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GPT-6.1 Sol replaces GPT-6 Sol after just 7 days, with near-Astra intelligence

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PSSA: A non-transformer language model written from scratch in Rust

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DevDay 2026 Recap

Explore more than 20 announcements from OpenAI DevDay 2026, including GPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT, Codex, APIs, security, and new tools for builders.

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OpenAI 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 multi-step business workflows.

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GPT 6.1 Sol

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Can a chatbot fix the government maze? The White House is about to find out

America.gov is intended to simplify the process of navigating government bureaucracy, but language models are imperfect and remain prone to hallucinations, which could cause new issues.

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Claude partial outage

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Show HN: Pac-Bench – How well can models one-shot a Pac-Man game?

Benchmarks how well Harness+models can create a Pac-Man game from a single prompt: “Create a Pac-Man game in a single HTML page” Each model gets one shot — no follow-up prompts or fixes.

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ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model

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Basis 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.

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MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser

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Claude Sonnet 5.5

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Google 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 which built task-specific agents.

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Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page

Fridge magnet shopping list on an M5Stack PaperMono (ESP32-S3, e-ink touchscreen), synced with a phone web app over Wi-Fi. Works offline, ~2,400 lines of C++. This is a great wee device! BLE, Wi-Fi a…

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Prompting Claude Opus 5.5

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42x faster prompt lookup drafting in llama.cpp

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"As a Language Model": Chat Template Switches LLM Self-Referential Voice

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Google tests buying from Walmart-owned Flipkart through Gemini and AI Mode in India

The limited test covers select products and users, with a broader rollout planned for later in October.

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Claude Deleted 48k Files

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Generate fonts where every LLM token is the same width

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Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things

I love making diagrams to help understand, plan, etc. However, the options are (A) auto-placement languages like Mermaid or Graphviz (which don't let me decide how the diagram looks), or (B) software…

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Make Claude your assistant in excalidraw

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CEO of Mistral: AI is software. It can be controlled

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Show HN: Jevgpt – reinventing the wheel with another wheel

Felt extra autistic today and made jev an autoregressive chatbot by classifier small token vocabularies. https://github.com/giga-james/jevgpt had some trouble getting it to explore enough token optio…

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5 Prompt Optimization Techniques to Get Better LLM Responses

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Yes, Claude can do Nine Loops

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Proaction boosts sales 60% and saves 75+ hours with Codex

With Codex, GPT-Live-1, and GPT-6 Astra, Proaction builds, operates, and sells modern fleet management faster.

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Jevmem – automatic project memory for Claude Code, built on Jev

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Microsoft Abandons Personal AI Chatbot Race with Copilot Reboot

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Google Gives Gemini 3.8 Live an AI Avatar: What Changes?

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OpenAI May Preview GPT-6 Cyber on September 29: What to Know

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What is Prompt Engineering? A Complete Guide to AI Prompting

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Google tests letting Gemini call businesses for you

Google says the AI-calling feature will first be available to Pixel 11 owners in the U.S. who pay for a Gemini subscription.

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Jev Is Not a Language Model, but It Breaks Like One

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Best LLM for every budget, updated daily

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Hackers influence ChatGPT and Gemini to direct users to scam centers

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Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second

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Anthropic says its biology lab has already found something big

But maybe the biggest reveal is that Anthropic has not let Claude run lose in its biology lab. Humans are still, so far, in the loop.

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Claude's Load-Bearing Seams

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Airbnb widens access to GPT-6 Astra and OpenAI frontier models

Learn how Airbnb is expanding access to GPT-6 Astra and OpenAI frontier models to help engineering teams solve bugs, design systems, and ship faster.

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How we made claude.ai 3x faster in two weeks

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Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

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How invideo improves color grading 3x with GPT‑6 Astra

With GPT‑6 Astra, invideo plans edits with greater precision, improves color correction and grading threefold, and produces 50 custom effects in one day.

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Harvey turns legal context into stronger drafts with GPT-6 Astra

GPT-6 Astra produces more structured, context-aware legal documents, freeing lawyers to focus on strategy.

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Ringg’s AI agents resolve up to 65% of customer calls with OpenAI

Using GPT-5.6, Ringg powers multilingual agents across voice, chat, WhatsApp, and web for 90% less cost vs. GPT-4.1.

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Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello

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GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car

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YouTube will let you build your own algorithm with AI

ouTube’s new custom feeds let users describe the videos they want to see in their own words, then use Gemini to build a personalized feed around the request.

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Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on

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Parallel cut research time and cost in half with GPT‑6 Astra

GPT‑6 Astra allowed Parallel’s agents to research and synthesize labor-market data in half the time and at half the cost vs. prior models.

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LLM Ass Bench

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Better prompt caching for GPT-6

Learn how GPT-6 improves prompt caching with higher cache hit rates, new diagnostics, explicit breakpoints, and controls that reduce latency and costs.

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