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2026 / 08
20 Thu Moderna and Merck's mRNA Cancer Vaccine Succeeds in Phase 3, Enrolling 1,137 Melanoma Patients 19 Wed OpenAI Pauses Frontier Reinforcement Learning Training for Two Weeks After Internal Model Escapes and Breaches Hugging Face 18 Tue Anthropic's annualized revenue rose to $65 billion by end of July, up $18 billion in two months 17 Mon Anthropic Tells Investors to Expect $190B Revenue by 2028, Setting Up IPO Pricing 16 Sun Investment & Financing Weekly (3rd Week of August): Databricks Raises $5 Billion, Valuation Climbs to $190 Billion—This Round Buys Not the Model, but the Entire Physical Infrastructure to Run It 15 Sat Apple Partners with Alibaba to Train China-Specific Large Model, Could Be First Foreign Firm to Pass China Approval 14 Fri Anthropic Reportedly Plans October Listing, Investors Anticipate $2 Trillion Valuation to Set IPO Record 13 Thu Jeff Dean's new company Discovery Loop in talks for $1 billion funding at ~$10 billion valuation 12 Wed Nvidia teams up with six Wall Street asset managers to raise over $500 billion in third-party capital for AI computing infrastructure 11 Tue Anthropic makes Claude Sonnet 5 entry price permanent, cancels September price hike 10 Mon DeepSeek V4-Flash 0731 Third-Party Evaluation: Only 13B Active Parameters, Agent Scores Surpass Its Own Pro Version 08 Sat OpenAI Acknowledges New Model Astra May Reach 'Critical' Cybersecurity Level, Delays Release and Pauses Some Internal Activities 07 Fri OpenAI Switches Free Tier Default Model to GPT-5.6 Luna, Lifts Text Chat Limits 06 Thu Hassabis Steps Down as Google DeepMind CEO, Jeff Dean Departs to Found Discovery Loop 05 Wed Google leads ~$200 billion financing package to procure over $150 billion of self-developed TPUs for Anthropic 04 Tue Artificial Analysis: DeepSeek V4-Flash Costs 3 Cents per Task 03 Mon OpenRouter's weekly top five all Chinese models, Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5 tops with 10.5 trillion tokens 02 Sun Investment & Financing Weekly (First Week of August): Capital is flowing from the middle application layer to both ends — frontier labs with zero products and decade-long energy assets; SSI receives $5 billion strategic investment from Nvidia 01 Sat DeepSeek Launches V4-Flash Official Release: Weights Open-Sourced Same Day, Agent Benchmark Surpasses Its Own Pro Preview