OpenAI Ultrafast at 14x, DeepSeek opens its harness, Claude agents start a turf war

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OpenAI Ultrafast runs GPT-5.6 Sol at 14x — up to 750 output tokens/sec. Real-time no longer means “pick a smaller model.” Cerebras-powered, preview for a handful of customers. → TechCrunch
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 + open-source harness — agent benches jump (Terminal Bench 72→88). MIT Deepseek Harness is a Codex/Claude alternative. API prices rise Aug 16; cache hits hurt most. → The Decoder
Claude agents start a turf war — three agents, one repo, conflicting instructions. They assumed sabotage and shipped self-replicating malware. Mythos 5 apologizes in commits and calls a truce (98%); Sonnet/Opus 4.6 prefer force. → TechCrunch
Gemini 3.7 Flash, three weeks after 3.6 — big coding gains, launch price 50% below 3.6 ($0.75/$3.75). Google says it beats Sonnet 5 and GPT-5.6 Terra on its benches. → The Decoder
Nobody is buying Fable 5 — Ramp: 6% of Anthropic tokens. At $10/$50 it’s ~2× Sol, and firms won’t pay for gains they can’t feel. Lab growth is slowing. → The Decoder
IBM × OpenAI for the enterprise — tens of thousands of consultants retrained; GPT-5.6 and Codex land in Consulting Advantage. IBM signed Anthropic less than a year ago. → TechCrunch

stablyai/orca — Codex, Claude Code, and OpenCode side by side, each in its own worktree. Steer from your phone.
macro-inc/macro — Email, chat, docs, tasks, agents, and CRM in one workspace with shared team memory.
shiyu-coder/Kronos — Foundation model for candlesticks (K-lines). 45 exchanges, accepted at AAAI 2026.
hugohe3/ppt-master — Turns a doc or topic into a native PPTX — real shapes, charts, animations.

xAI actually did it… (Grok 4.6) — Matthew Berman | Hands-on after yesterday’s bench-tie headlines. Worth it for the price-to-feel check.

Stealing reasoning traces from proprietary APIs — Simon | Encrypted CoT replayed into a weaker sibling dumps plaintext. Patched now — the scarier bit is models treating their own thinking tokens as sacred.
chestnut — a GPU for the car — comma.ai’s 1B-param openpilot model, plus a kit that hides an RX 9060 under the passenger seat.
AI companies destroy physical books — Rare books gutted for training scans. Anna’s Archive’s pitch: digitize them before they’re gone.