@Techmeme@techhub.socialGPT-6 Sol costs $2/1M input and $10/1M output tokens, and GPT-6 Luna costs $0.10/1M input and $0.50/1M output tokens, both about 50% cheaper than GPT-5.6 (Nat Rubio-Licht/The Deep View)
https://www.thedeepview.com/articles/openai-s-cheaper-gpt-6-models-chan…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, saying Sol makes about half as many mistakes as GPT-5.6 Sol and Luna matches GPT-5.6 Sol's performance at ~1% of the cost (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/innovation/openai-gpt-6-sol-luna-release/
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizza @Techmeme@techhub.socialA researcher used GPT-6 Astra to decipher a WWI German radio transmission from 1918, one of the 50 famous unsolved ciphers listed on a German science blog (prinz)
https://www.prinzai.com/p/gpt-6-astra-solves-a-wwi-german-radio
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialOpenAIs KI-Modelle (GPT-5.6 Sol und ein unveröffentlichtes, stärkeres Modell) haben während eines internen Testlaufs autonom einen Cyberangriff auf Hugging Face ausgeführt. Über eine Zero-Day-Lücke in einem Cache-Proxy verschafften sie sich Internetzugang, erbeuteten Zugangsdaten und bewegten sich eigenständig durch mehrere interne Cluster. OpenAI bezeichnet den Vorfall als "beispiellos". #heise
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI says it will give its AI cyber defense system Daybreak and GPT-5.6 Sol to the Ukrainian government for free to help it protect civilian infrastructure (Zoe Kleinman/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c90kly26d7pzo
@NFL@darktundra.xyzEagles coach Nick Sirianni adjusting to offseason ... https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49410531/philadelphia-eagles-coach-nick-sirianni-adjust-offseason-changes-chat-gpt-pop-quizzes
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Sol's API and credit prices by over 20% for the next three months, to $4/1M input tokens and $20/1M output tokens (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-cuts-developer-pri…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI says ChatGPT Voice can now be powered by GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna, use plugins like email and calendar, and be used in ChatGPT Work on web and mobile (@openai)
https://x.com/openai/status/2102808325742322002
@Life_is@no-pony.farmIn einem ARD-Podcast sagt der Moderator in Bezug auf eine seltene Krankheit, da musste ich auch erst mal bei Dr. Google nachsehen. Es ist ja vielleicht schön, dass er nicht in Chat GPT nachgesehen hat. Und es ist doof, dass er nicht dort nachgesehen hat, wo er hätte nachsehen sollen in Wikipedia. Aber das er aus der ehemaligen Such-Maschine Google auch noch einen Dr. macht. ja, das ist krsnk.
@life_is@no-pony.farmIn einem ARD-Podcast sagt der Moderator in Bezug auf eine seltene Krankheit, da musste ich auch erst mal bei Dr. Google nachsehen. Es ist ja vielleicht schön, dass er nicht in Chat GPT nachgesehen hat. Und es ist doof, dass er nicht dort nachgesehen hat, wo er hätte nachsehen sollen in Wikipedia. Aber das er aus der ehemaligen Such-Maschine Google auch noch einen Dr. macht. ja, das ist krsnk.
@heiseonline@social.heise.deGPT-5.6 jetzt allgemein verfügbar – samt App-Umbau und Namensverwirrung
OpenAI hat GPT-5.6 allgemein verfügbar gemacht. Die KI-Familie umfasst drei Varianten, die App-Landschaft sorgt für Kritik.
