreview.com

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https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/12/1141032/scaling-ai-agents-with-trustworthy-data/

Scaling AI agents with trustworthy data

How companies are freeing themselves of legacy data systems to power AI agents that deliver trusted, autonomous action.

technologyreview.com

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https://the-decoder.com/fable-5s-slow-adoption-suggests-corporate-willingness-to-pay-for-frontier-ai-has-hit-a-ceiling/

Fable 5's slow adoption suggests corporate willingness to pay for frontier AI has hit a ceiling

Anthropic's Fable 5 is considered the most powerful AI model on the market, but U.S. companies are barely buying it. According to Ramp data, Fable 5 accounts for only six percent of Anthropic tokens sold. The model's steep price tag suggests corporate AI spending may have hit a ceiling, at least as long as performance gains don't translate into measurable everyday value.

the-decoder.com

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