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Introducing 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 takes on Microsoft with the launch of what feels a whole lot like ChatGPT’s own office suite
OpenAI's newly announced suite of office features puts it into mor direct competition with more traditional software companies.
OpenAI Says It Will Not Release Newest A.I. Model Over Safety Concerns
A top executive at the AI lab told the Wall Street Journal that the model in question had displayed a poor aptitude for following orders.
Nvidia launches new platform for reining in rogue AI agents
As the debate rages over whether the recent spate of rogue AI agents is a step toward AGI or a more conventional engineering problem, Nvidia is offering its own answer to problem. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Monday intro…
OpenAI agents tried to bruteforce a UN website's API fields
Show HN: Ekselio – Loveable for finance workflows (local first)
Hi everyone, I am KD - Back in my college days, I dabbled with coding, learned the basics, HTML, CSS etc. but somehow I ended up in Finance which consumed the next 20 years. Then, during covid I pick…
Tell HN: Codex Is Down [fixed]
Shows an Incorrect API Key error...which is weird. Nothing on the status page. (EDIT: Added to incident page: https://status.openai.com/incidents/01M3DCNWMW57HYK8FJ5FBFPA... ) Per Twitter/X this appe…
Google Photos ‘Clueless’-inspired virtual closet is now available on Android and iOS
The AI-powered feature builds a virtual wardrobe from your photos, and is now broadly available after first rolling out to Android users in June.
Stripe built its internal AI platform
Grab and OpenAI bring practical AI skills to Southeast Asia
OpenAI and Grab launch GO Forward with AI, a regional programme helping 30,000 partners build practical AI skills across Southeast Asia.
Microsoft disrupts AI-assisted platform that compromised 12,000
EvilTokens provided an end-to-end platform that makes mass compromises faster and easier.
Meta’s Muse hits Mac, letting the AI take actions on your computer
Muse is now available on the Mac, where it can work with your files and apps to take action on your behalf.
Huawei plans Q1 2027 launch of new AI chip as it takes on Nvidia
Huawei is accelerating the launch of its next-generation Ascend 960DT AI chip as it pushes to compete with Nvidia and close China’s AI computing gap with the U.S.
Show HN: How Stale Is Your AI? Release age and training cutoff for 20 models
Former Infosys chief’s AI startup nabs another $53M
The Palo Alto startup says it has landed multiple seven-figure enterprise contracts within months of launch.
The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it
From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy 'super app' launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.
Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite
Hey HN, I always had the problem that building HTML pages is really simple now, but trying to save data required hosting it somewhere, and sharing it afterwards was not easy. Over the last few months…
Show HN: Analyst Index – analysts who make money telling you good stock calls
Hi HN! What if analyst ratings could be relied on to help you find the next Sandisk, before it takes off? On Analyst Index, analysts publish price targets with a maturity date. Every call gets scored…
Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users
Learn how OpenAI evolved Habitat from a Python library into a globally distributed storage platform serving 1 billion ChatGPT users and 22M requests per second.
GPT‑Live‑1 in the API
The Gemini app is now available for Windows
OpenAI’s Navier-Stokes release included a Lean 4 formal proof
OpenAI Agents API
Build more natural voice experiences with GPT‑Live‑1 in the API
GPT‑Live‑1 brings natural, full-duplex voice conversations to the API, with stronger instruction following, custom voices, and telephony support.
Instacart launches an AI grocery shopping assistant called Clementine
Instacart is the latest app to bake a conversational AI assistant into its platform.
DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro
DSeek plans to officially release the V4.1 Flash model around September 10, 2026 (Beijing Time). After extensive internal and external testing, V4.1 Flash has comprehensively surpassed V4 Pro across…
Why this month's Microsoft patch release is a doozy
Security gnomes are pumping out patches ahead of an expected onslaught of AI-assisted attacks.
Chrome is now shipping updates every 2 weeks as AI changes the security landscape
Google is speeding up Chrome’s release schedule to ship security patches and new features faster.
Supporting independent journalism in Ukraine
OpenAI, AIRPPU and WAN-IFRA launch an AI program to help Ukrainian news organizations strengthen innovation, resilience, and independent journalism.
Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?