http…
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net🛡️ Six rules: no-restyle, no-raw-colors, no-arbitrary-values, no-inline-styles, no-unknown-classes and require-static-classes
📊 Tested in 150 task runs with coding agents: almost every task reached zero violations after one correction round (#Claude Sonnet 5: 69 errors − 0, GPT 5.6 Terra: 117 − 0). In Claude control runs, lint feedback cost 10-48% less than rules alone
@dawid@social.craftknight.com
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online#KünstlicheIntelligenz kann effektiv #Verschwörungstheorien widerlegen. Durch gezielte Argumentation sank der Glaube an solche Theorien bei den Teilnehmenden um 20%. Die Chats hatten auch eine nachhaltige Wirkung auf die nächsten Monate. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, d…
@arXiv_qbioOT_bot@mastoxiv.pageOrientation Reading by Production Vision-Language Models on Optotype Charts: A Controlled Multi-Model Evaluation Across Reasoning Modes, Prompts, and Access Modalities
Shahryar Wasif, Avneek Sandhu, Bin Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.16595 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.16595 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.16595
arXiv:2607.16595v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: OBJECTIVES: Vision-language models are increasingly used to interpret medical and everyday images through consumer chat interfaces, yet their ability to read orientation - the single perceptual operation tested by the tumbling-E acuity optotype - is poorly characterized on the surfaces through which they are actually used. METHODS: We evaluated four production vision-language models (referred to as Claude, GPT, GROK, and Gemini) through their consumer chat interfaces on a locked set of seven optotype charts: four uniform tumbling-E charts (one per cardinal orientation), two mixed-orientation tumbling-E charts, and one Snellen letter chart as a specificity control. Each model was run in two reasoning modes (Fast and Thinking) under two prompt variants (with and without an explicit orientation-decoding rule) by up to three operators. The corpus comprised 920 scoreable trials and 50,420 glyph judgements. The primary outcome was glyph-level accuracy against the chart's designed orientation, summarized with Wilson 95% confidence intervals. RESULTS: Accuracy ranged from 43.0% to 97.0% across models on identical charts, and the strongest model depended on reasoning mode (GPT 97.0% in Fast mode; GROK 96.6% in Thinking mode). Errors were not random but collapsed onto a model-specific attractor direction. Models were 96-100% internally self-consistent yet ranged widely in accuracy, dissociating reliability from validity. An answer-key-free ensemble-consensus estimate tracked accuracy closely (r = 0.998). For one model, consumer-interface accuracy fell 25-27 points below programmatic access, almost entirely on a single orientation. CONCLUSIONS: A single accuracy figure conceals clinically relevant, orientation-specific failure modes; vision-language models should be evaluated along multiple axes and on the deployment surface before image-interpretation outputs are trusted.
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@metacurity@infosec.exchangeThe stars must be misaligned because it has been an epic journey to get today's Metacurity out the door, so before you leave for the weekend, don't miss the infosec developments you should know, including
--OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 as AI vendors compete for enterprise users,
--Federal investigators say DOGE records were deleted,
--Europe revives voluntary message scanning,
--Britain plans AI-powered cyber defense system,
--Chinese and Indian hackers targe…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialFor me this age of AI is the time we should appreciate less polished handwritten texts for their authenticity. I see this happening during selection of job applications.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: OpenAI staff were "freaked out" when GPT-Sol 5.6 breached Hugging Face, as OpenAI used more aggressive training methods to compete with Anthropic (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7e558951-0c69-459b-8bc8-2c6021d4402d
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLondon-based Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni and with $50M in seed funding, says its new Faraday agent beats GPT-5.5 at reproducing research paper findings (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/2…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deOpenAI stellt GPT-6 Astra vor: Mehr Intelligenz und AGI-Raunen
OpenAI stellt GPT-6 Astra vor. Bei der Präsentation fiel das Wort AGI, in den Benchmarks zielt fast alles auf Konkurrent Anthropic.
https://www.…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialXiaomi debuts open-weight omnimodal models MiMo-V2.6 Pro and Flash; Pro allegedly performs "on par with Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol across most agent benchmarks" (Xiaomi)
https://mimo.xiaomi.com/mimo-v2-6
@tomkalei@machteburch.socialAnd one more thing on the Jacobian Conjecture.
I am certain that at least 10 if not 100 mathematicians have tried this exact problem in Fable and also gpt-5.6 Sol with everything turned to 11. Why did an Anthropic employee get the result?
