DeepSeek built a Claude Code rival, then quadrupled its prices
Start with the money, because it is the part every developer noticed. From 16 August, a million output tokens through DeepSeek-V4-Pro costs $3.96 at peak
Month: August 2026
ClickHouse and Hud build a runtime feedback loop for AI-generated software
The growing use of AI in software development is changing the bottleneck for engineering teams. Generating code is becoming faster, but reviewing its potential impact
Fear and attacks grip Taybeh, the last all-Christian town in the West Bank
Historic Taybeh, a Palestinian Christian town in the occupied West Bank, targeted by settlers in coordinated attacks.
Record rainfall leaves four dead, thousands stranded in Japan
Record rainfall in Chiba claims lives as more than 22,000 households without power on busy Bon Buddhist holiday week.
Salvage work begins on tanker leaking oil off Oman, risk firm says
Environmental NGO Greenpeace warns that spill has rapidly expanded to 1,300 square kilometres, threatening ecosystems.
US says dozens of countries helped China dodge Trump’s tariffs
A new US report said China had moved goods through nations with lower tariffs to dodge higher levies.
Indian solar mission’s new findings throw light on enduring Sun mysteries
Why is the Sun’s corona millions of degrees hotter than its surface? And how does it maintain its inexplicably high temperature?
BBC Verify speaks to woman who filmed ICE agent pointing gun at her
BBC Verify has examined footage shared by a Virginia woman in which an ICE agent points his gun at her.
Was Karoline Leavitt on ‘decoy plane’ from Turkey after Trump’s removal? What we know
Social media posts claimed the White House press secretary was left on the plane exposed to an allegedly credible threat from Iran.
Iranian media claims 7 died in brawl aboard USS Abraham Lincoln. US Central Command denies reports
“Iran continues to spread lies and false information,” a Central Command spokesperson said.
Kaitlan Collins traps Scott Jennings with one line about the Trump job he won’t deny
CNN’s in-house conservative commentator Scott Jennings was chided about being the frontrunner to replace the outgoing White House press secretary. During a Thursday evening appearance
WSJ squashes MAGA conspiracy theory — with Trump admin’s own words
MAGA activists and even some U.S. senators are now pushing a bogus figure claiming that COVID vaccines caused an 82 percent miscarriage rate — and
Twitch will train Amazon’s AI on your streams unless you find the setting
Twitch has added a setting letting streamers stop Amazon using their streams, clips and chat to train generative AI, buried in security settings and off
Anthropic’s $2trn IPO is priced below what AI stocks already fetch
The number comes from investors, not the company. Six backers told the Financial Times that rising revenue would let the five-year-old lab more than double