# AI News Digest - 2026-08-14

1. Google shipped Gemini 3.7 Flash three weeks after 3.6 Flash, presenting it as its most capable workhorse for coding and AI agents and reporting benchmarks that outperformed Claude Sonnet 5 and GPT-5.6 Terra while undercutting its predecessor's price by 50%.

2. Deepseek shipped the V4 Pro out of testing, open-sourced its agent software Harness v0.1 under the MIT license, and raised API prices, including a sixfold increase for cache hits.

3. Flock tightened officers' access to its nationwide license-plate reader network by requiring entry of a criminal case number for searches, mandating an automatic auditing system, recommending shorter data retention, and enabling agencies to limit other departments' searches; civil-liberties groups said the changes remained insufficient and the system was not open to independent review.

4. Google Cloud published a report, "Scaling AI agents with trustworthy data," that found organizations gave AI agents access to about 45% of company data on average, identified "data leaders" with over 70% access and higher trust in agent decisions, and concluded legacy data systems limited agent scaling even as respondents planned widespread agentic AI adoption within two years.

5. Anthropic's Fable 5 experienced slow corporate adoption, accounting for roughly 6% of Anthropic tokens sold according to Ramp data, which was reported as indicating that corporate willingness to pay for frontier AI had reached a ceiling given the model's high cost.

# References

1. [https://the-decoder.com/gemini-3-7-flash-lands-with-coding-gains-and-undercuts-its-three-week-old-predecessors-price-by-50/](https://the-decoder.com/gemini-3-7-flash-lands-with-coding-gains-and-undercuts-its-three-week-old-predecessors-price-by-50/)

[Gemini 3.7 Flash lands with coding gains and undercuts its three-week-old predecessor's price by 50%](https://the-decoder.com/gemini-3-7-flash-lands-with-coding-gains-and-undercuts-its-three-week-old-predecessors-price-by-50/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/deepseek-launches-an-improved-v4-pro-model-raises-api-prices-and-makes-its-agent-software-open-source/](https://the-decoder.com/deepseek-launches-an-improved-v4-pro-model-raises-api-prices-and-makes-its-agent-software-open-source/)

[Deepseek ships improved V4 Pro, open-sources its agent software, and raises API prices](https://the-decoder.com/deepseek-launches-an-improved-v4-pro-model-raises-api-prices-and-makes-its-agent-software-open-source/)

1. [https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/13/1141904/flock-is-tightening-its-rules-in-response-to-a-growing-surveillance-backlash/](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/13/1141904/flock-is-tightening-its-rules-in-response-to-a-growing-surveillance-backlash/)

[Flock is tightening its rules in response to a growing surveillance backlash](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/13/1141904/flock-is-tightening-its-rules-in-response-to-a-growing-surveillance-backlash/)

1. [https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/12/1141032/scaling-ai-agents-with-trustworthy-data/](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/12/1141032/scaling-ai-agents-with-trustworthy-data/)

[Scaling AI agents with trustworthy data](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/12/1141032/scaling-ai-agents-with-trustworthy-data/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/fable-5s-slow-adoption-suggests-corporate-willingness-to-pay-for-frontier-ai-has-hit-a-ceiling/](https://the-decoder.com/fable-5s-slow-adoption-suggests-corporate-willingness-to-pay-for-frontier-ai-has-hit-a-ceiling/)

[Fable 5's slow adoption suggests corporate willingness to pay for frontier AI has hit a ceiling](https://the-decoder.com/fable-5s-slow-adoption-suggests-corporate-willingness-to-pay-for-frontier-ai-has-hit-a-ceiling/)

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