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- SiliconANGLE AImodelsOpenAI’s GPT-6.1 Sol delivers Astra-like performance at a dramatically lower price
Just a day after OpenAI Group PBC said it’s unwilling to release its latest model GPT-6.1 Astra on concerns over its safety, it has released a newer, almost as powerful model called GPT-6.1 Sol, which promises to deliver…
- The Verge AImodelsElon Musk’s AI-powered Grokipedia is updating again
Grokipedia, the AI-powered online encyclopedia from SpaceXAI, appears to be updating articles once again after a months-long pause. In August, Lawfare reported that articles on Grokipedia hadn't reviewed edits since Apri…
- The Verge AImodelsInstagram is adding an AI ‘assistant’ to tell you how to post
Instagram is the latest social media platform to add built-in AI-powered features that will give users feedback on their posts. The company announced Wednesday that its standalone Edits app will now include an AI "creati…
- AWS Machine Learning BlogmodelsBring near-Astra intelligence to everyday work with GPT-6.1 Sol on Amazon Bedrock
GPT-6.1 Sol is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, bringing stronger reasoning to coding, computer use, and professional workloads that run frequently.
- BBC TechnologymodelsOpenAI unveils AI assistant 'dots' while safety worries delay new model
Sam Altman spoke in San Francisco during OpenAI’s annual event for tech developers.
- Simon Willison's WeblogmodelsGPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
My comment on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price — Hacker News. I'm a bit late with the pelicans because I was live-blogging the keynote: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/29/openai-devday-202…
- TechRadar AImodelsMeta reveals new Enterprise Platform to help businesses harness its AI power
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- The DecodermodelsOpenAI's reveals a new ChatGPT that looks less like a chatbot and more like an operating system
At DevDay, OpenAI announced a wave of updates that push ChatGPT well beyond its chatbot roots. The company is adding shared workspaces, collaborative documents and slides, an open plugin system with MCP event automation,…
- TechCrunch AImodelsOpenAI expands ChatGPT’s plug-ins with app-like interfaces and automations
OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT plug-ins with dedicated sidebar homes, interactive panels, file viewers, improved discovery, and support for automations.
- TechCrunch AImodelsOpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Sol, says it nearly matches GPT-6 Astra and costs less
OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol delivers significant improvements over GPT-6 Sol across complex professional tasks, including code writing and debugging, document understanding, and executing multistep business workflows.
- TechCrunch AImodelsOpenAI gives Codex reusable cloud environments that work across devices
OpenAI is expanding Codex with reusable cloud development environments, a revamped CLI with voice controls, new code review tools, and a security-focused product for scanning repositories and preparing fixes.
- The DecodermodelsGPT-6.1 Sol comes close to Astra at a fifth of the price
OpenAI's new GPT-6.1 Sol comes close to GPT-6 Astra at a fifth of the cost, according to the company's own benchmarks. The planned flagship, GPT-6.1 Astra, is staying under wraps for now. Safety lead Saachi Jain says the…
- AWS Machine Learning BlogmodelsPrompt engineering fundamentals for Amazon Quick
Prompt engineering in Amazon Quick shapes how accurately its AI-powered features respond to your requests. Part 1 of a two-part series covers the foundational principles and reusable frameworks (specificity, context-sett…
- AWS Machine Learning BlogmodelsHow Condé Nast built multimodal video discovery with Amazon Bedrock
Condé Nast's editorial teams spent an average of 250 minutes per task searching a library of more than 140,000 videos using only titles and descriptions. Working with the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, they built a…
- Hugging Face BlogmodelsNVIDIA Kumo Tabular Sets a New Accuracy-Efficiency Frontier for Tabular Prediction
Open-source model releases, tooling, and community updates.
- The DecodermodelsElevenLabs' new v4 speech model makes AI voices more expressive and consistent
Elevenlabs' new speech model, Eleven v4, follows cues for laughter and whispering more accurately and keeps voices consistent across long productions like audiobooks. Its Turbo variant starts speaking in 150 milliseconds…
- The Register AI + MLmodelsOpenAI benches GPT-6.1 Astra for overstepping the mark
Turns out teaching an AI to keep going can make it rather bad at knowing when to stop
- MIT Technology Review AImodelsMaking AI an asset, not an expense
When customers talk about AI costs, the conversation usually starts with token prices and ends with access to the latest, most capable model in the cloud. Do they always need that level of capability? Not necessarily. Bu…
- The DecodermodelsOpenAI reopens its $200 Pro plan but cuts API credits in half as it nudges users toward pay-per-use
OpenAI is reopening its $200 Pro subscription to new sign-ups but cutting API credits per dollar in half. More efficient models like GPT-6 Sol and Luna make up for the difference, employee Thibault Sottiaux says. The mov…
- OpenAI NewsmodelsIntroducing GPT-6.1 Sol
Meet GPT-6.1 Sol: near-Astra intelligence for coding, computer use, and professional work at one-fifth of Astra’s standard API input and output token prices.
- OpenAI NewsmodelsDevDay 2026 Recap
Explore more than 20 announcements from OpenAI DevDay 2026, including GPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT, Codex, APIs, security, and new tools for builders.
- TechRadar AImodelsThe AI advantage is moving beyond the model
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- Tom's Guide AImodelsClaude Sonnet 5.5 just launched — here's why it's about to become your daily driver
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- Engadget AImodelsOpenAI Dev Day 2026: Live updates on the latest ChatGPT and Codex announcements
CEO Sam Altman is expected to take the stage today.
