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Manus Regains Independence from Meta: Data Deletion Alert

Manus is officially back on its own: the AI agent pioneer acquired by Meta is resuming operations as an independent company in Singapore. But the split comes at a hard cost — data deletion before Aug 23.

MindTopo: VLM Spatial Reasoning Fails in Action

Ask a vision-language model what's inside a box and it answers correctly. Ask it to act on that structure — and it fails. MindTopo benchmark reveals VLMs' spatial reasoning gap in action.

Nvidia's Open-Source Gambit: Why Model Routing, Not Model Size, Is the New Battleground

英伟达开源棋局：模型路由而非模型规模才是新战场。Nemotron 3.5 Lightning（30B MoE）+ NeMo Switchyard 路由库双发布，表面是加入开源竞赛，实则是战略布局。

Meta Returns to Open Source: Muse Glimmer 30B Runs Locally

Meta placed its biggest bet yet on the open-vs-closed AI debate: Muse Glimmer, a 30B-parameter Apache 2.0 model built for local agentic work, released August 10 with a Zuckerberg manifesto.

DeepSeek Harness: The End of the Model-Only Era

DeepSeek quietly registered its "DeepSeek Harness" team — one of the clearest signals that AI's center of gravity has moved. The lab that built its reputation on models is now building the layer around them.

How a DTC Brand Cut Ad Costs 40% With AI Creative Testing

In early 2026, a DTC skincare brand cut paid ad costs 40% — with a smaller budget. The lever: AI creative testing. This is the play-by-play of how they did it, step by step.

AI Daily Briefing – Aug 12: Claude Sets Riemann Record

Three threads dominated AI news on August 12: a new (still unannounced) Claude model pushed the Riemann Hypothesis frontier, Google's Gemini leadership drama spilled into the open, and capital kept rotating.

DeepSeek Raises Prices as AI Pricing Shifts to Cost per Task

The cleanest sign yet that AI pricing is being re-measured: the same week Anthropic scrapped a planned 50% Sonnet 5 hike and OpenAI slashed GPT-5.6 Luna by 80%, DeepSeek raised prices — shifting to cost per task.

Doubao's 12% Commission: AI Agent Commerce Takes Off in China

China's largest AI assistant just started collecting tolls. ByteDance's Doubao now takes a 12% commission on hotel bookings in-app, has shipped three paid tiers — AI agents are becoming commerce hubs.

AI Is Rewriting the $160B Market Research Industry

A number that should stop you cold: a market research startup with fewer than 60 employees is now worth $2 billion — roughly 60% of the market cap of NIQ, a global top-five firm with 38,800 staff.

AI Daily Briefing – 2026-08-11: China's models widen global lead

August 11, 2026 — Chinese foundation models kept their grip on global usage: DeepSeek-V4-Flash took the No.1 spot on OpenRouter while China's weekly model calls extended their lead over the rest of the world.

AI Just Repriced the $160B Market Research Industry

A 60-person AI company just got valued at $2 billion — nearly six-tenths of NIQ, the research giant with 38,800 employees. Simile has been around for barely two years. AI just repriced the industry.