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OpenAI goes full China pricing mode with an 80 percent cut to its most affordable GPT-5.6 model

OpenAI is cutting GPT-5.6 Luna prices by 80 percent and Terra by 20 percent, effective July 30. Luna drops to $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens, while Terra falls to ...
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GPT Transcribe improves on its predecessor but can't catch ElevenLabs, Google, or Mistral on error rates

OpenAI has released GPT Transcribe and GPT Live Transcribe, two new speech recognition models available through its API. GPT Transcribe handles pre-recorded audio files, processing them about 34 times ...
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Anthropic's Opus 5 blows past Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on the benchmark designed to measure real intelligence

Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 scored 30.2 percent on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark, nearly four times the previous record of 7.8 percent set by OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol (Max). The ARC Prize team attributes the lead ...
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Anthropic extends free Fable 5 access for subscribers as OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol heats up the pricing war

Anthropic is keeping Claude Fable 5 in its subscription plans through July 19, 2026. The model was supposed to switch to pay-per-use today. Subscribers can use up to 50 percent of their weekly limit ...
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Matthias Bastian

Read full article about: Two teams solved the same quantum crypto problem using GPT-5.6 just three hours apart Both used the same AI model but took different approaches to "unclonable encryption," a ...
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Jonathan Kemper

Read full article about: GPT Transcribe improves on its predecessor but can't catch ElevenLabs, Google, or Mistral on error rates OpenAI has released GPT Transcribe ...
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Gregor Kobsik

Read full article about: ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 generates 30-second video clips with built-in audio ByteDance shipped Seedance 2.5, a new version of its AI video model. It generates video and audio ...
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Maximilian Schreiner

Taiwan's prosecutors have detained an Nvidia employee in connection with the alleged illegal export of Super Micro AI servers to China, according to Bloomberg and Reuters. The Keelung District ...
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German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks in both English and German

Update from July 24, 2026: The consortium published version 3.0 of its pretraining report and documented a contamination incident that the community discovered in the disclosed training data after the ...
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OpenAI admits prompt injection may never be fully solved, casting doubt on the agentic AI vision

OpenAI acknowledges that prompt injections - text-based attacks on language models running in browsers - may never be completely eliminated. Still, the company says it's "optimistic" about reducing ...
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Pinokio 3.0 brings major updates to open-source AI model browser

The latest version of Pinokio brings major improvements to the open-source AI model browser and installation tool. Version 3.0 introduces a customizable interface, better package management, and the ...
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GitHub Copilot's "Agent Mode" and "Project Padawan" preview autonomous AI coding

GitHub is expanding Copilot's capabilities to work more independently alongside developers. The new Agent Mode transforms the AI assistant from a basic pair programmer into a more self-sufficient ...