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OpenAI previews Astra by having it solve ten decades-old math problems for $2,000
An internal version of OpenAI's next major model resolved open questions in group theory, complexity, and combinatorics — with machine-checked proofs published alongside the results.
Alibaba ships Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter model it's open-sourcing next week
The new flagship posts benchmark scores that challenge GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 on agentic and multimodal tasks — and Alibaba says open weights are coming within days.
OpenAI restructures around Sol/Terra/Luna tiers, ships ChatGPT Work
The new GPT-5.6 lineup comes with steep price cuts and an agentic system that runs multi-hour projects across a team's files and apps.
Anthropic ships Claude Opus 5, tightens enterprise controls ahead of a pricing shift
A faster, cheaper Opus becomes the default on Claude Max, while Sonnet 5's promotional pricing ends August 31 and admin tooling gets deeper spend visibility.
Google's AI Overviews now cover 43% of searches — and Search is getting its own agents
Coverage has nearly tripled in a year, AI Mode has passed a billion monthly users, and Google I/O 2026 introduced agents that work inside Search on your behalf.
Meta pivots from open Llama toward proprietary models with Muse Spark
The company that popularized open-weight frontier models is shifting course — its next flagship, Avocado, is delayed, and its first post-reorg release ships closed.
Amazon takes its agentic shopping tech to outside retailers
Months after retiring Rufus in favor of the agentic Alexa for Shopping, Amazon is opening the underlying technology to other retail sites — pushing agentic commerce past its own storefront.
EU pushes AI Act's high-risk compliance deadline from August 2026 to December 2027
The Digital Omnibus on AI, passed in June, resets the clock for Annex III high-risk systems — but obligations still apply retroactively to anything already deployed.