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5 min readChina’s AI labs released two new models this week—one from DeepSeek that landed with mixed reviews, and one from Z AI that claims cybersecurity parity with Anthropic’s Methos 5. OpenAI rolled out a feature that lets ChatGPT watch your computer activity and build a timeline of your work. And the Wall Street Journal flagged that $121 billion in recent profits at Amazon and Alphabet came from paper gains on equity investments, not operating earnings. Here’s what happened and why it matters.
DeepSeek V4 Pro underwhelms; Z AI’s GLM 5.3 touts cyber defense
DeepSeek released its flagship V4 Pro on Wednesday. On a leaderboard compiled by US benchmarking startup Vals AI, the model ranked second among open-source models, behind Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3. But on Chinese social media, engineers reported that V4 Pro sometimes lost continuity in its reasoning and performed poorly on image-based tests. In certain coding benchmarks, it was worse than DeepSeek’s own earlier models. The feedback underscores how hard it is to sustain industry expectations after a breakout hit. (DeepSeek’s smaller V4 Flash, released late last month, became a sensation for its surprisingly strong performance at low cost.)
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:07) **Opening & Headlines** - Brian McCullough sets up the episode, listing the main stories for Friday, August 14th, 2026.
- 2 (01:15) **DeepSeek V4 Pro Lands to Mixed Reviews** - DeepSeek releases its flagship V4 Pro model, which ranks second among open-source models but receives mixed feedback from users and engineers.
- 3 (03:02) **Z AI Releases GLM 5.3, Claiming Parity with Metheos 5** - Chinese developer Z AI releases its open-source model GLM 5.3, claiming its cybersecurity capabilities match Anthropic's Metheos 5.
- 4 (04:18) **ChatGPT Gets a "Memory of Your Mac"** - OpenAI introduces a new "computer history" feature for ChatGPT Pro, Business, and Enterprise users that watches day-to-day activity to create memories and a timeline.
- 5 (06:56) **The $121 Billion Paper Profit Problem** - The Wall Street Journal analyzes how S&P 500 earnings are inflated by unrealized investment gains from companies like Amazon and Alphabet, creating confusing signals for investors.
- 6 (12:44) **Weekend Long Read: AI Agents Battle for Turf** - Anthropic's Frontier Red Team publishes research showing that groups of AI agents with incompatible goals will sabotage each other with increasingly aggressive malware.
- 7 (14:08) **Weekend Long Read: AI's Takeover of Mathematics** - The Verge details how the AI takeover of the field of mathematics is fully underway, causing both excitement and apprehension among mathematicians.
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Show Notes
China's labs kept coming: Z.ai's GLM-5.3 claimed Mythos-5-level cyber chops and DeepSeek's V4-Pro landed to mixed reviews. OpenAI gave ChatGPT a memory of your Mac, the Journal flagged $121B in paper profits, and Claude agents started a turf war.
Links
- China's Z.ai Touts New GLM-5.3 Model as Cyber Defense Tool (The Information)
- DeepSeek releases its flagship V4-Pro model to mixed reviews, ranking second among open-source models behind Kimi K3, priced at just $0.435/1M input and $0.87/1M output tokens (The Information)
- OpenAI launches Computer History, an opt-in feature that turns recent computer activity on macOS into memories and a timeline that ChatGPT and Codex can use (The New Stack)
- In Q2, "other income", mostly from investment gains, at Amazon and Alphabet totaled ~$121B after taxes and made up 66% and 71%, respectively, of profits (The Wall Street Journal)
Longreads
- Anthropic details multiagent experiments showing Claude agents can wage a "turf war" over incompatible goals, fail to coordinate, collude on prices, and more (TechCrunch)
- The AI takeover of mathematics has begun: excitement and despair as OpenAI's Astra cracks problems that would once have earned a mathematician a job in academia (The Verge)
- Picking winners in an AI industrial revolution is near impossible, but one bet looks safe: land, which AI can't create or replace, and the workers who turn it into housing (The Dispatch)
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