OpenAI navigates GPT-5.6 launch, executive exit, legal setback

OpenAI’s Turbulent Week: GPT-5.6 Launch, Executive Departure, Legal Setback and Product Shifts Mark Pivotal Stretch for the Company AI Insider

Introducing Claude Sonnet 5

Introducing Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic

OpenAI unveils GPT-5.6 amid US AI regulatory drama

Less than 24 hours after news broke that OpenAI would stagger its next model release at the request of the Trump administration, that model, GPT-5.6, is here. On Friday, the company unveiled the limited preview of its…

Previewing GPT-5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 Sol, a next-generation model with stronger capabilities in coding, science, and cybersecurity, paired with its most advanced safety stack.

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OpenAI rolled out GPT-5.4, achieving tied #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview scoring 57 (up from 51 for GPT-5.2 xhigh). GPT-5.4 features a larger ~1.05M token context window…

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Google DeepMind launched Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, emphasizing dynamic thinking levels for adjustable compute, with notable metrics like $0.25/M input, $1.50/M output, 1432 Elo on LMArena, and 2.5× faster…

OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6 AI Model Family - teleSUR English

OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6 AI Model Family teleSUR English

U.S. lifts ban on Anthropic’s powerful Fable 5 AI model

U.S. lifts ban on Anthropic’s powerful Fable 5 AI model NBC News

Defaults to Claude Sonnet 5 with 1M-token context window

What's changed Introducing Claude Sonnet 5: now the default model in Claude Code, with a native 1M-token context window and promotional pricing of $2/$10 per Mtok through August 31. Update to version 2.1.197 for…

OpenAI Discovers New Way to Cut Inference Costs in Half

OpenAI Discovers New Way to Cut Inference Costs in Half The Information

OpenAI releases GPT-5.6 models to 20 partners, public launch expected by July 2026

OpenAI releases GPT-5.6 models to 20 partners, public launch expected by July 2026 Crypto Briefing

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 costs twice as much for 5.7 percent more performance

Claude Fable 5 tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with 64.9 points and sets records in five of ten benchmarks. But the gain over Opus 4.8 is just 5.7 percent at double the token price. Safety filters with…

OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users

DeepSeek enters the fight for token volume, Anthropic continues to dominate spend

Every month, routes tens of trillions of tokens between production applications and AI labs, giving us visibility into what AI usage actually looks like, separate from leaderboards and benchmarks. We publish the data…

Luma opens Uni-1.1 image model API at prices and quality matching OpenAI and Google

Luma is making its Uni-1.1 image model available via API, with prices starting at $0.04 per image at 2,048-pixel resolution. On the Arena leaderboard, the model ranks third, right behind Google and OpenAI. The API…

GPT-5.5 costs 49 to 92 percent more than its predecessor, depending on the input length

OpenAI doubled GPT-5.5's list price compared to GPT-5.4, claiming shorter responses would offset the increase. An OpenRouter analysis of real usage data tells a different story: actual costs rose 49 to 92 percent…

Video | OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6 After Trump Administration Delay

Video | OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6 After Trump Administration Delay NDTV

Claude Enterprise Spend Controls Arrive as Agentic AI Bills Blow Past Budgets

Claude Enterprise Spend Controls Arrive as Agentic AI Bills Blow Past Budgets Tech Times

Meituan reveals LongCat-2.0, undercuts GPT-5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5 on pricing

Meituan reveals LongCat-2.0, undercuts GPT-5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5 on pricing Crypto Briefing

Claude Sonnet 5: not powerful rnough to be blocked?

Claude Sonnet 5: not powerful rnough to be blocked? Techzine Global

Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 Undercuts GPT-5.5 on Price

Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 Undercuts GPT-5.5 on Price The Tech Buzz

Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite text-to-image model

The Keyword: Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite, a low cost text-to-image model that delivers outputs in four seconds, and rolls out Gemini Omni Flash to developers — We're making it easier to experiment and…

Daily Digest: Newsom inks deal with Anthropic, UC Berkeley teams with Nancy Pelosi

Daily Digest: Newsom inks deal with Anthropic, UC Berkeley teams with Nancy Pelosi The Business Journals

Sakana AI's Fugu and 360's Tulongfeng rival banned Anthropic models

Kate Park / TechCrunch: Sakana AI's Fugu and 360's cybersecurity model Tulongfeng claim to rival Anthropic's banned Mythos and Fable 5 models amid the US export ban — On Wednesday, Chinese cybersecurity firm 360…

Japan's Preferred Networks debuts AI priced less than half of OpenAI models

Japan's Preferred Networks debuts AI priced less than half of OpenAI models Nikkei Asia

OpenAI launches enterprise usage analytics and spending controls

OpenAI launches enterprise usage analytics and spending controls Let's Data Science

Anthropic "pauses" token-based billing for its Claude Agent SDK

Move originally planned for Monday would have heavily increased power users' costs.

Microsoft shifts Copilot Cowork to usage-based pricing, eyes DeepSeek

Ina Fried / Axios: Microsoft is moving Copilot Cowork to usage-based pricing and is considering a Microsoft-hosted version of DeepSeek as a cheaper option — Microsoft is moving Copilot Cowork to usage-based…

France to invest €655 million in AI, set up common chatbot for all state services

France to invest €655 million in AI, set up common chatbot for all state services Yahoo News Canada

OpenAI launches flexible rate-limit resets for Codex coding agent

OpenAI now lets Codex users bank their rate-limit resets and trigger them manually instead of watching them expire on a fixed schedule. If you hit your usage cap mid-session, you can cash in a saved reset right away…