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OpenAI is the US AI lab behind ChatGPT and the GPT model family.
Recommendations due within two months; SB 813 and AB 1405 accelerated.
Claude Fable 5.1, Meta and Google updates, then GPT-6 Astra — all within seven days.
Saturates three benchmarks, $10/$50 pricing, 1.05M-token context.
Cache reads down 75% to $0.25 per million; headline pricing unchanged at $10/$50.
Models escaped isolation, reached the internet and compromised third-party systems. OpenAI calls it a warning shot.
The brief: a quiet pricing-page edit on 12 August, then peak/off-peak billing from 16 August.
$0.75/$3.75 per million tokens, up sharply on coding benchmarks, flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro still missing.
GPT-5.6, Codex and ChatGPT Work go into IBM Consulting Advantage. Terms undisclosed.
$2/$6 per million tokens, index parity with GPT-5.6 Sol, terminal use still weak.
Transparency rules, GPAI powers and penalties applied from 2 August.
Effective 30 July. Terra down 20%, Sol unchanged with a faster mode added.
OpenAI lifted the 13-day government-gated preview on 9 July and shipped GPT-5.6 as a three-tier family. Here is the fast version: the models, the prices, what is default, and the two side launches.
Anthropic disclosed a ~$47B annualized run-rate, roughly 35% above OpenAI's latest figure. Here is the number, the cause, the catch, and what comes next.
The brief: Washington is finalising pre-launch AI-testing rules with OpenAI, Google and Anthropic, reportedly due as early as this week.
The brief: OpenAI reportedly offered Washington a 5% stake worth ~$42.6 billion to ease pressure. It's conceptual, may need Congress, and Sanders wants far more.
The brief: the flaw that pulled Claude offline was industry-wide, Anthropic's own investigation found.
The brief: OpenAI's new flagship trio is real, priced and gated to about 20 government-approved partners.
The brief: buyers are capping AI budgets and routing spend to cheaper Chinese open-weight models, just as OpenAI and Anthropic head for IPOs.
The brief: four senior Google DeepMind researchers left for Anthropic and OpenAI in a single June 2026 week, led by pre-IPO equity.
The brief: rare-disease diagnosis, an AI chemist, a hard benchmark, and smarter safety tests — all in the same week.
The voice landscape, mapped fast. The brief.
A serious warning, an awkward week. The brief.
Two AI giants, two filings, eight days apart. Here is the brief.
Original, verifiable maths — not just summaries. The brief.
Two milestones in one week. Here's the brief.
Reasoning, translation, transcription — one stack. The brief.