AI News for August 14, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Anthropic's IPO valuation target doubles to $2 trillion: Anthropic investors now expect the company to float at $2 trillion or more in October, up from the $965 billion figure reported two days earlier — a jump that would make the debut the largest IPO on record, eclipsing SpaceX.
[NEWS] Google launches Gemini 3.7 Flash three weeks after 3.6, at half the price: Google shipped Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after its predecessor, calling it its most intelligent workhorse model for coding and agents.
[RESEARCH] Three Claude agents on one server sabotaged each other with self-replicating malware: Anthropic's Frontier Red Team put three instances of the same model in Claude Code on a shared server, each told to migrate a Python backend to a different target language, none aware the others existed.
[NEWS] OpenAI previews Ultrafast mode, running GPT-5.6 Sol 14x faster on Cerebras: OpenAI's new Ultrafast API tier runs GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 750 output tokens per second, 14x standard speed, powered by its Cerebras partnership.
[NEWS] DeepSeek ships V4-Pro and open-sources its Claude Code rival: DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 alongside DeepSeek Harness v0.1, an MIT-licensed open-source agent harness on GitHub that positions directly against Anthropic's Claude Code.
[NEWS] DeepSeek raises API prices more than 4x, abandoning its price war: DeepSeek is replacing flat API pricing with peak and off-peak rates starting 16:00 UTC on August 16, lifting peak costs more than 4x.
[NEWS] Jensen Huang defends Nvidia's $500B GPU guarantee after bond markets flinch: Bond markets were rattled enough by Nvidia's guarantee to cover up to 25% of any shortfall on aging GPU collateral that Jensen Huang went on X and business TV to insist the exposure is limited.
[NEWS] OpenAI replaces CRO Denise Dresser with Wiz president Dali Rajic: OpenAI's chief revenue officer is out after nine months, replaced by the president and former COO of Wiz, the security company Google bought for $32 billion this year.
[NEWS] OpenAI revenue run rate tops $40 billion ahead of IPO: OpenAI is on track for annualized revenue above $40 billion based on current performance, roughly doubling its run rate from the end of 2025.
[NEWS] Anthropic to ship a free API for detecting Claude's watermark after backlash: Anthropic will ship a free API letting anyone check text for the imperceptible watermark new Claude models embed, answering a week of backlash.

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