OpenAI's new GPT-5.6 model is now powering Microsoft 365 Copilot, bringing cutting-edge AI capabilities to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, enabling users to draft documents, analyze data, and build presentations faster and more efficiently than ever before.
OpenRouter launches the Pareto Router, a free tool that automatically picks the most cost-efficient coding AI model based on a user-defined quality threshold, with session stickiness to ensure consistent results across multi-turn conversations.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work, a GPT-5.6-powered autonomous AI agent that executes complex multi-step tasks across email, Slack, GitHub, and calendars for all paid subscribers starting at $20 per month, intensifying a fierce enterprise AI race against Anthropic and Microsoft as OpenAI eyes an IPO valuation of up to $852 billion.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna — boasting a 54% efficiency boost on coding tasks — as the $852 billion company battles rising competition from Meta and SpaceX while quietly filing confidential IPO paperwork with regulators.
OpenAI retracts its support for SWE-Bench Pro after an internal audit uncovers that nearly 30% of the coding benchmark's 731 tasks are broken due to flawed tests and misleading prompts, prompting a call for new, developer-built benchmarks.
OpenAI releases GPT-5.6 in three variants — Sol, Terra, and Luna — beating rival benchmarks at lower prices, while launching ChatGPT Work to nearly one billion users, bringing AI agents mainstream for the first time, as the US government delays broader rollout over software vulnerability concerns.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 in three tiers — Sol, Terra, and Luna — targeting enterprise, coding, and cybersecurity use cases, claiming Sol outperforms Anthropic's Fable 5 at one-third the cost while also debuting ChatGPT Work, a new enterprise productivity platform.
Alibaba bans employees from using Anthropic's Claude tools starting July 10, switching to its own AI assistant Qoder, after Anthropic accuses the Chinese tech giant of conducting the largest known AI distillation attack, escalating tensions as Anthropic moves to cut off Chinese firms from accessing its models through third-country loopholes.
OpenAI launches GPT-Live, a full-duplex voice AI that listens and speaks simultaneously for more natural conversations, but its strikingly human-like tone raises serious concerns that users may too easily trust its hallucinations.
The US and China are imposing mutual AI export controls on advanced models like GPT-5.6 and Chinese lab offerings amid security concerns, but experts say quiet cooperation between American and Chinese AI developers will likely continue, as restrictions are expected to target only the most cutting-edge models while open-weight alternatives …