DeepSeek released the coding agent runtime dsh under MIT on August 13. The same day it announced V4 API pricing changes taking effect 16:00 UTC on August 16, with peak-hour rates that land squarely on Asian working hours.
Manus deletes every task created or updated since December 29, 2025 starting 08:00 SGT on August 23. The NDRC in China ordered the $2B Meta acquisition reversed, and the backup window closes one minute before deletion begins.
OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna output pricing from $6 to $1.20 per million tokens on July 30, and DeepSeek opened V4-Flash in public beta with official Codex integration docs the next day. EU AI Act GPAI enforcement began August 2.
DeepSeek moved the V4-Flash API into public beta on July 31, added native Responses API support, and published its own documentation for wiring the model into OpenAI Codex.
MiniMax M3 arrives with a 1M-token context window, agentic coding support, and an open-weight promise. The launch separates API access from verification work.
MiniMax M3 combines 1M context, multimodality, and coding-agent benchmarks, but its weights and technical report are still pending verification.
The Reasonix debate shows that coding agent costs depend not only on model pricing, but on harness design that keeps prefix cache intact.
DeepSeek is turning V4-Pro API discount pricing into the new baseline, forcing agent builders to recalculate inference cost and routing strategy.
Alibaba Qwen3.7-Max is not just a model launch. It packages agents, custom chips, 128-accelerator racks, and cloud runtime into one stack.
Baidu proposed Daily Active Agents as a core AI-era metric. The useful question is not token volume, but how many agents actually complete work.
China’s new AI agent guidance moves beyond chatbot rules toward registration, identity, interoperability, permissions, traceability, and an intelligent internet.
Baidu proposed Daily Active Agents at Create 2026. The platform race is moving from token consumption toward agents that actually complete work.