- Tom's Guide AImodelsI asked ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Muse to give me new podcasts based on my favorites — these 7 picks got added to my queue for International Podcast Day
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- Latent Spacemodels[AINews] Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos
a rare feature of a capability
- Latent SpacemodelsClaude Code’s Next Era — Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic
Shipping Opus/Sonnet 5.5, Mods, Plugins, Projects, Tag while Pacing the Frontier
- Simon Willison's Weblogmodelsllm-anthropic 0.30
Release: llm-anthropic 0.30 In addition to Claude Sonnet 5.5, this release adds the ability to run llm anthropic refresh to refresh the list of Anthropic models directly from their API - which means I don't need to push…
- AWS Machine Learning BlogmodelsGrok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock
xAI's Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock: a frontier model for coding, long-running agents, and knowledge work. It offers a 500K token context window and four configurable reasoning effort levels, reachable thro…
- Simon Willison's WeblogmodelsClaude Sonnet 5.5
Claude Sonnet 5.5 New Sonnet model from Anthropic today. They say it "runs 30%+ faster, and costs up to 30% less for most work" - it's priced the same as Sonnet 5 but appears to beat it on every benchmark, and should be…
- AWS Machine Learning BlogmodelsIntroducing Claude Sonnet 5.5 on AWS
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is now available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. It's a smarter, more efficient Sonnet model for focused coding and knowledge work, with a lower cost per task at faster speed. This post co…
- TechRadar AImodelsAI models are becoming outdated at record speed — so what does that mean for the tokens that companies are spending millions on?
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- The DecodermodelsAnthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 nearly matches Opus 5.5 on benchmarks while costing up to 30 percent less per task
Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, the second model in its Claude 5.5 family. It generates output more than 30 percent faster, costs up to 30 percent less per task, and nearly matches Opus 5.5 on knowledge-work be…
- SiliconANGLE AImodelsAnthropic debuts Claude Sonnet 5.5 running 30% faster than the previous-generation AI model
Anthropic PBC today announced the launch of Claude Sonnet 5.5, the most capable mid-tier model in the company’s AI family, designed for everyday tasks and a clear upgrade over the previous generation, running over 30% fa…
- TechCrunch AImodelsAnthropic releases Sonnet 5.5, which it calls a significantly cheaper, faster work partner
Anthropic has released the newest version of its mid-range model, boasting faster response times and less token burn.
- TechCrunch AImodelsGoogle is killing off Gemini’s Gems in favor of ‘skills’
As all-in-one AI agents like Meta's Muse and Instinct take off, Google is opting to end a feature that built task-specific agents.
- AI BusinessmodelsMicrosoft’s Copilot redesign provides an experimental opportunity
The revamp transforms Copilot from a simple AI assistant into a content workspace, providing knowledge workers with advanced developer tools.
- AWS Machine Learning BlogmodelsBuild real-time voice applications with vLLM-Omni on SageMaker AI – Part 1
Deploy a text-to-speech model on Amazon SageMaker AI with the AWS vLLM-Omni Deep Learning Container and stream generated speech over a persistent bidirectional connection. This Part 1 tutorial deploys Qwen3-TTS and strea…
- AWS Machine Learning BlogmodelsGenerate images and video with vLLM-Omni on SageMaker AI – Part 2
Deploy two generative media models from one AWS vLLM-Omni Deep Learning Container on Amazon SageMaker AI. Generate an image with FLUX.2-klein through real-time inference, then animate it into video with Wan2.1-VACE throu…
- AWS Machine Learning BlogmodelsAutomating Amazon Textract adapter lifecycle management across accounts
Learn how to operationalize Amazon Textract Custom Queries adapters for production: infrastructure as code with AWS CloudFormation and Terraform, a cross-account adapter promotion process, a pre-classification routing pa…
- TechRadar AImodelsChatGPT Voice's new plugins make voice more useful
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- TechRadar AImodelsI thought I knew dinosaurs until I tried ChatGPT's new flashcards
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- The Register AI + MLmodelsJev is rapidly rising to challenge the LLM for enterprise AI supremacy
The Jevolution will not be televised, because The Kettle is audio only
- Tom's Guide AImodelsI tried the viral '/human' ChatGPT trick and it actually fixed robotic writing
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- Tom's Guide AImodelsI asked Meta’s Muse AI for productivity hacks — these 7 unconventional ideas surprised me the most
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- Tom's Guide AImodels7 ChatGPT prompts that can help you build better habits — one of them inspired 3 major changes that actually stuck
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- OpenAI NewsmodelsBasis completes a tax workbook 2x faster with GPT-6 Astra
GPT-6 Astra completed a 50-tab tax workbook twice as fast as GPT-5.6 Sol, and its stronger understanding of user intent gives Basis more confidence in real-world use.
- Simon Willison's Weblogmodels2026 in LLMs (so far)
On Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose. I tied together the key trends from the past year into a chronological exploration of everything that happened in 2026…
- TechCrunch AImodelsCan Muse overcome Meta’s trust issues?
On Equity, we discussed how Meta's AI announcement managed to steal the spotlight from OpenAI and Anthropic.
- The DecodermodelsNvidia drops a free 100M-parameter model that identifies up to eight speakers in real time
Nvidia released Nemotron 3 Diarization, an AI model that identifies which speaker is talking at any given moment in a conversation. The article Nvidia drops a free 100M-parameter model that identifies up to eight speaker…