Reported slower OpenAI growth reached a liquid public-market proxy through SoftBank's repricing, with OpenAI's revenue reportedly rising 18% to $6.7B while losses widened to $12.3B from $9.3B, versus Anthropic's more than doubling to $11.6B, as WSJ reported, and SoftBank fell as much as 7.78% in Tokyo after the report. The financials trace to WSJ reporting rather than company filings, and Anthropic's accounting basis is unclear.
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Preliminary evidence that Astra may reach Critical cybersecurity capability led OpenAI to temporarily slow scaling. Monitoring consumes roughly 20% of the inference compute being monitored, with substantial variation by workload; the new estimate quantifies controls first disclosed on August 7.
Alibaba's Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro lands at #6 on the Artificial Analysis Image Editing Leaderboard and #9 on the Text to Image Leaderboard, up 83 and 48 Elo points on the previous Qwen Pro generation Qwen-Image-3.0 is the third generation of Alibaba's Qwen image family, spanning…
Alibaba's Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro lands at #6 on the Artificial Analysis Image Editing Leaderboard and #9 on the Text to Image Leaderboard, up 83 and 48 Elo points on the previous Qwen Pro generation Qwen-Image-3.0 is the third generation of Alibaba's Qwen image family, spanning two models: Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro, the flagship with agent-based prompt rewriting, and Qwen-Image-3.0, which Alibaba positions as the same capabilities with faster generation for high-volume use. Qwen centers the model’s capabilities on realism and information density: prompts of up to 4.5k tokens, text rendered precisely at sizes as small as 10 pixels, and native rendering of 12 languages. In the Artificial Analysis Image Arena, Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro debuts at #6 on the Image Editing Leaderboard, behind only Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.5-Pro and MAI-Image-2.5, Reve 2.1, and OpenAI's GPT Image 2 and GPT Image 1.5. On the Text to Image Leaderboard it debuts at #9, just behind Google's Nano Banana 2 Lite and ahead of ByteDance's Seedream 5.0 Pro. This is a leap over the previous generation: Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro sits 83 Elo points above Qwen-Image-2.0-Pro in Image Editing (#34 to #6) and 48 points above it in Text to Image (#12 to #9). The faster Qwen-Image-3.0 lands at #11 in Text to Image and #15 in Image Editing, up over 135 and nearly 100 Elo points on Qwen-Image-2.0. Pricing via Alibaba Cloud Model Studio is $0.04 per image at 1K resolution for Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro and $0.075 at 2K ($40 and $75 per 1k images), while Qwen-Image-3.0 is $0.03 per image at both resolutions ($30 per 1k images). Both models are available via the Alibaba Cloud Model Studio API and free to try in Qwen Studio. Congratulations to @Alibaba_Qwen on the release! See below for comparisons between Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro and other leading models in the Artificial Analysis Image Arena 🧵
Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro debuted at #6 for image editing and #9 for text-to-image, gaining 83 and 48 Elo points over Qwen-Image-2.0-Pro. Artificial Analysis reports $0.04 per 1K image and $0.075 at 2K; the arena rank is a preference measure, not a universal quality score.
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Less than two hours before 50% tariffs on $20B of Canadian imports were due, the U.S. paused them for three days to finalize documents. USTR said the deal includes market access, economic security, and digital-trade alignment, though AP noted Canada had not confirmed every commitment, leaving implementation and confirmation risk unresolved.
Congratulations Mr. President. The deal will include comprehensive market access for all American goods, economic security commitments, digital trade alignment, and many important provisions that will continue to protect our market and American workers, along with our Canadian…
Congratulations Mr. President. The deal will include comprehensive market access for all American goods, economic security commitments, digital trade alignment, and many important provisions that will continue to protect our market and American workers, along with our Canadian partners.
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The preliminary July seasonally adjusted annual rate fell 12.4% from June and 13.5% from July 2025 to 1.239M units. The August 18 vintage revised prior-month data, so the new release supersedes the earlier estimate.
The seasonally adjusted current activity index rose from 41.4 to 47.4, while new orders and shipments fell six to seven points. Responses were collected August 10–17 and released August 20; the page does not specify a preliminary or final revision status.
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