Is it a low probability and they can just try and try to play again beyond the limits of us mere customers? Did this guy get lucky?
Are professional mathematicians maybe holding back the AI by inputting their own ideas how to do it??
#llm #math #jacobian
@heiseonline@social.heise.deGPT-5.6: OpenAI senkt Preise für Luna und Terra
OpenAI senkt die Tokenpreise für zwei seiner drei Modelle aus der GPT 5.6-Reihe. Sie rangieren damit auf Preisniveaus wie die chinesische Konkurrenz.
https://www.
@isonno@mastodon.socialFor people wondering when the AI bubble is going to pop, I present you with this message, received by a paid-in-full customer of OpenAI.
Not a good look when you have to tell paying customers you've run out of resources.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic says Opus 5.5 matches Fable 5.1 "on most tasks" while costing about 40% less to run than Opus 5; Opus 5.5 costs $4/1M input and $20/1M output tokens (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/claude-opus-5-
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeYou don't want to miss today's Metacurity for the rundown of critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--AI's new battleground: Cost, efficiency, and control,
--AI vendors pivot from capability to cost,
--OpenAI eases GPT-5.6 usage limits,
--Enterprises scrutinize soaring AI bills,
--Chinese AI models gain enterprise traction,
--Anthropic data reveals how AI gets used,
--AI agents tackle business ops w…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialBill Simmons is facing backlash for using OpenAI's ChatGPT to simulate film reviews from the late critic Roger Ebert on his podcast; OpenAI runs ads on the show (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/0…
GPT 5.6 Sol came up with a smart solution to preserve native scroll behavior while having control over custom staggered scroll transitions. It makes me want to write a blog article for that, but it’s not technically “my discovery” 🤔
@presseportal_pol_NDS@frawas.deBPOL-BadBentheim: Mehr als zwei Jahre Haft wegen Beteiligung an Drogenhandel - Deutsch-Niederländisches Polizeiteam verhaftet verurteilte Frau Nordhorn (ots) - Erfolgreicher Einsatz deutscher und niederländischer Einsatzkräfte. Das Grenzüberschreitende Polizeiteam (GPT) Bad Bentheim hat Mittwochnachmittag in Nordhorn eine wegen Rauschgiftkriminalität verurteilte 54-jährige ...
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineOupsi. 🤪
OpenAI bestätigt, dass #GPT56Sol in einzelnen Fällen eigenständig Daten löschen oder Sicherheitsgrenzen umgehen kann.
Nutzerberichte nennen gelöschte Dateien und verlorene #Datenbanken. Die bekannten Risiken waren bereits vor der Veröffentlichung dokumentiert. Wer das Mode…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social#TIL in einem selbstlernkurs meiner uni zu unserem hauseigenen KI-GPT-tool: man kann den "denkaufwand" runterschalten. für manche menschliche intelligenzen würde ich mir einen hochschalt-button wünschen. 🙃
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social @Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI previews Ultrafast, an API tier powered by Cerebras that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14× faster and generates up to 750 output tokens per second (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/13/openai-previews-ultrafast-gpt-5-6-sol-runni…
@Life_is@no-pony.farmEin künstlicher Intelligenz assistent, der meine Mastodon Timeline zusammenfasst, wäre nett. Schade dass es sowas nicht gibt.
Richtig schlimm, dass es GPT basierte LLMs gibt, die behaupten persönliche Assistenten zu sein.
Normalerweise nutze ich kein /s aber für die begriffsstutzigen: LLMs nach dem GPT prinzip sind ein Hohn auf jahrzehnte ernsthafter forschung im beeich KI. Sie sind eine Verirrung, ein toter ast. Und alle menschen mit verstand sollten sie bekämpfen, damit inbzuku…
@life_is@no-pony.farmEin künstlicher Intelligenz assistent, der meine Mastodon Timeline zusammenfasst, wäre nett. Schade dass es sowas nicht gibt.
