[8/22 15:00] Honor's humanoid robot "Lightning" runs 100m in 9.32 seconds, beating Usain Bolt's world record / DeepSeek releases vision-enabled experimental model V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, claims it approaches Claude Opus 4.8

AI News Flash for August 22, 2026 at 15:00 UTC. Topics: 1. Honor's humanoid robot "Lightning" runs 100m in 9.32 seconds, beating Usain Bolt's world record https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/chinese-humanoid-robot-lightning-beats-human-100m-world-record-rcna593869 2. DeepSeek releases vision-enabled experimental model V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, claims it approaches Claude Opus 4.8 https://thenextweb.com/news/deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp-opus-benchmarks 3. Amazon quietly raises prices on Echo, Fire TV, Kindle and eero by up to 60 percent, citing memory costs https://www.theverge.com/tech/983598/amazon-price-increase-echo-kindle-fire-tv 4. Pew Research finds 35 percent of web pages published since ChatGPT show signs of AI writing https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2026/08/20/how-much-of-the-internet-is-written-with-ai/