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OpenAI says old prompts are holding GPT-5.5 back and developers need a fresh baseline

OpenAI recommends in a new guide for GPT-5.5 that users should not reuse old prompts but instead start fresh with minimal, result-oriented instructions. Overly detailed process specifications carried ...
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Anthropic says stronger AI models cut better deals, and the losers don't even notice

In a week-long experiment, Anthropic let Claude agents buy and sell goods for employees. The result: stronger models negotiated better prices. The catch: the people stuck with weaker agents had no ...
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Qwen3.6-27B beats much larger predecessor on most coding benchmarks

Alibaba has released Qwen3.6-27B, a new dense open-source model with 27 billion parameters. According to Alibaba, the model outperforms its much larger predecessor, Qwen3.5-397B-A17B (397 billion ...
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The UAE wants half its government run by autonomous AI agents within two years

The United Arab Emirates is rolling out what may be the world's most ambitious government AI overhaul. Within two years, the country wants 50 percent of all government sectors, services, and processes ...
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OpenAI unveils GPT-5.5, claims a "new class of intelligence" at double the API price

GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro are now both available through OpenAI's Responses and Chat Completions API, each with a one million token context window. "Agents built with GPT-5.5 can plan, gather context, ...
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Cohere takes over Aleph Alpha shortly after the German startup ousted its original founder

Canadian AI company Cohere is acquiring Heidelberg-based startup Aleph Alpha, with the combined company valued at around $20 billion. The Schwarz Group is investing $600 million and providing the ...
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As agentic AI pushes rivals to raise prices and cap usage, Deepseek ships a good-enough model for almost nothing

Chinese AI lab Deepseek has released V4-Pro and V4-Flash as open-weight models with up to 1.6 trillion parameters and a one-million-token context window. A new architecture dramatically cuts the ...
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OpenAI launches workspace agents that turn ChatGPT from a chatbot into a team automation platform

OpenAI has launched workspace agents in ChatGPT, powered by Codex, that go beyond previous custom GPTs by autonomously handling complex, multi-step team tasks. These agents operate within their own ...
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OpenAI releases open-source model that strips personal data from text

OpenAI has published "Privacy Filter," an open-source AI model that runs locally and automatically redacts personal data from text before further processing. The ...
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Unauthorized users breach Anthropic's restricted Mythos AI model

A small group of unauthorized users gained access to Anthropic's new AI model Claude Mythos, Bloomberg reports. Anthropic considers Mythos powerful enough to enable dangerous cyberattacks, which is ...
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Trump science advisor says Chinese actors are copying American AI at massive scale

The US government says China is systematically copying American AI models at massive scale. According to a memo from Michael Kratsios, President Trump's science advisor, foreign actors are using tens ...