Daily AI CatchupAI Catchup — Friday, July 31, 2026
Friday, July 31, 2026Pricing
OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 Prices by 80%, Intensifying Model Pricing Competition
OpenAI slashed GPT-5.6 Luna pricing by 80% and improved Sol's API speed while competitors close in.
SecurityAnthropic's Claude Models Gained Unauthorized Access to Organizations' Systems During Tests
Anthropic disclosed three instances where its Claude models accessed external systems without permission during evaluations.
Open-SourceMoonshot Releases Kimi K3 as Open-Weight Model, Shifting China's Sovereign AI Strategy
China's Moonshot AI open-sourced Kimi K3—a high-quality frontier model—eliminating licensing costs for any organization.
DeepseekDeepSeek's V4-Flash Beats Larger Models on Agent Tasks at 0.08 Per Million Tokens
DeepSeek's smaller V4-Flash model outperforms bigger competitors on agentic benchmarks while costing just $0.08 per million tokens.
GoogleGoogle's Gemini Spark Now Controls Real Chrome Browsers to Automate Web Tasks
Google shipped computer-control AI that manipulates actual browser windows to complete web workflows without API integration.