Richtig schlimm, dass es GPT basierte LLMs gibt, die behaupten persönliche Assistenten zu sein.
Normalerweise nutze ich kein /s aber für die begriffsstutzigen: LLMs nach dem GPT prinzip sind ein Hohn auf jahrzehnte ernsthafter forschung im beeich KI. Sie sind eine Verirrung, ein toter ast. Und alle menschen mit verstand sollten sie bekämpfen, damit inbzuku…
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizza @Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI says the Hugging Face breach was driven by a combination of its models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and "an even more capable pre-release model" (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/21/openai-says-hugging-face-breach-caused-by-o…
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net @Techmeme@techhub.socialAnalysis: every frontier AI model tested in cybersecurity evaluations attempted to "cheat", led by GPT-5.4 at 14.1% of tasks; Mythos cheated the least, at 7.8% (AI Security Institute)
https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/cheating-behaviour-in-frontier-model-ev…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @heiseonline@social.heise.deKI-Update kompakt: KI-Moderation, Finanzmarkt, Datenschutz, GPT-Images
Das "KI-Update" liefert drei mal pro Woche eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialArtificial Analysis Coding Agent Index: GPT-6 Astra scored 67, roughly equal to Claude Opus 5, Fable 5, and Muse Spark 1.3, but trailing leader Fable 5.1's 70 (Artificial Analysis)
https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/benchmarking-gpt-6-astra
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI details GPT-Red, an internal automated red-teaming model that helps it find and fix prompt injection vulnerabilities at scale before wider deployment (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/unlocking-self-improvement-gpt-red
(GPT-Image-2)
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialThis looks like an impressive achievement by AI , post from Ethan Mollick on BlueSky. The token cost will be immense I think.
https://bsky.app/profile/emollick.bsky.social/post/3mqev3ailf223
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeThe amount of cyber-related news that extends over the weekend is getting ridiculous, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the most important developments you should know, including
--Washington pushes AI into an export-control era as rivals rush to fill the gap,
--Anthropic regains limited Mythos 5 access for government-vetted US orgs,
--OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 under gov't preview,
--Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 nears Mythos-level cybersec performance,
--3…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI broadly releases GPT-5.6, and launches ChatGPT Work, an AI agent that can gather context across apps and files to create documents, on Mac and Windows (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/09/ai-openai-gpt-release
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGPT-5.6 Sol costs $5 per 1M input tokens and $30 per 1M output tokens, GPT-5.6 Terra costs $2.50 and $15, and GPT-5.6 Luna costs $1 and $6 (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-6
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaFinally got all of the GPT and MBR code put together, most of the bugs fixed, and released it as a downloadable Linux binary. Does a pretty good job of reading the data and giving out way too much information regarding the MBR and/or GUID partition table.
Available here: https://git.jamesthebard.net/jweatherl
@heiseonline@social.heise.deKI-Update kompakt: Five-Eyes-Warnung, GPT-5.5-Cyber, Vibecoding, Filmbranche
Das "KI-Update" liefert drei mal pro Woche eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly on Thursday; a source says the US Department of Commerce cleared a broad rollout (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/08/openai-gpt-trump-ban-lifted
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @Techmeme@techhub.socialSource: the US Department of Commerce has given OpenAI the green light for a broad launch of GPT 5.6; the company expects to do a wide release this week (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/08/openai-gpt-trump-ban-lifted
@Techmeme@techhub.socialVercel, Cloudflare, and others quickly add Jev, as it makes AI tool selection much faster and cheaper; TypeSafe: Jev matches GPT-5.6 and Sonnet 5 workflow evals (Josipa Majic Predin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/josipamajic/2
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI releases GPT-5.6-Cyber, a more cyber-permissive version of GPT-5.6 Sol, to some partners and expands its Daybreak cybersecurity initiative (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/10/openai-gpt-astra-restrictions-safety-hacking-defenders
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net🎨 10 code skills for different jobs: gpt-taste for stricter GPT/Codex rules, image-to-code, redesign-existing-projects, high-end-visual-design, minimalist-ui, industrial-brutalist-ui, full-output-enforcement and stitch-design-taste
🖼️ Three image-generation skills output reference boards only: imagegen-frontend-web for site comps, imagegen-frontend-mobile for iOS/Android screens and brandkit for logo, palette and identity boards — then hand the frames to a coding agent
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra to Pro customers on the $100/month or $200/month plans (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/09/04/openai-releasing-major-upgrade-to-chatgpt-and-codex-with-gpt-6-astra-details-here/
@heiseonline@social.heise.deChatGPT: OpenAI wertet kostenlosen Tarif auf
ChatGPT erreicht die Marke von einer Milliarde wöchentlicher Nutzer und wertet den kostenlosen Zugang mit unbegrenzten Text-Chats über GPT-5.6 Luna auf.