I have a self playing piano, using a system called PianoDisc Protigy. They have an online store which sells music for their system, from various modern artists along with classics such as Bach and Be…
Apple’s Ternus era begins as Nvidia bets on the whole AI stack
It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple. Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a “huge launch next week” — timing that puts Apple’s n…
Show HN: Reactor Atlas
Hi HN, I'm a nuclear engineer and tech entrepreneur. After working for 3 years in the National Atomic Energy Commision (CNEA) in HPC software for nuclear simulations, I co-founded ratherlabs.com, a s…
Why GitLab is Becoming More Than a DevOps Platform: The AI Shift in Software Development
Open AI’s Astra model is on the way—and very good at breaking into computer systems
OpenAI previewed the precautions it is taking as it prepares to release Astra, its newest, cyber-critical LLM.
Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards
Astra is the first OpenAI model to meet the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under the Preparedness Framework, with stronger safeguards for release.
Anthropic’s new Fable release is cheaper, less restrictive
Fable 5.1 includes changes meant to reduce token cost and false-positive restrictions from the model's safeguards.
Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
What's new in Claude Fable 5.1 – https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/models/fable-5-1/whats-n... System Card: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/0339e6a7c5c7b87f5c07798616dc32...
AIR raises $50M to help companies vet the skills and add-ons AI agents use
AIR's platform can discover agents running at a company, continuously vets any skills and add-ons they use, and blocks any unwanted behaviour.
Show HN: FnScribe – Open-source, offline dictation for macOS
I built FnScribe because I'm pretty privacy concious and wanted a wispr flow-like app that kept everything local and on device. Currently works for Mac (sillicon and intel). It's dead simple. Hold th…
Apple Smart Glasses Could Launch in 2027 with Siri, AI Camera Features
Supporting Thailand’s next generation of AI startups
OpenAI and Thailand’s MHESI launch an eight-week accelerator helping 10 health, wellness, and education startups turn AI prototypes into trusted products.
Radar makes podcasts searchable — and usable by AI agents
Particle’s new podcast intelligence platform transcribes and analyzes more than 130,000 podcasts, making their conversations searchable on the web and accessible to AI agents through an API and MCP.
Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights
Show HN: TeXbrain, a LaTeX editor that runs pdfTeX in the browser via WASM
I'm a master's engineering student and a big fan of LaTeX, which I used for my thesis and research articles. I have used Overleaf and that was fine until I wanted to git sync, which unfortunately sit…
Show HN: I built self-hosted deployment automation tool for Windows and IIS
Seven years in the making (I admit that I did get a kid at some point which slowed down progress and brought it to a halt quite a few times), I decided to finaly release it, with a rather drastic cha…
OpenAI Developer Platform Explained: A Complete Guide to APIs, Models, SDKs, Building AI Applications
Advancing price-performance for developers with GPT‑5.6 in Kiro
GPT‑5.6 is now available in Kiro, helping developers plan, build, review, and test software with better price-performance.
Anthropic Claude and API service outages
Your Open Source Model Could Have a Hidden Time-Release Backdoor
Predicting AI model release dates with stats
Ramp launches its own AI model router, called Router
Ramp has launched its own AI model routing service, dubbed Router, that lets users and companies use and switch between various large language models via an API.
Cursor capitalizes on Github frustration, launches rival hosting platform
Cursor, known for its AI Code Editor, is launching a new code hosting platform to rival developers' long preferred favorite, Github.
Show HN: 1667, a terminal UI for writing fiction with language models
Hi HN. I built 1667 for my own fiction work and now use it each day. This probably has a limited audience. Maybe an audience of one... Why a terminal interface for story writing? I'm a dev. I like to…
Does Mark Zuckerberg really believe AI is ‘for everyone’?
Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behind its own APIs. The release…
Meta’s ‘open’ AI, and a $250M deal gone very wrong
Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behind its own APIs. The release…
OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground
US groups release cheaper models after new challenges to their trillion-dollar ambitions.
Show HN: APIMart: Discounted AI API Aggregator for GPT-5, Sora 2
The builder’s guide to GPT‑5.6
Learn how startups use GPT-5.6 to build faster, more cost-efficient AI agents with smarter model selection and new Responses API capabilities.
Gemini 3.7 Flash
https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-3.7-flas...
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