Paid ChatGPT users get an updated GPT-5.6 Sol and a five-step reasoning slider, while free and Go users move to the smaller Luna with unlimited text chats.
It resets what frontier reasoning costs — and who gets it — across the world's largest AI product.
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IndustryOpenAI's first Jony Ive-designed device is reportedly a hockey-puck-sized smart speaker priced between $300 and $400, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.TechCrunch ↗
AgentsOpenAI put Codex Security Review into research preview, having the agent inspect GitHub pull requests for security issues using full repository context.X @OpenAIDevs ↗
The Toronto startup builds chips whose metal layers are finalised around one model's weights, promising inference without HBM, advanced packaging or liquid cooling.
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AgentsPerplexity made GPT-5.6 Terra the default model for all Perplexity Computer subagents, saying it scores eleven points above Sonnet on WANDR.X @perplexity_ai ↗
ModelsMoonshot AI's open-weight Kimi K3 became generally available in GitHub Copilot for agentic coding, hosted by Fireworks AI.X @github ↗
FundingNaïve raised $28.5 million to automate the administrative grunt work of incorporating and running a company.TechCrunch ↗
A vendor-neutral format bundles Agent Skills and MCP server configs into one portable plugin, supported at launch by ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Kiro and VS Code.
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AIGCMeshy upgraded Multi-View Image to 3D so textures are now generated from multiple reference views rather than a single one.X @MeshyAI ↗
AgentsCursor detailed its Router, which classifies requests and routes them across Grok 4.5, GPT-5.6 Sol and Opus 5 to cut latency and cost.X @cursor_ai ↗
AIGCChatGPT can now call Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom directly, letting users retouch and design inside the chat without leaving the conversation.IT之家 ↗
AIGCElevenLabs shipped Dubbing v2 on its API, adding regional accent accuracy and letting enterprises bring their own transcripts and regenerate only edited segments.X @ElevenLabs ↗
A Nature paper puts Google DeepMind's WeatherNext Cyclones ahead of operational systems by over a day of lead time, with code and weights released on GitHub.
The agent-first browser runs in V8 isolates on Workers with no Chromium underneath, claiming 3–7x lower CPU and memory on common agent tasks at 1.7–1.8x the wall-clock time.
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Open SourceUnsloth released DSpark, which makes DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 GGUF builds generate roughly 1.4 to 2 times faster locally with no accuracy change.X @UnslothAI ↗
ResearchA community effort pointed coding agents at ICML 2026, with over 1,200 people reproducing more than 2,000 papers in the largest conference reproducibility audit yet.X @Gradio ↗
The music generator will embed tamper-resistant audio watermarks, add fingerprinting, restrict bulk downloads and license Musixmatch's Sentinel for lyric copyright detection.
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AIGCLuma Labs added MiniMax H3 to Luma Agents, generating up to 15 seconds of 2K video with native stereo sound.X @LumaLabsAI ↗
Open SourceShanghai AI Lab open-sourced Mobius, an architecture it frames as upgrading knowledge connectivity the way Transformers upgraded token connectivity over RNNs.X @intern_lm ↗
Open SourceGenspark brought its open-source GenOffice suite to Linux, matching the existing Mac and Windows builds.X @genspark_ai ↗
IndustryAnt Group disclosed the data architecture behind its Lingguang AI mini-app platform for the first time, with OceanBase detailing the underlying database practices.InfoQ 中文 ↗
IndustryGoogle's $15 billion Indian data center buildout is drawing scrutiny over local water supplies and wildlife protection near the sites.IT之家 ↗
SafetyOpenAI researcher roon urged developers to scrub exposed API keys, wallet credentials and insecure contracts before "the tireless eagle eyes of a million models" arrive.The Decoder ↗
IndustryOpenAI asked a court to throw out Apple's trade-secrets lawsuit, calling the complaint "rotten to its core."The Verge ↗
AIGCLovart demoed sketching an exact camera path directly onto a photo and letting Seedance 2.0 fly it, producing one-take drone-style stadium shots.X @lovart_ai ↗
ResearchMicrosoft Research published three playbooks — Vibhasha, Atlas and Paza — for building multilingual, culturally grounded and low-resource speech AI systems.X @MSFTResearch ↗
Artificial Analysis published its full evaluation of Alibaba's 2.4T flagship: strong agentic scores and a top-five composite, paid for with far more tokens and cost.
The Ulanqab Xinghe base entered production with a 120,000-square-metre hall, million-card parallel design and direct green-power supply, phase one of a 5GW plan.
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AgentsGenspark launched Genspark Design, which turns any project a user has already built into a reusable design system of colors, type and components.X @genspark_ai ↗
The Chinese lab that set the global floor for inference pricing told developers it will raise API rates substantially, without naming figures or a date.
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AIGCToolArtist, the day's #2 trending paper on Hugging Face, unifies reasoning, tool invocation and image generation in one agentic policy for text-to-image work.arXiv ↗
ResearchMatrAIx, from 93 authors, offers AI product evaluation against simulated users drawn from a database of 8.3 billion personas spanning 1,290 dimensions.arXiv ↗
AIGCMiniMax says its H3 video model took the #1 spot in Design Arena's Multi-Image-to-Video, Image-to-Video and Video Editing categories.X @MiniMax_AI ↗
AgentsTogether AI said builders can now use it as an inference provider inside the newly launched Roomote, assigning different open models to different agents.X @togethercompute ↗
ResearchMicrosoft's SkillOpt optimizes natural-language skill documents that transfer across harnesses: a Codex-trained skill scored 81.8 in Claude Code, beating its in-domain 80.4.MarkTechPost ↗
SafetyMeta's Muse Spark exploited a vulnerability at an unnamed company during cyber testing after evaluator Irregular misconfigured the sandbox and left internet access open.Simon Willison ↗
IndustryElon Musk's AI-written Wikipedia rival Grokipedia has gone months without updates, suggesting the project is effectively dormant.The Verge ↗