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OpenAI’s GPT-6.1 Sol matches flagship Astra on DeepSWE v1.1 at $0.65 per task—a 7x cost reduction—while cutting autonomous computer-use safety violations from 17.4% to 4.3% and dropping cached input pricing to $0.10/1M tokens.
OpenAI reopens its $200 Pro plan with a 50% cut in API spend value, removes the 5-hour limit, and splits throughput between Sol and flagship Astra.
Indian developers and engineering students responded to OpenAI’s ominous DevDay teaser with viral humor, meme threads, and existential placement panic.
Unsloth now serves Convai’s 421M Laya model locally via TypeSafe’s Jev API. Single-pass 33ms decisions, zero token generation, and drop-in SDK integration.
China Telecom’s Xing4.0-29B-A4B activates about 4 billion parameters for each token, but it stores 29 billion parameters in total. That…
Cua Perception parses custom windows locally on CPU in 2.0s via OmniParser and PP-OCR. Switching from raw coordinates to discrete IDs stops GUI drift.
Anthropic dropped Claude Sonnet 5.5 hours before OpenAI DevDay 2026. With 70.6% Terminal-Bench scores, can the leaked ‘o’ always-on assistant save Sam Altman from an engineering ambush?
Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5.5. Slashes per-task cost up to 30%, reaches 70.6% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, mandates adaptive thinking, and beats Sonnet 5 at 1/10th the cost.
Google DeepMind and Kaggle have opened registration for the Gemma 4 Developer Agent Competition, offering a $110,000 prize pool with $10,000 specialist bounties for offline coding agents on consumer hardware.
Claude Sonnet 5.5 leaked in Claude Code binaries with $2/M input, $10/M output, 1M context, and 128K output to counter-program OpenAI DevDay 2026.