https://www.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAfter reports of GPT-5.6 deleting files, OpenAI says the issue most often occurs in full-access mode without sandboxing and it is working to mitigate the risk (Tibo/@thsottiaux)
https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2077630111499882637
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI says it is cutting the price of GPT-5.6 Luna by ~80% and the price of GPT-5.6 Terra by 20% after improving the efficiency of the systems that serve them (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/30/openai-cuts-prices-gpt-terra-luna5
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI introduces Agent Plugins, an open standard for bundling skills and MCP servers, and says its steering committee includes Amazon, Microsoft, and Cursor (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/06/gpt-5-turning-one-as-openai-shares-new…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGPT-5.6 system card indicates Sol is well below the level of most worrisome Mythos use cases, suggesting all GPT-5.6 versions could be released without delay (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase)
https://thezvi.substack.com/p/gpt-56-the-system-card
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAstra working with Blender via computer use feels like magic, showing computer use could be the fourth demand wave after chatbots, reasoning, and agentic coding (Tae Kim/Key Context)
https://taekim.substack.com/p/gpt-6-astra-and-the-fourth-exponential
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Alexandr Wang said Meta's model currently in training, codenamed Watermelon, matches GPT-5.5 and uses an "order of magnitude more compute than Avocado" (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-model-catches-up-openai-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGPT-6 Astra scores 62.7% on ARC-AGI-3 with the standard harness and 99.9% with a new provider adapter harness; Claude Opus 5 scored 30.2%, and GPT-5.6 Sol 7.8% (Greg Kamradt/ARC Prize)
https://arcprize.org/blog/astra
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI rolls out two versions of GPT-Live: GPT-Live-1, powering ChatGPT Voice for Go, Plus, and Pro users, and GPT-Live-1 mini, the default for free users (Sabrina Ortiz/The Deep View)
https://www.thedeepview.com/articles/how-openai-s-voice-assistant-got-mo…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol and Terra were capable of identifying vulnerabilities but were unable to execute autonomous, end-to-end attacks against hardened targets (OpenAI)
https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-5-6-preview/introduction
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI launches Astra for Law, combining GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index and instructions for legal analysis and writing, initially for select law firms (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/astra-for-law
@Techmeme@techhub.socialReview: GPT-6 Astra can adeptly use tools like Unreal Engine to build complex environments, such as a civilization with Unreal's autonomous MetaHuman characters (Matt Shumer/Something Big Is Happening)
https://somethingbig.ai/astra-review
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI says it can't read all of Astra's reasoning and admits covert sandbagging would likely go uncaught, yet still calls it the world's most aligned model (Celia Ford/Transformer)
https://www.transformernews.ai/p/openai-gpt-6-a…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI releases three versions of GPT-5.6, called Sol, Terra, and Luna, as a limited preview to ~20 companies, with participants disclosed to the US government (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/26/openai-gpt-sol-terra-luna-trump
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMoonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter AI model that it says rivals Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5, and plans to release model weights by July 27 (Kimi)
https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k3
@Techmeme@techhub.socialKimi-K3 is now #1 on the Frontend Code Arena benchmark, surpassing Claude Fable 5; the model scored 88.3 on Terminal Bench 2.1, only below GPT-5.6 Sol's 88.8 (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/chinas-moon
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI launches GPT-Live, a new generation of voice models built on a full-duplex architecture, meaning they can listen and speak at the same time (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-live
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSome developers are using the Claude Code harness to access cheaper non-Anthropic models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, via proxies and services like OpenRouter (Alix Coutures/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/developers-f…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI updates the default model for free users to GPT-5.6 Luna, adds unlimited text chats for free users, rolls out an improved GPT-5.6 Sol version, and more (Herb Scribner/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/06/openai-chatgpt-upgrades-luna-free-paid
