AI
Kimi K3 Pricing 2026: Plans, API Costs, and What Each Tier Gets You
Kimi K3 pricing: five tiers from free to $159/month annual, API at $3/$15 per million tokens, and when the 1M-token context unlocks. Verified July 2026.
Hardware
Google Is Building a Chip With Gemini Baked Directly Into the Hardware
Google is building a chip codenamed "Frozen v2" that bakes Gemini directly into hardware - 6-10x more efficient than its current AI chips, targeting 2028.
Industry
Anthropic Pays $1.5 Billion to Close AI Copyright Case - Fair Use Won, Piracy Lost
A federal judge approved the Anthropic copyright settlement for $1.5 billion on July 20 - the largest in US history. Training AI on books is fair use. Downloading pirated ones from Library Genesis was not.
AI
Kimi K3 Pauses New Subscriptions After 48 Hours of Demand Maxed GPU Capacity
Kimi K3 hit capacity limits after 48 hours. New subscriptions paused; existing users unaffected. Moonshot splits into Kimi Membership and Kimi Code Membership.
AI
Qwen3.8 Goes Live With 2.4T Parameters - Alibaba Claims Second to Fable 5, Open Weights Coming
Alibaba's Qwen3.8 preview lands with 2.4T parameters and multimodal support. Alibaba claims second to Fable 5. Open weights are promised but have no date.
AI
Kimi K3 vs Claude Fable 5: Cheaper and Faster on Agents, Behind on Professional Work
K3 wins SWE Marathon, BrowseComp, and Terminal Bench at 70% lower cost. Fable 5 leads intelligence and professional work. Pick based on your task.
AI
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed Hits #1 on RTEB - Three Open Models for Production RAG and Agentic Retrieval
NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Embed ranks #1 on RTEB. Three open commercial models - 8B hits 78.46 NDCG@10, 1B hits 72.38 - with 32K context and code retrieval training.
Tech
Apple Overtakes Nvidia as the World's Most Valuable Company - First Time Since May 2025
Apple overtook Nvidia on Friday to reclaim the world's most valuable company title for the first time since May 2025 - $4.87 trillion vs $4.83 trillion.
Tech
Google Meet Adds 3-Person Threshold to 'Take Notes for Me' - Admins Must Act Before September 21
Google Meet's "Take notes for me" now has a 3-person threshold. Business Standard admins have it ON by default. End-user changes arrive September 21.
Industry
Anthropic Is in Talks to Buy $10 Billion of Compute From Meta - Its Fourth Major Infrastructure Source
Anthropic is in early talks on a compute deal with Meta worth up to $10 billion over two years, the New York Times reported Thursday.
Tech
Kimi K3 Is the World's First Open 3T Model - Beats GPT-5.6 Sol on Coding at $3 Per Million Tokens
Kimi K3 is live today - Moonshot's 2.8T open model beats GPT-5.6 Sol on GPU kernel work, offers a $3/MTok API, and drops full weights July 27.
Tech
Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro Is Months Late - Coding Benchmarks Fell Short
Gemini 3.5 Pro is months behind schedule after Google's coding benchmark push fell short, leaving only 3.1 Pro available as OpenAI and Meta advance.