AI news digest — Aug 22: DeepSeek V4-Flash-Vision-Exp scores near Opus-4.8 at flash pricing, Claude Security moves to Mythos 5 + $35M defender fund

Daily digest for Aug 22 — top items (links in the full post): AI • DeepSeek V4-Flash-Vision-Exp is live on the API: matches V4-Flash on text, multimodal agent scores close to Opus-4.8. Images bill at up to 384 tokens each at V4-Flash prices, Files API now free. No open weights yet. • Claude Security now runs scans on Mythos 5 (public beta, Claude Enterprise) and Anthropic launched a $35M Defender Advantage Fund in Claude credits for OSS security orgs. • Google Antigravity bundled into Gemini Enterprise licenses — budget caps, pooled token quotas, IDE extensions for VS Code, JetBrains and Zed. • Nari Labs published their sub-50ms time-to-first-audio TTS serving writeup. Dev / Infra • CVE-2026-41940: CVSS 10.0 cPanel/WHM auth bypass with a public PoC (CRLF injection into session files). Patched builds are out — check versions if you run cPanel, and keep 2083/2086/2087 off the internet. • Kubernetes v1.37 GA lands Aug 26; the GA volume-labeling default can stop pods until PV labels are fixed — worth a staging pass first. • Kagi added a one-toggle setting that removes paywalled links from search results. • Deep dive on the road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6. Full digest with links, self-hosting picks and trending repos: https://www.bitdoze.com/news/2026-08-22/