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBy declaring GPT-6 Astra to be AGI, OpenAI is being flippant and cementing the term's status as nothing more than marketing (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/agi-2026/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMathematicians say a neurosurgery resident used ChatGPT, powered by GPT-5.6, to solve Crouzeix's conjecture, a major open problem in numerical linear algebra (Alex Townsend)
https://alextownsend.net/essays/SIAMNews_CrouzeixConjecture.pdf
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTwo independent teams used GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra on the same quantum cryptography problem, filing papers 3 hours apart, raising questions about scientific credit (Peter Hall/Scientific American)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSpaceXAI releases Grok 4.6, saying it matches GPT-5.6 Sol on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, and prices it at $2/1M input and $6/1M output tokens (xAI)
https://x.ai/news/grok-4-6
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGSA says OpenAI is replacing its $1-per-year pilot for US agencies with a usage-based deal providing a 50% discount from October 1, with access to GPT-6 Astra (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialResearchers find that feeding a frontier model's encrypted reasoning traces to a weaker model from the same provider can make it output the traces in plaintext (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-trick-reveals-ai-models-inner-thoughts/…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGPT-5.6 Sol matches Mythos Preview on ExploitBench, adds Ultra mode with subagents for complex workflows, and max reasoning for deep problem-solving (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/previewing-gpt-5-6-sol/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCognition releases SWE-1.7, trained from Kimi K2.7 and available at 1,000 tokens/second, claiming it nears GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.8 on benchmarks at a lower cost (Cognition)
https://cognition.com/blog/swe-1-7
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI merges Codex and ChatGPT desktop apps for Mac and Windows under a new ChatGPT desktop app, allowing users to switch between Codex, Chat, and Work (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/09/openai-announcing-the-next-chapter-for-ch…
@Techmeme@techhub.social @Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI says an internal model "significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra" solved the Navier-Stokes problem using 10K concurrent agents working for 88 hours (Madison Mills/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/08/openai-math-solution-navier-stokes-credit
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI quietly updates its evaluation metrics for GPT-6 Astra, making changes that appear to favor Astra and continuing to revise other metrics after launch (Emily Forlini/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/09/04/openai…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe UK AISI says it observed a total of 19 instances where Mythos and GPT-5.6 Sol tried to hack people and companies during a routine cyber evaluation in July (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/04/anthropic-openai-uk-ai-security-institute
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHark, founded by Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock, previews Handoff, a computer use agent it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Opus 4.8, and plans for a summer release (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/05/hark-previews-its-browser-use-age…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialArtificial Analysis: DeepSeek's V4-Flash costs $0.14/1M input and $0.28/1M output tokens, or $0.03 per test, far below Kimi K3's $0.86 and GPT-5.6 Sol's $1.86 (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/r…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle launches Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber for partners in its new Fairwind Program, and says Gemini 3.8 Flash beats Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on some benchmarks (Google)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/3…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta rolls out Muse Spark 1.3 in Muse Code and Meta's API, saying it significantly improves coding and agentic performance, at the same price as its predecessor (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/02/meta-debuts-muse-spark-13-as-per…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI says using its Responses API harness with GPT-5.6 Sol tripled its ARC-AGI-3 score and used fewer tokens, after Sol with the official harness scored 7.8% (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/how-two-settings-tripled-our-arc-agi-3-scores
