August 4, 2026
Quick hits from across the AI world in the last 24 hours.
- ⚡ Quick hits
- Industry Ollama said DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 is its fastest-growing model ever by token usage and that it is scaling capacity in the US and Europe. X @ollama ↗
- Safety The UK AI Security Institute published a cybersecurity evaluation of Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, which Anthropic amplified. X @AnthropicAI ↗
- Safety OpenAI disclosed two incidents that occurred during third-party cyber evaluations of its models, detailing what happened and its remediation steps. OpenAI ↗
- AIGC Pika launched the Pika API Club, a $10-per-month membership offering discounted access to 100-plus video, image, audio and LLM models through one API. X @pika_labs ↗
- Agents AWS made Web Search generally available on Amazon Bedrock, grounding models in Amazon's web index via one API parameter with zero data egress. AWS Machine Learning Blog ↗
- Research Artificial Analysis launched an Endpoint Accuracy Index measuring how much of an open-weights model's accuracy each serverless API endpoint actually preserves. X @ArtificialAnlys ↗
- AIGC Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro debuted at #5 in LMArena's Text-to-Image Arena with 1,263 points, up from Qwen-Image-2.0-Pro's #15 and 1,191 points. X @arena ↗
- AIGC Spotify said Merlin, representing over 30,000 independent labels, joined Universal in backing its opt-in paid AI remix and covers tool. TechCrunch ↗
- Agents Cognition shipped Devin Fusion in Devin Cloud, saying harness and model gains make it 4% more intelligent and 27% cheaper on FrontierCode 1.1. X @cognition ↗
- Agents Mem0 launched Dream, a background layer that continuously reconciles contradictory memories inside agent projects instead of leaving conflicts to accumulate. X @mem0ai ↗
- AIGC Tripo AI won Best in Show at SIGGRAPH Real-Time Live for on-stage game-ready 3D asset generation, with the audience creating over 600 models live. X @tripoai ↗
- Open Source Databricks released Omnigent, an open-source AI meta-harness for composing and governing coding and workflow agents in one place. X @databricks ↗
- Models Liquid AI released LFM2.5-2.6B for on-device agents, claiming 220 tokens/second on an Apple M5 Max within 2.5GB of memory. Hugging Face ↗
- Research Microsoft Research introduced PRISM2, a pathology foundation model trained on 2.3 million whole-slide images and millions of report-derived question-answer pairs. X @MSFTResearch ↗