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Anthropic's investors talked up a $2T+ October IPO, even as data showed Fable 5 barely selling. Google cut prices on Gemini 3.7 Flash, OpenAI previewed a 14× faster tier, Trump enlisted private hackers, and Twitch fed Amazon's AI.

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• Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash targets coding and agents with a 50% introductory price cut (venturebeat.com/technology/googles-gemini-3-7-…) (VentureBeat)

• OpenAI previews Ultrafast, an API tier powered by Cerebras that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14× faster and generates up to 750 output tokens per second (9to5mac.com/2026/08/13/openai-previews-ultrafa…) (9to5Mac)

• President Trump signs a memo letting the US government partner with private companies to conduct cyberattacks abroad against criminal groups targeting Americans (bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-13/trump-e…) (Bloomberg)

• Sources: Anthropic's investors expect it to float at a $2T+ valuation in an October IPO and to hit $100B to $120B in annualized revenue by the end of 2026 (ft.com/content/840ac156-af1c-4a82-b260-ae79107…) (Financial Times)

• Ramp data: Fable 5 drew just 6% of Anthropic's API tokens in its first month and 75% of GPT-5.6 Sol's model revenue, suggesting corporate willingness to pay for frontier AI has hit a ceiling (the-decoder.com/fable-5s-slow-adoption-suggest…) (The Decoder)

• Databricks closed a $5B funding round at a $190B valuation, six months after raising $5B at a $134B valuation, and says it has crossed $7B in revenue run rate (cnbc.com/2026/08/13/databricks-funding-round-1…) (CNBC)

• Twitch says it intends to use videos streamed on its platform to help train Amazon's generative AI content models and adds a setting for creators to opt out (techcrunch.com/2026/08/12/amazon-will-train-on…) (TechCrunch)

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