Top of the Hour — 10:00 AM · Sun Aug 16, 2026

[YOU] on AI · Now · Aug 16, 2026 · 3m

Sunday, August 16: DeepSeek's steep API price hike activates today; GPT-5.6 Luna goes unlimited for free ChatGPT users; a Chinese photonic quantum chip hits a new on-chip accuracy record; and Microsoft caps its own engineers' AI token use. In this hour: DeepSeek's Peak-Hour Rates Activate Today — V4 Output Up 4× at Peak · GPT-5.6 Luna Is Now the Free ChatGPT Default — Unlimited Text, Think Button Live · Chinese Photonic Chip Hits 98.7% on Grover's Algorithm — No Cryogenics, Standard Silicon · DeepSeek V4-Pro Goes Generally Available — DSpark Decoding, Reasoning Levels, OpenAI API · SMIC…