Fireworks released Ember-1, a post-trained Kimi K3, on September 23 and shipped it to OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway on September 27. Per-token pricing matches K3 exactly at $3 in and $15 out, while token savings across five benchmarks range from 5.9% to 51.9%.
Google opened gemini-3.8-live at $0.84 an hour on September 15, and Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash arrived at $0.15 per million input tokens. Anthropic merged Cowork and the chat window into one app.
DeepSeek reroutes V4 Pro requests to V4.1 Flash on September 14, and OpenAI opened the Codex agent loop as the Agents API. Cognition SWE-2 scored 50.0% on FrontierCode, 0.9 points behind Fable 5.1, and is free until October 8.
DeepSeek released the 552B open-weight V4.1 Flash on September 10 and will route V4 Pro calls to it from 04:00 UTC on September 14. Agentic coding beats Pro and output is 70% cheaper, but factual recall drops from 55.2 to 42.3.
NSA, CISA and the FBI published advisory AA26-251A on September 8, naming DeepSeek, Alibaba and four others. The recommended mitigation is not an account ban but an unannounced drop in answer quality, and the detection signatures do not separate a distillation campaign from a production agent running around the clock.
Z.ai released GLM-5.3-Flash 320B weights under MIT on August 26, and Alibaba published Qwen3.8-Flash-Next the same day. A day later Claude Code gained a --restricted mode that removes command execution and web access.
The anonymous ox-alpha model that appeared free on August 20 and topped OpenRouter usage within six days is GLM-5.3-Flash. Zhipu released the 320B-A18B weights under MIT the same day, and the free window is now closed.
OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Sol output pricing from $30 to $20 per million tokens on August 21. Anthropic moved computer use and the Skills and Files APIs out of beta, and DeepSeek opened V4-Flash-Vision-Exp at the same price as its text model.
Anthropic cancelled the September 1 Claude Sonnet 5 increase, so $2 and $10 per million tokens is now the standing price. Google opened Gemini 3.7 Flash on August 13 at $0.75 and $3.75 through year end, and Alibaba published Qwen3.8-Max weights.
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.