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Z.ai GLM-5.3 & Anthropic's $6B Decart Deal — 2026-08-14 12:00
Z.ai's open-weights coding model, Anthropic's $6B Decart talks, OpenAI's $40B run rate, Apple's China AI with Alibaba, and more.
- Z.ai releases GLM-5.3, its strongest open-weights coding model — A 50% post-training improvement over its predecessor, tuned for cybersecurity and credited with finding 2,436 vulnerabilities across 269 projects; weights open source in two weeks. The Decoder · Aug 14
- Anthropic in talks to acquire Decart AI for $6 billion — The startup makes chips work more efficiently, cutting the cost of training and operating AI; it would be Anthropic's largest acquisition. PYMNTS · Aug 13
- OpenAI's revenue run rate tops $40 billion — Roughly double its run rate from the end of 2025, strengthening the case for an upcoming IPO. PYMNTS · Aug 14
- Apple trains its own AI model for China with Alibaba's help — A rare US-China partnership as Apple prepares to roll out on-device generative AI in China. The Verge · Aug 14
- Writer launches a new AI model to contain token costs — Built as a post-training variation on Z.ai's open-source GLM-5.2, promising deployment-ready capabilities at a much lower price. TechCrunch · Aug 13
- Netflix closes two game studios — Night School Studio (Oxenfree) and Moonloot Games shut down despite praise for the recent release Unhinged. The Verge · Aug 13
- Trump declares 100% tariffs on many drones and all aircraft parts — The move stacks on top of an existing drone ban. The Verge · Aug 13
- Judge orders Google to make rival app store installs easier — Judge Donato called Google's "anticompetitive friction" unacceptable in the Epic case. The Verge · Aug 13
🧪 Try This Next
- 🔧 Watch for GLM 5.3's open weights in two weeks — test it on a coding task
- 🎥 Watch the Anthropic–Decart deal — cheaper inference is the next battleground
- 📝 Save a note on Apple's China model — a US company teaming with Alibaba is a story that matters
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